Lyrics:
Guess who’s still alive? Ninety years old and counting. I’m hoping to survive. It’s been a miserable life (it hasn’t been all bad). No matter what they say. But that don’t matter anyway. I’ll keep trying. Until I die.
Save me if you please. Just allow me to give my testimony.
I hope it’s perfectly clear. I don’t have no fear. Singing songs for Jesus. I’ll keep trying. Until I die.
Save me if you please. Just allow me to give my testimony.
If you save me I’ll keep trying to write a song that Yah might like…yeah!
Hell seems like a very bad thing.
I was diagnosed with cancer around this time last year. When I got out of the hospital I thought I was going to die. The thought of dying and going to hell made me quite emotional, obviously. I wrote this poem (short lyrics) to describe my relationship with The Magnanimous Christ a friend and savior since I was a young.
I swapped out the lyrics from an unpublished song called Slavery aka The Sharecropper which I wrote in 2022 around the time I composed Sanctuary on the xylophone.
Slavery lyrics:
It’s so hot out here. In the Mississippi Delta sun. I pick cotton all day. It’s a miserable life. No matter what they say. Don’t let them tell you different. They’d be lying.
Slavery
After the war it was clear. Mississippi would bring fear. It was so hard down there. Are we still crying? We’re still crying.
Slavery
Please don’t beat me. Please don’t rape me. Don’t feed my baby to an alligator.
Slavery was a very bad thing.
I was sick throughout summer, 2023. Slavery/Sanctuary was intended to be the remix project for all of the producers with Alex Dx on vocals. It didn’t work out the way I intended however MRIZO got the assignment to remix Slavery now called The Sharecropper.
I got sicker and sicker throughout the summer and the very morning MRIZO sent me his remix(es) I was on my way to the hospital suffering from heart failure. I didn’t get a chance to listen to his remix until I was released from the hospital three weeks later with some very serious medical issues.
The Sharecropper is not my favorite record of all time. However, with its background it will be one of the most sentimental songs I have released. Everything changed after this. My life changed.
Slavery vocal demo recorded by Boom 9/2023
The Sharecropper remix demo produced by Chiko 9/2023
The Sharecropper Unreleased Remix by MRIZO 9/2023