[Intro: Grandma Hey Damien, this is Grandmama calling. I called to tell you I saw your pictures on the uh... on Facebook, you looked real nice. I think you should go out for modeling. But I wish you success on record, on your uh, album that you made, your photos and everything. You looked real nice. Granny proud of you, grandpa is too. And we're so proud, you looked real nice. Keep it up, baby. Love you. Bye, bye
1] Man, why you on the move now? I mean, what you really trying to now? What, you telling me you 'bout to move You gone drop everything including now? Yeah, that's they asked me But I don't let shit pass me So I just go where the is 'Cause I don't really know what is But I know what is I know what alone is I know what sitting in the dark with a Glock to yo dome is The old Damien was a happy ass lil sappy nigga Shit got real, into a snappy nigga stomped on by a bunch of crappy niggas Mama moved out i was sixteen seen shit get so real And now Damez another cold dude Young flesh with the of a old dude I like soul and I'm so rude I got problems, but that's old hate you for being black They you for who you love, too
You just think all a facade playing God Worried 'bout the things, the things that concern you (concern you) And get kicked right out of they house Now without Drugs and clubs the only we have to turn to (to turn to)
Pick a Pick a Yall don't my struggles Pick a Pick a Yall know About my
Lord if I just be free I can blur the margins But I wanna be me Yeah I don't wanna start no I don't wanna start no problems Yall don't my struggles
2] Man, why you staying prayed up? I mean, what you afraid of? I failure's a consequence But what to all yo confidence, huh? Yeah, that's I ask me lately I been letting shit past me And I just avoiding my reflection tryna embrace imperfection I'm just cross intersections I'm just cross intersections Just looking both on all of my days I'm just tryna intersections tryna cross intersections I'm just tryna intersections
And you just think all a facade playing God Worried 'bout the things, the things that don't you (They don't they business, they don't mind they business) you (They mind they business) everyday I'm catching hell, for being myself I'm lonely, left or right I don't know to turn to (They don't mind they business, don't mind they business) To to
(x2) Pick a (pick a struggle) Pick a (pick a struggle) Yall know (yall don't know) my struggles (about my struggles) Pick a (pick a struggle) a struggle (pick a struggle) Yall know (yall don't know) my struggles (about my struggles)
Lord if I could just be Maybe I can the margins But I wanna be me Yeah I don't wanna start no Yeah I don't wanna start no Yall don't my struggles
I'm just cross intersections I'm just tryna cross looking both ways on all of my days I'm just tryna cross Just tryna cross I'm just cross intersections Just looking ways on all of my days I'm just tryna cross Just looking ways on all of my days I'm just tryna intersections
Staceyann Chin] Apparently, if the does not immediately impact you, you don't give a fuck...
True love is never affected by color. I curb the flashes of me crashing across the table to knock his blonde skin from Manhattan to Montego Bay to bear witness to the bloody beatings of brown boys accused of the homosexual of buggery...
....the men who believed vulnerable could only make them stronger...
...amidst the new fangled and fallacies, the New Age claims that sexual, racial and economic freedom has finally come for all...
...for all the landmarks we celebrate, we are still niggers, and faggots, and minstrel references for jokes created on the funny pages of a white, heterosexual