I am not throwing away my shot, I am not throwing away my shot, Ayo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot. I'ma get a scholarship to King's College. I probably shouldn't brag but, dag I amaze, Astonish. The problem is I gotta lot a brains but no polish. I gotta holler just to be heard, with every word, I drop knowledge. I'ma diamond in the rough, a shining piece of coal, trying to reach my goal, my power of speech Unimpeachable. I'm only 19 but my mind is older, these New York City streets get colder, I shoulder, every burden every disadvantage, I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish, I walked these streets famished. The plan is to fan this spark into a flame, but dang its getting dark so let me spell out my name. I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R, we are meant to be, a colony that runs independently. Meanwhile Britain keeps spitting on us endlessly. Essentially, they tax us relentlessly. Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree.He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free, so there will be a revolution is this century. Enter me. He says in parenthesis. Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me, I will lay down my life if it sets us free. Eventually you will see my ascendancy. I am not throwing away my shot, I am not throwing away my shot, Ayo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and i'm not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot, I am not throwing away my shot, Ayo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and i'm not throwing away my shot. It's time to take a shot. I dream of life without a monarchy, The unrest in France will lead to onarchy. Onarchy how you say? oh Anarchy. When I fight I make the other side panicky, with my shot. Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice, And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis. Im joining the rebellion cause I know it my chance to socially advance, instead of sewing some pants. I'm gonna take a shot! But we'll never be truly free, until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me. You and I do or die. Wait till I sally in on a stallion with the first black battalion.Have another shot. Geniuses, lower your voices, keep out of trouble and you'll double your choices. I'm with you but the situation is fraught. You've got to be carefully taught, if you talk, you're gonna get shot. Burr, check what we got. Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot, I think your pants look hot, Laurens I like you a lot. Lets hatch a pot, blacker than the kettle calling the pot. What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot? Popping a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not. A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists? Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is! Oh am i talking to loud? Sometimes I get over excited , shoot of at the mouth. I never had a group of friends before, I promise that I'll make y'all proud. Lets get this guy in front of a crowd. I am not throwing away my shot, I am not throwing away my shot, Ayo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and i'm not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot, I am not throwing away my shot, Ayo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and i'm not throwing away my shot. Everybody sing, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Hey, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Ooh, Whoa, Ooh, ooh, Said let em hear ya, Yeah, Lets go, Whoa, Whoa Whoa, I said shout it to the rooftops, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Said to the rooftops,Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Come on, Come on lets go. Rise up, When your living on your knees, you. Rise up. Tell your brother that he's gotta, rise up. Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up. When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? Rise up. I imagine death so much it feels just like a memory, when's it gonna get me? In my sleep, 7 feet ahead of me? If I see it coming do I run or do I let it be? Is it like a beat without a melody? See I never thought I'd live past twenty, where I come fro some get half as many. Ask anybody why we living fast and we laugh, reach for a flask, we have to make this moment last, that's plenty. Scratch that, this is not a moment its the movement. Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went. Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand. We roll like Moses, claiming our promised land. And? If we win our independence? Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants? Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle of vengeance and death for our defendants. I know the action in the street is exciting, but Jesus between all the bleeding and fighting, I've been reading and writing. We need to handle our financial situation, Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nations? I'm past patiently waiting, I'm passionatly smashing evry expecta
