Dave - Black

^DmLook, black is beautiful, black is excellent ^GmBlack is pain, black is joy, black is evident ^CIt's workin' twice as hard as the people you know you're better than ^C#m'Cause you need to do double what they d^Ao so you can level them ^DmBlack is so much deeper than just African-American ^AmOur heritage been severed, you never got to experiment ^GmWith family trees, 'cause they ^Fteach you 'bout famine and greed ^AAnd show you pictures of our fam on their knees ^DmTell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual queens ^CBlack is watchin' child soldiers gettin' killed by other children ^A#Feelin' sick, like, "Oh shit, this could have happened to me" ^AYour mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece ^A#The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice ^FA kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news ^AAnd if he's white you give him a chance, he's ill and confused ^DmIf he's black he's probably armed, you see him and shoot

^DmLook, black is growin' up around the barbershop ^AmMummy sayin', "Stay away from trouble, you’re in yard a lot" ^GmStudying for ages, ^Fappreciatin' the chance you got ^A'Cause black is in your blood, and you ain't even got the heart to stop ^DmBlack is steppin' in for your mother because your father's gone ^CAnd standin' by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong ^A#Black is doin' all of the above then goin' corner shoppin' ^FTryna help a lady cross the road to have her walkin' off ^DmBlack is growin' up around your family and makin' it ^CThen being forced to leave the place you love because there's hate in it ^A#People say you fake the shit, never stayed to change the shit ^ABut black is bein' jealous, you'd be dead if you had stayed in it ^A#Black is strugglin' to find your history or trace the shit ^FYou don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasin' it ^ABlack has got a sour fuckin' flavour, here's a taste of it ^DmBut black is all I know, there ain't a thing that I would change in it

^DmLook, black ain't just a single fuckin' colour, man there's shades to it ^DmHer hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it ^ABlack is not divisive, they been lyin' and I hate the shit ^A#Black has never been a competition, we don't make this shit ^DBlack is deadly ^DBlack is when you're freezin' in your ^Ahome and you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty 'Cause ^Emyou got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free ^AWalkin' for their water, daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet ^DmBlack is distant, it's representin' countries that never even existed while your grandmother was livin' ^ABlack is my Ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures ^A#Doin' research on his lineage, findin' out that he's Egyptian ^DmBlack is people namin' your countries on what they trade most ^ACoast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast ^EmBut most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes ^AWest Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast ^DmBlack is so confusin', 'cause the culture? They're in love with it ^A#They take our features when they want and have their fun with it ^EmNever seem to help with all the things we know would come with it ^FLoud in our laughter, ^Esilent in our sufferin' ^A#Black is bein' strong inside and facing defeat ^GmPoverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets ^AWe all struggled, but your struggle ain't a struggle like me

^DmI mean, fuckin' hell, what about our brothers that are stuck in jail? ^CThat couldn't bust a bell, they held a bird and gotta live with it ^A#Black is bein' guilty until proven that you're innocent ^ABlack is sayin', "Free my fucking niggas stuck inside in prison cells" ^A#They think it's funny, we ain't got nothin' to say to them ^FUnconditional love is strange to them; it's amazin' 'em ^EmBlack is like the sweetest fuckin' flavour, here's a taste of it ^DmBut black is all I know, there ain't a thing that I would change in it