Black Codes (Deluxe Version) ft. The PEACEANDPOWER Band Lyrics

(Switching, it's a cold world)

Let's see how this flows tonight

Feels good

Black codes

Code switching

It's a cold world

Survival spirit in it

Got me feel so thorough

But Lord knows

(I wanna be free)

Oh no

Familiar with the lows

But we ain't slowing down

My people got somewhere to go

But Lord knows

We wanna be free

Let me holla at you 'bout this target on my back

Could it be paranoia?

Confronted death a couple times

I'm feeling ready for you

Angels flying over me

Hey, how is heaven for you?

I know a lot of Englishes

I swear it isn't normal

One for the papers that they write up in the ivory tower

One for my people

Let us shine

You know wе got the power

Flowers in thе field fine flowing what we want to be

Monsters come along so they can trample

Want me underneath

'Fro grows towards the sun

I'm overcoming wonderfully

The light be touching me to tell me

Tell your people come and see

Hey

So come and see you know we will

It don't matter what the evils throw

We glow up still

Black codes

Code switching

It's a cold world

Survival spirit in it

Got me feel so thorough

But Lord knows

(I wanna be free)

Oh no

Familiar with the lows

But we ain't slowing down

My people got somewhere to go

And Lord knows

Yea yea

(We wanna be free)

Got me feeling like I'm not supposed to be here

Make me want to stop and spark the tree, yea

Make it legal and invest in school that's free, yea

Free all my people we need a heat check

We on a roll despite the cold cuts

I do not know what force could hold us

We got the soul the flow is robust

Stay on this road I know I'm focused

Oh, oh, oh

We gon rise up to the top

And we ain't gonna stop

No matter what may block

No matter who the opp

No matter what the obstacles

In the end you gon talk about how we rose

Oh yea

We gon' win, get to breaking all your codes

Yea, yea

In the wind, to the moon we gon' float

Oh, oh

It don't matter what the evils throw, we glow

It don't matter what the evils throw

Say

Black codes

Code switching

It's a cold world

Survival spirit in it

Got me feel so thorough

But Lord knows

(I wanna be free)

Oh no

Familiar with the lows

But we ain't slowing down

(My people got somewhere to go)

Oh no no no no

Hey

We wanna be free

(Will you speak for me if I fly away?)

Wherever you are listening

(Don't let them turn me into just another name)

I need you to put a peace sign over your heart

For all of the lost ones

Who've gone on before us

(Sing about me, don't you let my light fade)

We've had a lot of loss

We've experienced communal grief

(Away, away, away, away)

So much has been exposed

(This world got too cold for me)

So much has been revealed

(I know you got plenty more to see)

We need all types of healing

Please keep that peace sign on your chest one time

(I needed to give my soul some peace)

(Away, away, away, away)

And while you're holding that peace

I need you to

Call on those who've gone on before you

(Away)

Though they feel so far away

(Away)

May they always have a seat at our table

(Away)

Yea, feel that

(Away)

I need you to bring that peace sign

To a fist sign for the power

(Away)

We need that peace and that power

(Away)

Ha

(Away)

In the name of Jesus

In the name of the ancestors

In the name of all that is holy

(Away)

Amen and Ashé