In honor of Juneteenth, Fire from the Gods released a video for ‘Break the Cycle’ video, to celebrate the day slavery was ended in the United States. As a black man in America, Fire From the Gods’ frontman, AJ Channer is urging others to break the cycle and remember “if one is not free, none of us are free.”
”It’s 2020. […] we’re still in fear of our lives,” stated Channer.
On the Fire of The God’s Instagram page, the band posted “2020 has been a very trying year for all of us. We can come out of this together or we can continue to dig our own grave. May this lift your spirit and continue to lift the world out of this hole.”
Break the Cycle
I feel like we keep fighting a war deep within
A war that we keep fighting and we’ll never win
It seems that we just keep digging a deeper grave
To pile up the bodies and to hide our shame
Hustling doing anything to get paid
Claiming that we’re free
But we’re really slaves
Minds chained to the pulse of the machine
Enslaved by the war machine
And it goes on and on and on
A war that we keep fighting and we’ll never win
It seems that we just keep digging a deeper grave
To pile up the bodies and to hide our shame
Hustling doing anything to get paid
Claiming that we’re free
But we’re really slaves
Minds chained to the pulse of the machine
Enslaved by the war machine
And it goes on and on and on
It’s the blood in your vein
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
It’s the rise and the fall
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
I think it’s time to break the cycle
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
I think it’s time to break the cycle
I feel like the hatred has us separated
The heart and the spirit have been dislocated
A whole generation miseducated
A ticking time bomb to be detonated
I’ve seen the best of us dragged through hell
Yet we put a crown ‘pon the infidel
Shaking my head
We’ll forever be enslaved by the war machine
And it goes on and on and on
The heart and the spirit have been dislocated
A whole generation miseducated
A ticking time bomb to be detonated
I’ve seen the best of us dragged through hell
Yet we put a crown ‘pon the infidel
Shaking my head
We’ll forever be enslaved by the war machine
And it goes on and on and on
It’s the blood in your vein
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
It’s the rise and the fall
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
I think it’s time to break cycle
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
I think it’s time to break cycle
Break, break, break
Break, break, break
The cycle, the cycle
Break, break, break
The cycle, the cycle
It’s the blood in your vein
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
The thought in your brain
The heart in your chest
That drives you insane
The need for us to break the cycle
It’s the rise and the fall
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
Break, break, break
The ones who stand tall
The dark before dawn
The need to move on
Break, break, break
