Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? - McKinley Dixon/Ms. Jaylin Brown

Lyrics by：McKinley Dixon

Composed by：Sam Koff/McKinley Dixon

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Keep my braids

Beloved paradise jazz

Braids for the summer

I'm less likely to falter

Gold finger tips rusted

Now the color has altered

Deny food from the hand

Matriarch is insulted

The house is crumbling

Hurry

Out the back door bolting

The rubble recently

Reset my bones

Black skinned concrete

Within it

I feel at home

Surrounded by all my niggas

It's a feeling I missed

I was once nothing

And then

Suddenly I was fist

One filled with so much heat

Praise sun 'fore I hit street

'Cuz if I loosen grip alittle

Results finna be bleak

Oh well

Light escaping

Tryna grab it at the wrist

I was once nothing

Then a heart sprang out from the fist

Hellish and unkept

Lungs filled wit ragged breathe

Opened mouth to speak

Popped that boy for he step

'Cause if the heart

Pulls the rest up at the seams

Then the fist gone grip something that can tip the balance beams

For his

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved

The sun lends cracks to both sides of my eyes

My gums still black how else you tell that I lie

Showing off my canines

Glow to bright for the reverend

And tho they all go

Me and dawg might see different heavens

Time alone has never once been a crutch

The worse thing for a god

Is you realizing they can be touched

Saw me aiming at the heavens

Sun came gave me a kiss

'Cuz blacker the berry

Less likely when he shoot he gone miss

Wake up

Held you in my arms

I barely feel the beating

This a side of my heart

I ain't really shown to many seasons

Running up the stairs

Trine catch you right before you leaving

I ain't make it

I guess it all gone happen for a reason

As I stand up on the balcony

And look to the ground

Money kept me moving

But the heart wasn't found

When I was standing on the edge

About to fall off of the cliff

What kept me on

Was looking up

And seeing my hand in your grip

My

Beloved paradise jazz

Yeah

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Yeah

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Jazz jazz

Beloved paradise jazz paradise

Beloved paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz

Paradise jazz

Beloved paradise jazz