mandela

my knuckles all bruised up from knocking on heaven's door, my body still aching from sleeping on cement floors, i was taught to be non-violent when i'm at war, but it's so hard to move in silence when the lions roar, cuz i was born in shackles, all alone in shackles, you lift me up when i was down, no hope, no vision, lift me up when all of y'all were against me, were against me, now you'd come back to scarlet, the dark days, they'd all illuminate, yeah, we miss you, mandella, we miss you, mandella, suffering no more, oh yes, a fight and i fight and i fight until i can't no more, you see these whips and these chains around my neck just might be my flaw, but these whips on my back represent what i endured, cuz i was born in shackles, all alone in shackles, you lift me up when i was down, no hope, no vision, lift me up when all of y'all were against me, were against me, now you'd come back to scarlet, the dark days, they'd all illuminate, yeah, we miss you, mandella, we miss you, mandella, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, you gave me my freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, and i will never surrender, i won't surrender, no surrender, no no, and i will never surrender, i won't surrender, no surrender, no no, you lift me up when i was down, no hope, no vision, lift me up when all of y'all were against me, now you'd come back to scarlet, the dark days, they'd all illuminate, yeah, we miss you, mandella, we miss you, mandella