FLWRS (Interlude) ft. LindoYes & Prince Ayinde Lyrics

Ain't flowers the blackest shit ever?

How they can put dirt on us and we still grow?

Drown us in water and we survive?

Planted in everything that keeps us grounded

They be shooting solar rays at us, hoping we wither

Not knowing our melanin be photosynthesis

The sun be our best friend

Ain't flowers the blackest shit ever?

Stain this canvas with roses

Streaks of red screaming for mercy

From institutionalized bigotry

America be concrete slab

Cracking at my feet

While She cracks at my back

To be a good nigga boy, these lashes

Make wilting petals of growing niggas

Boy, guess the water 'round here cancerous huh?

Tell me, who gon' stretch their hands for us

Father, are you listening?

It's your son, adorned with an abundance of thorns

On this conquering symbol

It's your sacrifice, yes, I know you can't spare the lamb

'Cause that's what you told Abraham

So instead of complaining I pray to you now, lord

Stain this good black boy with bleach

Whitewash me in supremacy since it seems the only pure thing about me

Is the whites of my eyes

Then colonize my bloodline

Let them pillage my teachings

And let me rest peacefully for the price of thirty silver pieces

'Cause this one drop rule got a mean kickback

When you a nigga boy born in box called oppression

People mistake your manger for coffin

Misread your hands for harmful

Misplace their sympathy for steel and silencer

Still, we rise

Despite death notes conditioned into our chlorophyll

'Cause ain't I a rose?

Ain't I worthy to believe, even if they stole my belief?

Ain't I a flower?

Ain't I a flower?

Hey, what'd you think about the show?

Mm, I don't know, I didn't really get it

Imean for real, really I just came so I could