Broken - Xiuhtezcatl

To break free was never my choice

Walked broken streets

Expectations overpowered my voice

Pray my greatness won’t die with me

I’m praying my greatness won’t die with me

And I’m losing myself

Feel like I’ve got something to prove to myself

Too long fulfilling expectations got my truth overwhelmed

Scales broken, the world is ending, and you’re choosing your wealth

While the walls fall and the world burn

Seas rise and the clock turns

The earth fighting back with hurricanes

And the earthquakes and the pouring rain

This is for every life lost

For the legacy of Standing Rock

For the sacred land that we desecrate

The trauma my people still carry today

For the suicide of our youth who still suffer from being colonized

Watched the bombs drop and the bullets fly

We steady ignoring the Earth’s cry

Passed too many tipping points

It’s not enough, running out of time

And the walls fall

How could you be a witness to the end

And not act?

Can’t you see the world is broken?

Every person on the planet part of something bigger than us

We have all been chosen

As the generation of humanity that determines

What kind of world will we pass down to our children?

I’m uncertain

How will you look your child in the eyes and tell them

Their future wasn’t worth fighting for, could’ve done more but didn’t listen

Didn’t wake up, didn’t speak up, didn’t fight back when there was still time

Everything we love is what we must protect in the final moments while there’s

still time

There is still time

I believe

There is still time

The 11th-hour man we living in

Drowning in the sea hopelessness

I’ve carried this weight my entire life, and it’s too much

Feel like giving in

We standing still at a precipice

I believe that our legacy will be more than this

The apathy is so poisonous and it’s killin' us

Diversity is resilient

Can’t let our differences divide us

Gotta recognize that the change we want in the world has to start inside us

We have a lot to heal from

The world needs to change

Fight for what we love, start healing the world’s hate

Build beauty from the ashes after the world breaks

It’s in the hands of the youth now

We leading the way

We leading the way

We’re born and we die, I’m done trying to escape it

I learned from my momma that this life is what you make it

If happiness is a choice, It’s up to you to choose it

If my power is in my voice, then I’m bound to learn to use it

Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs

Move through the challenges, flow where the current takes you

I’m grateful to be young and this passionate

In my heart, part of me has always been an activist

That’s why I wrote this record, so you could understand

Music made me believe in the person I am

No masks, no acting, no gimmicks

This is what it looks like to live life with no limits

This art is my resistance

I like my revolution with rhythm

A melody and a breakbeat, so people will listen

This is for every broken soul that’s felt like giving up

I pray this music and this world can play a part to lift you up

A people’s champion, show the people all that they can be

This journey’s always been ‘bout so much more than being happy

Yes I’m broken, the world is too, that’s how it is

But things have to fall apart to be reborn as more than this

I believe that the world can be more than what it is

I believe all the loss we’ve felt will teach us how to give

I look back at our ancestors and how they used to live

In balance with the planet, that’s how we’ve got to live

With love being the compass that guides the way

Leads us home

I believe the brighter days, are on their way

We’ve gotta hope

With love being the compass that guides the way

Lead us home

I believe the brighter days, are on their way

We’ve gotta hope

I believe

There is still

Time