Melanin (feat. Kerrie Joy)

Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives Planted Deep within this fertile brown skin lies the capacity to be magnificent We stand on the backs of giants The oceans formed after millennials of sun-kissed rivers have poured in And like the oceans our vastness has not yet fully been explored We know more of the glass ceiling above us than we do of the power within us That black power, we are electric Shocking civilization into existence, charged with greatness But how soon we forget that his-story doesn't tell our-story The underground railroad isn't our only claim to glory We didn't have sit-ins and marches when we built the pyramids The struggle is real but so are our successes Do the math yourself because the figures have been hidden All we needed was a reflection, but instead we've been lookin for Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives So, the next march on Washington should be a march of melanin Flowing throughout the streets like the blood throughout the skin Where they, can't, breathe, we'll carry the oxygen Cells of change, say their names to ensure they haven't died in vain Til 'we shall overcome' becomes 'we have overcame' We shall lift every voice and sing as every fist is raised Take every knee, as we make the stand to say that We the people won't simply go away We were Stolen from Africa brought to America with royalty in our back pocket That's why they consistently charge us, paying for this country's vices As the cops become the robbers, of our liquid gold Spilled across the nation, soaked into a foundation that they've tried to wash away But like liquid gold we always rise All we need to do is rise, and we don't need Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives Someone to save our lives Someone to save us Someone to save our lives Our lives