Sincerely, Jane - Janelle Monáe

Left the city, my mama, she said don’t come back home

These kids round killing each other, they lost their minds, they gone

They quitting school, making babies, and can barely read

Some gone on to their fall, Lord have mercy on them

1,2,3,4, your cousin’s here round here selling dope

While they daddy, your uncle, is walkin' round, strung out

Babies with babies, and their tears keep burning

While their dreams go down the drain now

(While their dreams go down the drain now)

Are we really living, or just walking dead now?

(Are we walking dead now?)

Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels?

The way we live, the way we die

What a tragedy, I’m so terrified

Daydreamers please wake up

We can’t sleep no more

Love, don’t make no sense

Ask your neighbor

The winds have changed, it seems

That they’ve abandoned us

The truth hurts, and so does yesterday

What good is love, if it burns bright and explodes in flames

(I thought every living thing had love, but are)

Are we really living, or just walking dead now

(Are we walking dead now?)

Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels?

The way we live, the way we die

What a tragedy, I’m so terrified

Daydreamers please wake up

We can’t sleep no more

I’ve seen them shooting up funerals in their Sunday

Clothes (Ya!)

And spending money on spinners, but won’t pay college

Loans (Ya!)

And all you gangers and bangers

Rolling dice and taking lives in a smoky dark

Lord have mercy on them (Ya!)

Teacher, teacher, please reach those girls in them

Videos (Live your life)

The little girl’s just broke, and queens’s confusing

Bling for soul

Danger, there’s danger

When you take off your clothes

All your dreams go down the drain, girl

Are we really living, or just walking dead now

Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels?

The way we live, the way we die

What a tragedy, I’m so terrified

Daydreamers please wake up

We can’t sleep no more

Lord have mercy

Have mercy

Have mercy

Lord have mercy

Are really living, or just walking dead now

Have mercy

We live, then we die

And we never know, thats why

So young, now we’re gone

Now are you gone?

We live, then we die

But never touch the sky

So young, now we’re gone

Now are you gone?

Its now time for you to come home, my dear

You’ve been gone long enough

Thank you

We must come, we must go!