Dear Black Son-Brother Ali

[ti:Dear Black Son] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:All The Beauty In This Whole Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dear Black Son (亲爱的黑人孩子) - Brother Ali [00:11.17]Dear black son there's people you've never met [00:14.05] [00:14.71]Who fear and hate you for something that you never did [00:17.14] [00:18.22]And these people are so self-convinced [00:20.60]Sometimes they pull the trigger call that self-convinced [00:22.90] [00:23.70]And in that sad insanity [00:25.17] [00:25.72]Their fear is realer to them than your humanity [00:28.23] [00:29.50]But that's their problem it's not yours [00:31.23] [00:32.07]Listen to your pop for a second [00:34.33]These are the confessions of a father broken hearted [00:36.97]Who don't know how to pull his only son out of a target [00:39.71]They lied when they said it was the bottom where you started [00:42.55]You were a king long before them ships departed [00:44.67] [00:45.39]You are not defined by anybody else's crimes [00:47.78] [00:48.30]You don't need to answer for what happens in their minds [00:51.01]You are not confined by their imaginary lines [00:53.87]You don't need permission to exist with the divine [00:56.27] [00:56.83]In fact you don't need permission from no one including me [00:59.55]You need not do anything but be just breathe [01:02.67]Whatever you dream let it mean you're free [01:05.12]Tears on your cheek never made nobody weak [01:07.82]Sometimes we got to grieve let it burn let it bleed [01:10.62]Then let yourself heal pray to god that it will [01:13.72]You've got a spirit that a bullet can't kill [01:16.24]That doesn't make it any less real [01:18.36]They say it takes a man to raise a man [01:21.23]You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand [01:24.27]And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass [01:27.13] [01:28.12]Maybe see how long I can make an hour last [01:30.38] [01:31.13]Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand [01:35.54]And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass [01:38.81] [01:39.48]Maybe see how long I can make an hour last [01:41.76] [01:47.09]Dear black son [01:47.87] [02:04.03]Dear black son I can't protect you like I want to [02:07.55]I never judge you all I can do is love you [02:10.12]And that's all anyone can ever do is love you [02:12.92]All I can do is wonder how can anyone not love you [02:15.48] [02:16.96]They recognize divine you [02:18.26] [02:19.00]So they try to find themselves by defining you [02:21.30] [02:21.97]They're living in a myth that they don't want to lose [02:24.21]And now they're too terrified to face your kind of truth [02:26.67] [02:27.68]But every single time you shine [02:29.31]It's proof that they might've threw a chain around your body [02:31.65]Never conquered you [02:32.62] [02:33.23]They don't always honor you but they love your culture [02:35.41] [02:36.12]Let me show you how to move when the laws approach you [02:38.39] [02:38.97]It's best to keep your hands where they can see them [02:41.24]And try to understand that you're not even what they're peeping [02:43.97]They don't see a sweet kid that loves his little sister [02:46.69]Their mind is seeing five hundred years of pictures [02:49.60] [02:50.28]In fact they don't visualize a kid [02:52.21]They see grown man imagery mythic masculinity [02:55.28]But you are not their fetishes or fears [02:57.43]Nor my ambition and tears nothing can interfere [03:00.50] [03:01.55]We've got to trust our seeds once we sow them [03:03.76]We hold them when they're growing [03:05.18]But we never really own them [03:06.51]We love up on them play with 'em pray for them [03:09.65]And cling very closely to them moments [03:11.54]They say it takes a man to raise a man [03:14.24]You're slipping through my hands like grains of sand [03:16.76] [03:17.28]And here I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass [03:20.20] [03:21.28]Maybe see how long I can make an hour last [03:23.42] [03:24.24]Raising a man who's slipping through my hands like grains of sand [03:28.08] [03:28.60]And her I stand tryna wrestle with the hourglass [03:31.73] [03:32.57]Maybe see how long I can make an hour last [03:34.72] [03:35.37]Dear black son