Somebody Else

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]

Two things always been off-limits

I still say, women and children

Today, nobody living with moral compass

Point the fingers around the mirrors

Play this song on the radio

I need everybody on the dance floor tonight

Possibility a language where nobody wins

Possibility the governor employed tonight

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

She said, “Mama, can I stay in the house and get some sleep?

The pressure that I'm feeling and dealing with runs deep

I'm nervous every time that you fellowship out the week

I hate to watch you fall in a coma after you drink

I know you tell me I got to stay in a child's place

But if you still a child, we running the same race

I tried to save face and disregard the scars

That's wrapping around my waist, living my truth is hard

Especially when I can't be honest when I'm around you

Your new boyfriend got a secret and need some counsel

The days you go to work on the weekend, he crack the door

Then he sneak in the back, doin' some things never allowed to

Why don't you believe me? I got battle wounds to show you

Why don't you believe me? I got more life to go through

I know that it's easy for you to lay up with a man

Protecting your daughter, never necessary by chance

I guess it's my fault for choosing you as my mother

A soul reconnected, we probably made for each other

I know you wish that I'd keep my feelings inside my room

But sometimes I wish that I never made it out of your womb," Oxy

[Chorus: Beth Gibbons]

I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself

Ooh, I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

When I become a mother, I wanna be healthy

I wanna be educated so life don't fail me

I wanna give my child infinite opportunities, wisdom and security

Vision and freedom, believing in purity

I want my baby have a joyous one

To see optimism whenever paranoia come

To know my intentions was to make sure my seed flourish

Loving them unconditionally as the most assertive

I wanna be a healthy mother like Clair Huxtable

Florida Evans before my faith is indebted

I wanna be a mother passing on good karma

With no emotional luggage to intercept and inherit

I want my child to have a chance at life, to celebrate

To live out the box, advance in life and regulate

But if I could spare your life, I would, 'cause nothing out here is good

If this man is making you out of rape, understood? (Oxy)

[Chorus: Beth Gibbons]

I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself

Ooh, I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself

[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar]

Two things always been off-limits

I still say, women and children

Today, nobody living with moral compass

Point the fingers around the mirrors

Play this song on the radio

I need everybody on the dance floor tonight

Possibility a language where nobody wins

Possibility the governor employed tonight

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

I gave you dominion for women to be protected by man

But man doesn't know the creation she livin' in

I gave you life, I gave you a voice, I gave you land

I gave you principles, I gave you guidelines commendable

For prospering, I can see you living life in a trance

Who cast the first stone? I got some words for them

I gave you love, you turned it to hate

I gave you bread, you turned it to cake

I gave you sex, you made it to rape

Gave you vision, but you covered your eyes multiple times

Gave you truth, but you made it revised, covered in lies

Look at you; confused and barely abusing ego

Dedicatin' the women around you for ground zero

Even compromised myself, gave you free will

Hoping you make decision to help, and try and rebuild

Judge as the last one

Abortion or no abortion

We all aborted the moment we aborted compassion

[Chorus: Beth Gibbons]

I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself

Ooh, I wish I was somebody

Anybody but myself