Outside (feat. JEC)

Sittin at home

Eatin cornbread

I’m from Texas

I dosn’t rep red

And I make all my shit, yeah I mean that

And I got you lookin so surprised, babe you can believe that

I’m your Angela, your Afeni, your Chaka

I’m watchin bitches sweat

Y’all need some water

It’s a pandemic

And now you know

Donald Trump hates us

We keepin score

I gotta stay safe

I’m staying home

Postin up on the couch

With my favorite show

Chorus

I wanna go outside, outside

I wanna live my life

My life

I wanna go outside, outside

Don’t wanna lose my life

My life

Pause

Oh I know I’m not yonce

But you know that I’m still in that black parade

Got my flag up

No edges laid

Melanin only

Stay gettin paid

I been reading what Audra’s got to say

Y’all know Black girls been the bass

On the grind building empires every day

But y’all watch us gettin played

Y’all let us get played?

Girl, I got nothin else to say

But

I wanna go outside, outside

Don’t wanna lose my life

My life

Survive with me in the online lean-to

It’s me and you, need these bruised fingers to click here to even see you

Treadmill in the basement but I still don’t face it

I play in dreams of streets and aphids

And lean back to my own emo playlist

Tomorrow’s today copy-pasted

Eyeballs glued to you-tube

Miss the light-up smile, but I hope to see it in night school

I wanna go outside, outside

Don’t wanna lose my life

My life