Strange fruit, hanging, from the poplar trees

I just need to clear my mind now

It’s been racin’ since the summertime

And I’m holdin’ down the summer now

And all I want is what I can’t buy now

‘Cause I ain’t got the money on me right now

And I told you to wait

Yeah I told you to wait

So I'mma need a little more time now

'Cause I ain’t got the money on me right now

And I thought you could wait

Yeah, I thought you could wait

These bitches surroundin’ me

All want somethin’ out me

Then they talk about me

Would be lost without me

We could’ve been somebody

Thought you’d be different 'bout it

Now I know you not it (I’m the poplar trees)

So let’s get on with it

We could’ve been somebody

'Stead you had to tell somebody

Before the limelight tore ya’

Before the limelight stole ya’

Remember we were so young

When I would hold you

Before the blood on the leaves

I know there ain’t wrong with me

Something strange is happening

You could’ve been somebody

We could’ve ugh, we could’ve been somebody

Before they call lawyers

Before you tried to destroy us

How you gon’ lie to the lawyer?

It’s like I don’t even know ya

I gotta bring it back to the 'nolia

Fuck them other niggas cause I’m down with my niggas

Fuck them other niggas cause I’m down with my niggas

Fuck them other niggas cause I’m down with my niggas

I ride with my niggas, I’ll die for my…

To all my second string bitches, try and get a baby

Trying to get a baby, now you talkin’ crazy

I don’t give a damn if you used to talk to Jay-Z

She Instagram herself like #BadBitchAlert

He Instagram his watch like #MadRichAlert

He only wanna see that ass in reverse

Two-thousand-dollar bag with no cash in your purse

Now you sittin’ courtside, wifey on the other side

Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid

Then she said she impregnated, that’s the night your heart died

Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that

Main reason cause your pastor said you can’t abort that

'Til death but do your part, unholy matrimony

That summer night holding long and long, 'din long

No waiting for the summer rose and (breathe)

And breathe and breathe

And breathe and breathe

And breathe and breathe

And live and learn

And live and learn

And living and living like I’m lonely

Lonely, lonely

And living all I have

And living all

And live

And live

(Blood on the leaves)

Breeze, breeze