Eli Arbor - The Morning After lyrics

[Intro: Eli Arbor] It's morning We stand next to each other fighting for space in my tiny bathroom mirror She sees a zit and pops it for me I see a hair clip she missed "Should I whiten my teeth?" I ask her [Verse: Jae] No, I like your stains Would you ask me to erase the bad parts of your brain? Would you ask me if you should change the skin your in? Just to make yourself feel less strange Cause I love you for who you are For me you've always been a shooting star Here today but gone tomorrow Now your here to stay please won't you be my sun? And I can be your moon, without you I won't shine for anyone Cause you've seen my dark sides Seen me change with the tides Seen me be the me that I hide on the inside Seen me rise when the night fell, and fall in the day Seen me race across the sky to chase these fake stars away But they never stay, always trail in their wake But you shine bright, so your light can help me forget And I keep telling you this but you won't listen You'll always be Eli, even if Eli is different [Hook, Part 1: Jae] I don't need you, don't need you I don't need you, don't need you I don't need you, don't need you I know my worth don't need the word of someone else And you don't me, don't need me You don't me, don't need me You don't me, don't need me You need to see your worth and learn to love yourself [Hook, Part 2: Eli Arbor] But I want you, I want you I want you, I want you But I want you, I want you That's the most honest thing I'll ever say And you want me, you want me Yeah you want me, you want me Well I just hope that you want me, you want me But if I don't love myself then how can you stay? [Interlude: James Baldwin] ...because the flesh is all you have If you mortify that, there's no hope for you Everything you find out, you find out through your senses Everything awful that happens to you and everything marvelous that happens to you happens to you in this frame This tenement, this mortal envelope Which it should be Instead of beating it with chains and hammering nails through it and hanging it on crosses It should be, the celebration: your life, your body And in that concept comes back into the world It will come back only through the black people that have been submerged so long And that will change not only the black personality, that will change the world I've seen janitors, black janitors in overalls, prouder than any English king With a much more real pride And that is what I would like to see Anyway, the change in personality will come about in that direction Because as, as one begins to come out of the mines and strike off the chains By some miracle what was nearly murdered in Africa is still there Humanity cannot be destroyed And that's what's coming back [Outro: Donald Glover] ...I mean we're all alone in the end If that's the way it has to be