Jelani Leathers - Ashes and Embers

I will not relent until this horror is no more
The blood of innocence spilled by challenges endured

Hope is irrelevant our bodies intolerant to the torturer's delight
Words are spoken, bones are broken there's no end in sight

Debt is paid through death and pain
Children cry parents die and all we ask is "why?"

How could it be? this savagery tears us all apart
They'll never waiver, where was a savior to save us from the start?

Save me save me cleanse my tainted soul
Free me free me from this mortal coil

Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Living this life we're all going to fall
Embers diminish, we hear the call
Free from this pain and the fear of it all

Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Living this life we're all going to fall
Embers diminish, we hear the call
Free from this pain and the fear of it all

Prey on the weak, cut hands from a thief, leave families in grief
Take the child away from its mother
Asphyxiation dealt by the hands of a brother
When does the the cycle end? When will my loved ones breathe again?
Flesh we were born, to ash we'll return so let this body burn

Ashes ashes let this body burn
Ashes ashes let this body burn

Written by:
Jelani Leathers

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