Bleachwater

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Elucid] Fight or fuck, hate and lust, gonna be a steamy one Black bodies in the sun, I bet you really, really wanna touch Instead you ball your palm into a fist to pull the gun If I'm reaching, we even, I see no other reason It's ingrained how they teach it, reset or be doomed to repeat it Seen it all before Something bout the water, boy Something bout the water Pools, fountains, toilets and beaches Bleach 'em, more than willing, no business Me and my villainous nigga friends You silly but so serious Before video some might call it a conspiracy All the gods screaming are you hearing me?' Eerily looped, hands off the youth All pigs of ill repute The leer looms, laying hands, a growing bulge in his pants Fire shot off the bone under fragrant magnolia The scene across some dreaded desire, sign read 'no diving' Ironic beneath the surface Dark like rape fantasies and miscegenation, salutations, white supremacy [Chorus] (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) [Verse 2: billy woods] 40 cal under the pillow, dream of home invasion Showerin' shell casings, faked a vacation Squat in basements, silently waiting Open window, loudly baiting Hoping in the dark, patient Aiming when they break in, broke them slow motion Sun blazing, wake refreshed, shirt pressed Glock in glove box, small of the back tucked in the crotch, sucking my cock (She loves me, she loves me not) War quiet, weapon begging to be fired Admired by lamplight on late nights, no one the wiser False messiah, crouched spider, teeth is all incisors Caressed her cheek, whispered sweet, heavy, hidden heat Pregnant, but she spread her legs for me [Chorus] Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) Same as it ever was (Something bout the water) [Outro] Why is it harder to accumulate wealth if you're surrounded by poverty? If you have a good job, good savings habits, can't you control your own financial destiny? Well, no you can't, and the first thing to recognize, you know, is if you think of this historically, we know that wealth is accumulated generationally; so you're talking about a group of people who are effectively cut out, what one scholar calls the greatest wealth building opportunity in American history. So you start with black people being, and by that we mean the home ownership boom that was built, socially engineered in the mid 20th century; you start with African-Americans being largely cut out of that from beginning. You're talking about a group of people who are behind from the start