《Dear Black Son》歌词

歌曲： Dear Black Son

所属专辑：All The Beauty In This Whole Life

歌手： Brother Ali

时长： 03:52

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Dear Black Son - Brother Ali[00:00:00]

Dear black son there's people you've never met[00:00:11]

Who fear and hate you for something that you never did[00:00:14]

And these people are so self-convinced[00:00:18]

Sometimes they pull the trigger call that self-convinced[00:00:20]

And in that sad insanity[00:00:23]

Their fear is realer to them than your humanity[00:00:25]

But that's their problem it's not yours[00:00:29]

Listen to your pop for a second[00:00:32]

These are the confessions of a father broken hearted[00:00:34]

Who don't know how to pull his only son out of a target[00:00:36]

They lied when they said it was the bottom where you started[00:00:39]

You were a king long before them ships departed[00:00:42]

You are not defined by anybody else's crimes[00:00:45]

You don't need to answer for what happens in their minds[00:00:48]

You are not confined by their imaginary lines[00:00:51]

You don't need permission to exist with the divine[00:00:53]

In fact you don't need permission from no one including me[00:00:56]

You need not do anything but be just breathe[00:00:59]

Whatever you dream let it mean you're free[00:01:02]

Tears on your cheek never made nobody weak[00:01:05]

Sometimes we got to grieve let it burn let it bleed[00:01:07]

Then let yourself heal pray to god that it will[00:01:10]

You've got a spirit that a bullet can't kill[00:01:13]

That doesn't make it any less real[00:01:16]

They say it takes a man to raise a man[00:01:18]

You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand[00:01:21]

And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass[00:01:24]

Maybe see how long I can make an hour last[00:01:28]

Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand[00:01:31]

And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass[00:01:35]

Maybe see how long I can make an hour last[00:01:39]

Dear black son[00:01:47]

Dear black son I can't protect you like I want to[00:02:04]

I never judge you all I can do is love you[00:02:07]

And that's all anyone can ever do is love you[00:02:10]

All I can do is wonder how can anyone not love you[00:02:12]

They recognize divine you[00:02:16]

So they try to find themselves by defining you[00:02:19]

They're living in a myth that they don't want to lose[00:02:21]

And now they're too terrified to face your kind of truth[00:02:24]

But every single time you shine[00:02:27]

It's proof that they might've threw a chain around your body[00:02:29]

Never conquered you[00:02:31]

They don't always honor you but they love your culture[00:02:33]

Let me show you how to move when the laws approach you[00:02:36]

It's best to keep your hands where they can see them[00:02:38]

And try to understand that you're not even what they're peeping[00:02:41]

They don't see a sweet kid that loves his little sister[00:02:43]

Their mind is seeing five hundred years of pictures[00:02:46]

In fact they don't visualize a kid[00:02:50]

They see grown man imagery mythic masculinity[00:02:52]

But you are not their fetishes or fears[00:02:55]

Nor my ambition and tears nothing can interfere[00:02:57]

We've got to trust our seeds once we sow them[00:03:01]

We hold them when they're growing[00:03:03]

But we never really own them[00:03:05]

We love up on them play with 'em pray for them[00:03:06]

And cling very closely to them moments[00:03:09]

They say it takes a man to raise a man[00:03:11]

You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand[00:03:14]

And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass[00:03:17]

Maybe see how long I can make an hour last[00:03:21]

Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand[00:03:24]

And her I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass[00:03:28]

Maybe see how long I can make an hour last[00:03:32]

Dear black son[00:03:35]