“One Blood, Many Stories”

(Verse 1)

They drew lines in the sand, then they called it truth

Painted shades into boxes, handed lies to the youth

Said you’re this, I’m that, based on surface and sight

But the pulse in our veins don’t divide black and white

We were born into names we didn’t design

Given roles, given labels, told to fall into line

But I look in the mirror and I don’t see a side

Just a soul in a body tryin’ to live and survive

(Pre-Chorus)

Yeah, the world built walls out of fear and control

Turned a difference in pigment into something that stole

From the core of connection, from the truth we all share

If you cut us open, it’s the same red there

(Chorus)

One blood, one breath, one sky above

We complicate hate, but we’re simple in love

Call it race, call it lines, call it anything you want

But we all fall down and we all get up

It’s one blood, one name we forget to say

Human first, everything else fades

If we stopped believing what divides us apart

We’d remember who we are in the dark

(Verse 2)

They’ll say it’s not that easy, history runs deep

Echoes of injustice don’t just fall asleep

And they’re right—pain lingers, truth cuts through

You can’t erase the past just by changing your view

But maybe the shift is in how we see

Not denying the scars, but the possibility

That the cages we carry ain’t locked at the door

And the keys been inside us the whole time before

(Bridge)

Not blind to the struggle, not deaf to the cries

But I question the systems that keep us tied

To a cycle repeating, redefining the pain

When the end of division starts in the brain

(Chorus)

One blood, one breath, one sky above

We complicate hate, but we’re simple in love

Call it race, call it lines, call it anything you want

But we all fall down and we all get up

It’s one blood, one truth we can’t outrun

Different stories, but the same sun

If we stopped holding tight to the parts that divide

We might finally stand on the same side

(Outro)

So I won’t say it’s gone, and I won’t say it’s fake

But I will say the power is ours to reshape

What we pass on, what we choose to see

One human race… or a divided we