Lyrics of 'Battle Cry' by Angel Haze

Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh, oh, oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh, oh, oh

It seems like yesterday that I was nothing
Then all of a sudden, I'm a volcanic eruption
Then all of a sudden, it's like spontaneous combustion
And I'm all up in your face yelling
Bitch, you can' tell me nothing
'Cause I came from the bottom
Now everybody is watching
I said it was my time
Now I am who everybody is clocking
And I'm just out here sprinting
I'm running right through my vision
I'm trying to outrun my past
But still trying to defeat my limits

'Cause you only get one moment in this life
To be great
And you can give it your all despite what it takes
And you never let them kill you
You take everything they give you
And throw it right fucking at them
And tell them it doesn't build you
And no, it'll never break you
And no, it can't overtake you
Life is like a bed of roses
You take the thorns and you make do
Sometimes you have to hurt
For the cause to be reached
But one day you'll be stronger
Then all that you've beat
And you can say

Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh, oh, oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh, oh, oh

I woke up one sunday morning
Stopped believing in Jesus
Stopped believing in churches
I stopped believing in preachers
I realized I was a teacher
Not just one of the heathens
I'm born to destroy the fallacies
Stop creating believers
Start creating the leaders
Tell them who should they follow
Nobody but themselves
Especially if they're hollow
Especially when they're empty
In desperate search for fulfillment
You the only person alive
That holds the key to your healing

So you take it and you run with it
And keep going even if when your sun's hidden
Because the time we spent in darkness
When the rain comes
Is where we often find the light soon as the pain's done
There ain't no material things in the world
That can change the fact you feel low
Despite the fact that it gets hard
You take it all and you still go
Taste the sun and you still grow
Lose your light and you still glow
I been there, I'm still here
And I know how you feel so

Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh, oh, oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh, oh, oh
We don't wanna fight
So sing with me a battle cry
Sing with me a battle cry
Oh, oh, oh
Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight

It's hard to explain my way of living
To people who never lived it a minute in my position
Filled with my opposition
To anybody not different
Fighting to stay the same
I got lives in my hands
And I'm fighting to make 'em change
Can't accept responsibility
Find somebody to blame
The emotions that I'm harboring
'Boutta drive me insane
Tried to say: Fuck everything
But I ain't have the heart to
Rarely had the heart to do
A lot of things I ought to

So now I spit it for people
Who say their cord's missing
Inspire life to anybody that's fore fitting
'Cause it's easy to keep pretending
That there is nothing wrong
But it's harder to keep your head up
And be fucking strong
So now they're telling me
Go Haze, they can't stop you
Heavy weight flow
If they can't lift you
Then they can't drop you the pinnacle
If they can't reach you then they can't top you
Man, they can't do anything that you're about to

Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh, oh, oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh, oh, oh
We don't wanna fight
So sing with me a battle cry
Sing with me a battle cry
Oh, oh, oh
Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight