Believe

[Intro: Homebwoi]
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (The Machine) Okay! You know? Sometimes you just gotta be thankful to be alive, you know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout? Yeah… You may not have everything that you want. You may not be where you wanna be, but as long as you keep breathin’ you can get it you dig?

[Chorus: Dyce Payne]
Hey! You better believe! If I told you things would never change (never change). The poverty covers all the pain (all the pain). They’ll never let our freedoms off the chains (no-no), off thе chains (no-no). Aye, you better bеlieve! (yeah)! They put us down before they lift us up (yeah yeah). Just another day in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! Just another day. You better believe!

[Verse 1]
Ignorance at its finest, socially they remind us. Rather die on my feet than live on my knees, your Highness. Shackles and chains, mentally drained, spiritually scarred. Made in an image of God. But, yet fraud got me feeling like I woke up late in the wrong section. Disconnected from beliefs, traditions with no connection. Try to win a war with no training and no protection. Men ain’t supposed to cry, we’re too hard to show affection. Listen, if she’s your queen tell her put on some clothes. Man up lead and stop treatin’ her like hoes. Livin’ for the moment, not thinkin’ of growin’ old. So, she got the Gram lit with her ass all exposed

[Chorus: Dyce Payne]
Hey! You better believe! If I told you things would never change (never change). The poverty covers all the pain (all the pain). They’ll never let our freedoms off the chains (no-no), off the chains (no-no). Aye, you better believe! (yeah)! They put us down before they lift us up (yeah yeah). Just another day in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! Just another day. You better believe! Would you believe?

[Verse 2]
Pains me that we can’t keep it afloat. Our history didn’t start on no boat, put that in quotes. Then, they try to kill us off so they introduce us to dope. Gave us their religion and got us prayin’ for hope. See no I’m not a genius, and no I’m not a professor, but it seems counterproductive when beggin’ to your oppressor. Take us out the home, so now our women pretend to be the man. Agenda is takin’ our masculinity. So, damn we must stay strong. We must move on. Protect our homes, before we’re gone you dig? Get active in our communities, stand together unity. Can’t normalize the death of our people for their immunity

[Chorus: Dyce Payne]
Hey! You better believe! If I told you things would never change (never change). The poverty covers all the pain (all the pain). They’ll never let our freedoms off the chains (no-no), off the chains (no-no). Aye, you better believe! (yeah)! They put us down before they lift us up (yeah yeah). Just another day in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! In the neighborhood! Just another day. You better believe! Would you believe?