The Deep

Our mothers were pregnant African women thrown overboard
 While crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships
 We were born breathing water as we did in the womb
 We built our home on the sea floor, unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers
 Until their world came to destroy ours
 With cannons, they searched for oil beneath our cities
 Their greed and recklessness forced our uprising
 Tonight, we remember
 Y'all remember how deep it go
 Started from the bottom
 Y'all remember how deep it go
 'Fore y'all had to come back, deep
 Y'all remember when it used to be deep
 So deep, so, so deep, ay
 When y'all swim up out yo' mama while y'all mama was asleep
 So deep, so, so deep, ay
 And y'all remember when y'all had the dance floor lit, dark
 No two-step, deep, y'all don't even sweat, deep
 As deep as it gets
 Dreaming dead asleep and keeping time
 Y'all heartbeat, deep, y'all heartbeat, deep
 And all the fishes had they eyes bugged out
 'Cause y'all dancing underwater and y'all don't get wet
 And the dark smelled sweet and y'all tails touch reef
 Y'all feed off the bottom, but now y'all remember
 Y'all remember
 Y'all remember
 Pressure outside the vehicle, 832.2 bars
 Y'all remember when the deep got hot when y'all move on up
 How y'all used to argue 'bout the water gettin' warmer
 Still y'all loved a little bit of light up in the deep
 So deep, so, so deep, ay
 Y'all remember sayin' how it couldn't be them two legs
 'Cause y'all came from two legs
 And y'all mamas would've loved y'all if they could've breathed
 But they wasn't ready for the deep
 So deep, so, so deep, ay
 Y'all remember when the first blast came
 And the beat fell off and the dreams got woke
 And the light bent bad and the fishes belly up
 And them coral castles crumbled 'cause they wasn't quite enough
 And conversation used to break like the floor quake
 Like the bleached bones and the fin friends fled from they home
 But the blast wouldn't stop 'caused they wanted black gold
 And them no-heels had to feel it 'cause they couldn't be towed
 Y'all remember
 Y'all remember
 Ocean salinity, 35 PSU
 Water pH, 7.91
 Y'all remember when the raging changed that no pleas, no calm
 Seas, let the water rise, so deep, so, so deep
 Oil slick upon the sleeper was an awful thing to realize
 If the two legs wanna wake the dead
 They gon' have to bring more fire, y'all is closer to the earth, so deep
 And y'all was talkin' how to get up in they heads
 And got them real inspired circumstances of the birth
 Has got y'all feelin' like an army, better yet a navy
 And they gone gave y'all the blessin', now y'all goin' crazy
 They live with green up on the surface but they ain't deep
 That pistol shrimp could knock a two leg off his feet
 Y'all perfecting the steam void to rip up they ships
 They using sonar as second language, y'all fluent with it
 And all the dreamers is woke now, but nightmares swim
 But everybody hear that "bloop", know y'all comin' for them
 Y'all remember
 Y'all remember
 Surface water temperature, 308 Kelvin
 Y'all remember when the call went out, ay
 No deep, no more deep, sunshine
 Y'all remember when the call went out, ay
 No deep, no more deep, sunshine
 Y'all remember feelin' wind up on your skin
 No deep, no more deep, sunshine
 Y'all remember how it burned in the beginning
 No deep, ride on 'em, ride on 'em, ride on 'em
 Y'all remember seein' sun across the surface on the day that
 Y'all first came up out the water, so, so deep
 How the breakin' of the surface showed the sky without a border
 And the air is so much hotter, so, so deep
 How the woke dreamer screamed and it rose tides
 And the waves stretched up like a mountain high
 And the no gills gasp and they closed eyes
 And they pray to they gods and they ask why
 And they all cry too 'cause y'all recognize mama in the faces
 Of the ones that y'all were terrorized
 They were sisters and brothers, they were the babies born up out the water
 Not connected to each other
 Not in knowledge of the one dropped
 But they had to learn today
 Y'all had one shot, let the sun burn today
 Let them feel the dark even deeper today
 Make a two leg a believer today
 Let them know that they done woke a sleeper from a sleep, so deep
 That y'all been dancin' without any feet, so, so deep
 Here's the nerve that they struck with a blast
 That they broke with a drill that they burnt with the gas
 Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
 Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
 Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
 Y'all remember when y'all had to let 'em breathe
 Ride on 'em, ay
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