If They Come for Me in the Morning... (feat. Aisha Fukushima)

Dear future You were not supposed to make it But some of us believed you could And we changed reality so you would Now it's your turn Contraband body Soul in the audio Underground railroad Flow with the river God's gonna trouble the Spirit dancing And mind gone free We still can't breathe Everything we know of home We've been forced to leave Travel light Ready to go, instinctively We are still all running like thieves in the night Following the North Star, we got away with our lives For every time we were told we would not survive Then rose from the ashes to see new heights Harriet Tubman phoenix, reborn with a mic Unconfined by time, shotgun at the side We will rewrite tomorrow to defend Black life These are lyrics for the days that happen after the fight Worth more than a favorite or a click or a like When they capture your body but you got freedom of mind If I mysteriously die, know that my spirit would fight If I die in custody, it was not a suicide If they kill me for my voice, know that my soul is alright If they take me in the morning, they'll come for you by night So be ready to fight For Mumia, Sundiata, Assata, The MOVE 9 And anybody, anywhere that had to serve hard time I don't even care if you committed a crime You can't justify how they dehumanize And torture our folks behind enemy lines Media fills em with fear so they believe these lies Like "it's rehabilitation and not a plantation" Take one trip north of NOLA, have a look at Angola It is pre civil-war south happening right now It'll make you want to burn every prison to the ground I owe it to my elders for the life I found Hidden in pages that they wrote on in cages In coded language that raised me up Underground railroad, the star light is us To break the walls it all starts inside of you And don't stop til all of the bars are dust If I mysteriously die, know that my spirit would fight If I die in custody, it was not a suicide If they kill me for my voice, know that my soul is alright If they take me in the morning, they'll come for you by night So be ready to fight