"Song 33" lyrics
"Song 33"
Oh, I have ambitions, dreams
But dreams don't come cheap
I saw a demon on my shoulder, it's lookin' like patriarchy
Like scrubbin' blood off the ceiling and bleachin' another carpet
How my house get haunted?
Why Toyin body don't embody all the life she wanted?
A baby, just nineteen
I know I dream all black
I seen her everything, immortalizin' tweets all caps
They say they found her dead
One girl missin', another one go missin'
One girl missin', another
But niggas in the back quiet as a church mouse
Basement studio when duty calls to get the verse out
I guess the ego hurt now
It's time to go to work, wow, look at him go
He really 'bout to write about me when the world is in smokes?
When it's people in trees?
When George was beggin' for his mother, saying he couldn't breathe
You thought to write about me?
One girl missin', another one go missin'
One girl missin', another one
Yo, but little did I know all my readin' would be a bother
It's trans women bein' murdered and this is all he can offer?
And this is all y'all receive?
Distracting from the convo with organizers
They talkin' abolishin' the police
And this the new world order
We democratizin' Amazon, we burn down borders
This a new vanguard, this a new vanguard
I'm the new vanguard
Writer(s): Fatimah Warner, Otis Jackson Jr.
"Song 33", released on the 19th of June 2020, is a response to
J. Cole's song,
"Snow on tha Bluff" released on the 17th of June 2020 which is referenced in the line
"He really 'bout to write about me when the world is in smokes?"
"Why Toyin body don't embody all the life she wanted?" is a reference to Oluwatoyin Salau, an African-American 19-years-old girl, who died on the 13th of June 2020 after having been sexually molested one week prior.
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