Black

Song Black
Artist Dave
Album PSYCHODRAMA

Lyrics

[00:22.05] Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
[00:25.99] Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
[00:28.82] It's working twice as hard
[00:29.89] As the people you know you're better than
[00:31.56] 'Cause you need to do double what they do so you can level them
[00:34.32] Black is so much deeper than just African-American
[00:37.11] Our heritage been severed,
[00:38.31] You never got to experiment with family trees,
[00:40.81] 'Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
[00:43.09] And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
[00:45.35] Tell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual Queens
[00:48.12] Black is watching child soldiers
[00:49.84] Getting killed by other children
[00:51.33] Feeling sick, like "oh **** this could have happened to me"
[00:53.84] Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece
[00:56.86] The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
[00:59.61] A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news
[01:02.35] And if he's white you give him a chance, he's ill and confused
[01:05.35] If he's black he's probably armed, you see him and shoot
[01:08.32] Look, black is growing up around the barbershop
[01:11.74] Mummy saying stay away from trouble, you’re in yard a lot
[01:14.26] Studying for ages, appreciating the chance you got
[01:17.07] 'Cause black is in your blood,
[01:18.38] And you ain't even got the heart to stop
[01:20.08] Black is stepping in for your mother because your father's gone
[01:22.88] Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong
[01:25.66] Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping
[01:28.56] Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
[01:31.44] Black is growing up around your family and making it
[01:34.08] Then being forced to leave the place you love
[01:36.30] Because there's hate in it
[01:37.18] People say you fake the ****,
[01:38.41] Never stayed to change the ****
[01:39.84] But black is being jealous,
[01:41.33] You'd be dead if you had stayed in it
[01:42.83] Black is struggling to find your history or trace the ****
[01:45.64] You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it
[01:48.44] Black has got a sour ******* flavor, here's a taste of it
[01:51.44] But black is all I know,
[01:52.52] There ain't a thing that I would change in it
[02:04.88] Look, black ain't just a single ******* color,
[02:07.89] Man there's shades to it
[02:08.84] Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it
[02:11.55] Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the ****
[02:14.27] Black has never been a competition,
[02:15.83] We don't make this ****
[02:17.34] Black is deadly
[02:18.54] Black is when you're freezing in your home
[02:20.61] And you can't get sleep
[02:21.71] But never feeling empty,
[02:22.76] 'Cause you got twenty cousins in your country living stress free
[02:25.77] Walking for their water,
[02:26.97] Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
[02:28.61] Black is distant, it's representing countries
[02:31.35] That never even existed while your grandmother was living
[02:34.02] Black is my Ghanaian brother reading into scriptures
[02:37.03] Doing research on his lineage, findin' out that he's Egyptian
[02:39.92] Black is people naming your countries on what they trade most
[02:42.87] Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast
[02:45.87] But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes
[02:48.50] West Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast
[02:51.47] Black is so confusing, 'cause the culture?
[02:53.51] They're in love with it
[02:54.39] They take our features when they want
[02:56.14] And have their fun with it
[02:57.23] Never seem to help with all the things
[02:58.96] We know would come with it
[03:00.08] Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
[03:02.71] Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat
[03:05.42] Poverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets
[03:08.29] Well you were struggled,
[03:09.23] But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
[03:11.06] Well how could it be
[03:12.05] When your people gave us the odds that we beat?
[03:13.98] I mean, ******* hell,
[03:15.08] What about our brothers that are stuck in jail?
[03:17.39] That couldn't bust a bell, they held a bird
[03:19.03] And gotta live with it
[03:20.00] Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent
[03:22.81] Black is saying "free my ******* ******
[03:24.67] Stuck inside in prison cells"
[03:26.14] They think it's funny, we ain't got nothing to say to them
[03:28.67] Unconditional love is strange to them; it's amazin' 'em
[03:31.43] Black is like the sweetest ******* flavor,
[03:33.35] Here's a taste of it
[03:34.52] But black is all I know,
[03:35.38] There ain't a thing that I would change in it
[03:37.66]

