Philstine David

* originally on Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains Soundtrack

Chorus: [X2]

I stand tall I raise my fists

I pray all this pain might lift

I don't want to die tonight

But I can't live another day like this

Verse One:

The first time I ever broke the law

Was just being born in a zone that's controlled by y'all

A foreigner in my own damn home land

Made me a sixteen year old, grown man

I was aged by the pain that I saw

Outside my front door was the front line of a war

Shots gets fired I cry on the floor

Underneath my bed tryin' to hide from it all

I try to recall the first time that I saw

Someone close to me die and my mind starts to draw

A blank

There's far to many of us die

Genocide it's a genocide

And our enemies will never be satisfied

Until not even our memories survive

It feels like they got the whole world on their side

And the story of my people will never reach your eyes

But understand one damn thing I can't run

I don't care where Goliath got his strength from

I'll rush your tank with not even a hand gun

Only a rock from the land that I stand on

Chorus [X2]

Verse Two:

That's the law that I break when I breathe

The blood of my people races through me

I will never back down, I can not flee

Would rather die on my feet then to live on my knees

Adorning the soldier uniform I was born in

I did not chose the war I was drawn in

If I been called to be a martyrs end

I'm standing on Heaven's front door with a grin

Saying please let me in

Greet me as a friend

I did not believe I would breathe free again

Lord have mercy on my soul

I was desperate and I had people to defend

I'm the slave that drowned on the middle passage

I'm chief Sitting Bull at the hand of a savage

John Brown standing, both guns blasting

Crying freedom, something must happen

If I'm the only weapon that I have

Then I'm standing with a bomb strapped to my abdomen

Eyes full of water

God please forgive me

My people must one day live free

Chorus [X2]