Lyrics

[Guante] Every spirit I've ever met, inhabited flesh Blood and bone because magic alone can't pay the rent Or make amends with history simple to ask for sympathy But I'm not tryin' to settle got empathy for my devils There are days when I just wanna say: leave me alone When my twitter feed's lookin' like a scene from the road And despair is just so easy to hold, so sometimes you gotta hold it Sit with it, have a conversation I've learned a lot from that particular spirit I learned that I don't have to sing that song just because I hear it Even if it's my inheritance I learned that there's a link in between my cynicism and my arrogance Like: just because I don't have the power To run out the front door and magically fix everything That doesn't mean that I don't have power It's just that it's less mine, and more ours So shout to those who fight on regardless Who don't wait for the sun but light fires in the darkness Who will resist because they have to Who know: you don't dance when they point the cannons at you Who know: that hope doesn't float in the air Like a politician's thoughts and prayers Nah it's something we cultivate, every day on our hands and knees We're not here to harvest, we're here to plant these seeds I bring my ancestors with me Whether ancestor by blood or bibliography I ain't no senator's son More like the sun setting on the old world we gotta leave I bring my grandchildren with me Whether grandchildren by blood or water rippling I ain't no millionaire's son I just see a million paths to victory, choose one [Tony the Scribe] I've done a lot of violence to people in my space Been a solipsist, been misogynist, been a fake Been an insecure asshole and immature blank Been broke, broke boundaries, and been a thin mate Been a rich kid talking over people who ain't I been a simp, played the fool to a king of the snakes I been a goddamn tool of the systems in place But I'm not gonna give up and break Listen - I'm not a good person cause I've never caused a hurt And I've never had to force myself to change I'm a good person cause I work and I work and I work and I work To find a better way So I will die trying to make this dark world a little brighter I will build, I will fight, I will pray I will walk, I will knock, I will write, I will love, I will hate, I will hope If that's what it's gon' take I am what happens when a German girl resisting the Nazis Comes together with the blood of a slave I got a thousand generations of spirits inside me That say there ain't no such thing as fate [Guante] All the good ones and the bad ones: I bring my ancestors with me Whether ancestor by blood or bibliography I ain't no senator's son More like the sun setting on the old world we gotta leave I bring my grandchildren with me Whether grandchildren by blood or water rippling I ain't no millionaire's son I just see a million paths to victory, choose one