Intro – heartbeat drums, wind, distant chants
(whispered)
Hear them?
They never left…
They speak through breath, not pages.
“Child… remember what you are.”
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Verse 1 – 16 bars, ancestral urgency
They walk in my marrow, rise in my chest,
Say “You ain’t born to bow, you born blessed.”
They ain’t bleed for me to kneel in place,
I am the future they prayed I’d face.
They said, “Colonies crumble when truth get found,”
“Systems shake when the right stand ground.”
I hear drums in my ribs, thunder in bone,
“Child, you sovereign — stop livin’ like owned.”
No gatekeeper hold breath I breathe,
No paper define what I achieve.
They whisper “Stand, don’t fold, don’t flinch,”
Freedom ain’t granted — you born in that rinse.
Being ain’t borrowed, spirit don’t rent,
Life ain’t permission — living is intent.
This world malfunction when truth awaken,
You can’t enslave what was never taken.
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Hook – 8 bars, chant call
Blood remember, soul don’t break,
Ancestors call — rise, awake.
You ain’t free — you be, that’s fate,
Stop playin’ captive to what they make.
Ears hear silence, spirit hear choir,
Roots on fire, breath birth empire.
Memory returnin’ — higher, higher,
Child of truth — rise, get brighter.
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Verse 2 – 16 bars, spirit-war cadence
I feel them in dreams, see them in flame,
Say “They rewrote history but can’t change your name.”
Name ain’t words — name vibration,
I am life, source, foundation.
They say “Don’t ask systems to validate worth,”
“You sovereign by breath, dominion by birth.”
“Boy, recognize, don’t idolize fate,”
“Power ain’t votes, power innate.”
Chains don’t bind minds that wake,
Freedom start when illusion break.
Every ancestor chant in spine:
“You ain’t citizen — you divine.”
No crown needed when soul is throne,
No state own life that stand alone.
Don’t choose survival — choose existence,
Move in truth, not begging permission.
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Bridge – whispered ancestors, deep drums
(whispers overlapping)
Rise.
Remember.
Stand.
You are.
Not theirs.
Never were.
Return to self.
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Hook – final, layered voices, warrior calm
Blood remember, soul don’t break,
Ancestors call — rise, awake.
You ain’t free — you be, that’s fate,
Stop playin’ captive to what they make.
Ears hear silence, spirit hear choir,
Roots on fire, breath birth empire.
Memory returnin’ — higher, higher,
Child of truth — rise, get brighter.
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Outro – soft drums fade like footsteps
They didn’t die for you…
They lived through you.
Be what they remembered.
Life1st.
FreedomNation
