Black Sons Of Kemet, Joshua Idehen

[00:01.42] Black is tired
[00:05.04] Uh, black would like to make a statement
[00:07.19] Black is tired
[00:11.09] Black's eyes are vacant
[00:13.28] Black's arms are leaden
[00:15.36] Black's tongue cannot taste shit
[00:17.61] Black's stomach cannot compress death
[00:19.63] And black would like to state that black is not
[00:23.35] A beast of myth to be slain in a fable
[00:27.76] Recounted on top a round table
[00:30.50] Surrounded by blue-collared brave men and
[00:34.89] Black has demands
[00:36.50] Black demands baton-proof bones
[00:38.70] And bullet-resistant skin
[00:41.06] Black thinks no person that's trigger nervous
[00:43.24] Deserves a gun, much less a badge
[00:45.69] And black knows one day its arms will be up
[00:47.10] Its lips pinned, its shadow
[00:50.33] Its shadow will be reaching for something
[00:52.40] That isn't there and then that'll be enough
[00:56.17] Black says, "Keep your 40 acres"
[00:57.89] "Just let black reach for the end of the street"
[01:01.07] "Let black weed for the last clean sheet"
[01:03.59] "Just let black reach into black's own car"
[01:06.15] "Let black reach into black's own lungs"
[01:10.21] Black doesn't want its young ones
[01:11.22] Seeing their fathers dead on YouTube
[01:13.80] Girls in halfway threw kids just to keep them alive
[01:16.62] Black says it's always been like this
[01:19.12] It's you who's late to woke
[01:21.50] And black has seen your grin
[01:23.53] Your grin is a cutlass flag
[01:25.55] And black's eyes are bleeding
[01:27.30] From gripping the knife-edge you offered
[01:29.43] On your side of the handshake
[01:31.33] Go write your thoughts and prayers on a piece of paper
[01:33.56] Fling it at the moon, see what that will do
[01:35.83] You call for calm, you call for peace
[01:37.97] Like sacrifices on mountain peaks
[01:39.91] He doesn't end the palava
[01:41.30] But he come at the top, where the negus still in lava
[01:43.66] Black is angry now
[01:47.38] Black as the day
[01:49.90] And black's snare is a firefly dancing in grief
[01:53.06] A curse word trapped in a bracket
[01:55.14] A sentence too intense for one full stop
[01:58.45] Black says that you don't understand
[02:00.54] Black says that you cannot compare
[02:02.35] Black says that its pain is too pepper
[02:04.58] Black says that you cannot digest
[02:06.64] Black says, "How can you relate"
[02:08.91] "When these black limbs are just fool?"
[02:11.37] And this black blaze is dance
[02:13.93] This black sorrow is dance
[02:16.23] These black prayers is dance
[02:18.64] This black struggle is dance
[02:20.96] And this black pain is dance
[02:23.58] This black struggle is dance
[02:26.09] And this black blaze is dance
[02:29.79] Just leave black be
[02:32.03] You already have the world
[02:33.43] Just leave black be
[02:37.29] Leave us alone!
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