Southern trees
Bearing strange fruit (Bearing strange fruit)
Blood on the leaves (Blood on the leaves)
And blood at the root, check (And blood at the roots)
So bleed
Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till
I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill
Bad to the bone and the grill
You'd be dead wrong if looks killed
Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils
We all gon' get mils
Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele
Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken place
I'm just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight
Know I'm a god emcee, 'cause bitch, I made the devil wait
'Fore I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me I'm hella great
Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place
I keep it real, all y'all look anime
I'm fine like Anna Mae, black don't crack like Angela
Black and brave like in the A, it don't come with apologies
'Less it's Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it's, "Namaste"
No matter if you street street or more like the promenade
We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids
For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say
I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of
Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder
Failed to kill me, it's still me,
Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect
Went from field nigga to still nigga
But we all know who got the juice, my sisters
Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
And still, they'll never be us, bitch (damn)
I'm from the back woods where Nina would
Sing about the life we should lead
A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good
I felt more damned than Mississippi was
They deny Nina in Philadelphia
And still we persevere
Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa
Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?
Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you
It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please
Survival
Here's to the honey in you
To the bittersweet in me
I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet
Here's to a moment of silence
I've poured and poured my soul again, here's to epiphanies
There was never a we
There was you all and there was me
In this war, likely to succeed
Unlike me to surrender
Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day
To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom
Praying for a breather
Do you see my pain?
Do I seem like prey?
Empathy be the reason you're still standing
We are not the same
I've lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you
I'm extraterrestrial, I was created different
I've been here many times before
And I've never been defeated, and still
I will never be defeated (Defeated)
🎵 LRC歌词版本
[00:01.24]Southern trees
[00:05.93]Bearing strange fruit (Bearing strange fruit)
[00:12.16]Blood on the leaves (Blood on the leaves)
[00:16.55]And blood at the root, check (And blood at the roots)
[00:20.98]So bleed
[00:23.06]Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till
[00:26.09]I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill
[00:29.03]Bad to the bone and the grill
[00:31.47]You'd be dead wrong if looks killed
[00:39.35]Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils
[00:42.20]We all gon' get mils
[00:43.54]Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele
[00:46.31]Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken place
[00:49.60]I'm just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight
[00:52.46]Know I'm a god emcee, 'cause bitch, I made the devil wait
[00:55.38]'Fore I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me I'm hella great
[01:07.03]Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place
[01:10.15]I keep it real, all y'all look anime
[01:13.04]I'm fine like Anna Mae, black don't crack like Angela
[01:15.87]Black and brave like in the A, it don't come with apologies
[01:18.70]'Less it's Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it's, "Namaste"
[01:24.60]No matter if you street street or more like the promenade
[01:27.50]We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids
[01:30.54]For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say
[01:33.33]I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of
[01:36.20]Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder
[01:39.08]Failed to kill me, it's still me,
[01:40.46]Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
[01:42.06]As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect
[01:45.02]Went from field nigga to still nigga
[01:47.88]But we all know who got the juice, my sisters
[01:50.99]Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
[01:53.63]And still, they'll never be us, bitch (damn)
[01:56.67]I'm from the back woods where Nina would
[01:58.71]Sing about the life we should lead
[02:00.12]A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good
[02:02.82]I felt more damned than Mississippi was
[02:05.16]They deny Nina in Philadelphia
[02:07.24]And still we persevere
[02:08.43]Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa
[02:11.75]Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?
[02:14.45]Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you
[02:17.45]It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please
[02:20.74]Survival
[02:26.97]Here's to the honey in you
[02:31.33]To the bittersweet in me
[02:32.89]I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet
[02:36.56]Here's to a moment of silence
[02:40.64]I've poured and poured my soul again, here's to epiphanies
[02:44.27]There was never a we
[02:46.41]There was you all and there was me
[02:48.24]In this war, likely to succeed
[02:49.91]Unlike me to surrender
[02:51.15]Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day
[02:54.28]To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom
[02:58.13]Praying for a breather
[02:59.29]Do you see my pain?
[03:04.32]Do I seem like prey?
[03:06.89]Empathy be the reason you're still standing
[03:08.93]We are not the same
[03:10.05]I've lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you
[03:13.19]I'm extraterrestrial, I was created different
[03:16.82]I've been here many times before
[03:18.90]And I've never been defeated, and still
[03:24.82]I will never be defeated (Defeated)
[03:27.29]
Southern trees
Bearing strange fruit (Bearing strange fruit)
Blood on the leaves (Blood on the leaves)
And blood at the root, check (And blood at the roots)
So bleed
Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till
I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill
Bad to the bone and the grill
You'd be dead wrong if looks killed
Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils
We all gon' get mils
Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele
Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken place
I'm just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight
Know I'm a god emcee, 'cause bitch, I made the devil wait
'Fore I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me I'm hella great
Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place
I keep it real, all y'all look anime
I'm fine like Anna Mae, black don't crack like Angela
Black and brave like in the A, it don't come with apologies
'Less it's Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it's, "Namaste"
No matter if you street street or more like the promenade
We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids
For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say
I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of
Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder
Failed to kill me, it's still me,
Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect
Went from field nigga to still nigga
But we all know who got the juice, my sisters
Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
And still, they'll never be us, bitch (damn)
I'm from the back woods where Nina would
Sing about the life we should lead
A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good
I felt more damned than Mississippi was
They deny Nina in Philadelphia
And still we persevere
Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa
Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?
Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you
It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please
Survival
Here's to the honey in you
To the bittersweet in me
I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet
Here's to a moment of silence
I've poured and poured my soul again, here's to epiphanies
There was never a we
There was you all and there was me
In this war, likely to succeed
Unlike me to surrender
Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day
To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom
Praying for a breather
Do you see my pain?
Do I seem like prey?
Empathy be the reason you're still standing
We are not the same
I've lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you
I'm extraterrestrial, I was created different
I've been here many times before
And I've never been defeated, and still
I will never be defeated (Defeated)
🎵 LRC歌词版本
[00:01.24]Southern trees
[00:05.93]Bearing strange fruit (Bearing strange fruit)
[00:12.16]Blood on the leaves (Blood on the leaves)
[00:16.55]And blood at the root, check (And blood at the roots)
[00:20.98]So bleed
[00:23.06]Emit light, rap, or Emmett Till
[00:26.09]I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill
[00:29.03]Bad to the bone and the grill
[00:31.47]You'd be dead wrong if looks killed
[00:39.35]Our bloodline trill for the young and all the lils
[00:42.20]We all gon' get mils
[00:43.54]Talk a lot of game but we get paid to like Jemele
[00:46.31]Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken place
[00:49.60]I'm just tryna build like I came with some kettle weight
[00:52.46]Know I'm a god emcee, 'cause bitch, I made the devil wait
[00:55.38]'Fore I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me I'm hella great
[01:07.03]Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place
[01:10.15]I keep it real, all y'all look anime
[01:13.04]I'm fine like Anna Mae, black don't crack like Angela
[01:15.87]Black and brave like in the A, it don't come with apologies
[01:18.70]'Less it's Tip and some Andre, when you greet me it's, "Namaste"
[01:24.60]No matter if you street street or more like the promenade
[01:27.50]We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids
[01:30.54]For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say
[01:33.33]I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of
[01:36.20]Got my middle finger up like Pac after attempted murder
[01:39.08]Failed to kill me, it's still me,
[01:40.46]Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
[01:42.06]As we lay these edges down, brown women, we so perfect
[01:45.02]Went from field nigga to still nigga
[01:47.88]But we all know who got the juice, my sisters
[01:50.99]Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
[01:53.63]And still, they'll never be us, bitch (damn)
[01:56.67]I'm from the back woods where Nina would
[01:58.71]Sing about the life we should lead
[02:00.12]A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good
[02:02.82]I felt more damned than Mississippi was
[02:05.16]They deny Nina in Philadelphia
[02:07.24]And still we persevere
[02:08.43]Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa
[02:11.75]Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?
[02:14.45]Outside the movies, I make sure before it move you
[02:17.45]It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please
[02:20.74]Survival
[02:26.97]Here's to the honey in you
[02:31.33]To the bittersweet in me
[02:32.89]I will shed this blood so romantically, so viciously quiet
[02:36.56]Here's to a moment of silence
[02:40.64]I've poured and poured my soul again, here's to epiphanies
[02:44.27]There was never a we
[02:46.41]There was you all and there was me
[02:48.24]In this war, likely to succeed
[02:49.91]Unlike me to surrender
[02:51.15]Trying and dying to breathe poetry to rise in the light of day
[02:54.28]To subconsciously exist cautiously ascending towards freedom
[02:58.13]Praying for a breather
[02:59.29]Do you see my pain?
[03:04.32]Do I seem like prey?
[03:06.89]Empathy be the reason you're still standing
[03:08.93]We are not the same
[03:10.05]I've lived more lives than you, I have less pride than you
[03:13.19]I'm extraterrestrial, I was created different
[03:16.82]I've been here many times before
[03:18.90]And I've never been defeated, and still
[03:24.82]I will never be defeated (Defeated)
[03:27.29]
This is what you wanted, huh?
It's up for you, bro
I'm tired of you b***h-ass n***** always lying and shit, n****
Well, I'll bring the b***h out
I gav...
I couldn't drive home
I had to take a side road
Suddenly all the things I knew
Turned to shame livin' with you
Day one's turned into day nine
It was c...
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, now look, look
I can make your wrongs feel right (Yeah)
I can make the lonely dark times fee...
Yeah
Well
Attention to my youngins coming up in this shit
Let me tell you what you do, teachers say you ain’t shit
Hack off in her IG, get up in her e...
Playing your body like a grand piano
Striking every chord just right
Tempo slows, bass like grooves, we can't lose
We in tune just like
Perfect harmon...
Outside her home, they at the door nobody cared to knock it
Dreamin' wit' her honey, it was shockin', it's so surprisin'
Midnight the door rockin', ba...
You make me feel like a virgin
New person
You make me pull back the curtains
I'm not afraid to share with you what hurt me
You feel like a healer
I kn...