This track was composed out of a collection of poems from the young people of Santa Rosa to bring fortha Call To Action for better housing, communities, and health care
lyrics
Bruised, scraped, and just short of greatness
The world is hindered without healthy minds
Verse 1
What will life look like 30 years from now
For myself, my town, my family, my child
Uh, and as I sit here thinking
About this life reimagined in this Santa Rosa dreaming
Cause as it’s currently constructed
Yo It’s hard for me to trust it
Tryna get from A to B
With no access to our buses
GMO up in our lunches
At the air I’m throwing punches
Honestly the whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
And we can really talk that talk but they don’t want to touch it.
I want a seat like Fannie Lou so we can discuss it
Transform all of the tears dropped in a bucket
If you ask me the whole thing needs some reconstruction
And it ain’t cosmetic or prosthetic
If it aint inclusive I don’t get it
Cause if you get it
She get it, he get it
Why can’t I get it?
Or We get it?
Yeah, we get it!
Chorus:
We need love
We need care
Got some loose change to spare
We need help
We need health
That’s in tact and that’s rare
I wanna know x 15 times
I wanna know
Verse 2
How can they ignore the light
When we need it to grow only darkness in sight
And as I sit here thinking
It would be a little slice of heaven with sustainable living
With clean parks designed to hold space for our children
Cease the gang and gun violence just a few things that I’m feeling
We at the bottom only way to go is up
The water pours the same but we drink from different cups.
My mental health needs fine tuning
I’m flesh and blood, my God, I’m on human
It sounds a little crazy, but it’s not impossible
And give some rest to those working in the hospitals
Abolish redline barricades
I’ve been soaked in the pain
But healing is the marinade
The underpaid deserve a raise, and a parade
The road to redemption, destination Happy Days
Chorus:
We need space
We need rest
To rectify all the mess
We need a break from all the stress
So we can do what we do best
I wanna know x 15 times
I wanna know
Verse 3
Do black voices matter?
Brown voices matter?
Queer voice matter?
uh
Do our voices matter?
Young voices matter?
Do poor voices matter?
uh
Do broken voices matter?
Hurt voices matter?
Do the voiceless matter?
Stories written from sorrow but we desire laughter
When you receive an action plan, what you gon do after?
Put it all in motion
Bring light to the hopeless
Come down to our city blocks!
So you can see just how we rock
Can we grow?
Can we love?
Can we live?
Can we change?
Cause the pain
Can’t remain
Nothing less
Cause we deserve the best
Give me liberty and life
Cause It’s vital
for our survival
Chorus:
We need a change it’s gon come
Can’t have rain without the sun
Just want a piece of the pie
Just gave you hella reasons why
I wanna know x 15 times
I wanna know
credits
released February 13, 2026
Written by: Kayatta Patto
Produced by: Wilfred Horace
Mixed and Mastered at Whitewhale Studios in Santa Ros, CA
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