Sunkissed

If I had my way I’d spend my life at home
Cuz every day I leave I remember I’m forever on my own
If you’ve never felt the need to leave a store with a receipt
It may be cuz no one made your skin synonymous with deceit
The looks I’d get from security guards as a kid left me scarred
Now clubs are making up excuses just to say that we’re barred
Makes me think have we moved that far from the past?
Cuz scars will last after stars have passed
This bizarre system of class only tarnishes our caste
At least I can make my art whilst having a blast
The pressures that you find are in your mind
Are really the pressures that you’ve heard are in your world
So what do you see when you take a proper gander
At all the propaganda around you?
You may just realize that it fully surrounds you
Billboards, billboards, build more, build more
Nowadays I can’t figure it out, what are houses for?
Must just be to make money whilst teasing the poor
The gap’s so wide between the poor and the boujee
Once saw a sympathetic rich girl give a homeless guy sushi
We may as well be standing in welfare lines, hoping we'll fare fine
Cuz let me tell you if the grass is greener then the air must be sublime
I said the air must be sublime
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about this...
At least most of the time

But I’m glad that I’m sunkissed whilst you just seem to be mad that the sun missed you
I’m glad that I’m sunkissed but you just seem to be mad that the sun missed you

It’s hard half the time to blame bros that turned to crime
Feels like this system was designed so we make petty dimes
Cuz we don’t get the tools in schools, we all leave as fools
Would you play by the rules if the aim of the game was for you to lose?
Xenophobic rhetoric from some working classes
May as well be throwing bricks from their glass houses
Probably don’t know their own country’s history
Of those in power manipulating our misery
Hope I’m not the only one who feels like there’s something missing
I know people who've slept in places you wouldn’t even piss in
So many lives are on the streets that we are all just dismissing
I’m thinking back to days I didn’t have to worry reminiscing
Like...has life always been like this?
Growing up it seemed so perfect
Have things always been amiss?
Now alternative facts defile the minds of a nation
But don’t be fooled by lies posing as information
And beware of rich men in a poor man’s clothes
These culture vultures acting as if they don’t know
People keep all eyes on phones but they don’t show
The lives being destroyed, but we’re also annoyed
So we’re filling the void by just being employed
Don’t know what the future holds so we’re looking to phones
Guess you could say that we’re all paranoid androids of our own
Galaxy
Now you see why I could easily spend the rest of my life at home happily
Cuz if you looked in my mind what you’d find
Is I can’t help but notice these social paradigms
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about this...
Honestly, it’s pretty much all of the time!

But I’m glad that I’m sunkissed whilst you just seem to be mad that the sun missed you
I’m glad that I’m sunkissed but you just seem to be mad that the sun missed you

Who would choose to be a victim of prejudice that’s been built?
Who would choose to live a life filled with nothing but guilt?
You shouldn’t feel have to feel ashamed no matter your shade
Glad I said hello to the cello back when I was 8
Got all the things I need and you can bet I’m gonna use it
Sitting here in my flat I’ll just be making music
Waiting patiently for the day the truth will unfurl
Racism isn’t the elephant in the room it’s the elephant in the world