Message To The Black Man

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Grace Evelyn Potter (born June 20, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released five solo albums: Red Shoe Rebel (2002), Original Soul (2004), Midnight (2015), Daylight (2019), and Mother Road (2023). She has also released four studio albums with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a band she formed in 2002, which disbanded in 2015 upon her divorce from her bandmate: Nothing but the Water (2005), This Is Somewhere (2007), Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (2010), and The Lion the Beast the Beat (2012). more »

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My brother, it seems they got it out for you
To the point to where you gotta have the thang on ya
Seems they shooting first and asking no questions
And nobody is learning no lessons

Pull you over just to lean on ya neck
Ya best listen to Wu-Tang its something you wanna protect
Ya skin color's become highly visible
Because of that they treat you like a criminal

Even if it is more to the story
The wrong judge and jury is sending brothers to glory
And a riot's going on in ya name
Yesterday we didn't know you now today we're all one in the same

And it hurts.. cause we now have to try to prove a truth
That was all caught on camera and then shown to the youth
And adults of all colors back and forth we dispute
And we treat the situation like it's something that is cute

But today we gotta work it all out
Every day we gotta work it all out
Not just today, we gotta work it all out
Cause any day, they could work us all out
Message to the black man, work it all out
Every day we gotta work it all out
Until they can't stand that we work it all out
Put respect on your name like the song said, you need to show them how

My brother, don't forget your Queens
They starting to lose confidence in the ones they call King
Time to chill wit all the sagging and the material things
And matching the size of your heart to the size of the ring

All we seeing is body parts
Instead of examining exactly why she is a work of art
She wants you to take the lead
And not just around tax time when its time to claim the seeds

I'm not fussing I'm just saying
I done seen so many posts on social media that's saying
He won't handle his business, he ain't this he ain't that
He won't get his act together just wanna smoke and try to rap

And this is what places every brother in the same pot
Listen, she don't want you in her inbox
You want the sisters to keep you lifted
But how often do you go without understanding you're gifted

But today we gotta work it all out
Every day we gotta work it all out
Not just today, we gotta work it all out
Cause any day, they could work us all out
Message to the black man, work it all out
Every day we gotta work it all out
Until they can't stand that we work it all out
Put respect on your name like the song said, you need to show them how

Understand we got a duty to the next life
To not be seen as inferior
We gotta keep building the foundation
Before we can even think about the interior

I don't see us making a move
When we stay ready to fight about who's better than who
Always arguing about any and every little thing
Instead of building a team, yall just wanna be seen

I'm writing this and thinking bout the mission
I wanna say some stuff that's uplifting, my brothers need
Motivation as much as we out here to lift the sisters
It's enough we gotta worry bout who's gonna pull the trigger

I see why many drink away the pain
The stress of all the worry's gonna eat away at your brain
And while we on the subject of needing to rise above
When was the last time we told a black man that he is loved

Work it all out
When was the last time we told a black man that he is loved
Work it all out
When was the last time we told a black man that he is loved
Work it all out
When was the last time we told a black man that he is loved

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