Welfare

from Because We Are by MAAFA

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Written by: Flora Lucini Copyright 2017

Intro:
Defaulted to Benefit
From our Enslavement
Generation, After Generation

Born at the top,
Held up by our backs
And choosing
To turn the other cheek
THAT’S PRIVILEGE

Verse 1:
To Inhabit your skin without fear
To inhabit your body without shame
To love who you want
To walk at night alone,
To be standing on the outside looking in
THAT’S PRIVILEGE

CHORUS:
Welfare! Welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs! Off your backs!
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me

Verse 2:
To Navigate the spaces, we’re not allowed to roam
Blind to an exclusion, you’ll never have to know
Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change
Cuz’ the system was built to protect
YOUR PRIVILEGE!

-Repeat Chorus-

BRIDGE:

The safety of your fragility is Priority
In this war against “poor bodies” and “Minorities”
In this war against Women and the not so Binary
In this war against all Black bodies fighting globally

THERE’S NO PEACE
without Justice, Your kids are casualties
From Favela to Palestine, All your mothers weep
From plantation to president, Still the same story
From the classroom to prison cell is The new chattel slavery!

Repeat Chorus

credits

from Because We Are, released June 19, 2023
ft. Amadou Kouyaté: Lead Djembe

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MAAFA Brooklyn, New York

The Brain Child of Afro-Brazilian Bassist, Composer And Vocalist Flora Lucini,(The 1865 band/Mass Appeal Records) "MAAFA" Seeks To Expand The Sound Of Hardcore-Punk By Infusing Into Their Music The Rhythms & Percussive Instrumentation Found Throughout The African Diaspora. Creating What Flora Calls "Afro-Progressive Hardcore."

All Songs And Lyrics Written & Arranged By Flora Lucini. ... more

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