Sons Of Darkness

From darkness we come In it we were conceived We're pilgrims marking our progress With each ring of the abyss we inhabit Our journey isn't measured in miles or kilometres Ideally it would be in Luminance, but When do we ever get to experience that So we measure circumstances That seem to foreshadow a ray of hope An event of some sort That doesn't necessarily cloak us in an outburst of hysteria But makes our hearts go from a 100 to 60 BPM We're children of the sun but can't harness that power So we light fires with broomsticks When our lanterns are out of oil And our patterns are made from toil We see the cancers take away our boys That's why what matters to us the most is our joy Cause when the bears don't kill us And the wolves don't kill us And the snakes don't kill us And the soldiers don't kill us And the chiefs and the gods and the colonialists don't kill us These fumes certainly will So when you see us dancing to the beat of our hearts And harmonising and hitting the falsettos With the pain our souls compose Know it's not because we're different Not because we're special We're just dealt a different fate So we were given shades in our skins for we'll have no shades And we were given soul in our music Cause this wicked world would rob us of our souls And the rhythm was to cherish these little moments of freedom And the blues was to prepare us for the blues And the gospel That was just to make disciples out of us And the Reggae goes a little something about unifying us And the funk I've got to be honest with you, I have no rationalisations for that So let me just say this one more time When you see us dancing to the beat of our hearts And harmonising and hitting the falsettos With the pain our souls compose Know it's not because we're different It's not because we're special We're just dealt a different fate Cause we're sons of darkness