Gabriel Teodros, Aisha Fukushima - If They Come for Me in the Morning... Lyrics

Dear future
You were not supposed to make it
But some of us believed you could
And we changed reality so you would
Now it's your turn

Contraband body
Soul in the audio
Underground railroad
Flow with the river
God's gonna trouble the
Spirit dancing
And mind gone free
We still can't breathe
Everything we know of home
We've been forced to leave
Travel light
Ready to go, instinctively
We are still all running like thieves in the night
Following the North Star, we got away with our lives
For every time we were told we would not survive
Then rose from the ashes to see new heights
Harriet Tubman phoenix, reborn with a mic
Unconfined by time, shotgun at the side
We will rewrite tomorrow to defend Black life
These are lyrics for the days that happen after the fight
Worth more than a favorite or a click or a like
When they capture your body but you got freedom of mind

If I mysteriously die, know that my spirit would fight
If I die in custody, it was not a suicide
If they kill me for my voice, know that my soul is alright
If they take me in the morning, they'll come for you by night
So be ready to fight

For Mumia, Sundiata, Assata, The MOVE 9
And anybody, anywhere that had to serve hard time
I don't even care if you committed a crime
You can't justify how they dehumanize
And torture our folks behind enemy lines
Media fills em with fear so they believe these lies
Like "it's rehabilitation and not a plantation"
Take one trip north of NOLA, have a look at Angola
It is pre civil-war south happening right now
It'll make you want to burn every prison to the ground
I owe it to my elders for the life I found
Hidden in pages that they wrote on in cages
In coded language that raised me up
Underground railroad, the star light is us
To break the walls it all starts inside of you
And don't stop til all of the bars are dust

If I mysteriously die, know that my spirit would fight
If I die in custody, it was not a suicide
If they kill me for my voice, know that my soul is alright
If they take me in the morning, they'll come for you by night
So be ready to fight