Eve Was Black
Eve was black, haven't you heard?
The mother of all was dark and good
Eve was black, didn't you know?
Is that why you hate my black skin so?
Is that why you hate my black skin so?
Does it remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin, ooh
Why do you try to touch my hair?
Do you hope to find a blessing there?
Why do you try to keep me down?
Do you hope to sow this barren ground
With my black blood, black magic blood
With my black blood, black magic blood
Do I remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin
What do you hope for as you tie the rope?
What do you hope for as you hoist me up?
What do you hope for as you watch me swing?
Will the witness tree salvation bring?
Do I remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin
Oh, my sister, oh, my brother
Oh, my mother, oh, my father
Oh, my cousin, all my pale kin
Can't wash this sin
Can't wash this sin
Can't wash this sin
With my black blood
With my black blood
The mother of all was dark and good
Eve was black, didn't you know?
Is that why you hate my black skin so?
Is that why you hate my black skin so?
Does it remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin, ooh
Why do you try to touch my hair?
Do you hope to find a blessing there?
Why do you try to keep me down?
Do you hope to sow this barren ground
With my black blood, black magic blood
With my black blood, black magic blood
Do I remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin
What do you hope for as you tie the rope?
What do you hope for as you hoist me up?
What do you hope for as you watch me swing?
Will the witness tree salvation bring?
Do I remind you of what you lost?
Do you hate, or do you lust?
Do you despise, or do you yearn
To return, to return, to return?
Back to the motherland
Back to the garden
Back to your black skin
Back to the innocence
Back to the shine you lost
When you enslaved your kin
Oh, my sister, oh, my brother
Oh, my mother, oh, my father
Oh, my cousin, all my pale kin
Can't wash this sin
Can't wash this sin
Can't wash this sin
With my black blood
With my black blood
Credits
Writer(s): Allison Russell, Jeremy Thomas Lindsay, Andrew Lindsay
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.