INTRO
(performed by Tsega Beloved)
Breathing in the tide
Black as night
Black beloved
Break your back
Break a covenant

No one seems to understand
Dreams as far as never-land

Never again will I abandon me
Traded all my fears for a black fantasy

VERSE I
I’m no longer a slave
I’m no longer a victim, babe
I have built myself up
I acknowledge that
I am good enough

VERSE II
For so long I believed
Black skin was flawed, incomplete
It took time, but now I see
Best to follow the path paved from my black feet

CHORUS
This ain’t no fantasy dream...
Black girl, you’re capable of any and all things
Look, girl, at all you’ve achieved
And breathe a sigh of relief
Release

VERSE III
I am no slave, not no more
No longer blue as the bruises I’ve endured
I’m powerful, call me Queen
And come correct, my people been royalty

VERSE IV
Black folx been locked up in chains and shackles
The only key we received, made of false hope
These policies are ingrained, it’s a cycle
These policies only changed for them white folx

VERSE V
All this talk, asking “Martin or Malcolm?”
Either way their dark skin posed a problem
At 17, face to faith with a rifle
We’ve seen the news, we’re aware of the outcome

CHORUS
This ain’t no fantasy dream...
Black girl, we’re capable of any and all things
Look, girl, at all we’ve achieved
And breathe a sigh of relief
Release

HOOK
It’s bout time that you release
Release, release, release, release
Ad-libs...

CHORUS
This ain’t no fantasy dream...
Black folx, we’re capable of any and all things
Look, y’all, at all we’ve achieved
And breathe a sigh of relief...
Release

Release...

INTERLUDE
It was never meant to be easy
But you were also meant to get thru it