Namesake-Brother Ali

[ti:Namesake] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Mourning In America And Dreami] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Namesake - Brother Ali [00:05.64]I am somebody [00:07.31] [00:10.76]And we am and she am and he am and I am [00:15.73]Somebody [00:21.35]I was raised with the raised fist [00:24.30]Angela Davis summer sixty-eight Olympics [00:27.50]Train banging your wings against [00:29.38]The cage in the event you became cageless [00:32.15]The bane of my existence is to resist [00:34.72]Back never bent re-load never relent [00:37.54]Of All lights shone I'm glimmering glint [00:39.99]I was named after a king in our midst The Greatest [00:43.01]Changed the world in the ring with his fists [00:45.44]More so with the gift when rang from his lips [00:47.87] [00:48.43]Bigger than just a individual gift [00:50.52]He had a vision for bringing dignity to the crib [00:53.66]Gold medalist in his Olympic event [00:55.98]Significant respect glistening off his neck [00:58.81]US flag waved the globe was silent [01:01.57]Wore it everywhere he went just to show what it meant [01:04.19]Stepped off the plane back on that pavement [01:06.83]The people hell bent that they will never repent [01:09.47]Celebrate him but his kin still clinched in a [01:12.29]Problem one piece of medal couldn't fix [01:14.86]Legend is he pitched it in the Ohio River [01:17.63]What good is recognition if I know that I'm a -victim [01:20.70]Expelled in a held back curriculum [01:23.02]Class president slash second class citizen [01:25.60]Diligent to fight for people [01:28.03]Nineteen years old sacrificed his ego [01:30.36] [01:31.04]So here we go salute my namesake [01:33.43]Many are successful very few are great [01:36.32] [01:40.22]Right on y'all I am somebody [01:46.55]And we am and she am and he am and I am [01:51.75]Somebody [01:57.21]I am he am she am and we am [02:02.52]Somebody [02:07.75] [02:08.44]Lyrics by 卟 断 努 力