[Verse 1: Blu]
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I was a n**** in my younger days
I even went through the phase as an angry a** black man
I played the pan-african for a week
Until I rocked up in Seattle when that racist s*** ceased
I met some sisters out in Mozambique, who asked me
What part of Africa was my fam tree
It would have to be Réunion. An Island on the coast
That was conquered by the French a long time ago
A true foe like I'm Francois cam shot
I gotta stand by my blood like blood
Though I am not them
I pretend to be me, every now and then
Even though some days I wasn't proud of kin
I was childish then, found a style again
Lost myself trying to follow men
Reading books to fill this hollow skin
Couldn't swim till they found me on the shallow end
Used to win back when I didn't know how to win
And now I spend money, trying to get my smile grinning
Grim living foul feeling thinner than I am now
And that's a sin, but religion isn't in me anymore
So the Lord doesn't care if I'm sore
Cause I'm bored
Sick of thinking what I'm here for
I'm not sure?
I'm trying to be content with that, but f*** that
I want my love back, my l***, my trust back
And keep this freedom I don't wanna rap
I'm trying to be...
[Hook]
Alive again
Wanna feel like I can fly again
They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high
I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive
I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)
I wanna see me in your eyes again
Put this love between your thighs wanna give another life
I don't want to have to die, (be)fore I get to feel alive
I just wanna live my life. (To the, to the)
[Bridge: Jimetta Rose]
I am only one, one, one, one
We are always one, one, one
Look up to the sun, sun, sun, sun
See that we are always one, one, one
[Verse 2: Blu]
I was a painter in my last lifetime
Now I write rhymes like I fight crime, living life blind
Trying to find peace...
With this girl on my mind that can't find me
Watching Amelie hoping I'mma be the one that she finds
Can't keep living life in rewind
I used to fast on the hog, now I eat swine
And can't stop smoking (blunts), though I keep trying
In these times when the peace of mind is not a goal
It's a grave
I be racing to it holding hope. Rejecting change
Cause the pain feels realer than the pleasure
Rocking sweaters when the weather's sunny
Funny fellow from the yellow
But I watch so many foreign films, I feel foreign
Every morning cooking full course meals, like I'm starving
Hardly say grace or say "thanks for another day"
Even though I'm grateful I try to show it in other ways
I used to give b**s change, till I changed
Kind of strange cause when I'm richer than I was when I gave
Got a gang of friends that I don't call or hang with
Even though I know they on that same s***... aimless
s***, I must seem like I don't dream at all
My mom says that I should draw again
But I don't want a pen
I just want to live, have kids, buy a crib like the old days
Whatever happened to those days
[Hook]
Check it
I was a n**** in my younger days
I even went through the phase as an angry a** black man
I played the pan-african for a week
Until I rocked up in Seattle when that racist s*** ceased
I met some sisters out in Mozambique, who asked me
What part of Africa was my fam tree
It would have to be Réunion. An Island on the coast
That was conquered by the French a long time ago
A true foe like I'm Francois cam shot
I gotta stand by my blood like blood
Though I am not them
I pretend to be me, every now and then
Even though some days I wasn't proud of kin
I was childish then, found a style again
Lost myself trying to follow men
Reading books to fill this hollow skin
Couldn't swim till they found me on the shallow end
Used to win back when I didn't know how to win
And now I spend money, trying to get my smile grinning
Grim living foul feeling thinner than I am now
And that's a sin, but religion isn't in me anymore
So the Lord doesn't care if I'm sore
Cause I'm bored
Sick of thinking what I'm here for
I'm not sure?
I'm trying to be content with that, but f*** that
I want my love back, my l***, my trust back
And keep this freedom I don't wanna rap
I'm trying to be...
[Hook]
Alive again
Wanna feel like I can fly again
They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high
I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive
I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)
I wanna see me in your eyes again
Put this love between your thighs wanna give another life
I don't want to have to die, (be)fore I get to feel alive
I just wanna live my life. (To the, to the)
[Bridge: Jimetta Rose]
I am only one, one, one, one
We are always one, one, one
Look up to the sun, sun, sun, sun
See that we are always one, one, one
[Verse 2: Blu]
I was a painter in my last lifetime
Now I write rhymes like I fight crime, living life blind
Trying to find peace...
With this girl on my mind that can't find me
Watching Amelie hoping I'mma be the one that she finds
Can't keep living life in rewind
I used to fast on the hog, now I eat swine
And can't stop smoking (blunts), though I keep trying
In these times when the peace of mind is not a goal
It's a grave
I be racing to it holding hope. Rejecting change
Cause the pain feels realer than the pleasure
Rocking sweaters when the weather's sunny
Funny fellow from the yellow
But I watch so many foreign films, I feel foreign
Every morning cooking full course meals, like I'm starving
Hardly say grace or say "thanks for another day"
Even though I'm grateful I try to show it in other ways
I used to give b**s change, till I changed
Kind of strange cause when I'm richer than I was when I gave
Got a gang of friends that I don't call or hang with
Even though I know they on that same s***... aimless
s***, I must seem like I don't dream at all
My mom says that I should draw again
But I don't want a pen
I just want to live, have kids, buy a crib like the old days
Whatever happened to those days
[Hook]