《Dear Black Son》歌词

[00:00:00] Dear Black Son - Brother Ali

[00:00:11] Dear black son there's people you've never met

[00:00:14] Who fear and hate you for something that you never did

[00:00:18] And these people are so self-convinced

[00:00:20] Sometimes they pull the trigger call that self-convinced

[00:00:23] And in that sad insanity

[00:00:25] Their fear is realer to them than your humanity

[00:00:29] But that's their problem it's not yours

[00:00:32] Listen to your pop for a second

[00:00:34] These are the confessions of a father broken hearted

[00:00:36] Who don't know how to pull his only son out of a target

[00:00:39] They lied when they said it was the bottom where you started

[00:00:42] You were a king long before them ships departed

[00:00:45] You are not defined by anybody else's crimes

[00:00:48] You don't need to answer for what happens in their minds

[00:00:51] You are not confined by their imaginary lines

[00:00:53] You don't need permission to exist with the divine

[00:00:56] In fact you don't need permission from no one including me

[00:00:59] You need not do anything but be just breathe

[00:01:02] Whatever you dream let it mean you're free

[00:01:05] Tears on your cheek never made nobody weak

[00:01:07] Sometimes we got to grieve let it burn let it bleed

[00:01:10] Then let yourself heal pray to god that it will

[00:01:13] You've got a spirit that a bullet can't kill

[00:01:16] That doesn't make it any less real

[00:01:18] They say it takes a man to raise a man

[00:01:21] You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand

[00:01:24] And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass

[00:01:28] Maybe see how long I can make an hour last

[00:01:31] Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand

[00:01:35] And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass

[00:01:39] Maybe see how long I can make an hour last

[00:01:47] Dear black son

[00:02:04] Dear black son I can't protect you like I want to

[00:02:07] I never judge you all I can do is love you

[00:02:10] And that's all anyone can ever do is love you

[00:02:12] All I can do is wonder how can anyone not love you

[00:02:16] They recognize divine you

[00:02:19] So they try to find themselves by defining you

[00:02:21] They're living in a myth that they don't want to lose

[00:02:24] And now they're too terrified to face your kind of truth

[00:02:27] But every single time you shine

[00:02:29] It's proof that they might've threw a chain around your body

[00:02:31] Never conquered you

[00:02:33] They don't always honor you but they love your culture

[00:02:36] Let me show you how to move when the laws approach you

[00:02:38] It's best to keep your hands where they can see them

[00:02:41] And try to understand that you're not even what they're peeping

[00:02:43] They don't see a sweet kid that loves his little sister

[00:02:46] Their mind is seeing five hundred years of pictures

[00:02:50] In fact they don't visualize a kid

[00:02:52] They see grown man imagery mythic masculinity

[00:02:55] But you are not their fetishes or fears

[00:02:57] Nor my ambition and tears nothing can interfere

[00:03:01] We've got to trust our seeds once we sow them

[00:03:03] We hold them when they're growing

[00:03:05] But we never really own them

[00:03:06] We love up on them play with 'em pray for them

[00:03:09] And cling very closely to them moments

[00:03:11] They say it takes a man to raise a man

[00:03:14] You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand

[00:03:17] And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass

[00:03:21] Maybe see how long I can make an hour last

[00:03:24] Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand

[00:03:28] And her I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass

[00:03:32] Maybe see how long I can make an hour last

[00:03:35] Dear black son