| [00:05.16][Intro] | |
| [00:05.40] | It's not what you expect me to say |
| [00:10.98] | But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway |
| [00:13.62][Verse] | |
| [00:15.42] | ('Cause) I was told I would reach further |
| [00:18.84] | If the colour of mi skin was lighter |
| [00:21.87] | And I was made to feel inferior |
| [00:24.51] | Cah society seh brown girls prettier |
| [00:27.69] | Mi love the way mi look |
| [00:28.80] | Mi love mi pretty black skin |
| [00:30.75] | Respect due to mi strong melanin |
| [00:33.87] | Proud of mi colour, love the skin that I'm in |
| [00:36.72] | Bun racism, demolish colourism |
| [00:39.63] | But the things weh mi a go seh |
| [00:40.98] | Yuh might not even have mi back |
| [00:42.72] | I get hate from my own race |
| [00:44.73] | Yes, that's a fact |
| [00:45.72] | 'Cause the same black people dem seh I'm too black |
| [00:48.84] | And if yuh bleach out yuh skin dem same one come a chat |
| [00:51.78][Bridge] | |
| [00:52.02] | Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you |
| [00:55.68] | I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to? |
| [00:58.50] | Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you |
| [01:02.01] | Or do I look pretty to you? |
| [01:03.81][Chorus] | |
| [01:05.19] | Black people hypocrisy |
| [01:07.98] | Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
| [01:10.56] | Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty |
| [01:13.53] | **** di whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [01:17.34] | Dis a black people hypocrisy |
| [01:20.31] | Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
| [01:22.92] | I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty |
| [01:25.86] | **** the whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [01:28.59][Verse] | |
| [01:28.80] | Dem seh mi black til mi shine, til mi look dirty |
| [01:31.80] | And it's the only line in life that will ever hurt me |
| [01:34.80] | Because it never come from a Caucasian, trust mi |
| [01:38.10] | Dis a black colorism big hypocrisy |
| [01:41.13] | So if I wake up tomorrow look like a browning, oh! |
| [01:44.70] | Automatically mi would a carry di swing |
| [01:47.58] | Nuff a unnuh nah go like di song yah mi sing |
| [01:50.25] | Because nuff a unnuh guilty fi di same damn thing |
| [01:53.85] | What's your perception of a pretty woman (tell me) |
| [01:56.76] | Is it straight nose with her hair well long? (Tell me) |
| [02:00.06] | Black girls lose self-confident |
| [02:02.46] | Cause they attach the word "ugly" to our complexion |
| [02:05.46][Bridge] | |
| [02:05.82] | Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you |
| [02:09.51] | I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to? |
| [02:12.36] | Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you |
| [02:15.87] | Or do I look pretty to you? |
| [02:17.67][Chorus] | |
| [02:19.02] | Black people hypocrisy |
| [02:21.81] | Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
| [02:24.39] | Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty |
| [02:27.39] | **** di whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [02:31.14] | Dis a black people hypocrisy |
| [02:34.14] | Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
| [02:36.75] | I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty |
| [02:39.72] | **** the whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [02:42.45][Outro] | |
| [02:46.26] | (It's not what you expect me to say |
| [02:51.63] | But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway) |
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