(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black
Nina SimoneOriginale | La versione del rapper Common |
(TO BE) YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK To be young, gifted and black, Oh what a lovely precious dream To be young, gifted and black, Open your heart to what I mean In the whole world you know There are billion boys and girls Who are young, gifted and black, And that’s a fact! Young, gifted and black We must begin to tell our young There’s a world waiting for you This is a quest that’s just begun When you feel really low Yeah, there’s a great truth you should know When you’re young, gifted and black Your soul’s intact Young, gifted and black How I long to know the truth There are times when I look back And I am haunted by my youth Oh but my joy of today Is that we can all be proud to say To be young, gifted and black Is where it’s at | WE ARE YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACK Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black and own it It's more than a moment It's like the sun rose to condone it Before we was trapping we was trapped in Sun and the whips kissing our black skin Strange fruit hanging, smell the jasmine Rock to Coltrane, listen to jazz then, back then We came with names like James, Fatima Nina, King, dreamer Redeemer of the people Songs for the heaple Original, spiritual content You can smell it when it's God-sent We keep it moving everyday, we the target The young, gifted and black on the market Cause of that we pay with our lives Or either catching charges But yo, the goddess is in God's ears Young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Mississippi goddam, Ferguson goddam Staten Island goddam, Baltimore goddam America damn I tell you who I am, but you don't understand Across the waters I swam, son and daughters of the land Yeah we the black sheep but you slaughtering the lamb You try to silence with your sirens Sounds of violence do nothing but divide us Evolution of revolution retribution, it's due us The old ways of the US, it ain't the new us Tell em we the stars, they can't shoot us Through prisons and wars, you could no longer recruit us Salvation is due us Even before we came, God knew us God knew us Yeah, God know us Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black Young, gifted and black To be young, gifted and black |