Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

Lyrics

[Chorus: Ms. Jaylin Brown & McKinley Dixon] Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz (Keep my braids) Beloved, paradise, jazz [Verse 1: McKinley Dixon] Braids for the summer, I'm less likely to falter Gold fingertips rusted, now the color has altered Deny food from the hand, matriarch is insulted The house is crumbling, hurry out the backdoor bolting The rubble recently reset my bones Black skin to concrete, within it I feel at home Surrounded by all my niggas, it's a feeling I missed I was once nothing and then suddenly I was fixed One filled with so much heat, praise sun 'fore I hit the street 'Cause if I loosen grip a little, results finna be bleak, oh, well Light escaping, tryna grab it at the wrist I was once nothing, then a heart sprang out from the fist Hellish and unkempt, lungs filled with ragged breath Open mouth to speak, pop that boy 'fore he can step 'Cause if the heart pulls the rest up at the seams Then that fist gon' grip something that could tip the balance beam for his [Chorus: Ms. Jaylin Brown & McKinley Dixon] Beloved, paradise, jazz (Yeah) Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz, jazz, jazz [Saxophone Solo] [Verse 2: McKinley Dixon] The sun lends cracks to both sides of my eyes My gums still black, how else you tell that I lie? Showing off my canines, glow too bright for the reverend And though they all go, me and dawg might see different heavens Time alone has never once been a crutch The worst thing for a god is you realizing they can be touched Saw me aiming at the heavens, sun can't give me a kiss 'Cause blacker-the-berry less likely, when he shoot he gon' miss Wake up! Held you with my arms, I barely felt the beating This a side of my heart I ain't really shown too many seasons Running up those stairs, tryna catch you right before you leavin' I ain't make it, I guess it all gon' happen for a reason As I stand up on the balcony and look to the ground Money kept me moving but the heart wasn't found When I was standing on the edge about to fall off that cliff What kept me on was looking up and seeing my hand in your grip, my [Chorus: Ms. Jaylin Brown, Group] Beloved, paradise, jazz, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz Beloved, paradise, jazz (Jazz, jazz, jazz) Beloved, paradise, jazz (Paradise, jazz, jazz) Beloved, paradise, jazz (Jazz, paradise, paradise) Beloved, paradise, jazz (Paradise, jazz) Beloved, paradise, jazz (Jazz, Jazz) Beloved, paradise, jazz