Letra de Shades of Jade - Lyrics Born

(Feat. Joyo Velarde, Lateef the Truthspeaker)

LB, baby

LB, baby

Uh, now people don’t know all this

But behind the performances and those poems I spit

All the showmanship and those cold ass fits

I struggle with extreme loneliness

Overtures and bids

To connect with folks, go unnoticed and miss

I try holdin’ it in

Play close to the vest

When I scroll through my phone, I notice all my closest friends

Disappeared like the ocean mist

The light along the coast, it grows so dim

How do I cope with it? All those cliche ways you can think of

Drink up one cup, 2 cups, 13 cups

Link up with people beneath my frequency

My inner circle got inner circles got inner circles like a tree trunk

Thirst to be perfect, be worthy, be enough

Hard to keep up

I just keep adding beads on the string 'til I’m freed up

And one day I’m healed up

Pain and uncertainty are free, but peace takes effort, and we ain’t guaranteed love

Shades of jade

Cloudy or clear

Beads on a string

Keep adding on

Keep adding on

First of all, motherfuckas could narry be me

Know how I know? I can barely be me

Pretty as I am, witty as I am

Some can’t embrace what ethnicity I am

Not everybody ready to mentally expand

Get beyond whatever barrier they in

Got called racial slurs every day from the age of four 'til I was of age to pour that creme liqueur

By then, my spirit was scrapped and sore

I thought fame was the cure for what I wasn’t getting and the pain I endured

Saw pops once a year but he ain’t speak the language

Moms problematic

Unc’s in the streets active

I was caregiver, peacemaker, therapist of the family

A lot for anyone, let alone a 10-year-old

That’s why show biz the perfect venue, though

Hey, look at me, look how great I am, look how paid I am

All the fame I have

All of this is really a repayment plan

'Cause I needed fam to give that validation stamp

I needed parenting, I needed security

I might be in therapy, but I made it, man

So while they debating who the best Asian this and that is

Best LB statement

Greatest piece of work I’ve ever created

And recreated, and keep creating, and repeat daily

It's LB, baby

LB, baby

Shades of jade (LB, baby)

Cloudy or clear

Beads on a string

Keep adding on

Keep adding on

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh (LB, baby)

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh (LB, baby)

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh (LB, baby)

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (LB, baby)

(LB, baby)

(LB, baby)

(LB, baby)

(LB, baby)

Shades of jade

Cloudy or clear

(Go on and change your mind again)

Beads on a string

Keep adding on

Keep adding on

Day after day

Cloudy or clear

(Go on and change your mind again)

Beads on a string

Keep adding on

Keep adding on

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