Distance (GT Remix)

Ashes Acid rain, shanty town and the market crashed One pair of sandals, baby that's all that we have What was always solid disappeared lightning fast All we got is fam In the moment, no time to plan When the bombs blast You get out and run fast As bullets chase Gather your love and don't look back What we hold in our hands is worth less than an empty flask I'm water praying for the crops And to wash past pains clean All scarred by our memory New country No trauma therapy here to intervene We lean to the street families Clan loyalty The stories that we know here are pain and addiction Thin line between life and death Feel the friction In my countryman's eyes, look alive Feel the distance If everything you knew was just gone in an instant And every day in some way You had to relive it  They wonder why we don't sleep most nights What if ghosts haunted you through your whole life Land, people, love we lost Africa captures all my thoughts Family yeah, and all my heart I promise to do my part I don't know how But with all I got And I learned from hip-hop  I'm at home, dusty feet in a gojo Sipping bunna, eating kolo While my flows go international Downloaded on dirt roads From reservations to the Central And it's all home I'm ghetto known Feet roam like refugees Through the Sahara Rep Addis and Asmara Plus Nile waters and every land that it touches Love is when the exiled finally can reunite With their tribe lost Me and my kind cross three continents Roots, not obvious In truth I'm an audience to ancestors moving me Renewal When I do this music they are free I paint from my pain It makes beautiful language Unusual, dismantled, bodies dance in moonlight Hideous scene We try to strike with our hands tied The weight of all this pressure They know we all are precious And they can not oppress us Forever We will claim Our names, our culture and way of life back Into the future Visionaries that can see the past Sankofa Dragon child on a new path  They wonder why we don't sleep most nights What if ghosts haunted you through your whole life Land, people, love we lost Africa captures all my thoughts Family yeah, and all my heart I promise to do my part I don't know how, but with all I got And I learned from hip-hop