Strange Fruit Lyrics

Uh, southern trees, bearing strange fruit

Blood on the leaves, blood at the roots

No longer hanging, but that strange fruit ain't make it far

They shoot out kids in the back and justify the cause

First, we were strange fruit, hanging from the poplar trees

Now those pastoral scenes, are urbanized with little means

By any means, teens chase things we never dreamed

They dreamed they might be a lawyer, I dreamed for 17

Years on this earth, or time to find my worth

They called me big, black, and ugly, undeserving of birth

Babies on shirts, while mommas cry, and we hold demonstrations

But who gon' wipe away her tears, fears, and frustrations

We gave y'all reparations, removed the limitations

Why don't y'all show some patience, they'll be more negotiations

More stalled investigations, more useless regulations

More gentrification, also known as segregation

Wait, stop

I think I heard another, gunshot

My brother laying on the, black top

Applying pressure but it won't stop, what could I do

So here in lies more strange fruit, for crows to pluck

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot, for the leaves to top

They paint strange fruit, as just a bitter crop