Messenger

Your words are weapons so use them wisely

Shooting down yah brothers with your lyrical bullets

Teaching the children to go to war

Don't you know?

Life or death comes from your tongue

It's poison or pleasure which side are you on?

Cut down yah sister with your piercing melodies.

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I am not the writer

I am just the messenger

The end is nigh, don't close your eyes

I've got something to say but will you hear

I've got a burden to bear

Who will hear let him hear

Who will fight let him go to war

Who will dare to step out of line and

Live for truth withheld from all?

Who will speak let him speak

Who will sing let them say a word

Who will challenge the life we live

By trying to forgive?

Now everyday on the news the same

Somebody's dying and someone's to blame

They only tell you what they want you to hear

They speak of justice but nobody lives there.

We need a miracle to stay alive,

Cause breathing don't count no more we got to try

You woke this morning thinking that you're free

Or is that what you're controlled to believe?

[Chorus:]

I am not the writer

I am just the messenger

The end is nigh, don't close your eyes

I've got something to say but will you hear

I've got a burden to bear.

I am not the writer

I am just the messenger

The end is nigh, don't close your eyes

I've got something to say but will you hear

I've got a burden to bear.

Now I am not pretending

Freedom is in ending

It's an illusion that you're fighting for

You're a slave to the system don't let them feed you lies no more

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