ALIVE

So one day
I just wanna ride through the city
And tell all of my demons when
I die they can get me
'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive
Do you feel me? Said they won't take my
Heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?
Yes or no, no, no no, no, no
I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go
I done came up in the city
Where we don't know folk
'Til my soul go cold
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)

Came a long way just to be me
Or to see a world that just wouldn't see me
Try to cut me off at the legs, defeat me
Try to return on my offers, receipt me
Saw all the colors that I saw
And try to bleach me
Back when I was drinking every
Night down in DC try to impeach me
None of these monicas could reach me
Fuck school, my moniker if need be
I'm heading home to NY to be free
Fuck the world and the rules and the PD
Round the time they do orgies threes knee
Started buying hard copies of CDs
And gambling can emerge from all the
Depression and I breathe again
I learned to accept the knowledge
That you need to live
And to never let externals impede within
And if that we don't fight with
Passion then greed will win
'Cause they don't want you to know
What it means to give and I know (I know)
And them same old demons come knocking now
But this time and there ain't no options now
So we scrapping dog, we ain't boxing now
Well I refused to be boxed in now
And if dudes want moved then we box 'em out
If my team gone lose then I'm opting out
Gotta shed the baggage to get off the ground
And that's real (that's real)
Feel like there's a whole world out
There that I gotta prove wrong
I done felt too bad for too long
But now I know that I'm too strong

So one day
I just wanna ride through the city
And tell all of my demons when
I die they can get me
'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive
Do you feel me? Said they won't take my
Heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?
Yes or no, no, no no, no, no
I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go
I done came up in the city
Where we don't know folk
'Til my soul go cold
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)

They don't know what I've been through
They don't know 'bout my issues
Motherfucking online magazines
Tryna tell me about how I have to seem
Trynna sell me but all I have's a dream
They don't really understand
What passion means
Bitch, I been in my room for years
Consumed by fear thought doom was near
It soon was clear just who was real
And who can feel and who was numb
And who was dumb
And all the lawmen, the proof is here
And I see (I see)
The lies all over my TV, disguised in an MP3
But can none of them be me?
Only you can set you free
It's what I mean when I say this shit
Hope your soul elevates when
You play this shit fuck celebrity
They got us all caught up in a war
To be stars in some Vader shit
And they say at the top ain't no space to sit
So the dream to be rich
You can chase this shit
'Cause I'm after the peoples' championship
In a league where your jewels
Wouldn't pay to tip
Motherfucker (Motherfucker)

I just wanna ride through the city
And tell all of my demons when
I die they can get me
'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive
Do you feel me? Said they won't take my
Heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?
Yes or no, no, no no, no, no
I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go
I done came up in the city
Where we don't know folk
'Til my soul go cold
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)
I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know
(They'll never take me alive)
(They'll never take me alive)
(They'll never take me alive)