Strange Fruit

Preacher man, preacher man, preacher man I heard you've been saving souls Preacher man, preacher man, preacher man Tell me who's in control My people are tired, my people are famished And some of em hanging from trees A cool southern breeze carries her screams When she see's blood on the leaves They call it strange fruit I see an uprising beyond the horizon If you could see it it's so terrifying But why is it dying before it can ripen They pillage the village and raped all our women The country we're building has sold off our children But where is my mule and my 40 acres They tell me that this is the birth of a nation If I tell you my secrets, just promise you keep it The fruit I'm producing is beyond their reaches But they still seek it I know it's egregious That melanin nectar has no kind of weakness The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice The sweeter the juice the blacker the berry The stranger the fruit the stranger the fruit They killed Malcom x and they killed martin Luther But history books don't mention Mansa Musa I'm Harriet Tubman I'm Sojourner Truth Nat in his prime a panther is loose I don't wear a last name just to honor you bastards I've sharpened my axe up just to kill all my masters But keep on believing that Caesar is Jesus White washing the history spreading diseases I pray to my God to get rid of these spirits If my face is bruised up and blemished like Emetts This is not life if you cry then don't grimace But this is not Christ they ain't made in his image Can't read I can't write they did that on purpose too The bullshit they serve to you indentured servitude But no reparations for all this free labor But we still treat them like saviors If I tell you my secrets, just promise you keep it The fruit I'm producing is beyond their reaches But they still seek it I know it's egregious That melanin nectar has no kind of weakness The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice The sweeter the juice the blacker the berry The stranger the fruit the stranger the fruit