The Dash

Tall evergreens in the distance (Distance)
Covered by the tall buildings
I constantly live in (Living)

I wonder if that's what keeps me driven
To paint a picture so beautiful with my words
When it's hard to write in color with a black pen (Black pen)

Pain from my heart cause the scene to soak in (Soak in)
Wish you couldn't see in black and white (Nah)
Same pressure from these stigmas made me choose a black wife (Black wife)
Will never walk away because my father raised me right (Yea)

Honestly, I'm afraid of these women (Why)
I might whistle too hard
And end up in prison (Man)
A penitentiary for a black man
Estimated by the way he acts in Elementary
My dear, Watson, don't question me because the Feds watching

The reason I don't wear 2 chains
Cause I been watching
My people held in chains
And I can't stop it
Will never walk away because these bands popping
Still paid to be a slave because we lack knowledge

But I'm gonna keep grinding baby anyway
These type of feelings, you cannot mistake (No you can't)

Difference is we're all slave now (Why), because
They covered the truth (OK)
I claim my history
I'm glad to sing the Blues (Yea)

Turn the TV off because I hate the news (I hate the news)
Politicians with the same values
Which one to choose (Dang)

Last time I checked I wrote my own history (Yea I do)
I could write my future
Hold onto the values
I don't want to loose you (No I don't)
To the snakes that want your body cold like a stone (Like a stone)
And your heart to harden like Medusa (Dang)

But, I'm Zeus when it comes to the music
King of all men,
Check the royal lineage
Popeye with the spinach
Olive Oil on my head in the form of a cross
I get down on my knees to pray to God
Help me
Don't want to be lost
What's the cost

But, bump that (But, Bump that)
I checked the price for a nigga
Ain't no toe tag (Ain't no freaking toe tag)
All Black niggas taking pictures Kodak (Black, black, black, black)
Automatic throwback
We done came this far
We can't go back (So Back, Back, Back)

But, I'm gonna keep grinding baby anyway
These type of feelings you cannot mistake
You said that you love me this and that away (Yea)
Please don't be fake no
Please don't be fake no
I do the dash

I remember in college class (Yep)
I'd dream about the music (Dang)
Couldn't pay no body else to do it (La la la la)
Screaming out Free Money Entertainment hoe (Entertainment Hoe)
I was down up on my luck
Plus I didn't even know that the name was taken (Damn)

Smoking on Jamaican had my mind vacant
Strong believer in the energy you cant fake it
Black bodies all around me, but the head racist
Was head strong, til I ran out of gas (Out of gas)
24-hrs, yea, I had to do the dash (Skirt, skirt, Skirt)
Was going strong with my foreign girl til I crashed (Crashed)
I hope she not mad (Nah)
It's hard to leave a place when your feeling are attached
(Too attached with it)

But, I'm gonna keep grinding baby anyway
These type of feelings you cannot mistake
You said that you love me this and that away (Yea)
Please don't be fake no
Please don't be fake no
I do the dash