WHY WAR?

Mmm, yeahhh... (why oh why)

Tired of the sirens, tired of the cries (so tired...)

Another mama asks the sky, why? (tell me why...)

Why war... oh why?

(Backing: "why war... oh why")

Yo...

I wake up, pain on the news again

World on fire, hearts full of bruise again

Leaders lie, and we lose again

Same script, same war, no truth in them

Lil’ kids playin’ in a battlefield (pew pew)

Dreams killed for a dollar bill

Raise a flag, drop a bomb, call it pride

But who really wins when a whole world cries?

(Ad libs: “Wake up!”, “Nah, this ain’t right…”)

Smoke in the sky while they toast in suits

Sippin’ champagne while we loadin’ troops

From Gaza to Chi-town, pain don’t choose

Same blood, same tears, same broken truths

Why war?

Why the pain, why the guns, what we dyin’ for?

(What we dyin’ for, yeah yeah)

Can’t love win more than blood on the floor?

(Backin’: "more than blood on the floooor")

Tell me now, what’s behind that door?

If not peace, then what we breathin’ for?

Why war... oh why?

(Ad libs: “Why, why, why…”, “We need more love...”)

Check it...

They talk peace but they fundin' tanks

While the hood starves, they fillin’ banks

We post quotes, but the hate still grows

Tryna bloom in a world that don’t water souls

Young kings lost in a soldier game

Think they fightin’ for pride, but it’s built on pain

It’s a class war, cash war, maskin’ truth

Pawns for the power while they poison youth

(Ad libs: “Real talk”, “Truth hurts…”)

We pray hard, we march deep

But they only see change when the profits weep

So I spit bars like I’m throwin’ light

This pen my weapon, I choose to write

(Backing: “Choose to write…”)

Ohh-oh... (yeah)

Can we rise above, rewrite the page? (rewrite it, rewrite it...)

Turn war cries to a love wave

We got fire in us, we can’t ignore

If we don’t change now, there’ll be nothin’ left no more

(Spoken: “We all bleed red. We all want peace. So why war?”)

Why war? (Why? Oh why?)

Why the rage, why the pain, what we dyin’ for?

(So much pain, so much loss…)

Can’t love win more than blood on the floor?

(More than blooood on the floooor…)

We don’t need no more closed doors...

(Open up, open up...)

If not peace, then what we breathin’ for?

Why war... (yeah yeah)

Oh why... (Tell me now)

Why war?(War, war, war…)

(Fade out ad libs) “No more…”, “Let the healing begin…”, “Why... why war…”)