Sunshine Lyrics - Jill Scott

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long 

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long 

America, you need a miracle 

Beyond spiritual 

I need a realer view 

I hold a mirror to it 

These ain't new problems, they just old ways 

I see one time turn sunshine into Freddie Gray 

Just another nigga dead, just another nigga dead 

Send another to the FEDs, send another to the FEDs 

Not guilty, still I'm filthy 

In FOX eyes, we the dark side 

So they tell you lies 

Through a TV, C-N-B-C 

C-N-N, Don Lemon, no Kweli when you meet me 

In order to be me 

You gotta see what Chief Keef see 

Brenda's baby next door to the candy lady 

Same project as Candy Man where they still doing hand-in-hands 

Sunday to Sunday, pastor only want one day 

Grandma praying someday 

But God can't hear it over gun play 

Woo! Still a target, but the badge is the new noose 

Yeah, we all see it, but cellphones ain't enough proof 

So we still lose 

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long 

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long 

I don't got no march in me, I can't turn the other cheek 

While they testing your patience, they just testing my reach 

Funeral flowers, every 28 hours 

Being laid over ours 

Sworn to protect and serve, but who really got the power? 

Looking over their allowances 

Building prisons where the mountains is 

Laptops is for the county kids 

Metal detectors is where ours is 

They'll never re-write this, like they re-wrote history 

The fact that the Statue of Liberty was black is a goddamn mystery 

And so it goes, every truth don't get told 

All these cops get cleared, and lives are stole 

Every goose don't lay gold whoa 

Just another nigga dead, just another nigga dead 

Send another to the FEDs, send another to the FEDs 

They call in the National Guard 

Public Enemy, I am Chuck D 

Flavor Flav in Louis V, but I'm Huey P 

Woo! The new elite, it's either you or me 

Let the sunshine, cause their dark clouds try to ruin me 

It's more and more and more than Baltimore 

From shore to shore, oh lord 

Patience torn, patience gone, oh lord 

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long 

I say hey, sunshine 

Oh how the day can be so long