Reach (You Don't Die Until the Last Person Says Your Name)

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart
Trouble no one about their religion
Respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend
Even a stranger, when in a lonely place
Show respect to all people and grovel to none

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself
Abuse no one and no thing
For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision

When it comes your time to die
Be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death
So that when their time comes
They weep and pray for a little more time
To live their lives over again in a different way
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home

Blessed with a curse it's pain
Don't expect you to understand
Momma dear could've left a stain
Hit the ground no name in the sand
Father God hear the words I make
Father Yah hear sounds I make
When I fall don't catch my faith
Won't catch me, runaway slave

Stand for something or die for nothing
Run from nothing, but bound to something
Told me I couldn't have it All
All I hear was you jus bluffing
They told me to keep it 100
They couldn't keep it 100
Won't give me no fake loving
Won't take me no fake loving

I know I'm up to something
I think about it daily
Heaven sent Hell raised lil baby
96 I'm serving daily
I walk and then I fly
I fly and then I die
I wake up, feel alive
I wake up, feel