Narration by Koname Florah Mphahlele

INTRO
I Am Mas
I believe we will survive
No matter what just stay alive
Stay alive

VERVE 1
Pull my whiskers and think send whispers to the breeze
Rather die on my feet before I'm sick on my knees 
Caught up in toxic lives seem iller than disease 
Deeper in the streets and the trigger as they squeeze
At a loss of words, allow the picture res to speak 

Tears blend with the rain, can't take that pain
Fears left in fade, main man maintain 

Memoriеs we share still linger insidе me
In every dark cloud there's a silver lining

Walk through the city, where shadows speak loud
See faces in reflections, the memory's sound
Seem fading in deflections, melodies abound

Every step a reminder, though they gone, they near
Any sense that's inside us, sober song to hear
We but falling stars 
Heal our mourning hearts
And bitter swollen scars
It gets cold and hard

Through the emptiness, we cling to hope unseen
It's through, take a breath, brings us close to our dreams

They may try to crush what's inspired inside
But the heart beats fiercely with fire delight 

How common in our talks we born poor 
Paul's mourn
Impulse more end in Pollsmoor
When it's all gone wrong with none to fall on 
So strong not revealing like it's soft porn 

CHORUS
I believe we will survive
No matter what just stay alive

VERSE 2
Be it hell or the halo, suicide unseen 
Devil in the shadows, whose side ya scene
Heaven in the ghetto, choose Christ or sin
My close friend's golden cup was almost half 
His desk sits empty, mug cold's on the shelf
Cling on to it all, some chose to detach
Carry on for I can't part roads with the self 
Thought for a moment, sun rose in the west 
A dagger so sharp so deep it stabs
Struck home field it hurts

The lives we mourning, rainy showers and falls
We rise each morning, heavy shoulders and all
In Christ we fall in, may he show us the forth
Nightmares dreams calling, nearly closer or far  
My destiny so missed, really over a snore

Sold souls walking on red carpets to hell
Broke alone calling her dead husband that fell
Lost most, talking that word trusted to tell 

Look in the sky or kneel
To survive this ordeal 
More pride or guilt 
Give up the price or deal 
How morning rise gon' feel
My coffee refill
Are odd times so real
Or our times surreal 
It's a lonely world 
We get born unprepared 
The road to hell 
Or with God don't be scared 

CHORUS
I believe we will survive
No matter what just stay alive