I won't let go, I won't let go I won't be alright Even if the sun crashes into us And I can be your light Stay with me tonight Oh, oh, yeah yeah yeah You got in so late It's Sunday morning

How can we love with our hearts on fire? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Ashes to dust like a funeral pyre Can we love with our hearts on fire? Where I came from Just what we've done I think we're caught in a fight With all these shadows on our backs How can we

Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head Into my childhood they're spoon fed Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real Look at the pages that cause all this evil Mary

Without even trying It's best to go, while I collapse It's not a false alarm The ashes settle in Well, I guess we are the insane As we ignore the mirror's truth Should I join the feast? Should I acknowledge the leash? The future in captivity, I'm not who

I don't mind Washes over the city tonight I'm set free You might fix me You might crush me Take a little piece of me

Oh Lord, oh Lord Oh Lord, oh Lord, do You see us down here? Sometimes I look up to the sky When I die, put my ashes in the trash bag I don't care where they go Don't waste your money on my gravestone I'm more concerned about my soul Everybody's gon' die

Haiti, mon pays Wounded mother I'll never see Ma famille set me free Throw my ashes into the sea Mes cousins jamais nés Hantent les nuits de Duvalier Rien n'arrête nos espirits Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see In the forest we are hiding

Don't you worry, baby, no sense trying to change it I'ma strike these matches, never had control I'm ready to let go, no, was I fooling myself? I'ma spread these ashes, never had control I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to let go Sun went down, sun went

And the prophecy read that One day like the pheonix rose from the ashes That a boy will be born unto a family in the slums This boy will go on and use the knowledge that he gains While fighting for survival in the streets To become a crack leader And in

So here we are This is the end But all that dies Is born again I have nothing to fear I have nothing to say You have nothing to take this from me Years of screaming in pain