Bobby Sessions, Royce da 5'9" - Still Alive lyrics

I'm running out of love
My coping mechanism, I'm running out of trust
President embarrassing, wanna call us thugs
Hysteria, Babylon, Sodom and Gamorrah
Treat us worse than animals
That's just how it goes
America infected and the country been exposed
Problems up in Harlem
Even down to Pleasant Grove
Label us a target like we
'bout to rob the stores
Basement full of darkness
Deep emotion for the fallen
Spot a racist cop
Crooked soldier like an honor
Keep the peace, but lack the armor
Yeah, they taught us
No wеapon formed against ya ever prospеr
'Cept a Glock, now call a doctor
Breaking news
Helicopter passing trauma to the youth


Trauma 'bout to block the
Generation after you mother bound to suffer
Never see her son again
Send a prayer, Steven Jackson
Stay as solid as you can

We don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Shackled down to the boat, I'm a star
(I'm a star) we don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Made the effort to suppress, but we survived
(We survived) we don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Try to strip us of our rights and our pride
(And our pride) we don't die (We don't die)
Still alive (Still alive)
Now the revolution televised

You not off the hook for all sins committed
Longer you wait to pay
The more you got interest the judge pimpin'
Every local politician with good intentions
Until the system switch up their agendas
Connectin' my antennas, resurrected
I'm beginning to accept that any limit
Is a figment of the mind
World is wicked, sicker by the minute
Lightening striking hit me
Now my spirit is alive
Mind spinning in sync with the ceiling fan
Ain't nobody left to march when
You murder a million men
Kill our young on video
Still you don't give a damn
I want a Versuz battle with
Trump and Hillar' on Instagram
Unemployment rising, the family out of work
Religion losing value when Apple
Became a church morals nonexistent
The Holy will reign supreme
Breaking out this prison
Transforming into a king we don't die

That urban location, there's herb in rotation
Wherever the peace is loudest
Is a certain oasis celebrities speakin' out
But never heard of formation
Where talk is cheap as a $50 Virgil donation
The soul of Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not even tryna harm rivalries
I'm tryna die as a martyr
Higher than Bob Marley
And I am gonna succumb to not realizing
I'm a son of a gun
Until they charge me with armed robbery
Securing commas with cons
Common as camaraderie
Ominous dons, to mama I'm just Ahmaud Arbery
Damn these rap dreams
Both my granny and Annie Maxine
Was crack fiend and anti-vaccine
Audemars Piguet on the target is slave
I'll trade you a part of this
Grace to be regarded as great
To be a Marvin Gaye or a Marshall and Dre
I'd trade it all for a
Face full of marvelous grays
Married to moments of silence
Violence caught a bouquet
Felonious product of crazed biological rage
Y'all the shit, well
I'm the waterspray all from outta bidets
All the days that I'ma stay
Without a pardon or beg
I done laid beside and prayed
My revolver and gauge
Mama prayed to Honest Abe
Many markets afraid
I done paid for now the same
Many cartons of eggs i don't age
See I was slain in the garden of graves

We don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Shackled down to the boat, I'm a star
We don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Made the effort to suppress, but we survived
(We survived) we don't die (We don't die)
We don't die (We don't die)
Try to strip us of our rights and our pride
(And our pride) we don't die (We don't die)
Still alive (Still alive)
Now the revolution televised