Darius Simpson – We Don’t Die

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"The Road Not Taken" is a source of inspiration for me, because it encourages me to seize opportunities and chart my own course in life.

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We don't die We second line trumpet Groove through Gridlock streets we home go in charcoal Black Cadillacs stretching around Corners we wake up sharp in Sunday Best Stiff but beaming we move the sky we Escape Route star shine we Crescent Moon Conspiracy we come alive in the closed Palms of midnight we Electrify we pass Due bill but Full Belly we fridge empty We pocket lint payments we make ends Into extensions we multiply we claim Cousins as protection we so and so Plus In them we extend family to belong to Someone we siblings cause we gotta be we Chicken fry we grease kitchen we hog Neck greens we recipes scrape together From scraps we prophesy we told you so Even if we never told you nothing we Omniscient except in our own business we Swallow Nations anthems and spit them Out sweet make them sound like red Velvet ain't just chocolate with a Little dye in it we Bend Lies We amplify We laugh so hard it hurts we hurt so Quiet we dance we stay fly we float on Tracks we Glide across linoleum we make It look like butter we melt like candle Wax in the warmth of Saturday night Liquor sweat we don't die we dust that Colonies couldn't settle we salt water City built from Runaway skeletons we Organize we Oakland in 66. we had a cut In 71. we Ferguson before and after the

Camera Crews we bow but don't break we Break but don't crumble we won't die we Won't die we won't die we won't die we Won't

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