Sunshine

[Chorus: Jill Scott]

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long

[Verse 1: Pusha T]

America, you need a miracle

Beyond spiritual 

I need a realer view

I hold a mirror to it

These ain’t new problems, they just old ways

I see one time turn sunshine into Freddie Gray

Just another nigga dead, just another nigga dead

Send another to the FEDs, send another to the FEDs

Not guilty, still I’m filthy

In FOX eyes, we the dark side

So they tell you lies

Through a TV, C-N-B-C

C-N-N, Don Lemon, no Kweli when you meet me

In order to be me

You gotta see what Chief Keef see

Brenda’s baby next door to the candy lady 

Same project as Candy Man where they still doing hand-in-hands

Sunday to Sunday, pastor only want one day

Grandma praying someday

But God can’t hear it over gun play 

Woo! Still a target, but the badge is the new noose

Yeah, we all see it, but cellphones ain’t enough proof

So we still lose

[Chorus: Jill Scott]

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long

[Verse 2: Pusha T]

I don’t got no march in me, I can’t turn the other cheek

While they testing your patience, they just testing my reach

Funeral flowers, every 28 hours

Being laid over ours

Sworn to protect and serve, but who really got the power?

Looking over their allowances 

Building prisons where the mountains is

Laptops is for the county kids

Metal detectors is where ours is

They’ll never re-write this, like they re-wrote history

The fact that the Statue of Liberty was black is a goddamn mystery

And so it goes, every truth don’t get told

All these cops get cleared, and lives are stole

Every goose don’t lay gold whoa

Just another nigga dead, just another nigga dead

Send another to the FEDs, send another to the FEDs

They call in the National Guard

Public Enemy, I am Chuck D

Flavor Flav in Louis V, but I’m Huey P

Woo! The new elite, it’s either you or me

Let the sunshine, cause their dark clouds try to ruin me

[Bridge: Jill Scott]

It’s more and more and more than Baltimore

From shore to shore, oh lord

Patience torn, patience gone, oh lord

[Chorus: Jill Scott]

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long

I say hey, sunshine

Oh how the day can be so long