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Kai Straw
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Nigga
I was sprinting through the woods down in Alabama Only me and the crickets' violins, my footsteps slammin' violent, like hammers I'd been runnin' since like four am sweat pouring from my pores and blood pouring from the sores on my feet, ignoring it, I would escape the prison I was born in and be free even if it's through death from pushing my body, we have to keep running what's that? the dog's comin'? C'mon, legs, bring me to my freedom before these dogs snuff it before these wicked man catch up and strip my life from me before the chains are once again rubbing blisters into my skin God, they're closing in fuck my black, charcoaled skin the curse that wraps my bones why was I born with this? Was it my sins? Am I paying for a life I lived before this one, and in it, I mimicked my captors wickedness? Well, could you delay that punishment? And forgive what I have done in lives before and after this one? And if it does not reflect some type of karma I can imagine God is wicked as those who chase me, and thus my villain And if I'm caught before the sun is up know my freedom will be won and it will echo through millennia Even if I die, you heard it right, you'll know that I'm a fuckin' man and not your nigga
We chased him through the woods down in Alabama My dogs barked as they ran toward the smell of the man He'd ran since about four am blacker than petroleum I said he'd blend into the night, into the shadows it afforded him Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Where you runnin' to my nigga? I gave you whips and chains so you'd stay my nigga And if you escape, you'll remain a nigga Even if you're free Society will cage you, nigga The dogs kept barkin', we're closer I can hear your feet stompin' in the dark like the animal you are you can't run from that you can't change your stripes you don't know where your home is and your last name's mine and any job that you get will be the bile left behind by us whites and we'll pay you in pennies to be patronizing Yeah, run into that future knowing your skin will make your shackles when the world views you as human and you'll be tethered to the bottom until you find a dye to use that can turn your skin a fuckin' lighter hue And now I find myself alone The dogs, chasing a ghost I'll come back and find you when the sun's exposed But if you made it to the river just know you'll always be a motherfuckin'-
I've dropped some eves from in this brush I've listened in, now tell me, what have I become Am I your nigger or the angel, Gabriel I could have run But instead I'll choke the life out from your lungs And yes, your dogs will hear it And your men will come and find me but you'll be dead below my feet as I'm hanging from this pine Like our fates are intertwined like the day is to the night or the moon is to the ocean's tide
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm goin' home
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