I Am The Colour (feat. Jordan Gavet & Scribe)

Wanna make the people feel something

But if I can't speak the truth they don't feel nothing

I gotta speak my mind, it's a lot on my mind

Just scared of what I'll say next, I'm just waiting for the same text

'Cause the real is just too real

They don't care how it feels

I'm a brown boy living in a white world

Little ashamed of my brown skin

Not brown enough but too brown can't win

They don't even have to say a damn thing

What they doing that's the same thing (same thing)

Dread locks to the airport

'Cause I'm looking like a thug in my track suit

Who even cares what I look like

They care, they care

It's not fair, it's not fair

Express lanes, express ways about their feelings about me

I'm good enough but not good enough to say anything

My opinion matters only if it's just about me

Not them, 'cause they don't wanna hear a thing

They just want me to sing

They don't wanna hear a thing

They don't know anything

They just want me to sing

But I'm more than that, I'm more than that

I'm more

(I am the colour)

I am, I am, I am (You are the colour)

You are, you are, you are (I am the colour)

We are, we are, we are (We are the colour)

Yeah

(I am the colour)

I am the colour (You are the colour)

You are the colour of me (I am the colour)

Hey, yeah, yeah (you are the colour)

I am the colour of you

Chains are now broken

Praise to the Almighty

Blessed have my grandmother's blood

Endless golden skin

I used to try to keep up

All time I've been more than enough (more than enough)

For every hand that you dealt us

Put shit up and say that you help us

We build from the ground up

Oh thank God that you found us

So you can surround us, oh

Put 'em up, put 'em up high

Them come bustin' through in the night

It's goin' down, down, down

That's how we keep our head up in the clouds, oh yeah

(I am the colour)

I am, I am, I am (You are the colour)

You are, you are, you are (I am the colour)

We are, we are, we are (We are the colour)

You are, yeah (I am the colour)

Say yeah, yeah, yeah (You are the colour)

You are, you are (I am the colour)

Said don't you know that you are (You are the colour)

Uh, I was born and raised in A-town

Out of Nui by the playground

And I put up for my city though

Same city haters 'cause I face brown

Same time, same city love me 'cause the flow is the coldest

And it's so sick, I spread the COVID

And the cops lock me up because my nose big

I'm from the east side streets, through the concrete I grew like a rose did

The pacific coast and we rode it

And I owned ship before you knew what a boat is

I am the colour with the truth and you know this

On my shoulders the future hope has been bestowed and I never folded

I'ma go in and take back everything that was stolen

(I am the colour)