If You Were Still Alive

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Pheez

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If I could turn back time
We would not commit a crime
I know I would make you stay in mind
The memory would turn into a rhyme

Slaves escaped nooses and chains overseers with big triggers to kill us and maim
Taught us to be workers perverted the Scriptures invoking saying the Lord's name
Hated to see us thrive through their lies kept our lives inside of a cage
Modern day gold wrapped around throats 
Once came Western Africa the Gold Coast fame
Black and brown sisters and brothers genocide slain forced to board boats
Dividing families took them away to ancestors We prayed seeking deliverance
Where were they I argue not alive lying in graves the source of such pain
That followed Civil War inequality tried to silence the voices of voting for
The poor and disenfranchised not all whites but the power that was pro-Proclaimed
From a Jesus that they portrayed for all that they endured a certain phrase I won't say
Sacrifices that were made you didn't do it in vain

If you were still alive... What would you say
Could you look and be proud... Or turn your face away
Did I keep the fire bright or douse out the flames
I guess we'll never know, but to you I owe many, many things...
If you were still alive

If I could turn back time
We would not commit a crime
I know I would make you stay in mind
The memory would turn into a rhyme

Martin and Malcolm I dedicate this verse on the album
To leaders upbringing and ultimately life's outcome assassinated for peacekeeping
And piece keeping by locking arms and bearing arms fought for rights to freedom
I see them as two sides of the same coin may not take up a gun
My voice, the weapon of choice I bring to the shootout neighborhoods the OK corral
Blacks be clapping blacks far from when you two were round it's gotten worse
The sanctuary used to be the church but now the flock flocks from it first
No leaders we can trust to unify all of us the search turns to politicians
Pitching gimmicks... as if my main concern is all about jobs
Temperatures rising up on the earth I contribute to global warming through a verse
That last bar maybe fire no difference if your not making a difference just being idle

If you were still alive... What would you say
Could you look and be proud... Or turn your face away
Did I keep the fire bright or douse out the flames
I guess we'll never know, but to you I owe many, many things... 
If you were still alive

If I could turn back time
We would not commit a crime
I know I would make you stay in mind
The memory would turn into a rhyme

I've had questions about existence and as a Christian I must admit it
Your principles I haven't always lived it 
I struggle with lust eyes feasting on many women
I know it's sinning I need forgiveness to set my sights on my wife's image alone
She's what my heart prayed for but the mind over time is so insatiable
It's never content countless hours I've spent roaming databases of the Internet
I must repent from heaven you sit watching me hypocrisy
On the cross, didn't relent and stopping me from a certain death
Knowing you died to set me free my spirit cries deep down inside
You're all I need like a fresh breath submerged under ice wanting to breathe
You never left paid the full price despite the Pheez
So I ought to listen like Nike do it for my soul (Sole) 
And not religion apologies for my offenses

If I could turn back time
We would not commit a crime
I know I would make you stay in mind
The memory would turn into a rhyme

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