Black Rose - Intellectual

[Intro: Barrington Levy]

In my garden, oh ayy, in my garden, oh ah

To keep and care it you've got to water it

[Chorus: Lecrae & Barrington Levy]

She ain't never seen Garden of Eden

Only seen garden of bleeding

And some are gonna lie and hate and make her feel like she's a heathen

She ain't never seen Garden of Eden

Only seen garden of bleeding

And some are gonna lie and hate and make her feel like she's a heathen

Black rose, black rose

[Verse 1: Lecrae]

Their roots dirty but their petals stay pretty

Somebody tried to take the purity say they unworthy

The black rose grows deep in the city streets

But them stems still peak up under the concrete yeah

Bleak is around looking life but them never seen a flower

Grow under the moonlight

Mama had me readin Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice

I was looking for identity they stole mine twice

So I turn to the rude boy gangsters first

But the bad man withers and returns to the earth

Now it's ashes to ashes dirt to dirt

A black rose without a chance to grasp her worth

[Chorus: Lecrae & Barrington Levy]

She ain't never seen Garden of Eden

Only seen garden of bleeding

And some are gonna lie and hate and make her feel like she's a heathen

She ain't never seen Garden of Eden

Only seen garden of bleeding

And some are gonna lie and hate and make her feel like she's a heathen

Black rose, black rose

[Verse 2: Lecrae]

Man the school system it fail us, and the government won't bail us

Out of this hell we in man it seems they want to kill us

There's blood pan di side walk blood pan di doors

There's blood up on them ceilings why there's pan di floor

No one to keep and care us our fathers too embarrassed

To show us he's a failure so mama's a single parent

Them children grow without the fertilizer that they needed

And the black rose grows in a garden fulla weeds and needles and evil

But God sent people who reflect the light of the sun they get it done

The rose grows cold wind blows through the streets

And the ice on the leaves so heavy she gets weak

And there's not a helping hand upon the scene to be seen

And when all seems lost the Gardener intervenes

He handles her with care

And he show her she a queen

And then thorns are a defense mechanism she'll never need

Black rose

[Chorus: Barrington Levy]

Black rose, black rose