Black Faces

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Lisa D. Tha Gaek

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You ever wonder if you could trade places
Tell me when you sleep, do you see their faces
If you even sleeping at all, a true human would not be
On his knees he'd fall, asking the LORD forgiveness
Begging for maximum sentence
So that your subconscious could slowly kill
'Cause consciously you did what you did do
Simply hate me because of who I am
One bullet was enough, why you do that to my fam
I tell you I can't breathe, you nonchalant wit' it
Tell me do it make you feel more of a man
I'll never truly understand this shit
Wish it all would truly just vanish and shit, how is it
That I make you feel uncomfortable
When it's just melanin that I'm brandishing
That candid shit, that how Obama know that he the man and shit
Yeah, we smooth wit' it, shea butter, whipped
In rivers of gold, Kings and Queens, yeah we've been dipped
Like yo' centuries long trip, 'cause you hallucinatin'
If you think you can leave us unequipped
We no longer on the ship, Amistad
You stripped us naked and made us starve
Called it a fresh start; when we finally made
It to the plantations, you fed us scraps
Centuries later, we still eating like crap
Just gave us EBT, that's just facts
We can't take "you are what you eat" so light
It's no feather, sugar and pressure
Now Gaek speaking to her people 'cause we gotta do better
Seafood boils off of Link, investing in depreciation, designer and Royces
No, dressing up a salad don't make you slim
Just like the hood don't give resources
Maybe one day we get a government
Where you check that box, it come wit' better choices
I guess for the moment, that's what my voice is

Black faces, tell me do you see my black face
When the lights go out, do you feel the shame
Not sympathetic, but the reason that my heart race
Hear the pain, the memories; stop and listen
Feel 'em breathe, that's my ancestors
Trauma that'll never leave, instilled in me
Tattooed history, tell me is my black face
All that you really see

Black faces, tell me do you see my black face
Why every time you look at me, you just see a case
Knowin' you prolly be the reason that I catch a case
That's what my feelings say, how you ask
Drop us in the hood, leave us to pick up the pieces, yeah
We traumatized, filled us wit' you lies, housing projects
If it ain't a bullet, then it's cancer, how's that for logic
And our 40 acres still ain't arrived, do you even wanna see us alive
Just die? I don't hear yo answer, I meant to say live
But you just want us to exist, why we out here tryna survive
I guess you rather see us self-destruct until we no longer cease to exist
Ain't that why you pushed them bricks, imbedded the lust for money swift
I mean, ain't that why you exploit our gifts
Make us think we need that drip, materialism's real
Even though they make us feel like we made it, guess if we buy 'em all up
You can no longer steal what's not yours for the taking
Hearts made of steel, our souls you can never steal
So how 'bout we make a deal; since we spendin' all this cash
Put Obama on one of them bills, bump a cracker to the back
Ain't that's what you think we're worth, like your empty words
A prize from the bottom of a box, Cracker Jacks

Black faces, tell me do you see my black face, tell me
When the lights go out, do you feel the shame
Not sympathetic, but the reason that my heart race
Hear the pain, the memories, stop and listen, feel 'em breathe

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