Luyện nghe bài hát Foreward, 1619

The devil to and fro
a lion seeking someone to devour
him

Don't close the book, I got more to
You can the story, that is my advice
I read in color, they see and white
You just saw the cover, but there's to life
Don't the book, I got more to write
You can change the story, that is my
I read in color, see black and white
You just saw the cover, but there's more to

Yeah,
Quick before I narrate
I'm from the west, between and Kanye
I up between section eight and cloud nine
my youth I lost my sense of being colorblind
In between white supremacy and nihilism
AME churches, stores and the prison systems
Hoteps and on the block, they was dropping wisdom
I would pick it up and just give it a little
They said my lineage had a couple of
A couple queens, a thieves, a couple fiends
the struggle, I would teach that we are equal
I fall short like a midget but I'm for the people
The people, argue I died integration
Their liberation is really assimilation
The view my history with some suspicion
They wanna past religion and tradition
I say

Don't the book, I got more to write
You can change the story, that is my
I read in color, they see and white
You saw the cover, but there's more to life
Don't close the book, I got to write
You can the story, that is my advice
I read in color, they see and white
You just saw the cover, but there's to life

average, let me introduce you to awesome
That Harlem age had some excellent artists
That miseducation, that midnight
That life before Eve ate fruit in the garden
They say 'You might be on the side of history'
Well, that on who's writing
Who's reciting, who's and who likes it
If we peace somebody has to do the fighting
We exit Egypt, happy to resistance
Then turn around, and ask for his assistance
Huh, what is logic to the
What's forgiveness to who think they're sinless?
We are those, fully exposed, Adam and Eve our weakness
Folks who wanna be close but the devil stands us
Who knows the dirty souls with an need to be cleaned up
oppose my solution, everybody hates Jesus

Don't close the book, I got to write
You can change the story, that is my
I read in color, they see black and
You just saw the cover, but there's to life
Don't the book, I got more to write
You can the story, that is my advice
I in color, they see black and white
You just saw the cover, but there's to life

Yeah, what's to the law?
Should I pray or should I
Do I peace, or do I want power so I can try it?
Who's gonna give the when these church moms retire?
When censorship gets you fired and nobody inspired
I don't what you look like, black, white or magenta
I don't care where you come from, or placenta
We all and broken, given the same dilemma
Do I serve God, or do I make off in my
I remember thinking I was Daniel with the
I'm Israel in hiding when it's time to fight Goliath
I've been broken, I've seen working
I've fought doubt, I've been knocked out, I know hurt is
I run from the truth, but I where the church is
I doing my job but yet I know my purpose
Praise Jesus I was but now I see
But my problem is I think I see too things

Let us chiropractic open the spine of this book
Turn a few pages and a deep look
is not the Catcher in the Rye
This is the who caught the slave catcher's eye
Yet an invisible man who has the world watching
Shall we meet the
For I am the colored cog in the wheel
With baby faced bronze skin and melanin appeal from the cradle of civilization
My name is Louis
Arrived on shores but I've got more to say
From Bali to Barbados to Beaufort, Carolina
Leone to Sapelo, with
Sugar cane on my and shackles on my feet
There are limitations to a man so pity me until I my tooth into Juneteenth
tastes like grandma's sweet potato pie
But it goes from plantation to mass incarceration
As the Jim flies, all of this happened, more or less
This is Up From Slavery, Porgy and Bess
August Wilson, and Kenya
James Brown and James
Kehinde Wiley, and Walker
Carrothers, Clinton and Washington
Carver, the great migration and
black wall streets, to Harlem Artilliers
This is black survival and success, put on full
it's the Little Rock, or the Charleston Nine
Trying to integrate, or praying to alive
Thinking that if my work was good somehow y'all would my personhood
But nah, I had to hustle this chocolate charm
This black brilliance, this ebony
I know this nation has done, can do, and is doing to me
Also what it could be and still, I rise
From 1619 and beyond here I
From being three-fifths of a compromised
the breath in my black lungs
Shouting words from a place of love
'I am a