| Wade with us, baptize and convert to the waves with us
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| I tuned into what the future holds I could never be a slave, niggas
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| They gon' have to pay me, Navy, downloaded by the tidals like Jay-Z
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| That’s a roll offshore like an A. P, Davy
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| Jones' locker on top of those hoppers off the side of the ship
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| Suicide, didn’t die from the dip, submarine, man, keep your eyes on the blips
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| Sonar, echo, location, and where we are facin', get back to our nation, oh Lord
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| So we walkin' back to Africa and I found a detour to the seashore
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| Yes, jumped off the deck, to leave footsteps on the depths of the sea floor, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water
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| Wow, wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow (yeah), walkin' on water, ayy
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| Dive with us, vibe with us
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| Imbibe with the tide, sea salty 'cause it cry with us
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| When we looked it in the eyes, like how could you help her?
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| But sigh and apologize and said that I’m sorry, we’re shelter
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| Y’all can live down here forever, drownin' and severed
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| From all your lungs and the lungs of your sons
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| Tell your daughters the water’s a treasure
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| Summon the forest, talkin' the trees
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| Like how could you be in the chorus with something so horrid?
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| You became boards for the floors and the doors of the warships
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| Anthropomorphic, the forest returned with a match
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| Made from itself and said, «Burn us with that»
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| Then left again and came back with an axe
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| We can serve you as furniture or furnace us black
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water
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| Wow, wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, yeah
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| Shipwreck with us
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| Grab vessels, bring 'em down to the depths with us
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| Take ahold of the bow where the G’s are
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| And The Brigantine Sanderson and La Amistad
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| And The Henry of London and Elizabeth Fanny Butler
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| And The Hector, and The Gree
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| And The Baratoga and The Martha
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| Glorin, and The Corraline and The Brittany, and The Comet
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| Alabama and The Wonderer, Henrietta Marie
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| The Molly, The Sloop, The Molican, The Boa Morte
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| And The River Volta
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| The Lordboard, The Elisee, The Eagle, The Agent Coker
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| And The Colorado, Tar Tar, Morgan and The Mizer
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| The Pangas, The Mary Baugh, and The Surf (Surf, surf)
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| Williamsbury and The Liverpool
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| The Marquis O Grady, The Inbus, The Ferris
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| The Leons, The Navigator And The Phoenix
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| Claytor, Muhgel, Dragon, Gray Way, Ruby
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| Caroline, Bark, and The Tiger Nanny Of Carlington
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| Pinnace Swalow, The Grenn Dragon and The Charles
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| The Abel Aide, The Monn Tavern and The Slan, Hannibal of London Jeffry,
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| Little Fleet, Mediterranean, Li Anelia, The Solomon, and The Tyre, Kaff,
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| The Mersey, The Inbe and The Little Napoleon, Rainbow Enterprise,
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| The Katherine, Bristol, The Kambia, The Ann, The Elite, Brookes and The Lord
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| (Lord Lord)
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water
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| Wow, wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light |
| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| Yeah, rise with us
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| From out the sevens to the Heavens in the skies in us
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| Conversations with the constellations
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| Why you never gave the haters
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| Black baby alligator baiters
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| Supposed to do greater, with all of your alphas and betas
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| And minors and majors
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| You were so busy just tryin' to shine
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| You shoulda been tryin' to save us
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| Starset, excuse our behavior
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| We will be indebted to you for all of eternity
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| If you cancelled your heart and forgave us
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| Remove all our favors
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| From childrens of sailors and slavers
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| Repay you with acres
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| But here in the heavens where harvest is greater
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| A meager inheritance, pardon our arrogance
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| Those with Americans, guide them to places much safer, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water
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| Wow, wow, walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| My bones is where the beach is white
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| Where the beach is white, 'cause they bleached us light
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| So I’m goin' back home, I took a leap last night
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| So I’m walkin' on water 'til my feet just like Jesus Christ
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow
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| Walkin' on water, wow, wow, walkin' on water, ayy
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| See, all that I have for you (forest)
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| Are fire and math for you (stars)
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| Fall off the flat for you (ocean)
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| Sweeten the pie for you (seas)
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| All that I have for you (forest)
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| Are fire and math for you (stars)
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| Fall off the flat for you (ocean)
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| Sweeten the pie for you (seas)
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| All that I have for you (forest)
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| Are fire and math for you (stars)
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| Fall off the flat for you (ocean)
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| Sweeten the pie for you (seas)
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| All that I have for you (forest)
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| Are fire and math for you (stars)
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| Fall off the flat for you (ocean)
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| Sweeten the pie for you (seas) |