[Intro: Grandma Hey Damien, this is Grandmama calling. I called to tell you I saw your on the uh... on Facebook, you looked real nice. I think you should go out for modeling. But I wish you success on your 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 always on the now? I mean, what you really trying to now? What, you telling me you to move now? You gone everything including school now? Yeah, that's they asked me But I never let shit pass me So I just go where the is 'Cause I don't really what home is But I know alone is Yeah I what alone is I know what sitting in the dark with a pressed to yo dome is The old Damien was a happy Big-headed ass lil sappy Shit got real, into a snappy nigga Heart on by a bunch of crappy niggas moved out when i was sixteen Never shit get so real And now just another cold dude Young with the soul of a old dude I like food and I'm so rude I got problems, but old news They you for being black hate you for who you love, too
You just it's all a facade While God Worried 'bout the things, the things that don't you (concern you) And get kicked right out of they house Now living Drugs and clubs the only things we to turn to (to turn to)
Pick a Pick a don't know About my a struggle Pick a Yall don't my struggles
Lord if I could be free Maybe I can the margins But I just be me Yeah I don't start no problems Yeah I don't wanna start no don't know About my
2] Man, why you staying prayed up? I mean, what you afraid of? I know a consequence But what to all yo confidence, huh? Yeah, what I ask me 'Cause lately I been letting shit me And I just been my reflection Just tryna imperfection I'm just tryna intersections I'm tryna cross intersections Just looking ways on all of my days I'm tryna cross intersections tryna cross intersections I'm tryna cross intersections
And you just think it's all a playing God Worried 'bout the things, the things don't concern you (They don't they business, they don't mind they business) you (They don't mind business) Like everyday I'm catching hell, for being I'm lonely, left or I don't know where to turn to (They mind they business, they don't mind they business) To to
(x2) Pick a (pick a struggle) a struggle (pick a struggle) Yall don't (yall don't know) my struggles (about my struggles) Pick a (pick a struggle) a struggle (pick a struggle) Yall don't know (yall know) my struggles (about my struggles)
Lord if I could be free Maybe I can the margins But I wanna be me I don't wanna start no problems Yeah I wanna start no problems Yall don't my struggles
I'm just cross intersections I'm just tryna intersections Just looking ways on all of my days I'm just tryna intersections Just tryna cross I'm just tryna 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
[Monologue: Chin] Apparently, if the tragedy does not immediately impact you, you don't a fuck...
True love is never affected by color. I curb the flashes of me crashing across the table to knock his blonde skin Manhattan to Montego Bay to bear witness to the bloody beatings of brown boys accused of the homosexual crime of buggery...
....the men who being vulnerable could only make them stronger...
...amidst the new fads 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 pages of a white, heterosexual world