[00:00.000] 作曲 : Genesis Mohanraj/Bijan Amir/Andre Denim/David Biral/Denzel Michael-Akil Baptiste[00:15.682]How can I explain?[00:16.687]Blood in my veins[00:18.192]Like liquid pain[00:19.697]Ancestral shame[00:21.474]How women were tamed[00:22.978]How men behaved[00:24.484]My lineage[00:26.271]Cyclical rage[00:27.023][00:29.285]Child brides then child widows[00:31.036]Orphans on both sides[00:32.290]Silenced women, silenced children[00:34.549]The fear of God[00:35.308]But the wrath of humans[00:36.563]The domestic, the righteous[00:38.568]The Book of Genesis[00:39.572]And the night shifts[00:40.572]We barely made ends meet[00:42.077]We were always on our feet[00:43.334]Moving from one place to another[00:44.841]One face became another[00:46.383]Just a kid taking shelter[00:48.212]How do you make someonelike me?[00:49.730]You repress a generation[00:51.248]How do you create an outburst of identity?[00:52.753]You gaslight a generation[00:55.273]You can only stop the wave for so long before the tidal[00:57.782]You can only tie the hands and not the eyeballs[01:00.290]The caste system divided my family[01:02.074]The backwaters and the sugar cane fields[01:05.206]Now all they had to their name[01:06.210]Kicked out of the temple[01:07.248]Land we owned[01:08.275]But exiled from Hindu to Christian[01:10.158]From chosen to orphan[01:11.538]And so I descend[01:13.673]If you look at the chain[01:14.549]You see good girls and bad boys[01:15.993]If you look at the chain[01:17.927]You see a world underwater with no gills[01:20.477]You can't breathe[01:20.851]You can't swim deeper[01:21.732]You can't even sleep[01:22.482]Stay awake so you don't drown[01:23.610]Stay alert so you won't get put back down[01:24.115][01:26.120](They say women can't be God)[01:27.625]Women can't be solo[01:28.753]Women can't be rappers[01:30.133]Women can't talk about sexuality[01:31.889]It's blasphemous[01:32.903]But in their contrast[01:34.282]They created me[01:35.412]The darkness reveals the light[01:37.169]The righteous inspires the rebellion[01:38.930]And **** am I inspired[01:39.465][01:41.723]How can I explain?[01:43.495]Blood in my veins[01:44.874]Like liquid pain[01:46.516]Ancestral shame[01:47.897]How women were tamed[01:49.545]How men behaved[01:50.955]My lineage[01:52.710]Cyclical rage[01:58.658][02:01.166](When I see your face)[02:06.981](My lineage, cyclical rage)[02:08.236](She wouldn't say my name)[02:15.261](My lineage)