Lyrics: Jevon Ives/Ndawambi Kasambala
Music: Jevon Ives/Ndawambi Kasambala
Thoughts are wondering away with me today
Fading into gray
Say that it's ok
Painting pictures of this silhouette in vain
Just here to speculate
No fear I test my fate
Innocence and honesty keep signaling my brilliance
Living in harmony itβs hard to see the change
Ignorance and poverty weβre sinking in resilience
Adrenaline my arteries and masking all the pain
I symbolise the vigilance we need to rise above it
It makes it hard to breathe when we living in the flames
So make riddims and we influence the youngers
Itβs like we plant the seed and watch them grow into their names
Lately I've been studying Ibrahim Traore
What it takes to make change
Blood and tears they assure me
Stripes and gun range, bodyguards at every doorway
Civil rights to sustain, it's peace over wahala
If we have to fight
We have to die
That's why we ain't seen another Thomas Sankara
Who are you
When you can change
All the fortunes of your people
I'm tired too
I used to blame western forces of evil
I'm tired too
I'm choosing pain and let my hatred try to greet you
I'm asking can I really flex, forget the poverty we been through
Puppets in our section; check the strings above it's lethal
Am I still collecting try protect my own and breeze through
Thoughts are wondering away with me today
Fading into gray
Say that it's ok
Painting pictures of this silhouette in vain
Just here to speculate
No fear I test my fate
I was numbing stressing that I'm just the same as these youths
Because I want the Benz, the bands, and all the in between too
iPhone in my hands, I guess I bit the apple clean through
Please don't get it twisted never been the cleanest hearted
Asking me we storm the shores I'm still a British bastard
Asking me we born to war, I wanna see my targets
Torn to pieces, torn to core
Our forces in the darkest
I'm past the peace, I draw the sword
It's slaughter in these markets
Can't believe the Tory talk from all the Kier Starmers
Can't believe they talk the talk
Cos all we hear is barking
You're asking me
They fought the cause
To keep you at your calmest
Part of me sees
All in all
The path is always darkest
Hard to beat us all aboard
The path that we been marking
Make a stand or make a fall
The wheel still keeps on turning
So light em up, we cried enough
white papers that were burning.
Thoughts are wondering away with me today
Fading into gray
Say that its ok
Painting pictures of this silhouette in vain
Just here to speculate
No fear I test my fate