Akala – Bells Of War Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- Let me give you some real shit for a second,
- Yo, listen...
- Five hundred years of tears, we still here
- Standing strong, the only thing that we fear
- The reflection in the mirror, the hate is deep
- It's been this way since Willie Lynch made the speech
- Divide and rule got us all by the balls
- The referee's cheatin', but we playin' by the rules
- Even after all the rape and the killing
- We still let the same man educate our children
- There's been no apology, we still forgivin'
- And he's got the cheek to portray us as the villain
- Look across the globe at the way we are livin'
- The darker the skin, the realer the condition, no coincidence
- We built the whole western world for free
- And what thank you did we get? To be hung from trees?
- We been whipped, been stripped of our truth
- But we still standin', a tree without roots
- Black rose from the concrete, the petals is damaged
- But surely you see the beauty of what just happened
- What don't kill you, make a nigga strong, that's a fact
- And we've been abused for so long, you do the math