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Green Tea

from Temporary Colors by Vahn Black

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I’ve been in my head so much
I’m getting kind of dizzy
Overthinking this and that
The choices keep me busy
Running like olympics
Hope to stumble
Hella trippy
Mm
Guess that gene ain’t miss me

Talking to myself
No psilocybin but I’m hazy
Been this way so long I’m convinced that I’m just crazy
Heard I could get help and I’ve been thinking bout it lately

Family say I need some Jesus
Say I’m being lazy
Friends just say I need to turn up
Stop crying like a baby
Cuz talking ‘bout my issues is a no no
And looking strong is king

Swinging back and forth just like a pend’lum
Often thinking “am I just alive, not really living?”
Searching for the yellow bricks that lead me
To the answers of existence

Oh how my heart has stiffened
From words unwritten
Self-harming indecision
Inner division
Digging myself a grace no kidding
But it’s just my normal day

Ancestors do my bidding
I need a fixing
My angels they be snitching
With no tongue bitten
So I stop and listen
To learn a better way

If you let this world will turn you bitter like a green tea
Wondering where you went wrong like momma and ya aunties
Carr’ing ‘round those hand-me-down weights
‘Cause if you let this world will turn you bitter like a green tea
Wondering where you went wrong like momma and ya aunties
Free your heart and don’t delay

If I do the work for myself
Maybe we’ll be free
If I do the work for myself maybe we’ll be free
No more time for la di da
I’ve got to do the deed
Gotta find a way to get us some peace

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from Temporary Colors, released June 19, 2020
Written and produced by Jada N.E. Henderson

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Vahn Black Atlanta, Georgia

Born and raised in Detroit, Vahn Black grew up surrounded by the sounds of Motown, Jazz, Techno, and Gospel music. Black's work in music research and passion for storytelling is at the center of her music. Her latest work centers stories of blues giant Gladys Bentley’s life and career as told in the 1952 Ebony magazine article I Am a Woman Again. ... more

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