Name: This Is What We Live For by Momentum
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Description: rough demo of one of our happy feel good songs--pop/hip hop collaboration for an upbeat summer beat. A Year in the City with more to come soon...

Goodnight & Goodbye

Twelve years after hearing Tupac's "Changes" we still face the same fundamental issues heard throughout his song...some may argue it has even gotten worse. With everything going on in our world today...what would he say? How would he articulate this? This song is inspired by those feelings of frustration toward government and police and its culmination of chaos.

HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT

Absence Makes The Heart Go Wander

Perhaps

January 1979 mixed with some drums from Dredg, Curtis Mayfield and Enemies.

Back in 1979

rough demo of one of our happy feel good songs--pop/hip hop collaboration for an upbeat summer beat. A Year in the City with more to come soon...

This Is What We Live For

I’ll always remember the way I felt on Bloody Monday
And one day I’ll convey the way they played us
Till then I’ll relent sit back and repent, spend what is meant
For children, Decent humans of the world
We need you, unfurl, your hatred lasted longer than you meant it
It’s not cemented, there’s still time to hit up rewind
Be kind and sublime to brethren. I see these allies
Bring tears upon my eyes I feel there’s a rhyme to ascend this
I’ve bottled up my rage, these children still in cages 
you built them, filled them, wilt them 
they victims of oppression and hatred
this is the new normal, killed them so horrible
why oh why am I still here? I’ve been in your target
caught and I’ve bartered, talked my way out and I’m shaking
you ask what I can’t give you, live through what I’ve been through
then do what you would in my shoes…
I’m here patiently waiting, God knows I’ve mistaken 
Friends for foes, I’m not sorry. I see the good in people
They’re fooled kept up in stables, jailed unwittingly abused
Slaves without the shackles, laughter sounds like cackles
Why are we here still fighting? The devils in the weeds 
The light is in the deeds the blinded like the sheep are unworthy
See we’re the superheroes, we’ve been waiting long for
It won’t end unless we say so. Our fear is in our quivers
Flex it gone the jitters, stand up now and start fighting
Peeps will come I promise, Peace will come I promise, 
don’t be an alarmist, Don’t compromise while you’re dying…
I can’t breathe, why can’t you hear me
Breathe, my foes I’m sorry
Breathe, I love my darling, please tell the kids I’ll miss them

I can’t breathe, why can’t you hear me
Breathe, my foes I’m sorry
Breathe, I love my darlings
Breathe and tell the kids I’ll miss them

This Is What We Live For

Momentum

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