A Million Eyes (Radio)

[Hook: Sample from Mary Hopkin - “Lullaby of the Leaves”] (x2)
“Cradle me where southern skies”
“Can watch me with a million eyes”

[Verse 1: Apani]
Yo
What you think you doing, nigga? Nigga, where you think you
Going, nigga? Watch your place, acting like you’re not knowing
Showing your ass. Nigga, show me your teeth. Bare skin
Showing your scars deep. Three-fifths of man
Versus Poppa Large—who’s in charge? Can’t bargain, can’t win
Amendments don’t apply to your kind of kin
We blend it, buy the bottom, sharecropper shacks stacked amongst
The cotton, people forgotten—fuck ‘em. Bad luck sucks
Black bucks breed more bucks for Daddy Warbucks
And stuck-up society whores (Bitch!). Check my family
Tree down to the core. Even more is hidden
Forbidden to your eyes and mind, more lies fashioned
For the unwise, nothing surprise… me no more
I’d be surprised if shit changed. I’d run fast
And far if I could escape this cage. Can’t contain my rage
Guess that’s why they keep me locked, keep me
Living hand-to-mouth, hustling for what I got. If I
Drop a crumb, here come the vultures. All I really
Got that’s mine is my pride and culture. What, y’all
Want that too? Wouldn’t you hate me if I was you?
Wouldn’t you want me dead? Take a minute, let that
Sink into your head. You call me enemy. My blood’s red
I’m flesh and bone too, human like you
Can I live? I’m saying, really. I’m saying

[Hook: Sample from Mary Hopkin - “Lullaby of the Leaves”] (x2)
“Cradle me where southern skies”
“Can watch me with a million eyes”

[Verse 2: Apani]
I stood
Up to be counted. You beat me down surrounded by
A million eyes. My bones cracked, it sounded like Hell’s thunder
Under attack, arms pinned back, blurry vision
Bloody, can’t see who first stuck me between my thighs
I felt ugly. They took turns to fuck me
Beneath southern skies, they wanna shame me, make me
Think I’m nothing, but I’m still every woman, plus
Won’t give ‘em the satisfaction of reaction
These bastards will have to kill me, spill my blood on
The roots of this willow tree where Strange Fruit swings
Off the limbs of plenty. If that be God’s will, then so it is
I’d rather die in birth than raise his kids
I’ll leave this black hole with my soul intact, never
Look back. Now once he put his tongue in my mouth, I’ma
Spit on his fronts, never give in, rather go out
Scrapping even if I can’t win (What?!?)

[Hook: Sample from Mary Hopkin - “Lullaby of the Leaves”] (x2)
“Cradle me where southern skies”
“Can watch me with a million eyes”

[Outro: N’didi]
I refuse to accept this cruel reality (Reality)
Never ever thought this shit would happen to me
Victimized by savage brutality
How the hell can I live like this?