I remember back, back in the day   When the sunshine smiled as the children played, I say   I remember when it was so pure   Hearing melodies through the bedroom door   Making beats in the basement   Tasting all the magic harmonies and flows that we were chasing   Turning fantasies into realities    Oh we were lost in dreams   We had all the keys   And now it seems we can’t pick the lock   Kind of like a flat line, I need a shock   What’s behind the door   Are we too scared to knock   Did you pull the trigger   Did you hear the gunshot   Will we ever ever rise above   Will we ever follow through in this path called love   Oh Mama please take me back to my youth   Where I never ever had any holes in my parachute      Why do they make this pill so hard for us to swallow   Treating us as if we are ghosts, as if we’re only hollow   Oh yea but we sing today and we’ll sing through out tomorrow   Because our fire it burns, it burns up all your sorrow      Flip the tape deck, microphone check   Turn up the volume, how loud can we get   Show the man that we’re not going under   Never gonna sleep, never fall into a slumber   No matter what the poison is you feed   Any sickness oh we got a remedy   Don’t you know we are the roots that hold this tree   Feeding the branches and all of its leaves   Love and truth shall always prevail   Raise them high and we will set sail   No ocean to wide, No mountain to high   Our feet on the ground and our heads in the sky   Oh yea we are soldiers of the pure   Have you had enough   Do you want more   Read another chapter of this folklore   You never sang a song like this before