Color Lines-Watsky/Catch Wreck

[ti:Color Lines (feat. Catch Wreck] [ar:Watsky] [al:Watsky] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Color Lines - Watsky/Catch Wreck [00:24.64]Your first rap show posted in the back row [00:26.89]Of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning that hoe [00:29.71]Pretty soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops [00:32.45]Pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the lights off [00:35.21]It's like a cyclops with one closed eye [00:37.58]You can tell me that you're winking but the grin won't lie [00:40.08]And no mouth supplies what your skin tone hides [00:42.70]About a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies [00:45.50] [00:46.58]And then we're playing he said she said [00:48.46]I see red when I peep a pink cheeked boston meathead [00:51.71]I wanna go Bruce Lee [00:53.70]When I see him on the T taking up two seats [00:56.14]And say "excuse me but would you move if hell froze " [00:59.52]You know the subway is the underground railroad [01:01.64] [01:02.29]Lynch trees have the same white limbs [01:04.66]Check out my arms I look just like him [01:07.41]These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [01:13.16]These color lines these color lines been here since jump [01:17.10] [01:18.58]I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [01:23.33]I write these color lines these color line [01:28.96]Let's you and I get one thing straight [01:31.33]The game never been equal ain't no food on my plate [01:33.91]I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited [01:37.66]And packaged it and wouldn't give me half of it [01:39.85]Peep how I master this and break down how you took it all [01:42.89]Raped the culture and you standing there looking all [01:45.14]Innocent take a mile when I give and inch [01:48.00]And how you getting rich is it a coincidence [01:50.32]Or is it ignorance You don't know your own privilege [01:53.57]You own riches and don't know what homeless is [01:55.88]You got a lot to learn before you even think about [01:58.57]Hip hop black culture and which fitted you pickin out [02:01.13]Nigger in the street I don't think so bro [02:03.76]My people ain't supportin your black history show [02:06.25]So stop what you doing we won't take it anymore [02:09.13]Before you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door [02:12.51]These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [02:17.94]These color lines these color lines been here since jump [02:23.32]I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [02:27.94]I write these color lines these color lines [02:33.94]I see the color lines [02:35.19]It's tough that Every other time a bother rhymes [02:37.44]White mothers think of gutter crimes [02:39.01]We keep our standard higher [02:40.33]We don't kick lower rhymes [02:41.83]Other times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds [02:44.40]All you gotta do is get past the guilt [02:46.89]We ain't living in a house that master built [02:49.39]If you understand that tell your people what you know [02:52.14]Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe [02:54.75]Yes My great grands had land had slaves [02:57.63]I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made [02:59.89] [03:00.50]But I want independance past the declaration [03:03.07]But one down a** white boy can't pay for reparations [03:05.88]I'm running out of patience while you do the work of Satan [03:08.58]Like an impulse Edu Leedz Black history's an insult [03:10.89]Number one I'm not trying to tell your story [03:14.04]I just want to sit on my porch drink a forty and spit [03:16.91]Number two cause You can smell bullshit [03:19.04]I just love hip hop [03:20.60]Pinky swear that's it [03:21.85]If you love hip hop respect it [03:23.35]That includes the people who created it and paved the way for this [03:26.47]So that you're making it [03:27.44]You're talking on who's making it I'll play devil's advocate [03:29.56] [03:30.13]A lot of black music has white dollars backing it [03:32.25](Kweli's got it on lock) [03:34.01]Rupert Murdoch funded Rawkus [03:35.32]You looking for the keys then you better check the pockets [03:37.88]I'll be checking pockets all right [03:39.69]As soon as it gets dark and all night [03:41.81]I'ma get my money we can all fight [03:44.00]You taking out the high and the mighty [03:45.88]And their kids [03:46.64]You say kill whitey [03:47.50]I say call i live [03:48.94]You're not black militant [03:50.25]Killing us diligent [03:51.75]Grab my fam and grandma and light us up like a filament [03:54.69]I thought we were cool now I'm this close to giving in [03:57.25]Just put a bullet in for each missed dose of Ritalin [04:00.32]These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [04:05.52]These color lines these color lines been here since jump [04:09.71] [04:11.16]I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [04:15.78]I write these color lines these color lines [04:21.97]These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [04:27.28]These color lines these color lines been here since jump [04:32.73]I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [04:37.44]I write these color lines these color lines