SHELTER (Acoustic Version|Explicit) - Vic Mensa/Chance the Rapper
Lyrics by：Peter Cottontale/Victor Mensah/Nel Ust Wyclef Jean/Malik Yusef/Chancelor J. Bennett/Darian Garcia/Alex Baez/Ali Shaheed Muhammed/Andrew De Caro/Johan Lenox/Aja Monet Brian “Moosa” Harrington/Carey “Iceface”
Composed by：Peter Cottontale/Victor Mensah/Nel Ust Wyclef Jean/Malik Yusef/Chancelor J. Bennett/Darian Garcia/Alex Baez/Ali Shaheed Muhammed/Andrew De Caro/Johan Lenox/Aja Monet Brian “Moosa” Harrington/Carey “Iceface”
There's a war going on outside
Yeah
There's a war going on outside
That nobody's safe from
But here in my arms
I'll keep you from harm
There's no guarantee tonight
That we will wake up
When night takes to morning
But if no alarm rings you can count on one thing
Wyclef told me Call 9-1-1
But who do you call when the ambulances don't come
Or watch as the ones sworn by law to protect us
Wrongfully convict us then call the corrections
Next they bail the banks out when we in recession
Or hang us in a jail cell
So they could swing the elections
I walk Chicago streets with potholes that's deep and
Tahoes creep like TLC
Hospital workers in scrubs with no PPE
But they got money for riot gear
My n***a we dying here yeah
You tell me not to move with my gun
But we got more funeral homes
Than schools where I'm from
And on the news all you view is homicides
Ain't no trauma units
When everybody traumatized
Tryna get on your feet playing
The hand they dealt ya
If your house is not a home
Let this song be your shelter
Shelter shelter
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise
I'll be by your side
It's a hunnid bags under the underpass
Rumbling stomachs cups jingle when Hummers pass
Brisk wind Summer's done Winter is coming fast
And then they Zoom teacher wonder
Why they don't come to class
The internet been out the hot water been out
She moved to her aunt's house
Then to her friend's couch
Her abuser went to jail but that n***a been out
Producer was in-house they closer than pen pals
Homeless in the home of the slaves
I wonder how that would feel
The manifested destiny a bunch of land
They could steal
Think about Kenneth Walker and Philando Castile
How they only wanted to protect they family
While it's n***as out here
That make it worse for they folks
It's a deeper hotter hell
For the worst of these folks
It's a mystery we never heard the murder she wrote
If we finally paid her back
The whole earth'd be broke
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise
I'll be by your side
I write for my n***as doing life
With no possibility of parole
You playing Fortnite
That's how long he spent in the hole
Live from death row free my n***a Julius Jones
I had a dream that Mumia was home
I speak freedom in song
'Cause all I see is racist faces
Where hate lives and they rape kids in cages
What kind of nation lynch Elijah McClain
And send us to the Middle East to die for the flag
They drive us insane to sell us medication
We demand reparations and they tell us have patience
'Stead of cash payments we get minimum wages
They give us the Black Plague
Then send us a white savior
I found faith when I lost hope
That's when Julius reminded me of a bar I wrote
Behind bars on the yard where
They dream of the street
On death row singing
We could be free we could be free
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise
I'll be by your side
You're my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime you my lucky dime
Dime dime
