Black is tired
Uh, 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 on top a round table
Surrounded by blue-collared brave men and
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, its shadow
Its shadow will be reaching for something
That isn't there and then that'll be enough
Black says, "Keep your 40 acres"
"Just let black reach for the end of the street"
"Let black weed for the last clean sheet"
"Just let black reach into black's own car"
"Let black reach into black's own lungs"
Black doesn't want its young ones
Seeing their fathers dead on YouTube
Girls in halfway threw kids just to keep them alive
Black says it's always been like this
It's you who's late to woke
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 palava
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 curse word 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 pepper
Black says that you cannot digest
Black says, "How can you relate"
"When these black limbs are just fool?"
And this black blaze is dance
This black sorrow is dance
These black prayers is dance
This black struggle is dance
And 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!