Wyclef Jean - Shelter lyrics

There's a war going on outside That nobody's safe from But here in my arms I'll keep you from harm There's no guarantee tonight That we will wake up When night takes the morning But if no alarm rings You can count on one thing I'll be your shelter Emergency Please count on me (Yeah I) I'll be your superhero When danger arrives I'll be by your side (Uh) You're my lucky dime (Uh) Wyclef told me call 911 But who do you call when the ambulances don't come Or watch as the ones sworn by law protect us Wrongfully convict us then call it corrections Next, they bail the banks out when we in recession And hang us in the jail cell so they can swing the elections I walk Chicago streets where pot holes is deep and Tahoes creep like TLC Hospital workers in scrubs with no PPE But they got money for riot gear, my ni**a, we dying here, yeah You tell me not to move with my gun But we got more funeral homes than schools where I'm from And on the news all you view is homicides Tell me why it ain't no trauma units when everybody traumatized Tryna get on your feet, playing the hand they dealt ya If your house is not a home let this song be your shelter I'll be your shelter Emergency Please count on me (Yeah I) I'll be your superhero When danger arrives I'll be by your side You're my lucky dime It's a hundred bags under the underpass Rumbling stomachs, cups jingle when Hummers pass Brisk winds, summer's done, winter is coming fast And then they Zoom teacher wonder why they don't come to class The internet been out, the hot water been out She moved to her aunt's house, then to her friend's couch Abuser went to jail but that ni**a been out Producer was in house, they closer then pen pals Homeless in the home of the slaves, I wonder how that would feel The manifested destiny a bunch of land they could steal Think about Kenneth Walker and Philando Castile How they only wanted to protect their family While it's ni**as out here that make it worse for they folks It's a deeper, hotter hell for the worst of these folks It's a mystery, we never heard the murder she wrote If we finally paid her back the whole earth would be broke I'll be your shelter Emergency Please count on me (Yeah I) I'll be your superhero When danger arrives I'll be by your side (Uh) I write for my ni**as doing life with no possibility of parole You playing Fortnite, that's how long you spent in a hole Live from Death Row, free my ni**a Julius Jones I had a dream that Mumia was home, I speak freedom in songs 'Cause all I see is racist faces Where hate lives and they rape kids in cages What kinda nation lynch Elijah McClain? Then send us to the Middle East to die for the flag They drive us insane to sell us medication We demand reparations and they tell us have patience Instead of cash payments, we get minimum wages They give us the black plague, then send us a white savior I found faith when I lost hope That's when Julius reminded me of a bar I wrote Behind bars on the yard where they dream of the street On death row singing we could be free (We could be free) I know you'll be my shelter from the storm I know you'll be my shelter from the storm