[Intro: Taelor Gray]
What to do with them pretty brown girls, I'ma talk to the pretty brown girls
I just need a moment, honor is an important thing
[Verse 1]
Yeah. you tell me stories in your skin tone
I hear you 'fore I see you
I stay near you because I need you
This my camel through the needle
Cos I'm richest when you feel me
The picture up you feel me?
You make this broken world whole until it starts to heal me
And I can't find your ceiling this is every bit of brilliance black girl
You be teaching your resilience black girl
So keep on, grab your hat, get your coat, get your coat, girl
You called us monarchs when you knew that we was broke, girl
And this my feeble words told Swoope we needed one
I see your pretty brown skin and yeah, I see the sun
I like you with no makeup looking colder than the glacier
And I'm like it how your makeup kind of show you how you playful and I love to see you playful
Look, I can't leave you mad
I still need your smile, 'cos nature needs your laugh
And they won't call you lovely, I'm knowing that you love me
Yeah we take much for granted, it's like treasure when you trust me
With them honeycomb vibes, Sunnyside when you cooking right Must have talked to God, walked with God 'cos you looking right And this that soul tie that I want, souls tied to the Son
Lift you up just like Simba as a cub
This that stencil of a letter that I should have wrote a while ago
You taught me hope a while ago, you taught me spades and dominoes
Caught me color schemes and clothing textiles
So while I'm in my feelings finna shoot this text now to my
Brown skin lady, brown skinned lady
I see my God showing off something crazy, yeah, hehe
See I know we'll be alright 'cause creation tells us all these stories that we see in God
And I'm just speaking from the fullness, fullness of my joy
I'm hoping you get yours, yeah I'm praying you get yours
Cos trust me I'm gon' ride for these pretty brown girls
That's my mama, that's my wife, that's my little brown girl
So trust me I'm gon' ride, yeah trust me I'm gon' ride
They try to take you from us, but yo we gon' ride, on God
Stop us, yo we gone ride, yea
Can't nobody stop us baby girl we gon' ride
[Chorus: Taelor Gray]
Trust me I'm gon' ride for these pretty brown girls
Got me singing high for these pretty brown girls
Yeah trust me I'm gon' ride for these pretty brown girls, yeah for these pretty brown girls
Yo you got me in the sky little pretty brown girls
Got me singing high for the pretty brown girls
Yeah trust me I'm gon ride for the pretty brown girls
Trust me I'm gon' ride
I'm gon' ride yeah
[Interlude: Leigh Ann Gray]
I think what you're trying to ask is um, why am I so insistent upon giving out to them that blackness
That black power, that black - pushing them to identify with um ah um black culture, I think that's what you're asking
If I have no choice over it, in the first place
To me we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world
Black people!
I mean, and I mean that in every sense uh outside and inside
And to me we have a culture that um is surpassed by no other civilization known more than anybody
So again as I think I've said this before
As I'm saying to you
I think at some time before my, my job is to somehow make them curious enough of persuading things by hook or crook
To get more aware of themselves and where they came from
What they are into and what is already there, and just to bring it out
This is what compels me to compel them, and I will do it by whatever means necessary
[Verse 2: Taelor Gray]
Every time I wake up I know we gon' be alright, yeah
Let's go to the continent and see another side, yeah
I'ma catch a vibe baby, you can take a seat, yeah
You been so strong while they try to play you weak, yeah
We gon' get your love, wait, we gon' get your love, yeah
I see and what they do to you and now I seen enough, yeah
That gon' be my mama, that gon' be my daughter yeah
That gon' be my cold, cold wife, boy I got her
This is Abba hope you know, watch where water 'fore we glow
Pop that bottle and we lit, pop that bottle we gon' go
Get your roses while you here, yeah get your roses while you here
This the kingdom get your robe, that gazebo made a go, hashtag goals
This is female mixed with soul, this is seasoning, this is genius you repeat it if you know
If you know and sing it trust me we gon' ride for you girl
We gon' ride yeah, trust me we gon' ride for you girl, we gon' ride
Pretty Brown was written by Taelor Gray.
Pretty Brown was produced by Swoope.
Taelor Gray released Pretty Brown on Fri Mar 27 2020.