The Charade
D’Angelo and the Vanguard * Track #3 On Black Messiah
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- #1Ain’t That Easy
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- #21000 Deaths
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- #3The Charade
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- #4Sugah Daddy
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- #5
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- #6Back to the Future, Pt. 1
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- #7Till It’s Done (Tutu)
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- #8Prayer
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- #9Betray My Heart
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- #10The Door
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- #11Back to the Future (Part II)
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- #12Another Life
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The Charade by D'Angelo and the Vanguard
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D’Angelo and the VanguardProduced by
D’Angelo & ?uestloveWrited by
?uestlove & D’Angelo & Kendra FosterAbout
One of the most explicitly political songs on Black Messiah, “The Charade” discusses the Black experience in America and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
From engineer Ben Kane’s tweets, compiled by okayplayer here:
First I’ll discuss the music: D goes in hard on guitar and keys on this on...
The Charade Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Crawling through a systematic maze
And it pains to demise
Pain in our eyes
Strain of drownin', wading into your lies
Degradation so loud that you can't hear the sound of our cries (doo, doo)
All the dreamers have gone to the side of the road which we will lay on
Inundated by media, virtual mind fucks in streams
[Chorus]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
[Verse 2]
Perpetrators beware say a prayer if you dare for the believers
With a faith at the size of a seed enough to be redeemed (doo doo)
Relegated to savages bound by the way of the deceivers
So anchors be sure that you're sure we ain't no amateurs
[Chorus]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
[Bridge]
With the veil off our eyes we'll truly see
And we'll march on
And it really won't take too long
And it really won't take us very long
[Outro]
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
All we wanted was a chance to talk
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
All we wanted was a (the charade)
The Charade Q&A
Who wrote The Charade's ?
The Charade was written by ?uestlove & D’Angelo & Kendra Foster.
When did D’Angelo and the Vanguard release The Charade?
D’Angelo and the Vanguard released The Charade on Mon Dec 15 2014.
What did D'Angelo and the Vanguard say about "The Charade"?
It just shows how ongoing this shit is, because I wrote that even before the Trayvon Martin thing happened. It’s crazy that we’re still in the streets protesting the same shit. That song was just about the state of society in general — when I say, “A chance to talk,” that means a chance to come to t...