Testify by Altus Rowe (Remy Remix)

[INTRO – HAMMOND ORGAN | DEEP SUB PULSE | SPARSE HAND PERCUSSION] [Female Lead – Raspy Gospel Soul | Intimate] I’ve got stories… Written on my skin… Places I’ve been… Ways I’ve been… I’ve known heaven… I’ve known hell… And there are things about this life… Only my scars can tell… [GROOVE BUILDS – AFRO PERCUSSION | DEEP BASS | UKG SHUFFLE] [PRE-CHORUS – Female Lead | Vocal Opens] I don’t need a halo… I don’t need to explain… You wanna know who I am? Look at what I survived… Look at what remains… [CHORUS – Female Gospel Lead | Full Deep Groove | Hammond Swells] Testify… For every time I fell… Testify… For every road through hell… I loved… I lost… I broke… I survived… If you need the proof… Baby, I’m alive… Testify… [INSTRUMENTAL – 8 BARS | DEEP AFRO GROOVE | HAMMOND | UKG SHUFFLE] [VERSE 2 – Female Lead | Low, Smoky | Groove Continues] I’ve been the woman… Who held it all together… Smiled through the breaking… Said, “I’m fine,” forever… I gave too much… To people who took… Stayed too long… In places I should’ve walked… I chased love… I chased dreams… I chased versions of me… That I thought everybody else… Needed me to be… I lost years… Trying to be enough… Then one day… I’d finally had enough… [Hammond Swell | Percussion Drops] No miracle came… No hand from the sky… I just found something in me… That refused to die… instead it said...Testify! [PRE-CHORUS – Female Lead | Building] I don’t have a perfect story… And I’m not gonna pretend… Every piece they tried to break… Became a piece I reclaimed… [CHORUS – Female Gospel Lead | Stronger] Testify… For every time I fell… Testify… For every road through hell… I loved… I lost… I broke… I survived… If you need the proof… Baby, I’m alive… Testify… [INSTRUMENTAL – 16 BARS | TRIBAL PERCUSSION | HUGE SUB BASS | FEMALE WORDLESS SOUL VOCAL] [BRIDGE – Female Lead | Hammond | Groove Stripped Back] I’ve asked the heavens… Why me? I’ve begged for answers… Down on my knees… I waited for someone… To come and save my life… Then I realised… The woman I was waiting for… Was me... [Beat Slowly Builds] So I stopped asking… For permission to begin… Stopped apologising… For everything I’d been… This messy… Beautiful… Fucked-up life… Is mine. And I’ll take it… All of it… The scars… The love… The fight… [Female Vocal Rises] And that’s enough… To testify… [FINAL CHORUS – Female Lead | Deepest Groove | Gospel Stack] Testify… For every scar I wear… Testify… For every soul I cared for… I gave… I took… I hurt… I healed… Every part of me… Is something I refuse… To conceal… Testify… For the woman I became… Testify… For every version of my name… The girl… The lover… The fighter… The woman still alive… If you need the proof… Baby… Look me in the eyes… and I'll Testify… [Female Vocal – Sustained] Testifyyyyy… [OUTRO – DEEP GROOVE | HAMMOND | PERCUSSION SLOWLY STRIPS AWAY] [Female – Close Mic | Almost Whispered] I was here… I lived it… I loved… I survived… I testify...