I don't want to die today
It's my right to say
It just can't end this way
Just can't end this way
How I pray, oh how I pray
That my life won't end today
I don't want to die, but Politicians
Think they have a right to decide our fate
Take lives into their hands fighting
Wars we don't understand
I have to say I don't want to die today
I don't want to die from a gang
Banger's stray bullet
A psycho's knife forced inside me
A victim of violence on this land of liberty
Lying on the ground stone cold dead
Drenched in a pool of red
I don't want to die a memory
Like so many of those before me
I should have a right to say
I don't want to die today
It just can't end this way
Just can't end this way