Fallen (feat. Tobe Nwigwe & Liz Vice)

They say that we fallen (fall, fallen)

They say that we fallen (fallen)

Then tell me why you follow (follow)

If we're fallen (fallen)

Huh, if I was you, I would appropriate us too, huh, let it sit

It's understandably confusing depending on tool you using (fallen)

Huh, just come through Alexandria library, drips through these fingertips

Mental state miserable, your wings don't fit

You bigger than your body give you credit for

A metaphor for how I see us, these creatures we've settled for

We are actually fascinating, actuating

You made poverty your play haven

Pueblo Indians prayers made of cornmeal and turquoise (fallen)

Harvestin' dreams with the medicine of the Iroquois

Different like the cloth we cut from

A creative nature with the joy we came from, uh

The truth you can't run from, uh

The style and finesse are a nectar of a broken neck

You wanna drink the juice but can't live through tight squeezes

But I don't pay the price, I pay dues

But the pain is paint, and quit I can't

And yo' faith is rank and yo' attitude stank

And I couldn't stand to think

The states without Ma Rainey or Count Basie, trap music, ya crazy

Black women are north stars, if we fallen

Why you follow?

They say that we fallen (fall, fallen)

They say that we fallen (fallen)

Then tell me why you follow (foll-, follow)

If we're fallen (fallen)

Look, the Pharisees say I'm falling like Alicia

My hood think I'm ballin', Alopecia

My melanin like the check on belly named Keisha

It's prolly why the devil be tryna peel my Chiquita

Go bananas for everyone that made an exit

Out the slums, so they give you crumbs until you desperate

And folk become the ones that tote guns 'cause they receptive

To suckers who played 'em like dum dums

'Cause they was left with no father figure

You falter quicker when ain't no structure

My paw paw lifted a lotta scripture so we ain't suffer

A pot to piss in is hard to get for the multicolored

But y'all just keep on jackin' jewels that y'all know we discovered

Oh, don't fret, digest, how they take what was born in projects to world wide web

Get over easy, they do us greasy like poached fried eggs

And be right back on our zucchini 'til the whole tide shifts, oh

But it's all gravy, we'll keep it wavy like du-rags

So whenever you ask for a new fad, you'll surely see it

And I know you'll give us a new pad while thinkin' we're too poo trash

To be 'round them doodads you keep in secret

But hell, that's the world we live in

When yo' chips is high, be weary of the ones who chip in

When Lucy try to tempt you, remember that it was written

And I swear to God, I ain't fallen, but I might be trippin', oh