Woke - Empire Cast/Sierra McClain

Written by：Rodney Jerkins/Charles Hilton/Jr./Diarra Wilkerson

I feel like I'm walking on my people

'Cause white pavements keep turning brown

Mistreated with no explanation

Still not enough to hold us down yeah

It feels like 1960 yeah

When Dr King fought for our lives

Bruised and abused but we refuse to lose again oh

Opened eyes

We will rise

We gone fight

We won't die

We're alive

Because we're

Woke woke

Ain't going no where

We're standing here

Woke woke

No more crying

No more blood and tears

Woke woke

We're built on strength

We've buried all our fear

We all see what's going on no need

To ring the alarm 'cause we're

Woke

Ooh ooh oh

My hands up now please don't shoot me

Oh no

That's the last thing I heard him say

His birthday was on next tuesday

But he won't live to see another day

Oh that's my brother yeah I miss him

Another body another victim

All because of this crooked system

They took him

They cooked him

This time bruised and abused

But we refuse to lose again

Opened eyes

We will rise

We gone fight

We won't die

We're alive because we're

Woke woke

Ain't going no where

We're standing here

Woke woke

No more crying

No more blood and tears

Woke woke

We're built on strength

We've buried all our fear

We all see what's going on no need

To ring the alarm 'cause we're

Woke

We gone fight

Everything gone be alright

We're aware

Don't you see us standing here

We're much stronger than you think

We gone swim now

We won't sink

It's gone take a million people

To try to hold us back from freedom

What about all the mothers

That are losing all their sons

What about all the daughters

That are losing all their fathers

Too much blood in the street

Won't you stop killing my people

Never going back to sleep

'Cause we're all fighting for the peace

Because we're

Woke