Lyrics Brother Ali

Brother Ali

Philistine David

I stand tall I raise my fists

I pray all this pain might lift

I don't want to die tonight

But I can't live another day like this

The first time I ever broke the law

Was just being born in a zone that's controlled by y'all

A foreigner in my own damn home land

Made me a sixteen year old, grown man

I was aged by the pain that I saw

Outside my front door was the front line of a war

Shots gets fired I cry on the floor

Underneath my bed tryin' to hide from it all

I try to recall the first time that I saw

Someone close to me die and my mind starts to draw

A blank

There's far to many of us die

Genocide it's a genocide

And our enemies will never be satisfied

Until not even our memories survive

It feels like they got the whole world on their side

And the story of my people will never reach your eyes

But understand one damn thing I can't run

I don't care where the liar got his drink from

I'll rush your tank with not even a hand gun

Only a rock from the land that I stand on