Royce Da 5'9"
Still Alive
[Verse 1: Bobby Sessions]
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

[Chorus: Bobby Sessions]
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
[Verse 2: Bobby Sessions]
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

[Verse 3: Royce da 5'9]
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
[Chorus: Bobby Sessions]
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