Bree:
Weighing heavy on my mind
Tryna find that word to define how I feel
Cause every time I recline
Something goes down to remind me the dream ain't real
And it's jolting to me
to realize all the lies
it's insulting to me
But that's the burden of the young, black and gifted
tryna stay lifted
in a world that keeps us stinted
just cause we pigmented
They say go be exceptional
and professional
but them khakis can't fix
what is institutional
So we say f*** it
Cause we ain't got no time for a summit
They tryna wipe us out
cause they don't want no real republic
and when we broach the subject
they try to deflect
Drag a name through the mud
they ain't got no respect
and yet
you want me to respect authority
It don't make you right just cause you majority
Y'all be quoting King while you pushing a button
to drop some bombs on some babies like you ain't doing nothing
that's why you aint got no jurisdiction with me
can't handcuff knowledge, so Ms. Bree stay free
I went through college, in the hood I be
spreading love to my brothers and my sister I keep, like

Stay strong, boo and know that I love you
Hug yourself if nobody else do
Yeah I know they tryna take you down
They wanna steal your life and then take your crown but
Stay strong, boo and know that I love you
Hug yourself if nobody else do
Yeah I know they tryna take you down
They wanna steal your life and then take your crown

7thSoana:
We still on a mission
I'm still in the kitchen
they tryna take my present cause I'm young, black and gifted
Talking down on me cause I came to get them lifted
Interrogating cause I fit the description
Keep on thinking that we all dumb, down and ignorant
Like it ain't no kings and queens in our lineage
They just wanna take my experience
They lack understanding of the infinite
But thank God for protocols
So any man enslaves another man will surely fall
And that's the law of the universe
See we were more than just some mere serfs
they're still arguing bout who came first
like they ain't never wore the same shirt, twice
the chicken or the egg
See evil cares not whose damn blood it sheds

Bree:
Stay strong, boo and know that I love you
Hug yourself if nobody else do
7thSoana:
Yeah I know they tryna take you down
They wanna steal your life and then take your crown, but
Bree:
Stay strong, boo and know that I love you
Hug yourself if nobody else do
7thSoana:
Yeah I know they tryna take you down
They wanna steal your life and then take your crown

Bree:
Brown as mahogany
Dreaming what he wanna be
hoping that he gonna be
surviving all this gunnery
So much of his time goes to dodging bullets
And half of the time it was a cop that pulled it
It's real
It's hard to know your country never loved you
living like occupied people in the gulf do
Black bodies used up and tossed aside
and when emancipation came, then they broke out the stripes
Now they tryna lock us up and lock us out for life
and they be tryna block us every time we demand rights
Cuz America be fronting as the land of the free
While it's locking up reporters and suppressing our speech
But we gon keep on speaking,
we're standing on the freedom side
the light we're beaming
will shine a light on all the lies
and we ain't leaving
tip every child can sleep at night
and wake up in the dawn
feeling strong
in her human rights

Oohh... Stay strong, stay strong, stay strong
Oohh... Stay strong, stay strong, stay strong
And you know you must
you've got to stay strong
you've got to fight on
you've got to stay strong