We Exist (feat. Mandy Alexander)

The past and present reality

Consumes every crevice of your attentive mind

It’s no easy thing to live here

But lately, lately I’ve been feeling like Ashley Kriel

You know sometimes I feel like, like like like like…

I feel it too

That need to stir an uprising

Nothing much has changed in this city

Our people still exist in severe poverty

Cape Town

So much drugs

It be your own who would take the sneakers off your feat

But can you blame them

Imagine being a citizen in a city that tells you your value is

Indirectly proportional to your melanin

We are all in survival mode

Not knowing that we do not know

The feeling of a peaceful and dignified existence

My people are beautiful

Rich with velvet stories

That pierce with pain and defiant joy

We exist

We exist

We exist