My people were said to be conjured out of mother’s land said she bore us into a new world that does not love and left our body free for deterioration made us walk in decomposition Amongst those who have already claimed the title of the walking dead for themselves And raised us, in the land of decree Drenched in red everyday, but leaving nothing but white footsteps and our own blue faces Chained by DNA, my body contains over 400 years of rage and anger I am the voice the weary Intertwined with 402 years of my ancestors blood bursting through my veins Fighting for me to survive To hold onto my humanity in the most inhumane circumstances We must all chose whether or not to be a monster To be on the side of good or evil You tell me, what profits a man to gain the world but lose his soul A lifeless vessel powered by death The wages of sin must be repaid in blood And my people’s debt is stretched to the core of the earth We’ve been displaced our entire lives… should we even try To break free from the world, And untie the lie that hides beneath the tide It will require the sacrifice of life, the exodus & betrayal from the world Who we thought, we knew so well - would shatter the ground beneath us And there we were aware of the truth, living proof metamorphosis They told me, mother nearly died waiting for us to realize that she had always loved us That she had no business telling the world right from wrong And that the world took us from her Deep rooted dirt to grow green, The world got greedy, wanted more than what my mother would ever give and so they decided to take the most precious thing to her In her anger, it is said that mother will one day open up the ground and swallow all whom bare tethered to all we have now But she cannot leave her children in the land of the walking dead, You tell me, what profits a man to gain the world but lose his soul A lifeless vessel powered by death The wages of sin must be repaid in blood And the world’s debt is stretched to the core of the earth What will happen when democracy dies in darkness? When the leaders of the free world, become chained to the land of the free When no comes to save them from their sins Perpetrated against the ground it self and my people When we return to mother, I will breathe in heavy and exhale Debt-free, saved me from a land who wanted to see me burn Tables turn, lessoned learn Once last becomes first and gets the final laugh But nothing is funny about a nation embalmed in flames