Ali Soul Shine

Lyrics

I started writing this song a week and a half ago on Saturday, January 24th.
I was on my way back from my son's sporting event when I saw the video of Alex Pretti. Just a few hours after it happened.
While still processing Renée Good's murder.
Both only a 40 min drive from home in neighborhoods I'm familiar with.
Got home, went straight to the keyboard.

Let my fingers carry the expression of everything I was feeling in that moment of, yet again, another murder.

So I've been on a Mozart bender ever since starting this (work ethic - all consuming until it's done).
And I've got words.
Five verses of words...yeah it's surprised me, too.

I'm not one to argue, debate, bully, compete, or divide.
I'm here, the same as you. As deserving as you, as human as you.

I encourage anyone who feels inspired, to learn/share/make this song your own.

This isn't about any single one of us, it's about EVERY single one of us.
And we're invincible when we embrace what makes our soul shine.

If you like this one, give "Outside the Cage" a listen :)

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Chords used on piano:
Left hand - Cm Bdim Eb G
Right hand - Cm Bdim Eb G

LYRICS:

I’m getting real sick and tired
Of these convoluted liars
Thinking they’re paving our way.
Greed affords them their disguise
To mask the truth and hide
In the SHADOWS that keep fear at bay.
Unsolicited traitors keep on killing our neighbors
On the street in the broad light of day.
Who can financially afford
To wield that kind of sword?
I can’t imagine their soul is okay
Ay ay
We, the People, Home of the Brave

In the corruption of a system
That was made to make us victims
Under the guise of psychotic play,
This isn’t left versus right
Mom and dad divorce and fight
IT’S HUMAN LIFE against THE INHUMANE
They want us REALLY torn apart,
Denying our own heart,
Disconnected, and scared of the few
That hold the money high
WITH greed and selfishness and pride,
Corroding the red, white, and blue

Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
What will you do when they’re looking at you?

With the condescending violence
They're relying on your silence
To continue their psy-optic reign.
While they rely on your attention,
Feed your fears, and fail to mention,
That they've all gone morally insane.
It's not too late to think twice
And open up your eyes
No one wants to pay the price
We here defending human lives
Together we unite
Land of Liberty we rise
No more “Minnesota Nice”
We’re melting ICE off the streets TONIGHT

We the People, Home of the Brave

In a world where innocence cannot safely roam,
Where little kids are scared to leave their parents home,
They keep placing the blame
With madness and shame
On innocent lives.
Do you think that’s okay??

We, the People, Home of the Brave

They’ll keep you tied to your emotions,
Preying on your deep devotions
While defiling the earth in her sleep.
Emphasizing that of course,
“Holy God”’s their only source...
Mocking the air that we breathe.
And they’re counting on us now
To not even know how
To defeat the hate that they breed (that they breed)
They terrorize us on the streets
Not even drop us to our knees
Before were in 8 bullets deep
Denied the aide and left to bleed.
You call that FREE???

We won’t stand for these atrocities.
Hand in hand we know that we’ve got to be
United as ONE for humanity.

We, the People, Home of the Brave
We, the People, got something to say.
We, the People, we thought you knew?
We, the People, we’re bringing the truth.


We, the People, we pave a new way.
We, the People, Home of the Brave.