Pinyin

[00:22.05] Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
[00:25.99] Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
[00:28.82] It' s working twice as hard
[00:29.89] As the people you know you' re better than
[00:31.56] ' Cause you need to do double what they do so you can level them
[00:34.32] Black is so much deeper than just AfricanAmerican
[00:37.11] Our heritage been severed,
[00:38.31] You never got to experiment with family trees,
[00:40.81] ' Cause they teach you ' bout famine and greed
[00:43.09] And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
[00:45.35] Tell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual Queens
[00:48.12] Black is watching child soldiers
[00:49.84] Getting killed by other children
[00:51.33] Feeling sick, like " oh this could have happened to me"
[00:53.84] Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories ' bout your dad and your niece
[00:56.86] The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
[00:59.61] A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news
[01:02.35] And if he' s white you give him a chance, he' s ill and confused
[01:05.35] If he' s black he' s probably armed, you see him and shoot
[01:08.32] Look, black is growing up around the barbershop
[01:11.74] Mummy saying stay away from trouble, you' re in yard a lot
[01:14.26] Studying for ages, appreciating the chance you got
[01:17.07] ' Cause black is in your blood,
[01:18.38] And you ain' t even got the heart to stop
[01:20.08] Black is stepping in for your mother because your father' s gone
[01:22.88] Standing by your children when you haven' t proven karma wrong
[01:25.66] Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping
[01:28.56] Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
[01:31.44] Black is growing up around your family and making it
[01:34.08] Then being forced to leave the place you love
[01:36.30] Because there' s hate in it
[01:37.18] People say you fake the ,
[01:38.41] Never stayed to change the
[01:39.84] But black is being jealous,
[01:41.33] You' d be dead if you had stayed in it
[01:42.83] Black is struggling to find your history or trace the
[01:45.64] You don' t know the truth about your race ' cause they erasing it
[01:48.44] Black has got a sour flavor, here' s a taste of it
[01:51.44] But black is all I know,
[01:52.52] There ain' t a thing that I would change in it
[02:04.88] Look, black ain' t just a single color,
[02:07.89] Man there' s shades to it
[02:08.84] Her hair' s straight and thick but mine' s got waves in it
[02:11.55] Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the
[02:14.27] Black has never been a competition,
[02:15.83] We don' t make this
[02:17.34] Black is deadly
[02:18.54] Black is when you' re freezing in your home
[02:20.61] And you can' t get sleep
[02:21.71] But never feeling empty,
[02:22.76] ' Cause you got twenty cousins in your country living stress free
[02:25.77] Walking for their water,
[02:26.97] Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
[02:28.61] Black is distant, it' s representing countries
[02:31.35] That never even existed while your grandmother was living
[02:34.02] Black is my Ghanaian brother reading into scriptures
[02:37.03] Doing research on his lineage, findin' out that he' s Egyptian
[02:39.92] Black is people naming your countries on what they trade most
[02:42.87] Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast
[02:45.87] But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes
[02:48.50] West Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast
[02:51.47] Black is so confusing, ' cause the culture?
[02:53.51] They' re in love with it
[02:54.39] They take our features when they want
[02:56.14] And have their fun with it
[02:57.23] Never seem to help with all the things
[02:58.96] We know would come with it
[03:00.08] Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
[03:02.71] Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat
[03:05.42] Poverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets
[03:08.29] Well you were struggled,
[03:09.23] But your struggle ain' t a struggle like me
[03:11.06] Well how could it be
[03:12.05] When your people gave us the odds that we beat?
[03:13.98] I mean, hell,
[03:15.08] What about our brothers that are stuck in jail?
[03:17.39] That couldn' t bust a bell, they held a bird
[03:19.03] And gotta live with it
[03:20.00] Black is being guilty until proven that you' re innocent
[03:22.81] Black is saying " free my
[03:24.67] Stuck inside in prison cells"
[03:26.14] They think it' s funny, we ain' t got nothing to say to them
[03:28.67] Unconditional love is strange to them it' s amazin' ' em
[03:31.43] Black is like the sweetest flavor,
[03:33.35] Here' s a taste of it
[03:34.52] But black is all I know,
[03:35.38] There ain' t a thing that I would change in it
[03:37.66]