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Just a Man

from Cities & Rivers by Aristyles

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lyrics

I just wanna love I just wanna be
I just wanna feel like I could be free
Do it for my folks and do it for my fams
I’m just a man with a heart and these hands

Learn, a conscious minds breeds a heavy heart
Maybe scars that leave ya hurt pain giving birth
But from afar we rather see the distant stars
Searchin a mirage that defers you from your worth
And so we starve and hunger becomes the bar
The standard we accept and set upon us all
What I’m tryna say is we accepted that we fall
To the extent that we don’t ask what is the cause
Pay us less labor greed never tasted sweet
It be the taste of sweat tears and the blood we bleed
Under siege an assault on really being free
I wanna build life of purpose so could I please
Get a chance, some magic beans, or golden lamp
A rain dance, a buddist chant with some prayer beads
To go with hustle the daily struggle for hope to breath
And give me wisdom like I’m searching for an older me

I just wanna love I just wanna be
I just wanna feel like I could be free
Do it for my folks and do it for my fams
I’m just a man with a heart and these hands

Got a son and a wife now, can’t lie down, gotta focus bite down
Take the bullet take the hit transform pain to create a gift
Iron will time will tell whether or not I’ll make a shift
Make a change, its dangerous, save the kids yes right now…
I often wonder why the jungle take us under
And so tragedy is rooted on a system needin hunger
Plus glutton made exclusive to the few that plays the music
On the speakers and the structures that each institution uses
Abusive by design while I’m trying to find the line
Between my 1st world privilege and past colonized
The complexity that I grapple on the daily
The attitude of pay me verses freedom must arrive
Do I fight or comply? Am I caught up in maybe?
Ain’t no telling what or why but I gotta feed my baby
Feed the family its crazy when confronted with decisions
Values in collision while I’m tryna make livin (cause)

I just wanna love I just wanna be
I just wanna feel like I could be free
Do it for my folks and do it for my fams
I’m just a man with a heart and these hands

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from Cities & Rivers, released February 24, 2015
lyrics written and performed by A. delaCruz
beat and music composed by A. delaCruz

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