We Are Darker Than Blu(e)

[Intro: Blu & Curtis Mayfield]

We people

I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue)

I'm talkin' bout

[Verse 1: Blu]

It took people like Huey to move me

My life is like a movie reel, no films, feel me?

The real me is blacker than my African family tree

Blacker then the Black Panther Party's army

On me, armed to the teeth with the beast

All ready to catch heat from a G, spark leaves

Lift up, outer space, blackface picture us that deep

Black is the bottom of the black sea

Black is the reason why I am free, I am me

A human being being more than all that I can be

Multiply more times, Most High majesty

Magic me John's son as black as can be

High yellow acapello afro actually

Nappy tree, lifted to the black above me

Buzz freeze for my niggas, trust me

This is for my niggas from the poorest to the richest that can be

[Chorus: Blu & Curtis Mayfield]

I'm talkin' 'bout (We people)

I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue)

I'm talkin' 'bout (We people, people)

I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue)

[Verse 2: Blu]

Uh, what if Malcolm X wasn't dead

And John F. Kennedy wasn't shot in the head

And MLK was still living to this day?

Do you think we would be living this way?

I think that John Lennon and Nat Turner would've packed burners

Peace for peace, I keep a piece to keep peace

Six feet deep people rest in the piece they kept

Judas sold out, Jesus wept

We breathe the breath of life through the worst times

Made it through the hurt for the first time ever since birth cryin'

Seen the Earth dyin', heard about the worst crimes

Dark nights personify when Black people unite

Under moonlight, truth be told

If the blackness glowed it wouldn't show another soul

So we share and we care for other folks, truth be told

We used to cover up the whole globe

[Chorus: Blu & Curtis Mayfield]

I'm talkin' 'bout (We people)

I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue)

I'm talkin' 'bout (We people, people)

I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue)

I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue)

[Verse 3: Blu & Curtis Mayfield]

They tried to tell me Jesus Christ wasn't Black

When Egyptian artifacts shows that the Persian army was Black

That means Jesus had to be

Blacker than the Egyptians then so he was blacker than me

Kind of like Nat Turner had to be

Imagine if we didn't have photography a couple centuries

And they painted Kanye West a Caucasian

The African-American parties would be raging

What if they said the Beatles were Asian? Half man, half amazing

I'm on a narrow path pacing

A Black man from Afghan blazing a burning bush

Learning 'bout the kingdom of Kush

Push your wig back how blacks had another black's back

And how crack made another Black crack

How they got us all tagged in a prison stat

Knowing damn well more than half ain't even living that

I'm Black and I'm proud, ever since I was a child

I knew that 'cause James Brown proved that back then

Black man, I'm light-skinned but

You know your color the same as me