Bottled Emotions Lyrics

I'm sick of seeing black boys killed in the streets

Disgusted by the chemicals they put in our meats

Our kids hate the skin they're in

Because of what they see on TV

Boys will be boys if you can't teach them to respect me

Children brought into this world only to be neglected

Black men calling me ugly

Sounds like your own insecurities projected

Cause when you look at me

You see yourself reflected

Disgusted by a lineage

You tried to deflect

Way back when

Like a loose-sleeve

You've been trying to fit in

With anything that's European

And with the way I see it

With the way I see it

I face much adversity in the streets

As I do in class

Cause I don't wanna be a ghetto ignorant ass

I got faith

Can't look at the glass as half empty

My faith exceeds my view

And that's word to Corinthians 2

Still

Ain't no reason for you to look at me sideways

Freshly squeezed like lemonade

But I wasn't Simply Made

Remember the days

When I shrunk myself

Pre-Covid I would mask myself

Yeah, trophy on the shelf

Had to dust myself

Now I'm hyper independent,

I don't ask for help

Cause reaching out has always been a task, I felt

And the elderly would scrutinize

In the times

I was upset

Bout the hand I was dealt

I silenced myself

Now my family keep askin' me

To speak up

But they don't

Listen to my words

And the meaning they carry

I been open and honest

And results may vary

It ain't like on TV

Got me wonderin'

Do you even see me?

You see my hair and my lips and my body and my clothes

But I'm speakin' bout my soul,

Meaning the one nobody knows

Nobody knows

Nobody knows

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

So let me switch the flow up

Been keepin' my distance

Long before Corona

Back when institutions

Gave us cold shoulders

They scold us

And told us

Attempted to mold us

The solution was

To minimize ourselves until they fold us in two (in two)

So we fit their perspective and their view

Inaccurate with

The picture they drew (that ain't even me)

Inaccurate with

The words that they spew but on cue,

We buss back

And I been threw the fire like I'm Shadrach (like I'm Shadrach)

Making waves under the surface like a drug (like a drug)

Feelin' like Stella,

I finally got my groove back (aye, aye, aye, aye)

The culture we be that

The juice, you need that

But we, decree that (that, that, that)

Everything the devil stole (stole)

We take it back (we take it back, back, back)

(We take it back)

We take it back, back, back (back)

Everything the devil stole

We take it back, back, back (back, back, back)

We take it back, back, back

Everything the devil stole

We take it back, back, back (back, back, back)

We take it back, back, back

We take it back, (back, back,) back back

We take it back, (back, back,) back, back

We take it back (we take it)

Back, back,

We take it back, back, back

We take it (we take it) back, back

We take it back, back, (back)

I might have bottled my emotions

But I have never capped

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