[Hamilton Lavity Stoutt]

Even the sleeping dead will arise and say, “How come?”

[Intro]

Ah hah, I am

Ah hah, I am

[Chorus 1]

I’m awoke (ah hah)

I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke (yeah ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke, yeah (ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

[Verse 1]

It’s unfortunate just to see how hard it is

The disenfranchised with fully loaded cartridges

With nothing to lose, ain’t nothing they fear, nothing

It start from, fighting in school to getting expelled

And then they, turn to the streets

They wasn’t prepared, for how it feel to have a dot on their head

To hеlp guide the lead

That’s why I pray thеy seek knowledge instead

But the youth act like their hearing impaired

Next thing you hear is they’re dead

Hopefully Jah forbid

Let’s cease the cookie-cutter thinking

That we got to rid

Authorities don’t recognize the problem is amid

All for a seat at the corner stone of the pyramid

I ring a thunderous voice, I know they’re hearing it

Forbidden philosophies, they’re mad I sharing it

I bring a harmonious poise, I know they’re fearing it

With intellectual properties, nobody nearing it

While your ears I serenade

[Chorus 2]

I’m awoke (ah hah)

I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke (yeah ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke, yeah (ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

[Verse 2]

I just can’t accept the stories that they try to sell us, nah

So they label me a heathen and deemed me rebellious, ugh

They control with propaganda

We must understand that

Know that the system is a snake

The biggest anaconda

Got a million questions I know they could never answer

They just want us to comply so they could feed the monster

But knowledge is the master

Be careful what you ask for

Dark ages, we past that

The truth I going plaster

Now I floating while I toking on this hydro spliff

The meds I holding while decoding ancient hieroglyphs

While they feeding ‘em with helium’s the medium

It’s only five-percent see the oblivion

Open your eye and see the genocide

Nowadays they ain’t even trying to hide

Cause now we know that it’s a lot of lies

[Hamilton Lavity Stoutt]

Even the sleeping dead will arise and say…

[Chorus 3]

I’m awoke (ah hah)

I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke (yeah ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m awoke, I’m alive (I am)

I’m awoke (yeah ah hah)

To the lies (I am)

[Gwendolyn]

JaCoy got my full attention one evening when he had a high fever

He began to behave erratically

He ran out of the house, picked up a piece of stick

And started to play a beat

The beat sounded as if it was of African origin

And he also sang along to the beat

I had never heard it before

But it seemed as if it was being composed on the spot

All this while, we had assume that he was awake

JaCoy was sleepwalking

I’m awoke