Battle Cry

Album: Dirty Gold (2013)
Charted: 70
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  • Money cannot buy
    All the love that's here tonight
    All the love that's here tonight
    Ooh ooh

    It's just you and I
    So lift your hands toward the sky
    Lift your hands toward the sky
    Ooh ooh

    It seems like yesterday that I was nothin'
    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 yellin', "Bitch, you can't tell me nothin'"
    'Cause I came from the bottom, now everybody's watchin'
    I said it was my time, now I'm who everybody's glockin'
    And I'm just out here sprintin', I'm runnin' 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 give it your all despite what it takes
    And you never let 'em kill you, you take everything they give you
    And throw it right fuckin' at 'em and tell 'em it doesn't build you
    And no it don't ever break you, and no it can't overtake you
    Life's 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 than all that you beat
    And you can say

    Money cannot buy
    All the love that's here tonight
    All the love that's here tonight
    Ooh ooh

    There's just you and I
    So lift your hands toward the sky
    Lift your hands toward the sky
    Ooh ooh

    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 'em who they should follow
    Nobody but themselves, especially if they hollow
    Especially when they empty and death reserves for fulfillment
    You the only person alive who holds the key to your healin'
    So you take it and you run with it
    And keep going even when your suns hidden
    Because the time we spend in darkness when the rain comes
    Is where we often find the light soon as the pain's done
    There ain't material things in the world
    That can change the fact that you feel lonely
    Despite the fact that it gets hard, you take it all and you still go
    Take the sun and you still grow, lose the 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
    Ooh ooh
    It's just you and I
    So lift your hands toward the sky
    Lift your hands toward the sky
    Ooh ooh

    We don't wanna fight
    So sing with me our battle cry
    Sing with me our battle cry
    Ooh ooh

    Money cannot buy
    All the love that's here tonight
    All the love that's here tonight
    Ooh ooh

    It's hard to explain my way of living to people who never lived it
    A minute in my position filled with my opposition
    That anybody not different, fighting to stay the same
    I got lives in my hands and I'm fighting to make 'em change
    Couldn't accept responsibility, find somebody to blame
    The emotions that I'm harboring 'bout to 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 cords missing
    Inspire life into anybody that's forfeiting
    'Cause it's easy to keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
    But it's harder to keep their head up and be fucking strong
    So, now they telling me "go, Haze, they can't stop you
    Heavyweight 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
    Ooh ooh

    It's just you and I
    So lift your hands toward the sky
    Lift your hands toward the sky
    Ooh ooh

    We don't wanna fight
    So sing with me our battle cry
    Sing with me our battle cry
    Ooh ooh

    Money cannot buy
    All the love that's here tonight
    All the love that's here tonight Writer/s: Gregory Kurstin, Raykeea Wilson, Sia Furler
    Publisher: Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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