Featured: Where We Came From

Featured: Where We Came From - by Micheal Ace

WHERE WE CAME FROM

I wrote a song the day father left

I wept and sang it into a farewell

He may find the way home tomorrow

But this song shall soon taste freedom

I came from where mothers' break

Leaving their pieces in their daughters

Sometimes

The best way to win a war

Is to never start one

We came from where heroes' tears

Flow into the bloodstream of dreams

Beating our bones to glyphs of hope

We came from where we say wishes

With our eyes somewhere on our lips

Watching us off the feats of echoes

We came from where the black's fate

Were perfect home for metal shackles

We came from where we watch lights

And call them remain of broken stars

We came from where we burn in fury

But hid the flames in our fake smiles

Sometimes

No other force will kill a warrior

But the doubts in his own mind

We are the descendants of cowards

Who left their heroes on lips and scripts

But continued by the rules of slavery

We think we have found our freedom

Because we do not see the boundages

But I still hear them in our anthems

If we are too scared of a day-break

Then we may never see another night

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