Dave - Black lyrics

Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
It's workin' twice as hard as the
People you know you're better than
'Cause you need to do double what they
Do so you can level them
Black is so much deeper
Than just African-American
Our heritage been severed
You never got to experiment
With family trees
'cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
And show you pictures of our
Fam on their knees
Tell us we used to be barbaric
We had actual queens
Black is watchin' child soldiers gettin'
Killed by other children
Feelin' sick, like, "Oh shit
This could have happened to me"
Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout
Your dad and your niece
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
A kid dies, the blacker the killer
The sweeter the news
And if he's white you give him a chance
He's ill and confused
If he's black he's probably armed
You see him and shoot

Look, black is growin' up
Around the barbershop
Mummy sayin', "Stay away from trouble
You’re in yard a lot" studying for ages
Appreciatin' the chance you got
'Cause black is in your blood
And you ain't even got the heart to stop
Black is steppin' in for your
Mother because your father's gone
And standin' by your children when
You haven't proven karma wrong
Black is doin' all of the
Above then goin' corner shoppin'
Tryna help a lady cross the road
To have her walkin' off
Black is growin' up around your
Family and makin' it
Then being forced to leave the place you
Love because there's hate in it
People say you fake the shit
Never stayed to change the shit
But black is bein' jealous
You'd be dead if you had stayed in it
Black is strugglin' to find your
History or trace the shit
You don't know the truth about your
Race 'cause they erasin' it
Black has got a sour fuckin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it

Look, black ain't just a
Single fuckin' colour
Man there's shades to it
Her hair's straight and thick but
Mine's got waves in it
Black is not divisive
They been lyin' and I hate the shit
Black has never been a competition
We don't make this shit black is deadly
Black is when you're freezin'
In your home and
You can't get sleep but never feelin' empty
'Cause you got twenty cousins in
Your country living stress-free
Walkin' for their water
Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
Black is distant
It's representin' countries that
Never even existed
While your grandmother was livin'
Black is my Ghanaian brother
Readin' into scriptures
Doin' research on his lineage
Findin' out that he's Egyptian
Black is people namin' your countries
On what they trade most
Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast
And the Grain Coast
But most importantly to show how
Deep all this pain goes west Africa, Benin
They called it slave coast
Black is so confusin'
'cause the culture? They're in love with it
They take our features when they want
And have their fun with it
Never seem to help with all the things
We know would come with it
Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
Black is bein' strong inside
And facing defeat poverty made me a beast
I battled the law in the streets
We all struggled
But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
Well how could it be when your people
Gave us the odds that we beat?
I mean, fuckin' hell
What about our brothers that
Are stuck in jail?
That couldn't bust a bell
They held a bird and gotta live with it
Black is bein' guilty until
Proven that you're innocent black is sayin'
"Free my fucking niggas stuck
Inside in prison cells"
They think it's funny
We ain't got nothin' to say to them
Unconditional love is strange to
Them it's amazin' 'em
Black is like the sweetest fuckin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it