Don\u2019t, Don\u2019t, Don\u2019t, Dont take innocent life, life, life
\nBorn with the spirit, born with the spirit of the Lord.
\nKill women and children tell me really what you gonna prove,
\nJust your a coward and lone wolf
\nBringing shame to your own roof
\nAnd only pain you be going to.<\/p>\n
In groups and religions, there\u2019s always dudes on the fringes
\nWho make ruthess decisions and justify killing
\nThey work on convincing, individuals they tend to be violent with they tendency, quick to make up enemies
\nThinking that only way to solve the crisis
\nIs to kill and to make their heart cold as ice is<\/p>\n
Scripture teaches every life is priceless
\nAnd you don\u2019t know if somebody will later be righteous
\nMisquoting verses just to prove what they need to
\nUtopia and heaven they will claim they have the keys to<\/p>\n
But, Change will never come just by go and killing people
\nEntrapment is real, only hell this can lead to<\/p>\n
One innocent life, we know that it\u2019s like,
\nKilling all humanity and that ain\u2019t nothing light
\nScripture told us, every human soul is,
\nPrecious in the sight of the Lord, you should know that<\/p>\n
To the innocent trapped in the aftermath
\nOf blood and tears, Allah sees it all
\nTo the men who sat in dark rooms,
\nWith the schemes of smoke plumes, Allah sees it all,<\/p>\n
To munafiq who only enter masjids to pray on the weakest,
\nMan you gonna get yours!
\nTo the sponsors of war leaving scores,
\nShocked and appalled, man Allah see\u2019s it all<\/p>\n
But if you ask me, what do I see,
\nSo many moving with those selfish type of tendencies
\nGotta handle the offense that they handed me
\nYou did it for the Lord? Na, that was iblees<\/p>\n
Shot up the club, then he gotta it
\nBombed the city, now you\u2019re patriotic
\nBloody regimes, that are despotic
\nMeet Allah like that, forget about it!<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t take innocent life,
\nBecause it is like,
\nKilling all humanity
\nAnd that ain\u2019t nothing light
\nAll the Prophets told us,
\nThat every single soul is
\nBorn with the spirit of the Lord.<\/p>\n
The first casualty of war is the truth
\nThen the second is the youth
\nSend off to die when they young
\nLike right before they can understand what they\u2019ve done<\/p>\n
Now why is this done, how does it begin
\nWe let the means justify ends
\nWe hope the ends will wipe away the sins that have been committed
\nBut ya\u2019ll don\u2019t get it, you got me.<\/p>\n
How\u2019d we justify Hiroshima and Nagasaki
\nMic drop! Bombs falls.
\nTwo whole cities, killed \u2018em all
\nAll the men, the women, the children\u2026 and the dogs<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t, Don\u2019t, Don\u2019t, Dont take innocent life, life, life
\nBorn with the spirit, born with the spirit of the Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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