Brace Yourself Child
Life as You know it will never be the same
Ready to Face Your Death Now
Run like i told you to when them Rebels came
No time to grab her things
No time to change
Rebellion had arrived sent the village up in flames
Innocent slashed and slain ~ Laughs and Screams
Modern day holocaust they murderin names
Peep Selamwit runnin through the city streets
Mom's ahead she's tryin to keep
Up or she'll forever sleep
Her Baby brother weeps
Gonna Take some luck to reach
Checkpoint where truck or jeep get em to the border in peace
Easier said than done
She's in the back of one
Still hearin clap from guns
Grenade without the pin
Neighbors who me they end
How is this happenin?
Freedom Cry
Tell Me God are we gon die
Oh Me Oh My
If life is Love do We Apply
Now in Tigray~This family of 3
Has to ration out their eats when before they used to feast
The children got they vitals in and Momma got the last thing
On nights when it was nothing she claimed that she was fasting
Damn wish the good ole days were everlasting
All she sees are shadows of a Love lost a past thing
Age 14 and caught up in the madness
The family starts to chat about where baby girls Dad is
10 Years back when Selassie's Assassin
Was pluckin off the lineage with no questions asked and
Poppa had to leave em all ~ Hoofed it to Sudan
Left with no choice but become a new man
Some kinda news came Moms was hysterical
Could not decipher if doomsday or miracle
Wiped back the tears to share ~ Forget me never Ya
Father just sent for you ~ He's in America
Chorus
Touched down in Portland ~ Maine not Oregon
Chain round her neck shows her name and her origin
Spoke not a lick of the language ~ Her Anguish
Had just begun in this world full of strangers
You know how kids do ~ You down they kick You
One sound they pick you ~ Apart and strip you
Down til your issues ~ Is all that's visual
And so went the battering despite all she's been through
But wait ~ All the hatred motivated her
To disarm they weapons give em nothing they could say to her
Sensing opportunity she grabbed they words and ate em up
Spit it out ~ No hint of doubt ~ Stole they ball and layed it up
Crack a joke and they'd erupt
Start to get the feeling as if God had said "OK Enough"
Here's some brighter pastures for weathering those days of rough
Shorty got her Masters ~ From down and out to Lady Luck
credits
from Writes of Passage,
released November 23, 2009
Produced by Speaks
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