Malcolm Said It - Akala

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Toussaint said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Lumumba said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it

If you ain’t found something to die for

If you ain’t found something to die for, you’ll never live

If you ain’t found something to die for you’ll never live

We might feed and breathe but we never did

Accept those with peace and equality

They don’t see what we call authority

Live, speak truth and kill them for

We love them dead when they speak no more

But they will endure, ideas are bulletproof

Tooth of truth it’s impossible to pull it loose

We smother any mouth, they utter it

Folly Fathers fear, we Mother it

We’re lovin they’re corrupt government

So we look the other way when in our name they’re strugglin'

We idolize 'em and we despise 'em

Cos we’re reminded we’re the ones who are silent

So, give a moment for the times we were blinded

Scream at the top of your lungs like a siren

Maybe the wise man has nothin' to prove

But the one who has nothing has nothing to lose

More things we don’t need will make more thieves

More laws we don’t heed it’s all Siamese

Who leads?

It don’t matter, they can’t make change

New driver but we got no brakes

Whatever the place, whatever the face

The master never ever frees his slave

They always knew it

So they pursue it

But we’ve been too divided to ever be guided through it

Gotta stop 'em because they’re rotton from the days of picking cotton

To sell us a love song and we’re so besotted

So confused, we believe their promise

But there are some that lead more honest

They are not forgotten, though they shot’em

So scream to the top of your lungs right from the bottom!

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Toussaint said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Lumumba said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it

People don’t rebel, the rebels are the tyrants

You are not God, so we are not defying

No human nature, just our behavior

The oppressed wanting their oppressor as their saviour

Around the globe killin', made to be religion

But the book said they’re sinnin'

And that is just the beginnin'

Now spread democracy by dropping a bomb

On a terrorist with no shoes or socks

I reckon, history teaches us a lesson

The bigger terrorist is the one with the bigger weapons

They talked but we didn’t listen

They spoke and then went missin'

We can’t see all the things that imprison us

Cos we don’t appreciate the freedoms that they have given us

I wouldn’t bet it, that we ever get it

Run, tell your friends that Akala said it

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Toussaint said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it

Malcolm said it

Martin said it

Marley said it

Ali said it

Garvey said it

Lumumba said it

I weren’t there but I’m sure Dessalines said it