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It's not what you expect me to say |
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But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway |
| [00:13.62][Verse] |
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('Cause) I was told I would reach further |
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If the colour of mi skin was lighter |
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And I was made to feel inferior |
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Cah society seh brown girls prettier |
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Mi love the way mi look |
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Mi love mi pretty black skin |
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Respect due to mi strong melanin |
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Proud of mi colour, love the skin that I'm in |
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Bun racism, demolish colourism |
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But the things weh mi a go seh |
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Yuh might not even have mi back |
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I get hate from my own race |
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Yes, that's a fact |
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'Cause the same black people dem seh I'm too black |
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And if yuh bleach out yuh skin dem same one come a chat |
| [00:51.78][Bridge] |
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Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you |
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I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to? |
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Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you |
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Or do I look pretty to you? |
| [01:03.81][Chorus] |
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Black people hypocrisy |
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Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
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Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty |
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**** di whole of dem dirty inequity |
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Dis a black people hypocrisy |
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Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
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I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty |
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**** the whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [01:28.59][Verse] |
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Dem seh mi black til mi shine, til mi look dirty |
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And it's the only line in life that will ever hurt me |
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Because it never come from a Caucasian, trust mi |
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Dis a black colorism big hypocrisy |
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So if I wake up tomorrow look like a browning, oh! |
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Automatically mi would a carry di swing |
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Nuff a unnuh nah go like di song yah mi sing |
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Because nuff a unnuh guilty fi di same damn thing |
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What's your perception of a pretty woman (tell me) |
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Is it straight nose with her hair well long? (Tell me) |
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Black girls lose self-confident |
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Cause they attach the word "ugly" to our complexion |
| [02:05.46][Bridge] |
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Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you |
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I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to? |
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Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you |
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Or do I look pretty to you? |
| [02:17.67][Chorus] |
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Black people hypocrisy |
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Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
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Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty |
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**** di whole of dem dirty inequity |
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Dis a black people hypocrisy |
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Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem |
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I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty |
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**** the whole of dem dirty inequity |
| [02:42.45][Outro] |
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(It's not what you expect me to say |
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But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway) |
