Baby

They’ll say your accent is odd, your nose is too flat You want to pick a side, your mom’s or your dad’s Unravel the tapestry from one of your halves Go hide behind a colour-less mask Your little toes dipped in the harsh politics And their biting remarks on the food that you eat The pretty girls in the big magazines They don’t look like you, you know what i mean And baby I know things ain’t easy for you these days They don’t understand your ways yet But there ain’t nothing you need to change And baby I know some things are hard to believe When you don’t see your identity As something you’ll fall in love with You don’t learn about your own history at school Everywhere you look, it’s just pieces of you Nobody’s taught you how to deal with your curls Let them define themselves, i promise you’ll learn About yourself, by working twice as hard To ignore those who tell you who you are The grass looks greener on the other side But you’ve got a whole damn garden growing inside And baby I know things ain’t easy for you these days They don’t understand your ways yet But there ain’t nothing you need to change And baby I know some things are hard to believe When you don’t see your identity As something you’ll fall in love with