[00:00.00] 作词 : Marlanna Evans/Mark Byrd/Lewis Allen
[00:00.62] 作曲 : Marlanna Evans/Mark Byrd/Lewis Allen
[00:01.24]Southern trees
[00:05.93]Bearing strange fruit (Bearing strange fruit)
[00:12.16]Blood on the leaves (Blood on the leaves)
[00:16.55]And blood at the root, check (And blood at the roots)
[00:20.98]So bleed
[00:23.06]Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till
[00:26.09]I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill
[00:29.03]Bad to the bone and the grill
[00:31.47]You'd be dead wrong if looks killed
[00:33.68]I'm still on my spill, in the spirit of L. Hill
[00:36.24]Eye on the sparrow, nose like a pharaoh's
[00:39.35]Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils
[00:42.20]We all gon' get mils
[00:43.54]Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele
[00:46.31]Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken place
[00:49.60]I'm just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight
[00:52.46]Know I'm a god emcee, 'cause bitch, I made the devil wait
[00:55.38]'Fore I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me I'm hella great
[00:58.22]I don't speak on it nowadays, I just meditate
[01:01.32]Y'all can have the bars, bitch, I spit hard metal gates
[01:04.12]Henry Louis Gates when I cop me some new estate
[01:07.03]Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place
[01:10.15]I keep it real, all y'all look anime
[01:13.04]I'm fine like Anna Mae, black don't crack like Angela
[01:15.87]Black and brave like in the A, it don't come with apologies
[01:18.70]'Less it's Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it's, "Namaste"
[01:21.56]Spread love the Brooklyn way or like marmalade
[01:24.60]No matter if you street street or more like the promenade
[01:27.50]We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids
[01:30.54]For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say
[01:33.33]I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of
[01:36.20]Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder
[01:39.08]Failed to kill me, it's still me,
[01:40.46]Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
[01:42.06]As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect
[01:45.02]Went from field nigga to still nigga
[01:46.58]Being cropped out the picture
[01:47.88]But we all know who got the juice, my sisters
[01:50.99]Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
[01:53.63]And still, they'll never be us, bitch (damn)
[01:56.67]I'm from the back woods where Nina would
[01:58.71]Sing about the life we should lead
[02:00.12]A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good
[02:02.82]I felt more damned than Mississippi was
[02:05.16]They deny Nina in Philadelphia
[02:07.24]And still we persevere
[02:08.43]Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa
[02:11.75]Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?
[02:14.45]Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you
[02:17.45]It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please
[02:20.74]Survival
[02:26.97]Here's to the honey in you
[02:31.33]To the bittersweet in me
[02:32.89]I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet
[02:36.56]Here's to a moment of silence
[02:40.64]I've poured and poured my soul again, here's to epiphanies
[02:44.27]There was never a we
[02:46.41]There was you all and there was me
[02:48.24]In this war, likely to succeed
[02:49.91]Unlike me to surrender
[02:51.15]Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day
[02:54.28]To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom
[02:58.13]Praying for a breather
[02:59.29]Do you see my pain?
[03:04.32]Do I seem like prey?
[03:06.89]Empathy be the reason you're still standing
[03:08.93]We are not the same
[03:10.05]I've lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you
[03:13.19]I'm extraterrestrial, I was created different
[03:16.82]I've been here many times before
[03:18.90]And I've never been defeated, and still
[03:24.82]I will never be defeated (Defeated)
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