Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Track #6 off of BackWordz' debut album, Veracity which is out NOW

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LYRICS

I won't be held accountable for the hell of the past.
I don't owe a penny or dime to amend for their crimes.
Don't you see? You're illusioned and apologizing
for events you had no part in. It's a mass delusion.

Just due to my skin tone they applied a path to me.
No matter what my ancestry was, I was never a slave.
I must find that it's asinine that you really think
that the path of mine is determined by another mastermind
like it's your life, and that's out of line.

We can't take the credit for what we did not endure.
We can't pay for the mistakes that man has made before.

Apply this to now,
we can't take credit for our father's successes.
This crown is not my own.
Let me earn my keep, let me pave my own way.

Foolish. When you sit and think about it, it is stupid.
That you would take credit for history
that you had nothing to do with.
Acting bold and proud, or acting like you're hurt.
But you are owed nothing just because
you stood on the same dirt.
You are owed nothing.

Go, take what's yours. Pave your path and find it,
go decide it. Go, take control.
You're not obligated to not make it out.