No Air Lyrics

(Nina Simone)

Release 'til I ain't got no air

These bars that I'm spittin' is rare

Revise what I wrote then I tear

Scatter balls of the paper everywhere

Tortured genius you cannot come near

Hear my voice it will cease all your fears

Even though I been hurtin' for years

Thoughts bring me to tears but the writing is painless

You no one in heaven but on earth you was famous

I rather go there than get riches from strangers

Sellin' my soul to some cults for bangers

These women is gifted got beautiful singers

Voice from the lord they can outdo a angel

When I find peace on the track it gets mangled

Take in the good with the bad it gets tangled

My love has been squeezed to none left my heart strangled

Your brain the antennas, the world is your channel

They put something in front of your face now you channeled

It could be females or it can be money, or is it the weather, raining or sunny

You like Beethoven or you like it funky

One puts you to sleep and one gets you jumpin'

You choose the elephant or you choose the donkey

Behind the desk they both call you a monkey

Enduring so much we be tougher than tungsten

2022 we ain't runnin' for nothin'

My color blue but I'm not democratic

Conservatives hand on that gun they want static

First they went proud then they went tragic

Imma hit my delete on alt right work my magic

Why you ashamed, your skin is beautiful stop listening to people who be sittin' in cubicles

Talkin' bout European standards is pretty

Don't care if you thick you can be itty bitty

Gorgeous as a starry night in the city

But we stuck on the sidewalk where it's gritty

Blood flow in the gutter I see it's a pity

I stayed prayed up 'cause my heart's in the street

It's painful to others it make they knees weak

Leavin' them scarred the wounds be deep

'Cause these days these people is playing for keeps

They don't care if you scream

They don't care if you weep

Try to throw hands throw on the white sheet

They knocking you off no one wants to be beat

I feel we in hell, can barely stand the heat

But it's not even worse than what's under our feet

Look to the sky and I pray that we make it

I'm keepin' the faith in the trial I'm facin'