A Million Eyes

Lyrics

[Sample] Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes Yo What you think you doing, nigga? Nigga, where you think you Going, nigga? Watch your place, acting like you're not knowing Showing your ass. Nigga, show me your teeth. Bare skin Showing your scars deep. Three-fifths of man Versus Poppa Large—who's in charge? Can't bargain, can't win Amendments don't apply to your kind of kin We blend it, buy the bottom, sharecropper shacks stacked amongst The cotton, people forgotten—fuck 'em. Bad luck sucks Black bucks breed more bucks for Daddy Warbucks And stuck-up society whores (Bitch!). Check my family Tree down to the core. Even more is hidden Forbidden to your eyes and mind, more lies fashioned For the unwise, nothing surprise… me no more I'd be surprised if shit changed. I'd run fast And far if I could escape this cage. Can't contain my rage Guess that's why they keep me locked, keep me Living hand-to-mouth, hustling for what I got. If I Drop a crumb, here come the vultures. All I really Got that's mine is my pride and culture. What, y'all Want that too? Wouldn't you hate me if I was you? Wouldn't you want me dead? Take a minute, let that Sink into your head. You call me enemy. My blood's red I'm flesh and bone too, human like you Can I live? I'm saying, really. I'm saying [Sample] Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes [Verse 2: Apani] I stood Up to be counted. You beat me down surrounded by A million eyes. My bones cracked, it sounded like Hell's thunder Under attack, arms pinned back, blurry vision Bloody, can't see who first stuck me between my thighs I felt ugly. They took turns to fuck me Beneath southern skies, they wanna shame me, make me Think I'm nothing, but I'm still every woman, plus Won't give 'em the satisfaction of reaction These bastards will have to kill me, spill my blood on The roots of this willow tree where Strange Fruit swings Off the limbs of plenty. If that be God's will, then so it is I'd rather die in birth than raise his kids I'll leave this black hole with my soul intact, never Look back. Now once he put his tongue in my mouth, I'ma Spit on his fronts, never give in, rather go out Scrapping even if I can't win (What?!?) [Sample] Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes Cradle me where southern skies can watch me with a million eyes [Outro: N'didi] I refuse to accept this cruel reality (Reality) Never ever thought this shit would happen to me Victimized by savage brutality How the hell can I live like this?