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Do you know who you are? Do you know where you been? My friends We belong to the stars And we blow with the wind Amen I've seen the mountains I've counted the raindrops And they all sing the same old song It can't be long Joy comes in the morning So please stay strong They tried to choke us, ah But baby, we still breathe They thought that they could bury us But they forgot that we were seeds But they forgot that we were seeds They forgot that we were seeds, y'all They say that I just should get over it But I'm openly emotional 'cause closed mouths don't ever get fed And I been starving for some help for all this arbitrary sadness circling the patterns of my heavy head And this shit ain't new Waves of blue been aimed at these genes since way before Wranglers Anger's raged through generations And it seem like angels don't sang with us anymore SongtexteSo we've been forced to wait out storms that love to delay our celebration Don't you ever tell me to be calm I'm the spawn of tobacco sharecroppers, prisoners of Virginia farms Who worked their arms, backs, and fingers to the gristle While the landowners paid a pittance for all the heavy lifting done We come from places, man Where twelve-year-old little Black girls can't even name her rapist, fam And if she ever did, they'd throw her family off the acres and Send a burning cross from a mob of hooded faces, damn That must have been when Nana's mind had a nervous break And Granddad passed in church after passing collection plates This story comes through me like second nature 'Cause I been hearing 'bout our pain and glory since I was a youngin, seven or eight Despite that, we knew love more deeply than any other feeling That's why I keep on bustin' through when I reach and touch the ceiling When I say I'm the best, I'm not expecting approval or clearance I'm just hoping the rest of you see the connection 'tween truthful and healing I'm just hoping the rest of you see the connection 'tween truthful and healing I'm just hoping the rest of you see the connection 'tween truthful and healing Aus Songtexte Mania