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 trappin', we was trapped in
Sun and the whips kissin' 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 every day, we the target
The young, gifted, and black on the market
'Cause of that we pay with our lives
Or either catch the 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
Cross the waters I swim, son and daughters of the land
Yeah, we the black sheep, but you slaughtering the lamb
You try to silence but your sirens, sounds of violence
Do nothing but divide us
Evolution of revolution, retribution that'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
Prisoners of wars, you can 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
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 trappin', we was trapped in
Sun and the whips kissin' 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 every day, we the target
The young, gifted, and black on the market
'Cause of that we pay with our lives
Or either catch the 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
Cross the waters I swim, son and daughters of the land
Yeah, we the black sheep, but you slaughtering the lamb
You try to silence but your sirens, sounds of violence
Do nothing but divide us
Evolution of revolution, retribution that'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
Prisoners of wars, you can 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
Credits
Writer(s): Nina Simone, Weldon Irvine
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