Wanna make the people feel something
But if I can't speak the truth,
Scared of what I'll say next I'm
just waiting for the same text
Cause the real is just too real
They don't care how I feel
I'm a brown boy livin' in a white world
Little shame to my brown skin
It's what they do and that's
Dirty lips at the airport
Who even cares what I look like?
It's not fair, it's not fair
express ways about the feeling about me
I'm good enough but not good
My opinion matters only if it's just about me,
They just want me to sing
They don't wanna hear a thing
They just want me to sing
You are, you are, you are
Blessed to have my grandmother's
blood and this golden skin
I used to try to keep up,
all time I've been more than enough
For every hand that you've dealt us,
put it up an d say that you help us
We build from the ground up, oh thank
So you can surround us, oh
Put them up, put them up high,
them come busting through in the night.
It's going down, down, down.
That's how we keep our head
up in the clouds, oh yeah.
You are, you are, you are.
Say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Said, don't you know that you are
Uh, I was born and raised in
And I put up for my city, though
Same city haters cause our face brown
same city love me cause the flow
And it's so sick, I spread the
And the cops lock me up because my nose big I'm
from the east side streets, through the
concrete I grew like a rose did
I am the color of the truth
everything that was stolen