Concrete Rose

Lyric

Intro

This is for the young kings and queens
Trying to survive in a world that don't want you to thrive
But still you rise...

Verse 1

Born in the depths where the street lights flicker
Government cheese while politicians get richer
Mama working doubles just to keep the lights on
While I study by candle 'til the early dawn
Projects raised me, concrete was my playground
Ducking bullets became second nature somehow
Some call it ghetto, I call it my classroom
Where I learned survival before I learned my A-B-Cs
They wonder why we angry, why we pack heat
When the system designed for us to face defeat
But even roses grow through cracks in the pavement
Beauty emerging from places they thought was vacant
Got siblings to feed, so I hustle with purpose
My choices limited but my dreams enormous
They fear educated minds in black bodies
So they build more prisons than schools, that's their policy

Chorus

Still I rise from the ashes
Like a phoenix taking flight
Through the darkness and the madness
I'm reaching for the light
They tried to bury us deep
But they didn't know we were seeds
Concrete roses blooming
In spite of what they believed

Verse 2

Politicians talking change but nothing's changing
Same blocks, same cops, same pain remaining
Media paints us as thugs and criminals
But overlooks the structural conditions that are killing us
Redlining, underfunded education
Mass incarceration targeting our nation
Young brothers dying over colors and blocks
While the real criminals counting profits and stocks
I'm trying to elevate minds with my words
Speaking truths that make the powerful disturbed
Mama told me education is the key
But the locks keep changing systematically
Still I write by streetlight, dreaming of better days
Fighting depression as another brother strays
To the system or the cemetery, both a kind of prison
But through these bars I spit, I give my people vision

Final Chorus

Still I rise from the ashes
Like a phoenix taking flight
Through the darkness and the madness
I'm reaching for the light
They tried to bury us deep
But they didn't know we were seeds
Concrete roses blooming
In spite of what they believed
(We still rise, we still rise...)
(Against all odds, we still rise...)

Outro

They can take my freedom, they can take my life
But they can never silence the truth
And the truth is, we are more than our circumstances
We are the dreams of our ancestors made flesh
And that makes us unstoppable...

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Видео Concrete Rose канала Masjatika