Uncomfortable In My Own Skin

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Peel back my skin you’ll see my nerves having uncontrollable spasms

Why? Cause I’m uncomfortable in my own skin

Have you looked at my skin lately?

The shade is repulsive

I’m constantly wanting to switch skins with the other men

I’m com-pul-sively, un-con-troll-ably

uncomfortable in my own skin

 

From what I’ve learned since childhood

the brighter the skin, the better the men

white is pure, glory, black is evil

Society told me God loves everything white better including people

They’re constantly pounding in my head

Deadbeat Dads, crack add-icts, prison yard faggots, we’re worthless maggots,

Welfare recipients – I’ve had it!

I’m uncomfortable in my own skin!

 

And T.V. doesn’t help my self image, it just continues to blemish

Murderers, armed robbers, car jackers, drug traffickers

I’m surprised they don’t make mug shots blacker

To drive home the fictional point that my kind are the only ones doing crime

Best believe we’re the ones serving time

And you wonder why

I’m uncomfortable in my own skin!

 

I’m also uneducated, only if you call a 9^th grade education adequate

Another one of society’s self esteem lowering tactics

Now minimum wage lies ahead, forced to work with my hands, not my head

Scrounging pennies till I’m dead, got six mouths to feed, one bed to sleep, no self-esteem

Cause I can’t feed my family

Father forgive me

I hope this is not a sin, but I’m uncomfortable in my skin

 

With clarity of mind, I’ve come to realize that callin women bitches, and hos’,

Pumping the community with kilos of snow

Totin glocks with infared beams, teenage pregnancy

All apart of society’s scheme

To perpetuate self hate, well we’ve taken the bait

I’m not the only who is

Uncomfortable in their own skin.

 

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