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Chorus: [X2] |
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I stand tall I raise my fists |
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I pray all this pain might lift |
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I don't want to die tonight |
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But I can't live another day like this |
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Verse One: |
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The first time I ever broke the law |
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Was just being born in a zone that's controlled by y'all |
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A foreigner in my own damn home land |
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Made me a sixteen year old grown man |
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I was aged by the pain that I saw |
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Outside my front door was the front line of a war |
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Shots gets fired, I cry on the floor |
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Underneath my bed tryin' to hide from it all |
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I try to recall the first time that I saw |
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Someone close to me die and my mind starts to draw |
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A blank |
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Far to many of us die |
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Genocide it's a genocide |
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And our enemies will never be satisfied |
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Until not even our memories survive |
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It feels like they got the whole world on their side |
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And the story of my people will never reach your eyes |
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But understand one damn thing I can't run |
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I don't care where the Goliath got his strength from |
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I'll rush your tank with not even a hand gun |
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Only a rock from the land that I stand on |
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Chorus [X2] |
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Verse Two: |
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That's the law that I break when I breathe |
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The blood of my people races through me |
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I will never back down, I can not flee |
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Would rather die on my feet then to live on my knees |
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Adorning the soldier uniform I was born in |
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I did not choose the war I was drawn in |
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If I been called to be a martyrs end |
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I'm standing on Heaven's front door with a grin |
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Saying please let me in |
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Greet me as a friend |
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I did not believe I would breathe free again |
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Lord have mercy on my soul |
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I was desperate and I had people to defend |
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I'm the slave that drowned on the middle passage |
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I'm chief Sitting Bull at the hand of a savage |
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John Brown standing, both guns blasting |
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Crying freedom, something must happen |
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If I'm the only weapon that I have |
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Then I'm standing with a bomb strapped to my abdomen |
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Eyes full of water |
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God please forgive me |
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My people must one day live free |
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Chorus [X2] |
