Facts歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Dwayne Allen Abernathy II/Lecrae Moore
[00:00.015] 作曲 : Dwayne Allen Abernathy II/Lecrae Moore
[00:00.31]Peace does not come before salvation and salvation does not come without truth
[00:05.20]I will only tell the truth
[00:10.40]I will only tell the truth
[00:12.67]Incoming!
[00:15.42]Truth, truth, truth, truth
[00:20.82]Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
[00:26.40]People wonderin', "Is he woke or just a new slave?"
[00:28.83]Old religion, he just covered it with new chains
[00:31.69]Choppin' out the church, he ain't really fake
[00:33.91]He divisive, he don't rep the King, he just want the fame
[00:36.42]Aw man, now they actin' like I'm suddenly political
[00:39.47]Told me shut my mouth and get my checks from Evangelicals
[00:42.13]Where my momma raised me, on Angela and Eldridge
[00:44.75]Chuck Berry made it, but the credit went to Elvis
[00:47.45]Know you never knew that, know you think I'm too black
[00:50.80]I just think I'm too real, I grew up on 2Pac
[00:52.77]You grew up thinkin' that the Panthers was some terrorists
[00:55.45]I grew up hearin' how they fed my momma eggs and grits
[00:58.12]"'Crae, they say you should follow in the steps of King"
[01:00.75]I say, "You've forgotten how they shot him in the streets"
[01:03.44]I ain't really changed, it's the same old rebel
[01:05.77]Still a radical, I'm passionate, it's just another level (leggo!)
[01:08.80]AT told me I should fight back
[01:10.34]They don't like that (they don't)
[01:11.53]Just know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft (what?)
[01:14.20]BJ told me I should fight back
[01:15.75]They don't like that
[01:16.73]Just know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft, woo!
[01:19.50]I will only tell the truth (facts)
[01:22.77]People cannot abide by a truth
[01:24.87]I will only tell the truth
[01:25.45]They prefer fantasy over reality... (facts)
[01:30.10]I will only tell the truth
[01:32.46]I am for truth no matter who tells it
[01:35.36]I will only tell the truth
[01:36.23]I am for justice no matter who it is for or against (facts)
[01:40.74]Rose up out the dungeon
[01:42.13]I was feelin' haunted
[01:43.50]Now I'm bein' hunted
[01:44.87]And I'm on a hunnid
[01:46.17]Hit the gas, gunning
[01:47.42]Skip the past running
[01:48.82]Tell 'em they could bring that
[01:50.16]If they really want it
[01:51.44]I, I'm on the hometeam
[01:52.73]You just running with the wrong team
[01:54.10]Never take 'em with the heavyweights or, boy, you'll die and need a little protein
[01:56.78]Southside on the Yellowstone, had a ham bone and a white tee
[01:59.35]And a 12-pack of that real talk and I'm drunk, tell 'em, "Come find me"
[02:02.30]Draped up, dripped out, covered in the blood
[02:04.45]Man, I hang where they cripped out, sippin' on the mud
[02:07.18]Where they swingin', got the whips out, watch 'em pop trunk
[02:09.73]Yeah, I know it's hella dark, but I'm tryna light it up
[02:12.45]Now these people swear they on me, sendin' out threats
[02:15.11]Told me keep my mouth shut, told me be a Stepin Fetchit
[02:17.84]I will not oblige to your colonized way of faith
[02:20.38]My Messiah died for the world, not just USA
[02:23.10]They say, "Jesus was Conservative"
[02:24.75]Tell 'em, "That's a lie"
[02:25.77]No, He not a Liberal either if you think I'll choose a side
[02:28.53]They say, "'Crae, you so divisive, shouldn't be a black church"
[02:31.11]I say, "Do the math, segregation started that first!"
[02:33.74]Hey, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
[02:36.20]Kill the power that exists up under you and over me
[02:38.76]I said, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
[02:41.47]Kill the power that exists up under you and over me, woo! (facts)
[02:45.40]So reconciliation or conciliation requires defrauded parties to be made whole
[02:52.40]Not just apologizing for the offense
[03:05.97]I was waitin' for the right time to tell y'all how I feel
[03:10.16]And, yeah, I know that it hurts, but look, it's gon' heal
[03:12.15]I waited 'til I was on prime time before I let y'all know
[03:15.81]And you prolly won't wanna hear my music no mo'
[03:17.65]But it's all good, man, I love y'all
[03:20.48]Hope you know that I'm black black
[03:21.93]Traded my Smart Car for a Cadillac, can you handle that?
[03:24.65]And I love God
[03:25.91]I love Jesus, the one out of Nazareth
[03:27.69]Not the European with the ultra perm and them soft eyes and them thin lips
[03:30.43]And I'm still hood
[03:31.49]Been in the 'burbs for quite some time
[03:33.19]But I still might hit the gas station for the Lemonheads and the pork rinds
[03:35.98]And I'm on one
[03:37.90]Yeah, 116 been real
[03:39.25]Binghamton, Tennessee, from Third Ward to Ceiling Hill
[03:41.94]And I live a multiple world, call me a hybrid 'cause I'm so black
[03:44.98]Young theologian who educated, but still be at that Chicken Shack, yeah
[03:57.65]Lemme get a two piece