VIC MENSA – Shelter

VIC MENSA – Shelter Lyrics

Artist: VIC MENSA
Song: Shelter

There’s a war going on outside
That nobody safe from
But here in my arms
I’ll keep you from harm

There’s no guarantee tonight
That we will wake up (That we will wake up)
When night takes to morning
But if no alarm rings, you can count on one thing

I’ll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me, yeah
I’ll be your superhero

When danger arrives (Uh)
I’ll be by your side
You’re my lucky dime
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 election
I walk Chicago streets with potholes that’s deep
And Tahoes creep like T.L.C.
Hospital workers in scrubs with no P-P-E

But they got money for riot gear, my n#gg#, we dyin’ 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

Tell me why it ain’t no trauma units when everybody traumatized? (Yeah)
Tryna get on your feet playin’ the hand they dealt ya
If your house is not a home, let this song be a shelter
I’ll be your shelter

Emergency
Please count on me, yeah
I’ll be your superhero
When danger arrives (When danger arrives)

I’ll be by your side (I’ll be by your side)
You’re my lucky dime
It’s a hunnid bags under the underpass
Rumblin’ stomachs, cups jingle when Hummers pass

Brisk wind, summer’s done, winter is comin’ 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#gg# 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 their family
While there’s n#gg#s 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 would be broke
I’ll be your shelter
Emergency

Please count on me, yeah
I’ll be your superhero
When danger arrives (Uh)
I’ll be by your side

I write for my n#gg#s doin’ life with no possibility of parole
You playing Fortnite, that’s how long you spend in a hole
Live from Death Row, free my n#gg# 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 kinda 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”
Instead 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 singin’, ‘We could be free (We could be free)

I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm
I know you’ll be my shelter from the storm
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh
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From the album:
SHELTER [Explicit]
Release Year: 2021