[Intro: voicemail] 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 your record, on your uh, album that you made, your photos and everything. You 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 trying to prove now? What, you telling me you 'bout to now? You drop everything including school now? Yeah, that's what they me But I never let shit pass me So I just go where the is 'Cause I don't know what home is But I know what is I know what alone is I know what sitting in the dark with a pressed to yo dome is The old was a happy nigga Big-headed ass lil sappy got real, turned into a snappy nigga Heart stomped on by a bunch of niggas Mama out when i was sixteen seen shit get so real And now Damez just cold dude flesh with the soul of a old dude I soul food and I'm so rude I got problems, but old news They hate you for black They you for who you love, too
You just think it's all a While God Worried 'bout the things, the things that don't you (concern you) And they get kicked out of they house Now without Drugs and clubs the only things we have to turn to (to to)
Pick a Pick a Yall don't About my Pick a Pick a Yall know my struggles
Lord if I could be free Maybe I can the margins But I wanna be me Yeah I don't wanna no problems Yeah I wanna start no problems Yall don't my struggles
2] Man, why you staying prayed up? I mean, what you really of? I know failure's a But happened to all yo confidence, huh? Yeah, what I ask me lately I been letting shit past me And I just avoiding my reflection Just tryna imperfection I'm just tryna intersections I'm just cross intersections Just looking ways on all of my days I'm just tryna cross tryna cross intersections I'm tryna cross intersections
And you just think all a facade playing God Worried the things, the things that don't concern you (They don't mind they business, they don't they business) you (They mind they business) Like everyday I'm catching hell, for myself I'm lonely, left or right I don't know to turn to (They don't mind they business, they don't they business) To to
(x2) Pick a (pick a struggle) a struggle (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 just be free I can blur the margins But I just be me Yeah I don't wanna start no Yeah I wanna start no problems Yall know my struggles
I'm just tryna intersections I'm just cross intersections looking both ways on all of my days I'm tryna cross intersections Just tryna intersections I'm just cross intersections Just both ways on all of my days I'm just cross intersections Just both ways on all of my days I'm just cross intersections
Staceyann Chin] Apparently, if the tragedy does not impact you, you don't give a fuck...
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 crime of buggery...
....the men who believed being vulnerable could only them stronger...
...amidst the new fangled fads and fallacies, the New Age claims that sexual, racial and economic 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