Take It Back lyrics

[Chorus]

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man

Could paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around and said

"Fuck it, I’ma steal this land"

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man

Could paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around and said

"Fuck it, I’ma steal this land"

Everybody wanna tell me what I am, what I am not

"You ain't black, you a mothafuckin' white boy

Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy?

Man, why you such a hype boy?"

"Why you always talk about being black?

Skin too white, nigga fuck that"

Everything you talk about, cut that

That door you trying to open, you could shut that

Grip the gat, yeah that’s how I’ma buck back

Tell me what I am and what I know now

All this prejudice has got to go

Life is moving fast, it need to slow down

Come and see me when I am in yo' town

Practice what we preach before it go down

Practice what we preach before it go

Yes, I got the gift to gab fo sho

Will I have to get the gat? No, no

Yes, I got to gift to gab fo sho

But will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the?

Masta deep down inside of me

The plantation deep down inside of me

Everybody fuck like sodomy

'Cause one or the other what it gotta be

Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me

Unity for everyone that lied to me

Peace on Earth what I try to be

I just wanna spread the message of equality

And yes, I got to gift to gab fo sho

Will I have to get the gat? No, no

Yes, I got to gift to gab fo sho

But will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the gat?

[Chorus]

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to about 1990

Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, Maryland

7:36 a.m., where a biracial baby was born

To a black father and a white mother

Father that wasn’t there

Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and various other drugs

Same as his mom

(Way, way back)

So I’m gonna tell you about that, right?

And I’m gonna tell you about how

All this young boy ever wanted was happiness

All he ever wanted was positivity

All he ever wanted to do was entertain

And this boy went through hell

You gotta understand, his mother was racist, which is crazy

'Cause how in the fuck is you gonna have

All these black babies with black men but you racist

Like bitch, that don’t make no sense, but it is what it is

You know, he grew up, her callin' him a nigger

The kids at school callin' him a cracker

Identifying as black, looking as white

Being told what you can or can’t be

This kid went through everything

He went through...

He saw narcotics in the household

Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was kidnapped

There was crazy shit that happened to this kid

And he persevered while the whole world said

What they said?

Said you wouldn’t be shit!

You ain’t gon' be nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin'

Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothing

And I, and he, he said fuck that, I’ma persevere

And that’s why the message is always peace, love and positivity

See, he always saw things from two sides

He always saw things from two sides

He always knew that the message

Everybody was born equal

Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation

He knew that because he saw that

(Take it back, take it way back

Take it way)

Because he was stripped and torn down

By his black brothers and sisters that were uneducated

And that did not know

And he was stripped and he was torn down

By his white side that did not know

These people that are ignorant

That cannot see the bigger picture

That must fight and kill and murder each other

But once again, all he ever wanted to do

Was spread a message of equality

For every man, woman, and child

Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation

(Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first)

Now imagine this child growing up

And seeing the craziest shit

Being a part of the craziest shit

Running around with the wrong people

Running around with guns and knives

And fighting and stealing and, and all this

Because he didn’t know, he didn’t know!

But he knew deep down in his heart that it wasn’t right

And he knew that he needed to get away from it

Now I want you to also imagine, that at 17 years old

This child, okay, leaves home and gets two jobs to support himself

Two jobs that he works in the morning and the evenings

And then he would then come home

To about eight or nine hours of sleep

But spend four, five, six hours of that

Working on music, persevering

Grabbing the remote control and looking in the mirror

And pretending to see thousands and thousands and thousands of people

Just chanting his name

Hoping that it would happen

But the, but the, but the world said no!

Mothafucka, little mothafucka no-no, no-no, no-no, no-no

Ya nigga, ya cracka, ya white boy, ya black mothafucka

No-no!

(Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first)

And he said fuck that

He said peace, love, and positivity

He said equality for all man

Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, yeah

Now I want you to also imagine

People telling him that he did not live this life

“You just a white boy

You ain’t never experienced that shit

You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there

Oh no, no, we know, we weren’t there

We didn’t live with you, we didn't live in your Section 8 household

We didn’t live with the narcotics and violence in your household

We just saw it from the outside, outside, outside, outside

Outside, outside, outside, outside

And since you white, you gotta have money, right?”

(Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first black man)

And this young man persevered in spite

Of what people told him he was, wasn’t, and would never be

(Take it back, take it way back

Take it way, way back to the first black)

And that man is here today, proud

A lover of all human beings

Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, yeah

And he’s here to say:

Even though we’re all born and created equal

We are not treated equally

There’s extremists on every side

And you should just do your best to live life

And let other people believe whatever they wanna believe

As long as they’re not hurtin' anybody

You can believe they’re going to hell

You can believe it’s not right

You can believe you’re superior, fine

Just stop killing each other

• Artist:Logic
• Album:Everybody