Akala – Malcolm Said It Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Toussaint said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Lumumba said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it
Hook
- If you ain't found something to die for
- If you ain't found something to die for, you'll never live
Verse 1
- If you ain't found something to die for you'll never live
- We might feed and breathe but we never did
- Accept those with peace and equality
- They don't see what we call authority
- Live, speak truth and kill them for
- We love them dead when they speak no more
- But they will endure, ideas are bulletproof
- Tooth of truth it's impossible to pull it loose
- We smother any mouth, they utter it
- Folly Fathers fear, we Mother it
- We're lovin they're corrupt government
- So we look the other way when in our name they're strugglin'
- We idolize 'em and we despise 'em
- Cos we're reminded we're the ones who are silent
- So, give a moment for the times we were blinded
- Scream at the top of your lungs like a siren
Hook
- If you ain't found something to die for
- If you ain't found something to die for, you'll never live
Verse 2
- Maybe the wise man has nothin' to prove
- But the one who has nothing has nothing to lose
- More things we don't need will make more thieves
- More laws we don't heed it's all Siamese
- Who leads? It don't matter, they can't make change
- New driver but we got no brakes
- Whatever the place, whatever the face
- The master never ever frees his slave
- They always knew it
- So they pursue it
- But we've been too divided to ever be guided through it
- Gotta stop 'em because they're rotton from the days of picking cotton
- To sell us a love song and we're so besotted
- So confused, we believe their promise
- But there are some that lead more honest
- They are not forgotten, though they shot'em
- So scream to the top of your lungs right from the bottom!
Break
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Toussaint said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Lumumba said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it
Hook
- If you ain't found something to die for
- If you ain't found something to die for, you'll never live
Verse 3
- People don't rebel, the rebels are the tyrants
- You are not God, so we are not defying
- No human nature, just our behavior
- The oppressed wanting their oppressor as their saviour
- Around the globe killin', made to be religion
- But the book said they're sinnin'
- And that is just the beginnin'
- Now spread democracy by dropping a bomb
- On a terrorist with no shoes or socks
- I reckon, history teaches us a lesson
- The bigger terrorist is the one with the bigger weapons
- They talked but we didn't listen
- They spoke and then went missin'
- We can't see all the things that imprison us
- Cos we don't appreciate the freedoms that they have given us
- I wouldn't bet it, that we ever get it
- Run, tell your friends that Akala said it
Hook
- If you ain't found something to die for
- If you ain't found something to die for, you'll never live
Break
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Toussaint said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it
- Malcolm said it
- Martin said it
- Marley said it
- Ali said it
- Garvey said it
- Lumumba said it
- I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it