Willie Breeding - Synesthesia lyrics
In a field of bluegra** A green stop sign Pouring black rain Glowing gray skies Tiny white lies A black wedding dress A world of white rappers And black presidents Boys wearing pink Girls wearing blue Hot with Technicolor And incandescent hues Sodalite blues Over silver black seas Skies of lavender Atomic tangerine Kaleidoscopic dreams In cream-colored rooms Slaves locked in chains Of red, white, and blue Shades of faded freedom Burn sienna through the sunset This house is built of goodbyes And needles under swing sets Broken hearts and fake friends PTSD war vets, pushing politicians Backing hate crimes and racists Sign posts in language And overdue mortgage statements Liquidate a family's a**ets To satisfy housing payments Throw away a life of savings A single mother's investments Send her children off to college A chance to be something better Now they're packing up possessions In cardboard boxes whatever Staring blankly out the window Still moments in their perception Chorus 1 (x1): In a field of bluegra** A green stop sign Pouring black rain Glowing gray skies Tiny white lies A black wedding dress A world of white rappers And black presidents Green doesn't mean go Red doesn't mean stop How we learn color All depends on what we're taught So we walk between the lines Stop and go with flashing lights In a world full of color All we see is black and white Synesthesia Bridge Red, Blue Left, Right Us, Them Black, White Christian, m**m Wrong, Right Push, Pull d**h, Life Verse 2 I toss and turn in my sleep During dreams of my childhood Remembering dark streets And friends that the night took Blue ribbons and purple hearts Black panthers with white guilt Words written in white ink A Jesus with black skin Exists where the dead live Sleeping walking on pain pills White powder in dollar bills Tornados in nostrils Divisions cannot heal Until people can see clear Where cultural common sense Meets colors of one's skin Our nation cannot heal Until patterns in how we think See it's us against us Not us against them Colorless lost lives Of colorful lifetimes Should not leave us colorblind But show us where color lies Chorus 2 (x1) Bridge Rich, Poor Old, Young Gay, Straight Hate, Love Hearing, Color Seeing, Sound Tasting, Words Lost, Found End Song