Interlude: This Moment
If you don't understand us and understand what we've been through,
then you probably wouldn't understand what this moment is about.
This is home.
This is where we're from.
This is where we belong.
And if it ain't for the better of the people,
nah, 'cause you're robbing and stealing from the people that been there for so many years,
not just come and destroy, knocking our neighborhoods down.
You know, when it come there, you invisible.
You know, you don't even have a number in the system. Nobody cares about you.
Everything is about dollars and cents,
you know, even when you're talking the Government,
you know, even when you're talking about the preachers and the people that's running the community.
And we have to show them the evolution of where we come from.
I'm about to send a message to the world, like...
then you probably wouldn't understand what this moment is about.
This is home.
This is where we're from.
This is where we belong.
And if it ain't for the better of the people,
nah, 'cause you're robbing and stealing from the people that been there for so many years,
not just come and destroy, knocking our neighborhoods down.
You know, when it come there, you invisible.
You know, you don't even have a number in the system. Nobody cares about you.
Everything is about dollars and cents,
you know, even when you're talking the Government,
you know, even when you're talking about the preachers and the people that's running the community.
And we have to show them the evolution of where we come from.
I'm about to send a message to the world, like...
Credits
Writer(s): Solange Knowles, Sampha Sisay
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