Verse 1
Get money get rich/
The world's going to hell, ain't no saving this bitch/
Kill yourself trying to make the cape fit/
you just an actor can't escape the script/

truth won't change corrupt politics/
They shoot you down if you shoot from the hip/
Great fortune, crimes to commit/
Rockefeller, Kennedy, Carneige Shit/

I won't going down with the ship/
Uh uh won't happen captain/
I'll let the earth fall off it's axis/
Before I be a martyr and leave ' daughters lacking/

Being a hero, ain’t worth the energy/
die broke and leave ya kids with just memories/
Low pay high stress/ high debt/
That messiah complex becomes a noose around your neck/

Hook
Every Christ get crucified/
Everybody but you survive/
Not appreciated when you alive/
They Build monuments after you die/

We say we ready but...
We don't really want a hero

Verse 2
So where you wanna stand/
The friend of kings or friend of the common man/
Is self preservation bad for your Karma man?/
Moses and Martins never see the promised land/

Lead them out of bondage and they wanna go back/
Put you Under surveillance watch the cameras go snap/
Sacrifice to have a knife jammed in ya back/
The ones you try to help be the ones who attack

I'm on the fence, revolution or that nigga shit/
Live for today in luxury and ignorance/
Indulge, splurge til every last penny spent
Or fight the power and live life indigent/

moral high ground appraised with High prices
Assassinate characters, bankrupt with vices/
fate won't negotiate or bargain/
Make myself a hero, Make myself a target/




Hook
Every Christ get crucified/
Everybody but you survive/
Not appreciated when you alive/
They Build monuments after you die/

We say we ready but...
We don't really want a hero
REPEAT (1X)

Verse 3
build the community, marriage falling apart/
Be a light to world, family lives in dark/
Fight the power won't slide the electric bills/
Revolution lose it's sex appeal/

People respect that you down for the cause/
Wife losing respect, she seeing your flaws/
Knows you're a symbol of hope/
It's taking it's toll she at the end of her rope/

Too many missed birthdays to make up/
Missed school plays to make up/
Anniversary cake ate up/
Without you/ make a promise she doubt you/
Having Thoughts of getting along without/

sleeping alone/ raising kids no help/
you saving the world, she thinking of saving herself/
Questioning, you fuckin somebody else?
Is this how Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott felt?/

Hero to the people, to ya family you the villain/
broke, living off duckets and shillins
drown ya sorrow and bottle up feelings/
the paint on your public image peeling/

What happens when the movement stops moving?/
You sacrifice winning to look good losing/
What happens when the movement stops moving?/
We sacrifice winning to look good losing/