[Intro] Same story, same day. Nothing new under the sun. They changed the names, changed the books, changed the mirror, changed the frame of mind. But they forgot something… You can bury a seed, but you cannot stop what God put inside the root. [Chorus] You built a system to bury us, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Back against the wall so long, we came out fighting, we came out shining. Four-five-oh, still we rose. Same old chains in brand-new clothes. You tried to kill the bloodline silent, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Live life, don’t let life live you. Break the spell they tried to give you. What was first gon’ rise again. What was top comes back in the end. [Verse 1] They tried to bury my name before I knew the sound, put my history six feet deep in the ground. Tried to make my people forget where they came from, same story, same day, nothing new under the sun. They changed the frame, tried to blind the mind, put a lock on the truth, put a chain on the time. Four-five-oh with the weight on the spine, but that still wasn’t enough to erase the line. I come from roots that don’t run from dirt, mamas with prayers and fathers with hurt. Children with dreams in a room full of lack, still found rhythm with the world on their back. They thought the grave was the final place, but the buried came back with a brighter face. They threw dirt on the name, tried to call it shame, but dirt plus rain made the roots reclaim. [Chorus] You built a system to bury us, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Back against the wall so long, we came out fighting, we came out shining. Four-five-oh, still we rose. Same old chains in brand-new clothes. You tried to kill the bloodline silent, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Live life, don’t let life live you. Break the spell they tried to give you. What was first gon’ rise again. What was top comes back in the end. [Verse 2] Back against the wall, what you think we gon’ do? Lay down quiet or break right through? When the soul gets hungry and the world don’t feed it, survival stops begging for what it needed. Sick and tired of being sick and tired, pain in the bones, but the spirit caught fire. Mentally scarred, physically worn, emotionally ripped, but still reborn. They wanted workers, not thinkers. Wanted bodies, not dreamers. Wanted silence in the speakers. Wanted blind little believers. But pressure got a language that systems don’t know, it can make pipes burst or make diamonds glow. You can press on a people till the people wake up, then the cup runneth over when they fill that cup. No passion for wants when the need gets real, no time for fake peace when the soul can feel. No more autopilot, no more sleepwalk living, no more asking for a future we already been building. [Bridge] Leader: They tried to bury us! Crowd: Pressure made diamonds! Leader: They tried to bury us! Crowd: Pressure made diamonds! Leader: What was first? Crowd: Gon’ rise again! Leader: What was top? Crowd: Comes back in the end! [Chorus] You built a system to bury us, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Back against the wall so long, we came out fighting, we came out shining. Four-five-oh, still we rose. Same old chains in brand-new clothes. You tried to kill the bloodline silent, but pressure turned us into diamonds. Live life, don’t let life live you. Break the spell they tried to give you. What was first gon’ rise again. What was top comes back in the end.
