VRY BLK - Jamila Woods, Noname

Black is like the magic, and magic’s like a spell

My brothers went to heaven, the police going to

… yeah, they’re going to, hello operator, emergency hotline

If I say that I can’t breathe, will I become a chalk line

Line up to see the movie, line up to see the act

The officers are scheming to cover up their

Cover up their… ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies

Your serving and protecting is stealing babies lives

I’m very black, black, black

Can’t send me back, back, back

You take my brother, brother, brother

I fight back, back, back, back

I’m very black, black, black

I made a pact, pact, pact

You take my brother, brother, brother

I fight back, back, back, back

Everything is everything, a mantra says the guillotine missionary commissioned

misery into angel wings

And all he wanna do is be still and cut bread

Never know the dead, how they whisper «Forgive me»

Everything is relative, politicize the evidence

I heard a politician reiterate all the messages

And all he wanna do is feed family, be famous

Never know the poor, how they scream out «Redeem me»

Everything is casualty, a song I heard, the bullets sing

I know a couple babies gon' see 'em fly tonight

He wish he wasn’t magic, all he wanna do is be a passage

In a book titled «America the Savage»

Symphony is symphony, when everything was meant to be

Piano man and drummer boy just invented a song for me

And all I wanna do is find love and be happy

And all I wanna do is find love

I’m very black, black, black

Can’t send me back, back, back

You take my brother, brother, brother

I fight back, back, back, back

I’m very black, black, black

I made a pact, pact, pact

You take my brother, brother, brother

I fight back, back, back, back

I’m very black, black, black

(Double, double this)

Can’t send me back, back, back

(Double, double that)

You take my brother, brother, brother

(The trouble trouble is)

I fight back, back, back, back

(I'm very, very black)

And that is all I, that is all I know

And that is all I, that is all I know

That is all I… is all I know

And that is all I, that is all I know