Rapsody, Mereba - Myrlie lyrics

Black widow, young kiddo
Tear stained pillow, 'nother black man died
Wade in the water, I don't mean baptized
Dark ass times,  can't bat no eye
I see 'em,  our BMs
IBM windows, they don't look through ours
We got a fire and it's big like Cali's
But they ain't for us, we ain't Forrest
They only for it, if we servin' time
Butler boys, that's a bigger crime
We gave ours to the rallies, funerals
Black Denalis can't let a day go by
Esau, she saw, Eric die we saw people cry
Think about all of our people's wives
Raise the kids in the world they
Know ain't safe to live
Like Myrlie, emergency
The mirror me said I could be her too
The day I say I do

Black men bleeding, it's your time
Not so funny, Valentine
Take, don't take, my love away (Oh don't you)
Take, don't take, my love away
Made a widow from a wife
Took the love of my whole life
Take, don't take, my love away (Oh don't you)
Take, don't take, my love away

Yeah invisible veil, Coretta wore that
You could see Israel
Martin Luther wasn't a big enough deal?
Trayvon Martin ain't a big enough deal?
I kid you not how many Martin's we had shot?
Pouring Remy Martin on the block
In memory, documented by the Roc
Yeah, I hope you watched, let's talk about
What Betty did, she saw X die
We saw X die, how Betty did
Now when I exit, for the baby kid
Cry for the baby Mama and the baby crib
That's a broken home, I could be on that
That's reality, that's a big ol' fact
'Cause I'ma marry black, a hard truth
Think about the widows, that could be us too

Myrlie, I miss you Miss Myrlie still
Holding yourself to sleep all night, still
Drunk off the shit that keeps you
Up at night still feel haunted
Still exhausted i can love you if you needing
Love Myrlie can you love me back?

Black men bleeding, it's your time
Not so funny, Valentine
Take, don't take, my love away (Oh don't you)
Take, don't take, my love away
Made a widow from a wife
Took the love of my whole life
Take, don't take, my love away (Oh don't you)
Take, don't take, my love away