Myrlie - Rapsody, Mereba

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