| Yo, just feeling the way that I do
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| Hope lives on, if not through me through song
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| I’m getting the long, take deep breaths and hold on
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| I write like I realize I could be gone
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| I’m here, is the true meaning of love clear?
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| If love is pain, is love really fair?
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| Is the meaning of life just to breed?
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| Is death losing all of your precious things?
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| Some think men don’t cry, well, here’s tears
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| Been told all these lives for these years
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| It’s unclear why truth is untold
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| But hold fast and truth will unfold
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| I know but it’s kinda hard to believe
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| That a whole generation will die over greed
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| And that most of our young will die overseas
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| But it all remains to go unseen
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| We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on
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| 'Cause the trouble won’t last
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| We are showing that the roots run deep
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| And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe
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| We will, hold on and hold out, put it together
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| And make it work somehow
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| This is, this for Malcolm and music
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| My story, my movement, never forgetting the children
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| Keep your head to the sky
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| The only way that you fail is if you never ever try
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| Where I come from, I’m there for you, care for you
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| You don’t have to worry I’m gonna always be there for you
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| Doing what, laying the foundation 'cause we gonna make it
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| But it’s gonna take dedication
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| And what and hope and love and peace
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| I hope one day you’ll see and then you can join us
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| Listen if you love me say the words to me
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| I’m surrounded by so many things that hurt to me
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| You know you’ll always come first to me
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| This is music, it ain’t nothing but a verse to me
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| Remember after the pain there’s sunshine
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| It’s not in vain we all feel it sometimes
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| Stay strong, hold on, we gonna make good
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| Every member
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| We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on
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| 'Cause the trouble won’t last
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| We are showing that the roots run deep
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| And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe
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| We will, hold on and hold out, put it together
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| And make it work somehow
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| This is, this for Malcolm and music
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| My story, my movement, never forgetting the children
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| This is for the mothers single handed
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| For all the ghettos way to dammit
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| Hey, the world, don’t you panic
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| Let courage lead you right
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| Darkness is temporary
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| Even though the future’s looking scary, yeah it is
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| The most I don’t make mistakes
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| When your chosen us the light
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| I know we’re a long way from home
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| On this land that they stole, took it all
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| Gave us drugs after gold
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| Incarceration to a fold
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| To raise the murder toll
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| What else, to divide communities
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| Do away with unity
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| Where the strength is human beings
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| We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on
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| 'Cause the trouble won’t last
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| We are showing that the roots run deep
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| And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe
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| We will, hold on and hold out, put it together
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| And make it work somehow
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| This is, this for Malcolm and music
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| My story, my movement, never forgetting the children
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| We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on
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| 'Cause the trouble won’t last
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| We are showing that the roots run deep
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| And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe
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| We will, hold on and hold out, put it together
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| And make it work somehow
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| This is, this for Malcolm and music
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| My story, my movement, never forgetting the children |