[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 1:]
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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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There's 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 liar got his drink 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 2:]
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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 chose 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 hands 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]
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Philistine David
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Brother Ali |