Byron Henderson - War Is Our Peace (Down With The Machine) lyrics

Yeah you knew it was only a matter of time
Everything comes full circle
Never let something intimidate you
To the point
Where you don’t breathe while you’re alive
Because deep down in your heart
You know that the day will
Come when you won’t be that’s human nature

I'm just here to let the President know
Your residents with common sense are
Nothing more than pessimists
It's evident if my intention's
Better than yours
Then your presence isn't Heaven sent
God's got us took a while for us to heat
Up like a Croc pot, But you will not stop us
Spit it all like I'm Dwayne
Johnson on the mic dog
You will not out-rock us
Though I don't preach to y'all
I'm still profiting
I don't have much to lose
I'm in better place, righting my wrongs
I mean I write my wrongs so much
That I'll give a blood the blues
If I'm the black sheep
I'm the illest you've heard
F being the GOAT
I'm here to help people through verbs
Even with a black cloud hovering like a halo
The message I convey though
Is the realest few
Words you'll probably hear on a record
Because rapping to me and rapping to
You are two different things
I'm as hostile as can you can be
Like I'm trafficking humans
When you win to the masses
But ask if you’re losing
Cause me and Rina were like draw strings
But still outcasts like, hey ya
So if you think cause she
Died that I'm halting
Nah, I'm doing this for her
So I'm afraid not
Please, your religion ain’t as true as this
Homie, it's all in my genes to be honest
Nah, you obviously must be new to this
Rose, hand over that key, like you're Khaled
For Rina wreak havoc
And that's how you know it's real
Which is why they try keeping me lower tier
Cause I'll murder a beat like a lower tear
They won't let me get out
Cause they know I'll peel

I know that there's a lot
Of people doubting me (That's fine)
And I know a lot of folks
Are looking down on me tonight
But I hope that there's an angel in
The sky looking down on me too
Watch over me as I make you proud
With all the things that I do (hey)

And though I wish you were here, I’ll be ok
Though I wish you were here, I’ll be ok
Cause when those shots ring out and
There’s no time for me
You’ll know that war’s our peace tonight

I’m just here to let my residents know
I’m here for you
Ain’t no President bout to shed tears for you
We kill us, you kill us, I fear for you
But I’ll never be your eyes and ears for you
From a city where not enough hope lives
When the guns come out
That’s more kids double dutching
Through the madness
Smoking dope to cope with open caskets
Eloping past this is mission impossible
Lord knows
We’re all in need of help and it all shows
Look beneath the wealth
If you don’t see the devil in between us
The fiends and where needles dwell
Promethazine if you lean him and bleed him
Well, how can you begin
With screaming these BLM?
Because we’re all broken against all odds
I promised Rina that we would break even
Tell me, Would you rather count money
Or count blessings?
Let the cops kill us off without stressing
Or go to war, like what is martial law to me?
Oh pardon me
A part of me without question ought to
Be sorry that I could never do
Enough to convince you not to slap a clip
In for your brother, sister, mother, father
Son and daughter
And protect each other from the slaughter
But the switch is off
In the midst of all this animosity
Glitz and glamour won’t save
You from getting offed
Even if you aren’t privy
To your country’s history
You’re getting lost
That’s the world that we’re living in
Count dead president heads all you want
But your bullets can’t kill my soul
And those dead presidents aren’t dead enough
For us to be giving in

I know that there's a lot
Of people doubting me (That's fine)
And I know a lot of folks
Are looking down on me tonight
But I hope that there's an angel in
The sky looking down on me too
Watch over me as I make you proud
With all the things that I do (hey)

And though I wish you were here, I’ll be ok
Though I wish you were here, I’ll be ok
Cause when those shots ring out and
There’s no time for me
You’ll know that war’s our peace tonight
Tonight tonight
Tonight

They’ve been lying to you
Man for the longest, They
Told us Dr king was
Assassinated when in fact
He survived the shot that was fired not by
James Earl Ray, but by
Memphis Police officer
Frank Strausser and made it to
St josephs where he was
Smothered by Dr breen Bland bland entered
Accompanied by men in suit's
And ordered the doctors trying to save
Dr king to stop and
Leave he then removed the breathing tube
And held a pillow over
His head that’s what they don’t
Want you to know, But F them