Input - Spirits Fly lyrics

[Verse 1: Input] Good morning, April 20th in this here year of '99 I'm alive and well at fourteen minding my own place in line So here I go, walking into my daily institution With a lot on my plate for a fairly normal teen that's feeling foolish Had a hard time going into public school for what it's worth Unnoticed most of days distinguished by my place of birth I'm a Denver native, but I grew up in that Catholic church With a uniform on and a suit of broken armor for a shirt These kids were different here, they made you feel like an alien But I went on my own, and I took what I know to a place that appeared to be safe for me To change that frame of thought wasn't hard to do to a kid like me Drugs were the answer, d** made a difference, d** made me someone they could see On my way to cla**, science hall, room number five It was all about to change, it was time to approach that light There I was in the back of the room when the fire alarms were set into motion 11:19 was burnt in my memory now it's time to go We stood right up and got prepared and we formed a single line As I made my way on out, I looked right back just to check the time With one foot down in the hallway, I was thinking that cla** was done And that's when I heard those screams, "There's kids with guns" [Hook: Nikkiya] Bombs come down, bullets fly Could this be, will I die? I heard he asked her, "Do you believe in God?" She said "yes", then she was gone Screaming out, I hear the cries Bombs come down, spirits fly Out the fire, the aftermath It changed this boy into a man [Verse 2: Input] Do you really know what it's like To feel a pipe bomb under your feet? Those marble tables slid across the room like they sat on wheels In a frantic state, I was all too young just to grasp this moment It became a reality then and I thought that my life was over And I laid on the floor in the corner just in case they wandered by At the angle that we had bundled up, we couldn't see their eyes And there came that second that we couldn't move 'cause they stood outside And I taught myself to stop breathing like it was time to die Pop, was my first impression; pop, was the second intention Pop, pop, pop, pop, throw another in for good measure It didn't even make much sense to be inside of a horror film At the end of this awful day, we were all just kids That look of fear on faces would make a growing angel cry And there's no hope for us, it's time to depart from life And if I don't blink again, I'm leaving in pain and suffering So tell my family I love 'em, just tell my family I love 'em [Hook: Nikkiya] Bombs come down, bullets fly Could this be, will I die? I heard he asked her, "Do you believe in God?" She said "yes", then she was gone Screaming out, I hear the cries Bombs come down, spirits fly Out the fire, the aftermath It changed this boy into a man [Verse 3: Input] Now it's hour four, still confined to a box collapsing My lungs could relate to that feeling, I could feel the whole room gasping And the S.W.A.T. team came in and that door broke in like a pipe bomb just exploded And they looked in my eyes and they patted me down and they simply said "go" Running like I never ran, stuck inside a maze, they looked like superheroes, but their guns said different Nothing came across my mind except the fact that I need to get the f** out of this here building Every corner was a heart drop, blind spot, nevermore could I exist with gunshots self [?] And the memory will make me remember how that day turned a kid into a man, that's fine now When the lights came on, and that door swung open I cried cause I knew that I left my fourteen year old self on that floor As I stand here now, I have my story to tell And I thank you all for joining me in this journey through hell This is for my city, my state, my life at Columbine I'm not gonna be that humble, nobody's got this heart like mine And I made this life from a tile floor in a science cla** And I'm proud of the person I am today, and you can't fire back [Hook: Nikkiya] Bombs come down, bullets fly Could this be, will I die? I heard he asked her, "Do you believe in God?" She said "yes", then she was gone Screaming out, I hear the cries Bombs come down, spirits fly Out the fire, the aftermath It changed this boy into a man