Lyrics Things Deeper Than My Skin - Tall Black Guy, Ozay Moore

Things Deeper Than My Skin

It’s like the more you know the more you sew
Feels heavy cause im back to life carried that weight in gold
Before I knew anything I was told, I’m black
So be prepared for what the future holds
In fact, my skin color conveys a different tone than that
Hispanic (?) depends on where I’m at
One thing that took permanence he ain’t caucasian
Or one of his parents was he favors his side and embraced 'em
Kind of embarrassing not knowing a part of your heritage
Something about Scottish and Polish and the brits to america
But I ain’t ever had a chance to sit and discuss
With moms pops cause even half black was too much
And when I finally got to meet em
Saw (?) in 'em
Hatred’ll eat you see he apologized (?)
But there’s pieces of me that went with him to the grave (?)
Go ahead and color me not into digging that up
See we’re defined by our percentages categorized by pigment
Associated by culture are you black or white enough?
Brown, Yellow, Red, up the snuff enough, circle one
Bet you DNA would rather trail you back to one, Africa
Man Woman in the garden cradle of humanity
Made in the image of God, first to see the sun
We still playin' like the kings’ll never come
Drawin' lines in the dirt forgettin' that’s where we from
There’s so much more than I
Then what you see in me
It’s deeper
It’s deeper
Deeper, it’s deep
My children have inquisitive questions about race relations
Like, «Where's the daddies of my brown friends?»
«I wanna be more like my white friends»
«They got everything, look and everything they fathers gave 'em»
Now I’m killin' (?) times I’m complicated
Scratch that, I’m killing ignorance don’t complicate it
When they express their interest in having that conversation
As responsibly as I can I have to educate them
We talk about love for all
We talk about oppression of some
We talk of redemption in one
We talk of privileges, s-systemic benefits
And the agendas in which they come from son
Being the persuasion of none shun
Propaganda pitted to paint people as a lump sum
Don’t jump guns
Cause young dumb unspun
Is all the wise so we know the times
Through these open eyes let the hope inside
Guide the orphan come understand
There’s so much more than I
Then what you see in me
It’s deeper
It’s deeper
Deeper, it’s deep
It’s deeper
Deeper, it’s deep