Everytime we close our eyes,
Trying to remember our mother's lullabies
Warm tears, sparkling like diamonds
Running down our cheeks, hiding behind eyelids
When we look in the mirror and all we see is hate
There is no one to break our fall except fate
We judge our eyes, ear, and...oh did I mention that nose is fake
You people are fickle, you criticize until we break
They say "God" created us all equal and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
But how can you say that, you hypocrite, let that smolder
Because while you sit on a throne of discrimination
We scramble and hide to find our place in this nation
He can't even go home to his family because of his ****** domain
He loves his partner but his fathers inane
She breaks her back at work everyday, does more than any man will ever do in a decade
But still riding on her gender, her paycheck begins to fade
And when you see us crawling, fighting with need
You kick us down for the feeling of greed
He tries to get a job and because of the complexion of his pigment,
They don't hire him, nada, that's the end of this segment
She walks down the street covered from head to toe, with only her eyes to show
It's her beliefs but that doesn't make the ***** looks a lesser blow
We fee; the hurt and the pain everyday.
While you sit on your ***** in Tampa Bay
And when we can't be accepted in society,
We don't know any other way for prosperity
So we find a way to numb the pain
The drugs, the razor biting the skin, the *** with mysterious men
Anything with a gain
Please don't hurt us, please don't shut the door in our faces
Because we always seem to wake up in stranger places
Believe us, because this world should not be dog eat dog, it should be full of empathy
Way past the point of poetic sympathy
Break our bones, our courage, our love but inspite of it all
We fight on so that we're with the ones we love on the day that we fall
Drag us out and hang us like a beacon
Because we are not the ones who should be beaten
We are the kings of the world, no prejudice only love
Because love is love even when push comes to shove
Please enlighten us on how being different is bad
And we promise you, despite the real truth, we won't be mad
He's in love with his boyfriend. He asked him just last week to marry him
Never to break his vows until they bury him
She's a single mom of three kids, always making sure they have a good life
But in spite of it her bosses always cut her down with a knife
And he needs to pay for his wife's kemo
Every night he's struggling to ask from people at his mother's Bingo.
And when she walks down the street, she takes pride in what she believes
Always wondering why the man in the window is angry at what he sees
This is us in every way.
We know you wish this was just friendly foreplay
But we will bury you, smolder you with the ashes of our last exhumation
Without you this world would have a better function
Ok, maybe we're astray from the norm
But who says we won't be the end of this petty storm
Dose us with gasoline, light us a flame,
Watch us burn at the stake like it's a game.
But we'll shine so brightly you won't want to fuss
Because, in the end, you'll finally see US.