GIRLS // Poetry --reupload (2016)

Black Girls (The Black Girl Experience) (Lyrical)

[Verse]
Little girls in
Tutus, tiaras, and tea parties
White porcelain dolls made for darker bodies
How do I fit into a world that wasn't made for me?
How do I run in sneakers too size too small - will I trip n fall?

[Chorus]
How do I fit in when I was born to stand out, from the crowd
How do I make myself small when I was born tall, like the trees, tell me
How do I fit in when I was born to stand out, from the crowd
Won't be quite when I was made to be loud
Won't be afraid to stand up and speak out
I am bold, I am cold
I am everything in between two extremes

[Verse]
Hard not to feel like an animal at a zoo
When everyone is observing my every move
And critiquing my body through a magnifying glass
(Like is that ass real, and how does that hair feel?
Everything about my body is turned into a big deal; it's so surreal)
Don't touch what's not yours
Do I have to remind you, like a child?

[Chorus]
How do I fit in when I was born to stand out, from the crowd
How do I make myself small when I was born tall, like the trees, tell me
How do I fit in when I was born to stand out, from the crowd
Won't be quite when I was made to be loud
Won't be afraid to stand up and speak out
I am bold, I am cold
I am everything in between two extremes

[Outro]
Brown - how dark till it's enough?
Coarse - how much till it's rough?
Change, everything about yourself
Cause you're not enough, not good enough
Bleach, your skin then your hair
Be pretty and fair or stay ugly if you dare
Brown - how dark till it's enough?
Coarse - how much till it's rough?
Straighten your coils, don't be spoiled
Be a good girl now

What's good hair? Anything but your own
Hypersexualized, little girls acting too grown
They say we grew fast
As if we had any choice
I'm just a product of my environment