Black

[Verse: Joshua Idehen]

Black is tired

Black would like to make a statement

Black is tired

Black's eyes are vacant

Black's arms are leaden

Black's tongue cannot taste shit

Black's stomach cannot compress death

And black would like to state that black is not a beast of myth

To be slain in a fable

Recounted atop a round table

Surrounded by blue-collared brave men

Black has demands

Black demands baton-proof bones and bullet-resistant skin

Black thinks no person that's trigger nervous deserves a gun

Much less a badge

And black knows one day its arms will be up

Its lips pinned, but its shadow

Its shadow will be reaching for something

That isn't there and then that'll be enough

Black says "keep your forty acres

Just let black reach for the end of the street

Let black weed for the last [?] wheat

Just let black reach into black's own car

Let let black reach into black's own lungs"

Black doesn't want its young ones seeing their fathers dead on YouTube

Girls in halfway [?] kids just to keep them alive

Black says its always been like this

It's you who's late to walk

And black has seen your grin

Your grin is a cutlass flag

And black's eyes are bleeding

From gripping the knife-edge you offered on your side of the handshake

Go write your thoughts and prayers on a piece of paper

Fling it at the moon, see what that will do

You call for calm, you call for peace

Like sacrifices on mountain peaks

He doesn't end the palaver

But he come at the top, where the negus still in lava

Black is angry now

Black as the day

And black's snare is a firefly dancing in grief

A curseword trapped in a bracket

A sentence too intense for one full stop

Black says that you don't understand

Black says that you cannot compare

Black says that its pain is too [?]

Black says that you cannot digest

Black says "how can you relate?"

When these black limbs are [?]

And this black blaze is dance

This black sorrow is dance

These black prayers is dance

This black struggle is dance

This black pain is dance

This black struggle is dance

And this black blaze is dance

Just leave black be

You already have the world, just leave black be

Leave us alone!