Goat Head

Album: Jaime (2019)
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  • My heroes are black
    My heroes are black

    America the brutalizer
    Taking out her pain on us but who knows why
    Prolly 'cause we fly
    'Cause we can work magic with the wink of an eye
    When I dance sparks fly, now watch me guide
    Phenomenal minds, phenomenal kinds
    The beautiful ones, a sign of the times
    To laugh is a threat, to breathe is a crime
    I'm born by a God, was forged in the fire (see, I know my color, see)
    My career soars whiles black bodies hit the floor
    I feel guilt, shame, I could always do much more
    Are words enough? Does the storytelling lighten the burden up?
    Marching and fist pumping, generation on fire got the whole city burning
    We will not be denied (no, no)
    You ain't get the memo that we ain't to be fucked with?
    Fighters returned, defying the words of coroners
    Statues will fall, ancestors watching enjoying us
    Reset the balance, my tongue calloused from schooling
    Alice talking racist whack shit
    Living in her wonderland bubble, bubbling up, damn
    You searching for the problem, shawty, that's it

    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Goat head in the back

    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Oh say can you see (woo, uh-huh)
    Guns aiming at me
    Goat head in the back (yeah)

    Slaves blood, kings blood
    Mothership, beamed up
    Everything we dreamed of, it's finally us
    Damaged goods, from yo' average hood
    I rather be overpaid then understood
    Only God can can judge me and my accomplices
    Failin' to comply
    Got my weapon that's my right
    Let's be heavily supplied
    I ain't shit but a reflection of the times
    To the naked eye
    So even when I'm sleep I look like something to be threatened by?
    This is for the fingertips dipped in red dust on the city bus
    No option for givin' up
    I'm the the Sun son so the natural look be stickin' up
    Sunday brunch with Bun I ain't eat much but I listened up
    Soak some wisdom up, rolled a bigger blunt
    Laugh to keep from tearing up
    Had to fuck the city up to make 'em take us serious
    Don't pick up yo' cell, 12 wet you like amphibian
    They put us all through hell
    And tell us God work so mysterious (but God, one and only)

    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Goat head in the back

    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Goat head in the back

    (Oh say can you see)
    My heroes are black (guns aiming at me)
    Oh say can you see (oh say can you see)
    My heroes are black (guns aiming at me)

    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me
    Oh say can you see
    Guns aiming at me Writer/s: Brittany Amber Howard, Christo Runo, Eian Undrai Parker, Olu O. Fann, Tane Runo
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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