LYRICS

Verse One
I didn’t grow up white I didn’t grow up black
I didn’t grow up in a healthy habitat
Didn’t know what I was, didn’t know what I wanted to be
All I knew is what I couldn’t see
Stevie made me Wonder was it better to be blind, would that be easier to find, an inner light for me to shine, to see the sign
Was too high to see that ribbon in the sky
Too much fighting in the home lead to thoughts in the dome, suicide dreams would wake me alone,
longing for a different world to take me home, somewhere unknown, on my own
without all this stress, this pain in my chest
getting harder to breathe, can’t see what i see
I’m trapped in a system, that hates what is different, anyone with a vision, they don’t fucking listen

Chorus
I’m trying to live can’t you see
What your hate does to me
I’m trying to live
Trying to live
Let me be free

Verse Two
It’s none of your business if I’m slept with a woman or a man
Frankly I don’t give a damn what you think, I’m a freak, what I do in the sheets, doesn’t concern you, I don’t understand, why you care so much, why do you people stare so much, why you point and glare so much,
Like you’re the one to judge
Living your fucked up live you can’t get enough
Pushing people down,
Like you wear a crown
The king is dead
My time is now
I’ma walk around
Like I own this shit, never back down cause I’m making hits,
Don’t believe in violence, but i won’t turn the cheek if it makes me weak, cause the hate that you inflict makes me weep
For my brothers and sisters who took their lives now buried in the deep

Chorus

Verse Three
Whether you’re black white, yellow, red, green or turquoise
Mohawk, Navajo, Cherokee, Iroquoi,
We all from the same tribe, rooted in the same sky, we all gonna live, we all gonna die
We go back in the earth, begin a new birth
Karma decides your new worth
Will you be a butterfly, or will you be dirt? Serving your time for those you hurt?
Step on me and I’ll step on you, for all the things that you put me through
Tired hiding, tired of fighting, can’t understand my life is frightening
Never gonna see what you want me to be, you’re a grain of salt in an endless sea
I don’t take what you say seriously, so stop all you’re hating and let me be free

Chorus

Breakdown
Life is hard when you’re different and everyone thinks the same
Rise above all the bullshit stay on top of your game
The walls may crumble, keep on climbing to the top
They try to drag us down, but we’re never gonna stop