I'm an alien from inner space They can't read my mind all in my face No one knows I'd rather spend my days alone on my pillow [Verse 1] I don't care what they say I've been waiting for so long Call me by my name They keep telling me I'm wrong We are not the same I don't belong here I don't belong here I'm feeling high My money's gone Can't find my home I wanna go To my own private planet I've been dreaming of Little moon in my head I be moving on Up and away Up and away [Hook] Just cos I'm born here Don't mean I'm from here I'm ready to run And rocket to sun I'm way up I'm way up [Refrain] I'm an alien from inner space They can't read my mind all in my face No one knows I'd rather spend my days alone on my pillow [Bridge] Earth's getting old So color me gone I'm ready to run And rocket to sun And it ain't so bad So don't look so sad Just cos I'm born here Don't mean I'm from here [Hook] Just cos I'm born here Don't mean I'm from here I'm ready to run And rocket to sun I'm way up I'm way up
This for the girls that don't need no makeup when they wake up
For the ones who rockin' lace fronts, you know, I ain't gon' say none
Hashtag and you're single, you fresh off the break-up
For the introverts, no, we don't gotta say much
[Pre-Chorus: DeJ Loaf]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Real love, less friends
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin
[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated
[Verse 2: Leon Bridges]
Fight back for so long, baby, break on outta your chains
You don't have to aim to please, or be a certain way
Don't aspire to be what you see in the magazines
There's only one you, and one me
[Pre-Chorus: Dej Loaf & Leon Bridges]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Wanna shake it, baby (shake it, baby) like I know you can
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin
[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
Say, people gettin' liberated
Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
Hey, get up on your feet
People gettin' liberated
[Bridge: DeJ Loaf]
When I was young, I was told, "What you reap is what you sow"
Life ain't always sunny, don't get caught up in the glow
And I don't know it all but I see as I grow
Can't take the pain away 'cause it's in my soul
[Pre-Chorus: DeJ Loaf & Leon Bridges]
If you feel free then you should lift your hands
Wanna shake it, baby (wanna shake it, baby) like I know you can
So many things in this world I don't understand
I won't judge who you love, or your brown skin
[Chorus: Leon Bridges, with DeJ Loaf & DeJ Loaf]
People gettin' liberated
Hey, get up on your feet if you got the feeling
You got the feeling
You can be free
Get up on your feet
Say, people gettin' liberated
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Get up on your feet if you got the feeling
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You ain't gotta worry no more
Get up on your feet
You are eternal. You are neither here nor there, but everywhere. You carry the hood in your veins and academia in your heart. You have not forgotten where you come from, but have learned and earned your way into spaces not meant for you. Spaces that are uninviting to your kind. You are poderosa like that. Your vocabulary is vast and your wit is sharp. You are unstoppable.
You feel everything and feel nothing. You carry loads of pain for the displacement you’ve felt due to your need to question everything. But have had to accept living that confused and living that awake because once you’ve heard your chains rattle, you cannot unhear them. You do this for you, but you also do this for your mami and your papi and your little hermanita who does not seem to understand herself outside the boxes that our cultura has placed her in.
You belong to no one but are accountable to many. La Raza depends on you. Do not let anyone else tell you differently. You complicate respectability politics...
