[Intro]

I came here with no stronger desire

Than to last

And get my work done

Find a family to love

And adopt me

But must I adopt their values?

Leave me a blank face

Or can they secure my fate

And adopt mine?

Yeah

Jas

Rest In Peace

I need

[Chorus]

I need my Kirk Franklin

Dose of Tyler Perry

Ain't no Buffalo Stance

With my Neneh Cherry

I need my hot sauce

Some OGs to tell me

How to lean

Make me duck when I walk

I’m Chuck Berry

Some Black lifе commentary

Share that living is scary

Even whеn a player ball

Ain't all Christmas merry

I'll tell Mandy Moore

Give you the facts mum

Coz that’s what you need

When you adopting a Black son

[Verse 1]

I'm swearing that interference

Is better than disappearance

But it's apparent that parents

Are fucking with my appearance

I'm stepping out of the pool

So ashy and infinite

Amounts of SPF 50 really isn't

Cutting it dissonant

Sounds of skin friction

Wounds I need my moisturizer

While we groom

Ain't married to ideas

Of unbridled roots

Take a walk down the aisle

Walker's chemicals

There's a reason why I’m leaving

Biological

They’re saying you'll fare better

When fair skin make the call

To read up on doctrines

Become adoptive

Son of white world

The superstar pops

But seeing curriculum

Accounts of alum

Whose brains have been washed

Or beaten down numb

They spewing some wild words

Some raisins in the sun

Or losing lawsuits

And jails they’re buried under

[Chorus]

I need my Kirk Franklin

Dose of Tyler Perry

Ain't no Buffalo Stance

With my Neneh Cherry

I need my hot sauce

Some OGs to tell me

How to lean

Make me duck when I walk

I'm Chuck Berry

Some Black life commentary

Share that living is scary

Even when a player ball

Ain't all Christmas merry

I’ll tell Mandy Moore

Give you the facts mum

Coz that's what you need

When you adopting a Black son

[Bridge]

Now we could talk of losing Christmas

Replaced with Kwanzaa

Chicken George or Jefferson

Instead of Costanza

Keep blackening berries

As the oppressed mantra

Link moves to minstrels

Socks to tap dancers

Talk of losing Christmas

Replaced with Kwanzaa

Chicken George or Jefferson

Instead of Costanza

Keep blackening berries

As the oppressed mantra

Link moves to minstrels

Socks to tap dancers

[Verse 2]

Something I hold onto

Something I forget

A history I've blocked

A pain that's present

A skull that's indented

Brain that's demented

Eyes so defensive

Never showing resentment

Tongue that reflects

A fast moving culture

Rejecting the past

And embracing the mould

A body so independent

Leaning on the shoulder

Forbidden displays of complexity

Folds are 10 deep

My niggas is in deep

The women is envy

You thinking that getting the white skinned

Will lend the

Spirit to get the American medley

But redemption deadly

Coz you'll never be

That

But mother can you embrace it

At once I'm in love with the racists

And so scared of anything they be saying

Going insane

And know I won't escape it

[Chorus]

Need my Kirk Franklin

Dose of Tyler Perry

No Buffalo Stance

My Neneh Cherry

Need my hot sauce

OGs to tell me

Lean

Make me duck when I walk

Chuck Berry

Black life commentary

Share living is scary

When a player ball

All Christmas merry

Tell Mandy Moore

Give you the facts mum

Coz that's what you need

When you adopting a Black son