🌑 Intro (Spoken / Soft Melody)
Yeah…
They tried to hide the truth.
But the roots remember.
We remember.
Listen…
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🔥 Hook (Chorus)
They wanna write our story like we only survived,
But we built this whole thing — yeah, we kept it alive.
From the kingdoms to the cotton, from the chains to the rise,
Truth buried underground, but the roots don’t die.
Yeah, the roots don’t die, no, the roots don’t die—
They tried to steal the past, but the truth don’t lie.
We’re the fire in the struggle, we’re the sun in the sky,
You can cover up the history, but the roots don’t die.
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Verse 1
We came from land where the rivers ran gold,
Empires so bright that the world stood bold.
Then they twisted up the map, turned the kings into slaves,
But they needed all our skill just to make those waves.
Rice fields flourish ‘cause our hands knew how,
Cowboys learned game from the Black folk now.
Maroons in the swamps put fear in their mind,
Freedom wasn’t granted — it was something we’d find.
We were never just property, never just pain,
We were architects of culture they could never contain.
Every step forward, we rewrote the page,
Truth cuts deeper than the whip or the cage.
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🔥 Hook (Chorus)
They wanna write our story like we only survived,
But we built this whole thing — yeah, we kept it alive.
From the kingdoms to the cotton, from the chains to the rise,
Truth buried underground, but the roots don’t die.
Yeah, the roots don’t die, no, the roots don’t die—
They tried to steal the past, but the truth don’t lie.
We’re the fire in the struggle, we’re the sun in the sky,
You can cover up the history, but the roots don’t die.
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Verse 2
Haiti lit the match and the world got shook,
Revolution in the air — take another look.
Enslaved folks flipped the system, marched with pride,
Shut the South down without picking a side.
Underground Railroad — that was war in disguise,
Self-emancipated, yeah, the nation realized.
Every runaway strike was an economic blow,
And they feared our power more than we’ll ever know.
Jim Crow rose up but we never stood still,
It was church, it was fists, it was unbreakable will.
From Ida B.’s pen to the streets we run,
Every fight in our bones made the future come.
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🌅 Bridge (Melodic)
They tried to silence the truth,
Tried to bury our proof,
But every step in the past
Still beats in the youth.
We are more than the pain,
More than struggle and strain—
We are legacy living
And the torch remains.
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🔥 Final Hook (Chorus + Outro)
They wanna write our story like we only survived,
But we built this whole thing — yeah, we kept it alive.
From the kingdoms to the cotton, from the chains to the rise,
Truth buried underground, but the roots don’t die.
Yeah, the roots don’t die, no, the roots don’t die—
They tried to steal the past, but the truth don’t lie.
We’re the fire in the struggle, we’re the sun in the sky,
You can cover up the history, but the roots don’t die.
(Yeah…)
The roots don’t die.
The truth won’t die.
Fade out…
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