paroles de chanson Color of Skin - King Marino

I'm tryna find me a reason to smile bcuz
I haven't smiled in a while
Provide for my wife and my child
May my money be long like the Nile
And if not I won't live in denial
I'll just live on my means and afford what I can
There ain't no kind of shame
I'm already the man
Made up a plan rap as I can
Keep the money in pocket
They word in my hands
I'm addicted to bands
And I've been since a kid
Let me tell you bout some of the shit that I did
I used to think skin didn't matter
Until I struck out like an unlucky batter
Was shooting my shot I was in the 10th grade
Bout to holla at shawty beginning of day
Worked up my courage pursuing my moves
Then walked up on her not tryna be rude
And I was like at night I be thinking of you
I see you and I think that you cute
When I sit in my seat girl you all that I see
I want you and my future come kick it with me
I wrote her a letter and took it myself
And the shit that she said it thru me to the left
As I looked in her eye
I won't tell you no lie
She say I ain't her type and I need to know why
I'm thinking my breath was on stank
But it ain't cuz back then I wasn't blowing no dank
Do you know what it was
It was color of skin
She said yeah she like chocolate but not in her men
Imagine the state i was in as rejection crept in
That I can't even fuck and it don't make no sense
I looked at myself and examined my skin
Never had them before, insecurities in
Now they in my head and they spiraling
And they ringing loud like a siren
Now, I know a sis is banging white men
And I'm nothing like white man
To many battles we be fighting
So you gotta right it keep the tribe United
I'm just staying down doing my best
It don't really matter how you slice it
If you wanna know how this black man feel
I'm tired of slaving and dying in the field
If you wanna know how this black man feels
I'm tired of working and dying in the fields
I'm tired of working to hard for the check
Feels like freedoms to hard to get
I'm too tired of fighting my Queen
Nigga don't act you don't know what I mean
Tired of all these dang on bills that's due
Stay on my grind don't know bout you
Try to kill us everyday but we come right back
All a nigga know is ride out in all black
I hate it's a fight when I come in the house
Cuz I gotta fight when I walk outta the house
I hate that I gotta work so hard to get
Things that some people easily get
But I live myself so much
I been all that I've had to keep picking me up
Knowing that I'm better than opponents
Always first to level up
I was getting B's I submitted A's
College it was hard to make the grade
East bound train riding thru the pain
Tryna get degree I was in the rain
Hard to see my dreams in the window pane
The general knowledge curve different
With some kids from private school
When you barely know the difference in
Between college and wide rule
Life with no rules I came from staying alive
Watching my brother he'd watch me
Cuz we was part of the same tribe
But it's complicated still loving and ignorant neighbor
As if you know everything and you won't need no favors
My perspective is scrambled
Still on myself I gamble
To discover who I am and come across like a channel
Guess I'm just conjuring words
To try and see how I feel
From all this chasing dreams
And discussing what's real
I try my best to stay informed and
Walk that delicate line
Of observing just for knowledge
And consumption of the mind
I just wish them jobs woulda called
When I used to apply
My credit stopping me from earning
That day left a tear in my eye
I was looking for love
Love I couldn't afford
Chip on my shoulder extra weight pressure
From carrying more
Born of a race to a society
With rules from a man
Never loved
I couldn't afford
Chip on my shoulder
Extra weight
Pressure
From carrying more
Born of a race to a society
With rules from a man
Never free
I believe
It was because of the color
Of my skin

Debrief
And then relearn it
And then tell you how you feel
That's what I got