Blood On the Leaves

Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees

Blood on the leaves

I just need to clear my mind now

It's been racin' since the summertime (Freeze)

Now I'm holdin' down the summer now (Freeze)

And all I want is what I can't buy now (Blood on the leaves)

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

And I told you to wait (Freeze)

Yeah, I told you to wait (Freeze)

So I'ma need a little more time now (Blood on the leaves)

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

And I thought you could wait (Freeze)

Yeah, I thought you could wait (Freeze)

These bitches surroundin' me (Black bodies)

All want something out me (Swinging in the southern breeze)

Then they talk about me (Freeze)

Would be lost without me

We could've been somebody (Strange fruit hangin')

Thought you'd be different 'bout it (From the poplar trees)

Now I know you not it (From the poplar trees)

So let's get on with it

We could've been somebody

'Stead, you had to tell somebody

Let's take it back to the first party

When you tried your first molly

And came out of your body

And came out of your body

Running naked down the lobby

And you were screamin' that you love me

Before the limelight tore you

Before the limelight stole you

Remember we were so young

When I would hold you (Black bodies)

Before the blood on the leaves (Swinging in the southern breeze)

(Freeze)

Before the blood on the leaves

I know there ain't wrong with me (Strange fruit hangin')

Something strange is happenin' (From the poplar trees)

Uh, uh, ayy, ayy (From the poplar trees)

You could've been somebody

We could've, uh, we could've been somebody

Or was it on the first party

When we tried our first molly?

And came out of our body

And came out of our body, yeah

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 you

I gotta bring it back to the 'Nolia

Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down with my niggas (Black bodies)

Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down with my niggas (Swinging in the southern breeze)

Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down with my niggas (Freeze)

I ride with my niggas, I'd die for my—

Uh (Strange fruit hangin')

Uh, on the southern leaves (From the poplar trees)

(From the poplar trees)

To all my second-string bitches tryna get a baby

Tryna get a baby? Now you talkin' crazy

I don't give a damn if you used to talk to JAY-Z

He ain't with you, he with Beyoncé, you need to stop actin' lazy

She Instagram herself, like, "Bad bitch alert"

He Instagram his watch, like, "Mad rich alert"

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 pregnant-ated, 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

Now your driver say that new Benz, you can't afford that

All that cocaine on the table, you can't snort that

That go into that, all that money that the court got

All in on that alimony, uh

Yeah-yeah, she got you, homie, yeah

'Til death, but do your part, uh

Unholy matrimony

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Freeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

From the poplar trees

That summer night, holdin' long and long (Freeze)

'Din long (Freeze)

No waiting for the summer rose and breeze (Blood on the leaves)

And breathe (Freeze)

And breathe and breathe (Blood on the leaves)

And breathe and breathe (Freeze, freeze)

And breathe and breathe (Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze)

And live and learn, and live and learn (Strange fruit hangin')

And livin' and livin' like I'm lonely (From the poplar trees)

Lonely, lonely, lonely (From the poplar trees)

And livin' lonely

And live and learn (Freeze, freeze)

And live (Blood on the leaves)

And live (Freeze, freeze)

Blood on the leaves

Freeze, freeze