Lyrics Proud to Be - Moses Sumney

Proud to Be

A black bunk bed
Once belonged to me
Body built of sticks and stones and potential energy
I laid alone
On the bottom sheets
So I kept a sense of absence above me when asleep
Singing oh
When I grow
The legacy left to me won’t leave me low
Sweet seeds I sow
So memory’s remedy’s a crumb of hope
I’ll be proud to be
Part of me
Probably proud of me
Proud to be
Part of me
Probably proud of me
As a grown clone
Can I be beautiful
Beige as Cali suburbs
Sameness is fatal
Sleep with no doubt
Of who’s forgiven you
But can I forgive myself
For being myself, too?
Now
That I’ve grown
The legacies kept from me have left me low
My only hope’s
That younger me is hungry for a sick joke
He’s not
Proud to be
Part of me
Probably not
Proud of me
Proud to be
Part of me
Probably not
Proud of Me