And the oppressor wanna be us so   bad
And we can sing that    like       dovesong
Hating is for the birds anyway  by  which
we  mean we have always known  better
ways of flight  and the oppressor  wanna
be us sooooooooooo bad  because we all
minimalist grammar, we artistic statement
We ghosted syllables  we shmoney and all
The hot songs of the summer  we antique
radio playing  out some young man’s body
and we body and black all at the same time
And the oppressor wanna be us sooooooo
Bad  want our elongated syllables,  the way
We can make one word stretch past death
Make  it joy take our grief and hustle it into
Its Sunday best  because we been had magic
Like that, been flight like that, been   shake
And the gospel of not yield, been shmoney
Been this, been new language in new mouth
with stale air inside, been new shit, always.
Been alive  been alive  been alive  been here.
Been Black  been Black  been Black been here.