Portrait - Moor Mother/Billy Woods.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : F. Porter for The Happiest Africans (SESAC)/Camae Dennis (ASCAP)
[00:03.068][Verse 1: Navy Blue]
[00:03.601]Strangest way to live is in the far past
[00:05.720]Why my black people gotta scar badly?
[00:07.845]Bar caps and keloids, dog tags
[00:10.503]Most of us alike, the foundation
[00:12.097]But a raft made changes
[00:13.693]Path made dangerous
[00:15.291]Liftin' off the mask to expose my aged face
[00:17.672]Choice left marks, not a part of goin' apeshit
[00:20.862]Faith, it's innate
[00:22.989]Night and day, my bitterness awaits
[00:24.849]Blew the candles out, but never touched the cake
[00:28.043]Threw the damage out to glow within a cave
[00:29.358]Thoughts cavin' in
[00:30.953]Thoughts came and went, can't resist
[00:33.083]Had a vision of me bleedin' out
[00:34.942]Metaphorically
[00:35.740]The saints marchin' in, fleur de lises
[00:38.132]Mona Lisa eyes set for the region, same evil
[00:41.313]Different strokes for ashamed people
[00:43.704]A lotta niggas tryna bribe the gatekeepers
[00:46.099]I've gotta stay peaceful
[00:47.694]Truthful in your heart, the ties sink deeper
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[00:49.823][Verse 2: Moor Mother]
[00:51.150]Let me come in, I hold accountable the reaper
[00:53.795]Tales from the creeper
[00:55.393]From the bottom of the forty liter
[00:57.522]I guess the genre, rock bottom, handcuff the gotham
[01:00.443]Empty buck, **** it, we gon' write without 'em
[01:02.835]Pen a cage, shank a blade
[01:05.218]Back against the wall, a space to rage
[01:07.344]It don't matter, it's all matter
[01:09.206]If you swing hard enough, the blood pit patter
[01:11.600]Took a vowel, I'm a spell caster
[01:13.727]He run first, I came after
[01:15.059]Same chapter, second verse
[01:20.274]Came to the show with the severed head of a demon
[01:23.197]Screamin, y'all ain't ****in' with me
[01:25.592]I ain't ****in' for free
[01:26.921]Half the timeline while y'all was whippin' up salt pies
[01:29.844]I had the neckbones, pigeon peas
[01:32.228]Ask Ms. Beverly
[01:33.555]Had the vinegar and collard greens
[01:35.686]Lu'au around the pigs
[01:37.279]Let the kids cut at the ankles
[01:38.873]Put a shank through the pigs eye, like thank you
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[01:41.004][Verse 3: billy woods]
[01:41.266]Swollen rivers, gold diggers, waist deep in the muck
[01:43.914]Tropical heat, you caught the shivers
[01:45.776]Uniform change, but it be the same niggas
[01:48.701]The same agendas
[01:50.293]Told my kid, don't let no white man take your picture
[01:53.218]The way these mu****as act
[01:55.069]Maybe you really can take it wit' ya
[01:56.933]I can't call it, just call the lawyer
[01:59.326]Told the fortune teller, no spoilers
[02:01.454]While you were whippin' water
[02:03.313]I had grits in the double boiler
[02:04.907]Pork belly under the broiler
[02:06.769]Broccoli rabe, olive oil
[02:08.353]I learned the game from Ms. Porter
[02:10.216]Bow my head, one eye open
[02:12.341]Give thanks, bredren, we did it for the culture