Luyện nghe bài hát Foreward, 1619

The goes to and fro
Like a lion seeking someone to
him

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

Yeah,
introduction before I narrate
I'm from the west, between Cornel and
I grew up between section eight and nine
During my youth I lost my sense of being
In between supremacy and black nihilism
AME churches, corner and the prison systems
Hoteps and preachers on the block, they was wisdom
I would it up and just give it a little rhythm
said my lineage had a couple of kings
A queens, a couple thieves, a couple fiends
Despite the struggle, I teach that we are equal
I fall short like a midget but I'm down for the
The people, argue I with integration
Their false liberation is really
The youth view my history with suspicion
They wanna progress past religion and
I say

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

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

close the book, I got more to write
You can change the story, is my advice
I read in color, they see and white
You just saw the cover, but there's more to
close 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 to life

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

Let us chiropractic crack the spine of this book
Turn a few and take a deep look
is not the Catcher in the Rye
This is the African who caught the slave eye
Yet an man who has the whole world watching
we meet the protagonist?
For I am the colored cog in the capitalist
With baby faced bronze skin and appeal snatched from the cradle of civilization
My name is Louis
Arrived on these shores but I've got to say
From to Barbados to Beaufort, South Carolina
Leone to Sapelo, with
Sugar cane on my and shackles on my feet
There are limitations to a man so pity me I sunk my tooth into Juneteenth
Freedom tastes like grandma's potato pie
But it goes from master's plantation to mass
As the Jim Crow flies, all of this happened, more or
This is Up From Slavery, meets and Bess
Wilson, and Kenya Barris
James Brown and James
Kehinde Wiley, and Kara
Carrothers, Clinton and Washington
Carver, the great and reconstruction
From wall streets, to Harlem Artilliers
This is black survival and success, put on full
Whether it's the Little Rock, or the Charleston
to integrate, or praying to stay alive
Thinking that if my work was good somehow y'all recognize my personhood
But nah, I had to hustle this chocolate charm
This black brilliance, ebony ingenuity
I know this nation has done, can do, and is doing to me
Also what it could be and therefore still, I
From and beyond here I stand
From being three-fifths of a plan
Using the breath in my black
Shouting words from a of black love
'I am a