[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)