Bloom

by Jamilla

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[Nina Simone sample: I think what you’re trying to ask is why am I so insistent upon giving out to them that blackness, that black power, that black pushing them to identify with black culture. To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world, black people. And I mean that in every sense, outside and inside. And to me we have a culture that is surpassed by no other civilisation but we don’t know anything about it]

Verse 1:
He says I’m too dark for him, too urban
He can’t run his fingers through my hair
He’s ignorant enough to think my skin’s dark, that I’m taboo
Man, I can’t imagine what the real dark girls go through

Chorus:
We are the ones that get stomped on and left behind
We never see the light, we never feel the sunshine
But we’ll love and we’ll grow through concrete, through snow
We will grow
In a dark room, no matter what you do ‘cause black flowers, they bloom

Verse 2:
You want a pretty white girl with long blonde hair that falls down her back and flows through the air
Well that’s not me, that’s not me
But you’ll fantasise about me, you’ll fetishize my body
I’m not something to try on like clothes in a shop then put me back when you’ve gotten off no
He says I’m too colourful to fit in his life, well he won’t be blessed with a woman of colour as his wife

Chorus:
We are the ones that get stomped on and left behind
We never see the light, we never feel the sunshine
But we’ll love and we’ll grow through concrete, through snow
We will grow
In a dark room, no matter what you do ‘cause black flowers, they bloom

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released March 19, 2020

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