If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome The whole world trippin', listen it's still a cold world The other day I had to bury my homegirl Wrong place, caught one in her face Plus her man's on the run and couldn't come to the wake For Heaven's sake, you pray God open the gate In this modern day Sodom, that's their only escape 10 year olds are cold, no, they don't hesitate 2 up a G pack, he chose the whole 8 Catch a 5 to 10 sellin' 5's and 10's And the police informer was your childhood friend In the real world, gotta hustle for your dream Extend your clips, fit the muzzle with the beam For the love of cream, it's nothin' but routine Swing on the judge, take a couple for the team He's the young Capone, he grew up in a drug home Stranded on the Ave with a blunt and his gun shown If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome A live scene theme from a Godfather saga A Martin Scorsese classic and I'm the author Drama at the opera, crime story novel Tuxedo suit and silencer on the nozzle Meeting place scheduled at the Broadway musical Bravo, we arrive in bulletproof limo Shotgun, the underboss of our main source Of interest, the black widow cocaine empress A princess rich from her family's inheritance Now let's talk business, begin by addressin' the bricks That was missin' in the last shipment Jocks lining up the food, we blessed him with the cream But on this day he wasn't ready and my God sense keen I noticed that his normal firm handshake shook It wasn't steady when he squeezed If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome He went from prince to a king out of a life of rubbish Wearin' tailor-made suits, Sky Dwellers and clusters To perfection, rags to riches, the evil's done influenced That pushed him off the edge, they said the greed made him do it You're my right hand, damn, he fucked the trust up It's ruined, niggas caught him slidin' on his belly I'm grippin' on my hammer with the silencer twisted Contemplatin' murder now, I'm 'bout to swerve on my biscuit But it's my man at the same time, I don't wanna do him He violated, broke a major code, bar what you stealin' now It's over, in the falls of Niagara, he was soakin' With a shell case stuck in his head, they found him floatin' If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome Allah let me lay in your arms Hold me like a newborn Sing to me the most sweetest song The exalted, the most benevolent The knower of all Keep me safe 'till I return back to your residence This Earth, my place of birth As time went through the ages it got worse Sicknesses, beheadings in Syria Ebola's killin' my people, it's gettin' scarier Most foods ain't even real, the chip is here Deadly fluids bein' released, contracted through air Dear God, it been a minute since I cried out Since mama died, I never wild out We need help like the phone's 'bout to die out Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? We need a miracle Destroy the FDA for holdin' back cures So they can get paid If a miracle could save us from The travesty that we've become The travesty that we've become If a million sons would stand as one We will overcome, overcome