You Gotta Fly Lyrics

It's gon be pain when your heart beats

Pain from that concrete

Pain from those hard streets

But you gotta fly

I take my love in arms reach

Hot like coffee

Blue sky soaring high

So you gotta fly

It's gonna be pain when your heart beat

Pain from that concrete

Pain from those hard streets

But you gotta fly

Spread my wings before gravity get me

Back to earth is where my father sent me

All the air in my lungs put on these

Drums to show that there's power within me

Came from blocks where magazines go empty

Gotta maneuver like when gears be shifting

Guard your heart don't be out here simping

I'm a black bird in my city like Nina Simone

Certain things I don't even condone

I know it's times where I'm wrong

But accepting that jusst proves I'm grown

I still fly like an Oriole in my city

I'm taking it home

Base before I'm gone

Shackled bird that's all I known

Locked down from systematic chains

Systematic pain, systematic rage

Systematic hate, systematic racism

That affects people with my skin tone

I don't know where time really went

I know it's not 1946

I know we ain't gotta worry about no whips

But tell me is this land really home?

I'm tired of being brave

Cause truthfully we all mental slaves

And I'm trying to find a way to break the chains

For all the ones in the grave

For all the white doves

Held captive finally released out the cage

Hold it down for the ones who didn't have a chance

To see me on the stage

But it's gonna be pain when your heart beat

Pain from that concrete

Pain from the hard streets

But you gotta fly

I take my love in arms reach

Hot like coffee

Blue sky soaring high

So you gotta fly

It's gonna be pain when your heart beat

Pain from that concrete

Pain from those hard streets

But you gotta fly