I NEED TO EXPRESS MYSELF

I need to express myself
I want to scream out
As if I ain't got no job
As if I ain't got no bills
As if I ain't got no last name
To protect my family from the shame
Of my lungs giving in to the desire of
Being used at full force
I want to express myself
All over my boss
Yelling and slapping her
I want to reach into her pockets and take her last paycheck
And go on a shopping spree
I want to dance as if I ain't got no mama
Dance with my shirt hanging off
With my laughter hanging out
Because I haven't felt free enough to give
a genuine laugh in the presence of the world
since I was five years old
I want to express myself
And tell everybody to shut the hell up
So we can listen to ourselves
Don't we sound dumb as hell
I want to express myself
And ask the rich, why we so poor
And ask the poor, why don't we stick together
I want to ask the government what they do
That's so important
I want to express myself
Like everyone around me feels so justified
To patronize those who can't
Express themselves
I want to carry a gun and shoot at the tires
of the guy in the black bmw
That cut me off
On the highway
I want to go into the welfare offices
And beat up the middle aged, middle class women
That talked down to my mama
As if they were any better than her
I want to take a gun and shoot all of the people
Who don't snitch
Because I know they won't snitch
I want to express myself on the news that I watch everday
Black woman gone CRAAAAAZY
Would be the headline that I design
For my self expression
I want to beat up celebrities that say
"I'm just a normal person like you"
when they live with no
financial limitations, flashing it about like miniature gods
But get angry when fans turn into mobs
I want to shoot married couples with paint guns
So they can really have something to complain about
Rather than
Finding single happy people to harrass with stories
Of marriage gone bad
I want to express myself to the people
Who think that those in pain
Shouldn't complain
Because it hurts
We all hurt
And just because
We don't all have a yacht in the backyard
And a summer home in Tuscany
Doesn't mean, we didn't earn the right to be happy
Or pissed off for that matter
I want to express myself
To the Christians that beat everyone over the head with a cross
As if Jesus threw the first stone
I want to express myself to all the atheists and evolution theorists
Who try to beat people over the head with their ridiculous beliefs
I want to beat up bad carbohydrates and trans fats
I want to beat up spam email and taxes
I want to beat up injustice and false securities
I want to express myself
I want to yell at ex boyfriends
Who didn't deserve my time
I want to yell at bad women that give good women a bad name
I want to express myself
And scream out
At rappers who make a fool of Black folk
For the world to see
I want to scream out at those who make excuses
For some of the ignorant stuff they say
I want to express myself
to the girls who are already in hard times
And decide to bring a baby into the mix
I want to express myself to the young men
Who have three baby mamas and decided to make
One more vulnerable young girl, the fourth victim
I want to express myself to the girl at the checkout counter
Who doesn't even have the home training to say
"Hello!"
I want to express myself to the people who have bad days
And take it out on everyone around them
I want to express myself I want to express myself I want to express myself
And I think I just did!