[00:10.11] There's a war going on outside [00:12.74] That nobody's safe from [00:14.90] But here in my arms [00:17.77] I'll keep you from harm [00:20.76] There's no guarantee tonight [00:23.27] That we will wake up [00:25.87] When night takes to morning [00:28.33] But if no alarm rings, you can count on one thing [00:32.71] I'll be your shelter [00:36.53] Emergency [00:39.10] Please count on me, yeah [00:43.22] I'll be your superhero [00:47.13] When danger arise [00:49.64] I'll be by your side [00:51.74] You're my lucky dime [00:53.21] Wyclef told me, "Call 9-1-1" [00:55.96] But who do you call when the ambulancеs don't come? [00:58.48] Or watch as the ones sworn by law to protеct us [01:01.16] Wrongfully convict us, then call the corrections [01:03.79] Next, they bail the banks out when we in recession [01:06.17] Or hang us in a jail cell so they could swing the elections [01:08.75] I walk Chicago streets with potholes that's deep, and [01:12.08] Tahoes creep like TLC [01:14.24] Hospital workers in scrubs with no PPE [01:16.82] But they got money for riot gear, my nigga, we dying here, yeah [01:20.52] You tell me not to move with my gun [01:22.28] But we got more funeral homes than schools where I'm from [01:24.97] And on the news, all you view is homicides [01:27.44] Tell me why it ain't no trauma units when everybody traumatized? [01:30.56] Tryna get on your feet playing the hand they dealt ya [01:33.25] If your house is not a home, let this song be your shelter [01:36.04] Shelter, shelter [01:36.40] I'll be your shelter [01:40.36] Emergency [01:43.11] Please count on me, yeah [01:46.67] I'll be your superhero [01:50.93] When danger arise (when danger arrives) [01:53.88] I'll be by your side (I'll be by your side) [01:56.01] You're my lucky dime [01:57.14] It's a hunnid bags under the underpass [01:59.12] Rumbling stomachs, cups jingle when Hummers pass [02:02.01] Brisk wind, summer's done, winter is coming fast [02:04.56] And then they Zoom teacher wonder why they don't come to class [02:07.16] The internet been out, the hot water been out [02:09.75] She moved to her aunt's house, then to her friend's couch [02:12.41] Her abuser went to jail, but that nigga been out [02:15.07] Producer was in-house, they closer than pen pals [02:17.72] Homeless in the home of the slaves, I wonder how that would feel? [02:20.70] The manifested destiny, a bunch of land they could steal [02:23.63] Think about Kenneth Walker and Philando Castile [02:26.32] How they only wanted to protect they family [02:29.07] While it's niggas out here that make it worse for they folks [02:31.69] It's a deeper, hotter hell for the worst of these folks [02:34.30] It's a mystery, we never heard the murder she wrote [02:36.81] If we finally paid her back, the whole earth'd be broke [02:40.52] I'll be your shelter [02:44.52] Emergency [02:46.90] Please count on me, yeah [02:51.19] I'll be your superhero [02:55.26] When danger arise [02:57.66] I'll be by your side [02:59.94] I write for my niggas doing life with no possibility of parole [03:03.51] You playing Fortnite, that's how long he spent in the hole [03:06.37] Live from death row, free my nigga Julius Jones [03:08.81] I had a dream that Mumia was home, I speak freedom in song [03:12.32] 'Cause all I see is racist faces [03:14.54] Where hate lives and they rape kids in cages [03:17.34] What kind of nation lynch Elijah McClain? [03:20.01] And send us to the Middle East to die for the flag? [03:22.85] They drive us insane to sell us medication [03:25.18] We demand reparations, and they tell us, "Have patience" [03:27.83] 'Stead of cash payments, we get minimum wages [03:30.36] They give us the Black Plague, then send us a white savior [03:33.45] I found faith when I lost hope [03:35.59] That's when Julius reminded me of a bar I wrote [03:38.22] Behind bars, on the yard, where they dream of the street [03:40.86] On death row, singing, "We Could Be Free" [03:43.37] We could be free, we could be free [03:49.95] I know you'll be my shelter from the storm [03:57.56] I know you'll be my shelter from the storm [04:16.80]