Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song SHELTER, artist - Victor Kwesi Mensah. Date of issue: 25.03.2021
Song language: English
SHELTER |
| There’s a war going on outside |
| Yeah, I |
| There’s a war going on outside |
| That nobody’s safe from |
| But here in my arms |
| I’ll keep you from harm |
| There’s no guarantee tonight |
| That we will wake up (That we will wake up) |
| When night takes the morning |
| But if no alarm rings |
| You can count on one thing |
| I’ll be your shelter |
| Emergency |
| Please count on me, yeah, I |
| I’ll be your superhero |
| When danger arrives (Uh) |
| I’ll be by your side |
| You’re my lucky dime (Uh) |
| Wyclef told me, «Call 9−1-1» |
| But who do you call when th ambulances don’t come? |
| Or watch as the ons sworn by law to protect us |
| Wrongfully convict us, then call it corrections |
| Next, they bail the banks out when we in recession |
| And hang us in a jail cell so they can swing the elections |
| I walk Chicago streets where potholes is deep |
| And Tahoes creep like TLC |
| Hospital workers in scrubs with no PPE |
| But they got money for riot gear, my nigga, we dying here |
| Yet, you tell me not to move with my gun |
| But we got more funeral homes than schools where I’m from |
| And on the news, all you view is homicides |
| Tell me why it ain’t no trauma units when everybody traumatized? |
| (Yeah, I) |
| Trying to get on your feet, playing the hand they dealt you |
| If your house is not a home, let this song be your shelter, shelter, shelter |
| I’ll be your shelter |
| Emergency |
| Please count on me, yeah, I |
| I’ll be your superhero |
| When danger arrives (When danger arrives) |
| I’ll be by your side (I'll be by your side) |
| You’re my lucky dime |
| It’s a hundred bags under the underpass |
| Rumbling stomachs, cups jingle when Hummers pass |
| Brisk wind, summer’s done, winter is coming fast |
| And then they Zoom teacher wonder why they don’t come to class |
| The internet been out, the hot water been out |
| She moved to her aunt’s house, then to her friend’s couch |
| Her abuser went to jail, but that nigga been out |
| Producer was in-house, they closer than pen pals |
| Homeless in the home of the slaves, I wonder how that would feel? |
| The manifested destiny a bunch of land they could steal |
| Think about Kenneth Walker and Philando Castile |
| How they only wanted to protect they family |
| While it’s niggas out here that make it worse for they folks |
| It’s a deeper, hotter hell for the worst of these folks |
| It’s a mystery, we never heard the murder she wrote |
| If we finally paid her back, the whole Earth would be broke |
| I’ll be your shelter |
| Emergency |
| Please count on me, yeah, I |
| I’ll be your superhero |
| When danger arrives |
| I’ll be by your side (Uh) |
| I write for my niggas doing life with no possibility of parole |
| You playing Fortnite, that’s how long he spent in the hole |
| Live from death row, free my nigga Julius Jones |
| I had a dream that Mumia was home |
| I speak freedom in song |
| 'Cause all I see is racist faces |
| Where hate lives and they rape kids in cages |
| What kind of nation lynch Elijah McClain? |
| And send us to the Middle East to die for the flag? |
| They drive us insane to sell us medication |
| We demand reparations, and they tell us, «Have patience» |
| Instead of cash payments, we get minimum wages |
| They give us the Black Plague, then send us a white savior |
| I found faith when I lost hope |
| That’s when Julius reminded me of a bar I wrote |
| Behind bars, on the yard, where they dream of the street |
| On death row, singing, «We Could Be Free» |
| We could be free, we could be free |
| I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm |
| I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm |
| Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh |
| Oh |
| Oh, oh |
| Oh, oh |
| Oh, oh, oh, oh |