My Shot (Explicit)

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
I'ma get a scholarship to King's College
I probably shouldn't brag but dag I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lotta brains but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge
I'm a diamond in the rough a shiny piece of coal
Tryin' to reach my goal
My power of speech unimpeachable
Only nineteen but my mind is older
These New York City streets get colder
I shoulder every burden every disadvantage
I have learned to manage I don't have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn it's getting dark so let me spell out the name
I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R
We are meant to be
A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile Britain keeps ******* on us endlessly
Essentially they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around runs a spending spree
He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter me
He says in parentheses
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
And I am not throwing away my shot
My shot
I am not throwing away my shot
My shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
It's time to take a shot
I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to anarchy
Anarchy?
How you say how you oh anarchy?
When I fight I make the other side panicky with my shot
Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I'm joining the rebellion 'cause I know it's my chance
To socially advance instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a shot
And but we'll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
You and I do or die
Wait till I sally in on a stallion
With the first Black battalion have another shot
Geniuses lower your voices
You keep out of trouble and you double your choices
I'm with you but the situation is fraught
You've got to be carefully taught
If you talk you're gonna get shot
Burr check what we got
Mister Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Laurens I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
Give me a position show me where the ammunition is
Oh am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Everybody sing
Whoa whoa whoa
Hey
Whoa
Woo
Whoa
Say let 'em hear ya
Yeah
Let's go
I said shout it to the rooftops
Whoa whoa whoa
Said to the rooftops
Whoa
Ah come on
Yeah
Come on let's go
Rise up
When you're living on your knees you rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Rise up
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep?
Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it comin' do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh
Reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last that's plenty
Scratch that this is not a moment it's the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Foes oppose us we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses claimin' our promised land
And?
If we win our independence
Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Jesus between all the bleedin' and fightin'
I've been readin' and writin'
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states?
What's the state of our nation?
I'm past patiently waitin'
I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Every action's an act of creation
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
We're gonna rise up time to take a shot
Not throwing away my shot
We're gonna rise up time to take a shot
Not throwing away my shot
We're gonna rise up rise up
It's time to take a shot
Rise up rise up
It's time to take a shot
Rise up
It's time to take a shot
Rise up
Take a shot shot shot
Ayo it's time to take a shot
Time to take a shot
And I am not throwin' away my
Not throwin' away my shot