Why do you think I'm always strong And always so turned up Expectations of me lay so skin deep As if I can take anything, but who's here to protect me
Looking like the suns going down Think about the day I feel the pressure come around Better shut my mouth If I say my feelings then they'll say that I'm too loud Blend into the crowd Once the see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now They'll think I'm super tough And made of silver stuff All while I'm falling apart
In the nighttime I lose it for real Watching as my cup overfills Losing all my sense of what I feel Yes I guess I'm broken steel
Maybe I'm just that soft Cause you're playing too rough I am delicate with strengths that I created For a world that's always taking Pieces of who I am without anything worth trading
Looking like the suns going down Think about the day I feel the pressure come around Better shut my mouth If I say my feelings then they'll say that I'm too loud Blend into the crowd Once the see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now They'll think I'm super tough And made of silver stuff All while I'm falling apart
In the nighttime I lose it for real Watching as my cup overfills Losing all my sense of what I feel Yes I guess I'm broken steel
I bare the weight of the world on my hips Must be strong can't simp Fed the culture off da tit Created the wave can't catch my drift Hide my strength Talk my shit they buy my lips Cry my pain they mosh to it (I hate yall)
You wanna defund I wanna defend Not the same can't pretend Mind of orisha, skin of a heathen I don't walk in rooms where I'm not greeted Yea Try me's treason yea yea Smiles deceiving yea yea Built this table where I'm seated If they can manifest destiny why can't you Need a minute to catch yo breath hmm I need two Can no longer do the work that they won't do My race is not my cape ho Give me space I cry too
Compositores: Audra M Green (Audra Green), Travis W Stewart, Kelvin James Montgomery (Kelvin James), Rochelle Fearon (Rochelle Jordan) ECAD: Obra #30032032