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zuò cí : Marlanna Evans Mark Byrd Lewis Allen |
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zuò qǔ : Marlanna Evans Mark Byrd Lewis Allen |
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Southern trees |
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Bearing strange fruit Bearing strange fruit |
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Blood on the leaves Blood on the leaves |
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And blood at the root, check And blood at the roots |
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So bleed |
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Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till |
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I drew a line without showing my body, that' s a skill |
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Bad to the bone and the grill |
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You' d be dead wrong if looks killed |
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I' m still on my spill, in the spirit of L. Hill |
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Eye on the sparrow, nose like a pharaoh' s |
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Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils |
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We all gon' get mils |
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Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele |
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Was raised upon a hill, the valley' s a sunken place |
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I' m just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight |
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Know I' m a god emcee, ' cause bitch, I made the devil wait |
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' Fore I brought hell, you ain' t gotta tell me I' m hella great |
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I don' t speak on it nowadays, I just meditate |
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Y' all can have the bars, bitch, I spit hard metal gates |
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Henry Louis Gates when I cop me some new estate |
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Make room for myself, I' m in a way different mental place |
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I keep it real, all y' all look anime |
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I' m fine like Anna Mae, black don' t crack like Angela |
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Black and brave like in the A, it don' t come with apologies |
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' Less it' s Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it' s, " Namaste" |
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Spread love the Brooklyn way or like marmalade |
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No matter if you street street or more like the promenade |
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We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids |
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For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say |
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I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain' t heard of |
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Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder |
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Failed to kill me, it' s still me, |
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Woke up singing Shirley Murdock |
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As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect |
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Went from field nigga to still nigga |
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Being cropped out the picture |
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But we all know who got the juice, my sisters |
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Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures |
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And still, they' ll never be us, bitch damn |
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I' m from the back woods where Nina would |
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Sing about the life we should lead |
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A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good |
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I felt more damned than Mississippi was |
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They deny Nina in Philadelphia |
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And still we persevere |
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Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa |
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Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us? |
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Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you |
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It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please |
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Survival |
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Here' s to the honey in you |
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To the bittersweet in me |
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I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet |
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Here' s to a moment of silence |
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I' ve poured and poured my soul again, here' s to epiphanies |
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There was never a we |
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There was you all and there was me |
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In this war, likely to succeed |
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Unlike me to surrender |
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Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day |
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To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom |
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Praying for a breather |
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Do you see my pain? |
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Do I seem like prey? |
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Empathy be the reason you' re still standing |
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We are not the same |
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I' ve lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you |
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I' m extraterrestrial, I was created different |
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I' ve been here many times before |
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And I' ve never been defeated, and still |
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I will never be defeated Defeated |
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