Melanin

from Power by Olivia K and the Parkers

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lyrics

I like the way my brown skin looks in the sun
There's plenty more vitamin d for everyone
You can even let your pale friends out for a run
They love it

You love it when I'm walking on the beach and you can see
I'm not a red lobster hiding underneath a tree
You see the way my lineage has been so good to me
You love it

Them blue eyed boys need brown skin girls to rock their world
Just look at her, all dressed in pearls, they’re lovin it
So take a hit, say this is it
I need the melanin

I like to see my Nubian queens in the winter
Still so sharp that you might catch a splinter
Walking too close cuz you really wanna linger
Nah linga

You love to see my Sudanese girl on the catwalk
Everything she do make the crowd want to talk
Camera loves you boo cuz you know where you came from
They love it

Them blue eyed boys need brown skin girls to rock their world
Just look at her, all dressed in pearls
They lovin it
So take a hit, say this is it
I need the melanin

Everybody stay talkin
Brown skin baby keep on walkin

They need the melanin
They want the melanin
I give em melanin
So let the fellas in
They want the melanin
They need the melanin
So let the fellas in

It ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin to want some skin
It ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin to love the skin I’m in

It ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin, it ain’t a sin to want the skin I’m in
You need the melanin

credits

from Power, released February 25, 2016
released February 25, 2016

Personnel:
Olivia K Harris (Vocals, MIDI)
Ray Palmer Foote IV (drums, MIDI)
Nicholas Parker (keyboard, MIDI)

Lyrics by Olivia K Harris, Arrangement by Olivia K Harris, Nicholas Parker, Ray Palmer Foote IV,

Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Ray Palmer Foote IV for LPM at Big Foote Studios, New York, NY