Luyện nghe bài hát Foreward, 1619

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

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

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

Don't the book, I got more 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
Don't 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 to life

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

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

Yeah, what's to the law?
I pray 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 church moms
When censorship gets you fired and nobody gets
I care what you look like, black, white or magenta
I don't care you come from, Africa or placenta
We all desperate and broken, given the same
Do I serve God, or do I make off in my
I remember I was Daniel with the lions
I'm like in hiding when it's time to fight Goliath
I've been broken, I've death working
I've fought doubt, I've been knocked out, I know what is
I run the truth, but I know where the church is
I failed doing my job but yet I my purpose
Jesus I was blind but now I see
But my is I think I see too many things

Let us chiropractic open the spine of this book
a few pages and take a deep look
This is not the in the Rye
is the African who caught the slave catcher's eye
Yet an invisible man who has the whole world
Shall we the protagonist?
For I am the colored cog in the capitalist
With baby bronze skin and melanin appeal snatched from the cradle of civilization
My name is Louis
Arrived on shores but I've got more to say
From Bali to to Beaufort, South Carolina
Sierra to Sapelo, with
Sugar cane on my fingertips and on my feet
There are limitations to a man so pity me until I sunk my into Juneteenth
Freedom like grandma's sweet potato pie
But it goes from master's plantation to incarceration
As the Jim Crow flies, all of this happened, or less
This is Up From Slavery, meets and Bess
August Wilson, and Kenya
James and James Burr
Kehinde Wiley, and Kara
George Carrothers, Clinton and
Carver, the great migration and
From wall streets, to Harlem Artilliers
This is black survival and success, put on full
Whether it's the Rock, or the Charleston Nine
Trying to integrate, or praying to stay
Thinking that if my work was somehow y'all would recognize my personhood
But nah, instead I had to hustle this chocolate
This black brilliance, this ingenuity
I know what this has done, can do, and is doing to me
what it could be and therefore still, I rise
From 1619 and beyond I stand
From being three-fifths of a compromised
Using the breath in my black
Shouting from a place of black love
'I am a