《Pray For Me》歌词

[00:00:00] Pray For Me - Brother Ali

[00:00:11] Somebody pray for me

[00:00:12] Bless his bless his heart

[00:00:16] Somebody please pray for me

[00:00:17] Bless his bless his heart

[00:00:21] Somebody pray for me

[00:00:22] Bless his bless his heart

[00:00:26] What more could you say to me

[00:00:27] Bless his bless his heart

[00:00:33] The first day of third grade

[00:00:35] Topic of discussion at the kick ball game

[00:00:37] Is who's the new student why he look that way

[00:00:39] A eight year old expert determined I've got aids

[00:00:42] A vote must've been taken it became my name

[00:00:44] I mean literally aids is my name okay

[00:00:47] It made its way around the school and eventually

[00:00:49] I heard a teacher try to catch herself as she yelled it to me

[00:00:52] I tried to be invisible honestly

[00:00:54] Wishing that the ground would just open up swallow me

[00:00:57] What kind of crime did I commit for this mockery

[00:01:00] Guess I must've lost some kind of cosmic lottery

[00:01:02] How am I processing this at a baby's age

[00:01:05] It felt like I had a gut full of razor blades

[00:01:08] I fantasized someone else would come take my place

[00:01:10] Because they taught me to hate my face

[00:01:12] Somebody please pray for me

[00:01:14] Bless his bless his heart

[00:01:18] Somebody pray for me

[00:01:19] Bless his bless his heart

[00:01:23] Somebody please pray for me

[00:01:24] Bless his bless his heart

[00:01:28] What more could you say to me

[00:01:29] Bless his bless his heart

[00:01:35] Imagine how my mama felt

[00:01:37] Obviously she want to offer me some kind of help

[00:01:39] Pretty white lady never probably dealt

[00:01:41] With this particular type of hell

[00:01:43] If she dyed my hair blonde maybe I can blend

[00:01:46] Get a better response maybe even a friend

[00:01:48] She took me to the salon put chemicals in my head

[00:01:51] When they took the towel off it was purple in the end

[00:01:54] Lot of money spent just to get me presentable

[00:01:56] Message that it sent the real you ain't acceptable

[00:01:59] I knew what she meant what else could she expect to do

[00:02:02] That was just the lens that she viewed protection though

[00:02:04] And so eventually I began to see that

[00:02:06] What grows out of me is my dirty little secret

[00:02:09] Had to go back every few weeks to keep it

[00:02:12] I think that part depressed me the deepest

[00:02:14] Somebody please pray for me

[00:02:16] Bless his bless his heart

[00:02:19] Somebody pray for me

[00:02:21] Bless his bless his heart

[00:02:25] Somebody please pray for me

[00:02:26] Bless his bless his heart

[00:02:30] What more could you say to me

[00:02:31] Bless his bless his heart

[00:02:36] Thank god for the grown ups

[00:02:38] That roll up when they know it's time to hold us

[00:02:40] The elder queen showed so much homegrown love

[00:02:43] She said hair doesn't die but your soul does

[00:02:46] She said Elvis wore his hair in a pompadour

[00:02:48] So he could try to look like muddy waters more

[00:02:51] But he would fry his crown so that he could lay it down

[00:02:54] Like a white boy they called it a conk before

[00:02:56] Until James brown came kicked down the door

[00:02:59] Say it loud I'm black and I'm proud my boy

[00:03:01] That the meaning behind the afros and all

[00:03:04] Get free being what it is that you know you are

[00:03:06] She said beauty's the splendor of truth

[00:03:08] You will never cut loose 'til you're suitable to you

[00:03:11] And your living is the proof just let it do what it do

[00:03:14] Now watch them follow suit and try to catch up to you

[00:03:16] Somebody musta prayed for me

[00:03:18] Bless his bless his heart

[00:03:21] Somebody prayed for me

[00:03:23] Bless his bless his heart

[00:03:26] Somebody musta prayed for me

[00:03:28] Bless his bless his heart

[00:03:32] What more could you say to me

[00:03:33] Bless his bless his heart