[Verse 1]
What happens when the king wanna go back to that nigga in him
Or to redeem wanna go back to that sinner in him
When it’s over wanna go back to that [?] second
Or the forgive won’t forgive their own brother or sister
I get it, I feel the pressure, I can’t breathe
Shed so many tears that night it’s like i can’t see
We lost too many in the struggle now so i can’t leave
But i lost my brother to that struggle, shit, and I can’t grieve
The type of trauma that you feel like these walls is just collapsin' in
Type of shit that make a cartridge rapper wanna snap again
Make Dr. King grab his pistol and just start blastin' it
Make blacks wanna kill blacks for killin blacks again
Make niggas wanna be proud to be in Africa
Make the world wanna acknowledge that we are african
James Brown fist in the air we black in proud again
Said James Brown I'm black and I'm proud, sing it loud again
[Chorus]
They don’t know your name
They won’t know your pain
They won’t help you climb
We’re in this alone
Never change
Never change
Never change
No, we’re in this alone
[Verse 2]
Your degrees can’t save you and neither can your fame
One hundred thousand followers who all tweetin' your name
A hundred thousand followers can’t help you bear this pain
Born alone, you die alone, you leave the way you came
I just hope that my lungs and my heart still good because
These [backwards?] and these black hoods are toxic
It’s like it’s tryna claim my black man life
Power to the sisters tryna be a black man wife
Despite the black man’s plight to fight as many as he could
Black man get a wife if you really know what’s good
Get your queen, [?] your throne, start your family, build a home
Miss me with that misogynist that shit that you be on
Cause the black woman is god, seen her for myself
You can’t cheat on god without lyin' to yourself
I think the world of you
When you think the world don’t love you
I always got yo back, you remind me of my mother
[Chorus]
They don’t know your name
They won’t know your pain
They won’t help you climb
We’re in this alone
Never change
Never change
Never change
No, we’re in this alone
[Verse 3]
Yo, Whatever you have done to the poor you’ve done unto me
That the message from the king of kings to these racist police
That’s the message to these companies profiting from disease
And that’s the message to you niggas killin' brothers in the streets
Wake up, partna, do you know what time it is?
Do you understand in this life what your assignment is?
The moment is precious. Do you know how divine this is?
I speak from the spirit whenever I’m spittin' rhymes like this
But this verse be church for the unjust truth to my every breath
This is life after death and I ain’t even buried yet
I just choose to live for something greater
Forgive the ones who hate us and those who trespass against us
And lead us my inner temptation as we chase this paper
I know it’s vain that some of us think that money can save us
Tell me how could you blame us
When the conditions that we livin in resemblin' hell
And they shoot us in our backs before they put us in jail
[Chorus]
They don’t know your name
They won’t know your pain
They won’t help you climb
We’re in this alone
Never change
Never change
Never, ohh
They won’t know your name
They won’t know your pain
They won’t help you climb, oh
We’re in this alone
Never change (yo, fists up in the air if you down with the movement)
Never change
Never change (?, put your fists in the air)
(let’s go)
[Outro]
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y, c’mon
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for unity
Fist up for you and me
Fist up for you and me
Fist up for you and me
Fist up for you and me
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y