[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 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. 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 to move now? You gone drop everything including now? Yeah, that's they asked me But I don't never let shit me So I just go where the is 'Cause I don't really know what is But I what alone is Yeah I know alone is I know what in the dark with a Glock pressed to yo dome is The old Damien was a happy ass lil sappy nigga Shit got real, turned a snappy nigga stomped on by a bunch of crappy niggas Mama out when i was sixteen Never seen shit get so And now Damez just another cold flesh with the soul of a old dude I like 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 it's all a facade While God Worried 'bout the things, the things that concern you (concern you) And they get kicked right out of they Now without Drugs and clubs the only things we to turn to (to turn to)
Pick a a struggle Yall know About my Pick a a struggle Yall know About my
Lord if I could be free I can blur the margins But I just be me I don't wanna start no problems Yeah I don't start no problems Yall know About my
2] Man, why you staying prayed up? I mean, what you afraid of? I failure's a consequence But happened to all yo confidence, huh? Yeah, that's I ask me 'Cause I been letting shit past me And I just avoiding my reflection Just tryna embrace I'm tryna cross intersections I'm tryna cross intersections Just looking ways on all of my days I'm just cross intersections Just cross intersections I'm just tryna cross
And you just it's all a facade playing God Worried the things, the things that don't concern you (They mind they business, they don't mind they business) you (They mind they business) Like I'm catching hell, for being myself I'm lonely, left or right I know where to turn to (They mind they business, they don't mind they business) To to
(x2) Pick a (pick a struggle) Pick a (pick a struggle) Yall don't know (yall know) About my (about my struggles) Pick a (pick a struggle) Pick a (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 just be me Yeah I wanna start no problems Yeah I don't wanna start no Yall know my struggles
I'm just tryna cross I'm tryna cross intersections looking both ways on all of my days I'm just tryna cross Just tryna cross I'm just cross intersections looking both ways on all of my days I'm tryna cross intersections looking both ways on all of my days I'm tryna cross intersections
Staceyann Chin] Apparently, if the tragedy does not immediately impact you, you give a fuck...
True love is never affected by color. I 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 could only make them stronger...
...amidst the new fangled fads and fallacies, the New Age that sexual, racial and economic freedom has finally come for all...
...for all the landmarks we celebrate, we are still niggers, and faggots, and references for jokes created on the funny pages of a white, heterosexual world