SHELTER - Victor Kwesi Mensah, Wyclef Jean, Chance The Rapper

There’s a war going on outside

That nobody’s safe from

But here in my arms

I’ll keep you from harm

There’s no guarantee tonight

That we will wake up

When night takes the morning

But if no alarm rings

You can count on one thing

I’ll be your shelter

Emergency

Please count on me (Yeah I)

I’ll be your superhero

When danger arrives

I’ll be by your side (Uh)

You’re my lucky dime (Uh)

Wyclef told me call 911

But who do you call when the ambulances don’t come

Or watch as the ones sworn by law protect us

Wrongfully convict us then call it corrections

Next, they bail the banks out when we in recession

And hang us in the jail cell so they can swing the elections

I walk Chicago streets where pot holes is deep and Tahoes creep like TLC

Hospital workers in scrubs with no PPE

But they got money for riot gear, my nigga, we dying here, yeah

You tell me not to move with my gun

But we got more funeral homes than schools where I’m from

And on the news all you view is homicides

Tell me why it ain’t no trauma units when everybody traumatized

Tryna get on your feet, playing the hand they dealt ya

If your house is not a home let this song be your shelter

I’ll be your shelter

Emergency

Please count on me (Yeah I)

I’ll be your superhero

When danger arrives

I’ll be by your side

You’re my lucky dime

It’s a hundred bags under the underpass

Rumbling stomachs, cups jingle when Hummers pass

Brisk winds, summer’s done, winter is coming fast

And then they Zoom teacher wonder why they don’t come to class

The internet been out, the hot water been out

She moved to her aunt’s house, then to her friend’s couch

Abuser went to jail but that nigga been out

Producer was in house, they closer then pen pals

Homeless in the home of the slaves, I wonder how that would feel

The manifested destiny a bunch of land they could steal

Think about Kenneth Walker and Philando Castile

How they only wanted to protect their family

While it’s niggas out here that make it worse for they folks

It’s a deeper, hotter hell for the worst of these folks

It’s a mystery, we never heard the murder she wrote

If we finally paid her back the whole earth would be broke

I’ll be your shelter

Emergency

Please count on me (Yeah I)

I’ll be your superhero

When danger arrives

I’ll be by your side (Uh)

I write for my niggas doing life with no possibility of parole

You playing Fortnite, that’s how long you spent in a hole

Live from Death Row, free my nigga Julius Jones

I had a dream that Mumia was home, I speak freedom in songs

'Cause all I see is racist faces

Where hate lives and they rape kids in cages

What kinda nation lynch Elijah McClain?

Then send us to the Middle East to die for the flag

They drive us insane to sell us medication

We demand reparations and they tell us have patience

Instead of cash payments, we get minimum wages

They give us the black plague, then send us a white savior

I found faith when I lost hope

That’s when Julius reminded me of a bar I wrote

Behind bars on the yard where they dream of the street

On death row singing we could be free (We could be free)

I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm

I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm