Myrlie

Eric Black widow, young kiddo Tear stained pillow, 'nother black man died Wade in the water, I don't mean baptized Dark ass time can't bat no eye I see 'em, IBMs, I be in windows, they don't look through ours We got a fire and it's big like Cali's But they ain't for us, we ain't forests The only four to be servin' time Butler boys, that's a bigger crime We gave ours to the rallies, funerals, black Denalis Can't let a day go by He saw, she saw, every die We saw people cry, think about all of our people's wives Raise your kids in the world they know ain't safe to live, like Myrlie Emergency, the mirror me said I could be her too, the day I say I do Black men bleeding, it's your time Not so funny valentine Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Made a widow from a wife Took the love of my whole life Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Invisible veil, Coretta wore that, you could see it's real Martin Luther weren't a big enough deal? Trayvon Martin ain't a big enough deal, I kid you not How many Martin's we had shot? Pourin' Remy Martin on the block In memory, documented by the rock Yeah, I hope you watched, let's talk about What Betty did, she saw X die We saw X die, how Betty did Now when I exit, for the baby kid Cry for the baby momma in the baby crib That's a broken home, I could be on that That's reality, that's a big ol' fact 'Cause I'ma marry black, a hard truth Think about the weirdos, that could be us too Myrlie, I miss you Miss Myrlie Still holding yourself to sleep all night Still drunk off the shit that keeps you up at night Still feel haunted, still exhausted I can love you if you needed love Myrlie, can you love me back? Black men bleeding, it's your time Not so funny valentine Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Made a widow from a wife Took the love of my whole life Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away Oh don't you take, don't take, my love away --- Myrlie - Rapsody and Mereba