Portrait-Moor Mother/Billy Woods/Navy Blue

[00:03.068][Verse 1: Navy Blue] [00:03.601]Strangest way to live is in the far past [00:05.720]Why my black people gotta scar badly? [00:07.845]Bar caps and keloids, dog tags [00:10.503]Most of us alike, the foundation [00:12.097]But a raft made changes [00:13.693]Path made dangerous [00:15.291]Liftin' off the mask to expose my aged face [00:17.672]Choice left marks, not a part of goin' apeshit [00:20.862]Faith, it's innate [00:22.989]Night and day, my bitterness awaits [00:24.849]Blew the candles out, but never touched the cake [00:28.043]Threw the damage out to glow within a cave [00:29.358]Thoughts cavin' in [00:30.953]Thoughts came and went, can't resist [00:33.083]Had a vision of me bleedin' out [00:34.942]Metaphorically [00:35.740]The saints marchin' in, fleur de lises [00:38.132]Mona Lisa eyes set for the region, same evil [00:41.313]Different strokes for ashamed people [00:43.704]A lotta niggas tryna bribe the gatekeepers [00:46.099]I've gotta stay peaceful [00:47.694]Truthful in your heart, the ties sink deeper [00:49.557] [00:49.823][Verse 2: Moor Mother] [00:51.150]Let me come in, I hold accountable the reaper [00:53.795]Tales from the creeper [00:55.393]From the bottom of the forty liter [00:57.522]I guess the genre, rock bottom, handcuff the gotham [01:00.443]Empty buck, **** it, we gon' write without 'em [01:02.835]Pen a cage, shank a blade [01:05.218]Back against the wall, a space to rage [01:07.344]It don't matter, it's all matter [01:09.206]If you swing hard enough, the blood pit patter [01:11.600]Took a vowel, I'm a spell caster [01:13.727]He run first, I came after [01:15.059]Same chapter, second verse [01:20.274]Came to the show with the severed head of a demon [01:23.197]Screamin, y'all ain't ****in' with me [01:25.592]I ain't ****in' for free [01:26.921]Half the timeline while y'all was whippin' up salt pies [01:29.844]I had the neckbones, pigeon peas [01:32.228]Ask Ms. Beverly [01:33.555]Had the vinegar and collard greens [01:35.686]Lu'au around the pigs [01:37.279]Let the kids cut at the ankles [01:38.873]Put a shank through the pigs eye, like thank you [01:40.736] [01:41.004][Verse 3: billy woods] [01:41.266]Swollen rivers, gold diggers, waist deep in the muck [01:43.914]Tropical heat, you caught the shivers [01:45.776]Uniform change, but it be the same niggas [01:48.701]The same agendas [01:50.293]Told my kid, don't let no white man take your picture [01:53.218]The way these mu****as act [01:55.069]Maybe you really can take it wit' ya [01:56.933]I can't call it, just call the lawyer [01:59.326]Told the fortune teller, no spoilers [02:01.454]While you were whippin' water [02:03.313]I had grits in the double boiler [02:04.907]Pork belly under the broiler [02:06.769]Broccoli rabe, olive oil [02:08.353]I learned the game from Ms. Porter [02:10.216]Bow my head, one eye open [02:12.341]Give thanks, bredren, we did it for the culture