Endangered Black Woman (Explicit)

Endangered Black Woman (Explicit) - Robert Glasper/Andra Day/Staceyann Chin

Lyrics by：Robert Glasper/Chris Dave/Derrick Hodge/Andra Day/Staceyann Chin/Muhammad Ayers

Composed by：Robert Glasper/Chris Dave/Derrick Hodge/Andra Day/Staceyann Chin/Muhammad Ayers

Oh say can you see

By the dawn of creation

I'm the queen of all queens

I gave birth to all nations

But y'all don't care about me

If I ain't standing here naked

You can't have it for free

And you can't come and just take it

My body my choice

My temple my doctrine

My mind and my voice

My rights and my options

F**k at all with your rules

Not concerned with your judgments

You ain't God or my king

S**t you ain't even my husband

But who would you be without me

Baby what's clarity without the moon

You wanna control everything

So you never have to control you

Let a n***a come in

Try and sit on my table

And only came with a fork

Trynna leave with the neighbor

Now because of my joy

I'm just 'posed to stay dribbling

N***a I'm so confused

Is this what you call winning

But hey how you gon' shoot without me

See dust can't clump 'til something make it move

You wanna control everything

I'mma just toss this into the womb

Everybody with whom we have come

Into contact has systematically taken advantage of us

History is only a testimony to our ability

To make music from noise

Just watch how we move when we're moving

How we keep loving unworthy partners

Raising children with little help from anybody

No love no respect from the suspicious white

Woman who criticizes the way we mother

Our children while they pay us almost

Nothing for mothering theirs

I don't even have time to address

The fetishized hatred we endure from white men

So you'll forgive me if I don't give a f**k

About your cooperation of feelings

F**k you for wanting me to hold you while

You sink your racist sexist knives

Into my already bleeding back

F**k you for needing me to absolve you

Or your many many sins against me

F**k you for putting everybody's needs before

My ownblack men white men black women

The f**king dog the cat my boss

The neighbor's rabbit the f**king government

The endangered f**king turtles

Why are everybody's needs more urgent

Than my own when do we worry about me

My feelings my needs my rights my body

My safety my f**king life

When do we begin to send to the endangered black woman

I am thinking the time is now

And saying the time is now

Not tomorrow not next week not f**king next year

I say we begin here now today this minute

And say f**k your countless indifference

Your hesitation my time is now my feelings

Are now make time for them make space for

Them deal with your race s**t your gender s**t

Your sexuality s**t now before we set fire

To everything we take care of for you set fire

To everything and watch the whole lot of it burn