We Are - DJ Jazzy Jeff

Yo, just feeling the way that I do

Hope lives on, if not through me through song

I’m getting the long, take deep breaths and hold on

I write like I realize I could be gone

I’m here, is the true meaning of love clear?

If love is pain, is love really fair?

Is the meaning of life just to breed?

Is death losing all of your precious things?

Some think men don’t cry, well, here’s tears

Been told all these lives for these years

It’s unclear why truth is untold

But hold fast and truth will unfold

I know but it’s kinda hard to believe

That a whole generation will die over greed

And that most of our young will die overseas

But it all remains to go unseen

We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on

'Cause the trouble won’t last

We are showing that the roots run deep

And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe

We will, hold on and hold out, put it together

And make it work somehow

This is, this for Malcolm and music

My story, my movement, never forgetting the children

Keep your head to the sky

The only way that you fail is if you never ever try

Where I come from, I’m there for you, care for you

You don’t have to worry I’m gonna always be there for you

Doing what, laying the foundation 'cause we gonna make it

But it’s gonna take dedication

And what and hope and love and peace

I hope one day you’ll see and then you can join us

Listen if you love me say the words to me

I’m surrounded by so many things that hurt to me

You know you’ll always come first to me

This is music, it ain’t nothing but a verse to me

Remember after the pain there’s sunshine

It’s not in vain we all feel it sometimes

Stay strong, hold on, we gonna make good

Every member

We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on

'Cause the trouble won’t last

We are showing that the roots run deep

And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe

We will, hold on and hold out, put it together

And make it work somehow

This is, this for Malcolm and music

My story, my movement, never forgetting the children

This is for the mothers single handed

For all the ghettos way to dammit

Hey, the world, don’t you panic

Let courage lead you right

Darkness is temporary

Even though the future’s looking scary, yeah it is

The most I don’t make mistakes

When your chosen us the light

I know we’re a long way from home

On this land that they stole, took it all

Gave us drugs after gold

Incarceration to a fold

To raise the murder toll

What else, to divide communities

Do away with unity

Where the strength is human beings

We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on

'Cause the trouble won’t last

We are showing that the roots run deep

And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe

We will, hold on and hold out, put it together

And make it work somehow

This is, this for Malcolm and music

My story, my movement, never forgetting the children

We are living for today not the past, trying to hold on

'Cause the trouble won’t last

We are showing that the roots run deep

And the hope won’t cease 'cause everyday we believe

We will, hold on and hold out, put it together

And make it work somehow

This is, this for Malcolm and music

My story, my movement, never forgetting the children