Sons Of Kemet, Joshua Idehen - Black

[00:01.42] Black is tired [00:05.04] Uh, black would like to make a statement [00:07.19] Black is tired [00:11.09] Black's eyes are vacant [00:13.28] Black's arms are leaden [00:15.36] Black's tongue cannot taste shit [00:17.61] Black's stomach cannot compress death [00:19.63] And black would like to state that black is not [00:23.35] A beast of myth to be slain in a fable [00:27.76] Recounted on top a round table [00:30.50] Surrounded by blue-collared brave men and [00:34.89] Black has demands [00:36.50] Black demands baton-proof bones [00:38.70] And bullet-resistant skin [00:41.06] Black thinks no person that's trigger nervous [00:43.24] Deserves a gun, much less a badge [00:45.69] And black knows one day its arms will be up [00:47.10] Its lips pinned, its shadow [00:50.33] Its shadow will be reaching for something [00:52.40] That isn't there and then that'll be enough [00:56.17] Black says, "Keep your 40 acres" [00:57.89] "Just let black reach for the end of the street" [01:01.07] "Let black weed for the last clean sheet" [01:03.59] "Just let black reach into black's own car" [01:06.15] "Let black reach into black's own lungs" [01:10.21] Black doesn't want its young ones [01:11.22] Seeing their fathers dead on YouTube [01:13.80] Girls in halfway threw kids just to keep them alive [01:16.62] Black says it's always been like this [01:19.12] It's you who's late to woke [01:21.50] And black has seen your grin [01:23.53] Your grin is a cutlass flag [01:25.55] And black's eyes are bleeding [01:27.30] From gripping the knife-edge you offered [01:29.43] On your side of the handshake [01:31.33] Go write your thoughts and prayers on a piece of paper [01:33.56] Fling it at the moon, see what that will do [01:35.83] You call for calm, you call for peace [01:37.97] Like sacrifices on mountain peaks [01:39.91] He doesn't end the palava [01:41.30] But he come at the top, where the negus still in lava [01:43.66] Black is angry now [01:47.38] Black as the day [01:49.90] And black's snare is a firefly dancing in grief [01:53.06] A curse word trapped in a bracket [01:55.14] A sentence too intense for one full stop [01:58.45] Black says that you don't understand [02:00.54] Black says that you cannot compare [02:02.35] Black says that its pain is too pepper [02:04.58] Black says that you cannot digest [02:06.64] Black says, "How can you relate" [02:08.91] "When these black limbs are just fool?" [02:11.37] And this black blaze is dance [02:13.93] This black sorrow is dance [02:16.23] These black prayers is dance [02:18.64] This black struggle is dance [02:20.96] And this black pain is dance [02:23.58] This black struggle is dance [02:26.09] And this black blaze is dance [02:29.79] Just leave black be [02:32.03] You already have the world [02:33.43] Just leave black be [02:37.29] Leave us alone! [02:39.08]