The Dark Child Lyrics

Dark child, dark child

Dark child, runnin' wild on curse land

Dark child, no smile just open hands

Dark child

Yeah, dark child

It's no such thing as a coincidence

It's no wonder why you feel the way you feel

Why you are where you are

We are an oppressed people

Black people

Money makes the world twirl

Money buys the girls pearls

Money buys the men Benz's and gives independence

Hollow points, and the tips burn like an incense

Shit we lost our innocence when we couldn't keep up with the rent

Probably go buy a block of weed and break it to increments

Robberies on every Halloween about them Benjamins

Went from stealin' out the corner store to really hittin' licks

Mama strict but we poverty stricken mixed with ignorant

Shit ain't healthy for a kid when the tooth fairy don't exist

When you young and they ain't scratchin nothin' off your Christmas list

Can't afford the butter or the sugar to put in your grits

So we grind like fuck the butter and the suga I want shrimp

All our teachers condescending talkin' to us like we pits

When to eat, when to sit

Even when to take a piss

Barely graduated, the word college never left my lips

But I'm steady ballin' like I got athletic scholarships

Probably coulda made it out with the proper resources

Wasn't no inherent money or properties for me

Statistically it'd be a miracle if I see 40

This shit was by design but that's a whole different story

Dark child, runnin' wild on cursed land

Dark child, no smile just open hands

Dark child

Yeah, dark child

All my life I been strugglin

Is it ever gon' change

Sometimes I feel cursed

They throw dirt on my name

I don't deserve this pain

But I guess it just come with the territory

Dark child, dark child

Dark child, dark child

I ain't seen you in a while, dark child

Go and make your mama proud, dark child

I know your daddy ain't around, dark child

But if he show his face, then you gotta show him grace

Don't get in your own way, dark child

When your spirit feelin' shook, better pray dark child

Say amen and tuck that flamer by your waist, dark child

You be safe cause them devils on they way, dark child

It ain't no such thing as a coincidence

We still slaves with all these prison bids

All of this hate gets so meticulous

Work dark child, don't leet 'em give you shit

No such thing as a coincidence

We still slaves with all these prison bids

All of this hate gets so meticulous

Work, dark child, don't let 'em give you shit

Don't let 'em give you shit