ALIVE

[Chorus]

So one day, I just wanna ride through the city

And tell all of my demons when I die they can get me

'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive, do you feel me?

Said they won't take my heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?

Yes or no, no, no

No, no, no

I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go

I done came up in the city where we don't know folk

'Til my soul go cold, I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

[Verse 1]

Came a long way just to be me

Or to see a world that just wouldn't see me

Try to cut me off at the legs, defeat me

Try to return on my offers, receipt me

Saw all the colors that I saw and try to bleach me

Back when I was drinking every night down in D.C

Try to impeach me, none of these monicas could reach me

Fuck school, my moniker if need be

I'm heading home to NY to be free

Fuck the world and the rules and the PD

Round the time they do orgies threes knee

Started buying hard copies of CDs

And gambling can emerge from all the depression and I breathe again

I learned to accept the knowledge that you need to live

And to never let externals impede within

And if that we don't fight with passion then greed will win

'Cause they don't want you to know what it means to give

And I know (I know)

And them same old demons come knocking now

But this time and there ain't no options now

So we scrapping dog, we ain't boxing now

Well I refused to be boxed in now

And if dudes want moved then we box 'em out

If my team gone lose then I'm opting out

Gotta shed the baggage to get off the ground

And that's real (that's real)

Feel like there's a whole world out there that I gotta prove wrong

I done felt too bad for too long

But now I know that I'm too strong

[Chorus]

So one day, I just wanna ride through the city

And tell all of my demons when I die they can get me

'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive, do you feel me?

Said they won't take my heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?

Yes or no, no, no

No, no, no

I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go

I done came up in the city where we don't know folk

'Til my soul go cold, I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

[Verse 2]

They don't know what I've been through

They don't know 'bout my issues

Motherfucking online magazines

Tryna tell me about how I have to seem

Trynna sell me but all I have's a dream

They don't really understand what passion means

Bitch, I been in my room for years

Consumed by fear

Thought doom was near

It soon was clear

Just who was real

And who can feel

And who was numb

And who was dumb

And all the lawmen, the proof is here

And I see (I see)

The lies all over my TV, disguised in an MP3

But can none of them be me?

Only you can set you free

It's what I mean when I say this shit

Hope your soul elevates when you play this shit

Fuck celebrity, they got us all caught up in a war to be stars in some Vader shit

And they say at the top ain't no space to sit

So the dream to be rich, you can chase this shit

'Cause I'm after the peoples' championship

In a league where your jewels wouldn't pay to tip

Motherfucker (Motherfucker)

[Chorus]

I just wanna ride through the city

And tell all of my demons when I die they can get me

'Cause I ain't gone be beat while I'm alive, do you feel me?

Said they won't take my heart while I'm alive, do you hear me?

Yes or no, no, no

No, no, no

I done came a long way and I won't go, go, go

I done came up in the city where we don't know folk

'Til my soul go cold, I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

I'mma tell 'em that they just don't know

(They'll never take me alive)

(They'll never take me alive)

(They'll never take me alive)