ABIDE

I'm walking through shadows

With death on each side

These demons around me

Don't want me alive

Still I choose to keep moving

Cause deep down I know

I walk through these shadows

But I don't walk alone

All these battles

Still we gotta survive

Blood stained banner

Fighting for the wrong side

We don't wrestle

What you see with your eyes

It's all settled

And we'll always Abide

I come from a place of separation

And my parents really lived through segregation

There was a lot of schools around but they had one

And it was all eight grades in one classroom

They asked my brothers where they got their complexion

My grandma Effie was the daughter of a slave's son

Niggas hangin where Im from yeah we had some

Gentrification where I'm from yeah we have some

And you know what's going on don't you act dumb

My people sleeping on the street next to mansions

Don't think we soft cuz our daddy is a pastor

Cause if there's a situation we gon' handle

All these battles

Still we gotta survive

Blood stained banner

Fighting for the wrong side

We don't wrestle

What you see with your eyes

It's all settled

And we'll always Abide

You might feel

Like your losing ground

But the old account was settled long ago

You might feel

Like you're breaking down

But the old account was settled long ago

So I said whom?

Whom shall I?

Shall I

Whom shall I fear?

And I said whom?

Whom shall I?

Shall I

Whom shall I fear?

(Rest, Rule and Abide with you all

Henceforth now and forever more repeat after me)

All these battles

Still we gotta survive

Blood stained banner

Fighting for the wrong side

We don't wrestle

What you see with your eyes

It's all settled

And we'll always Abide