VRY BLK

Black is like the magic, the magic's like a spell My brothers went to heaven, the police going to, yeah, they're going to Hello operator, emergency hotline If I say that I can't breathe, will I become a chalk line Up to see the movie, line up to see the act The officers are scheming to cover up their, cover up their Ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies Your serving and protecting is stealing babies lives I'm very black, black, black Can't send me back, back, back You take my brother, brother, brother I fight back, back, back, back I'm very black, black, black I made a pact, pact, pact You take my brother, brother, brother I fight back, back, back, back Everything is everything, a mantra says the guillotine Missionary commissioned misery into angel wings And all he wanna do is be still and cut bread Never know the dead, how they whisper, "Forgive me" Everything is relative, politicize the evidence I heard a politician reiterate all the messages And all he wanna do is feed family, be famous Never know the poor, how they scream out, "Redeem me" Everything is casualty, a song I heard, the bullets sing I know a couple babies gon' see 'em fly tonight He wish he wasn't magic, all he wanna do is be a passage In a book titled "America the Savage" Symphony is symphony, when everything was meant to be Piano man and drummer boy just invented a song for me And all I wanna do is find love and be happy And all I wanna do is find love I'm very black, black, black (I'm very black) Can't send me back, back, back (can't send me back) You take my brother, brother, brother (you take my brother) I fight back, back, back, back (I fight back) I'm very black, black, black I made a pact, pact, pact (double, double this) You take my brother, brother, brother (double, double that) I fight back, back, back, back (the trouble trouble is) (I'm very, very black) And that is all I, that is all I know And that is all I, that is all I know That is all I, is all I know And that is all I, that is all I know