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Bright skin
Light skin
Why are you lightening?
Your nice skin

Why are sisters so concerned with their appearance?
Do they think they’re so dark that the darkness wont come near them

Why are they lightening more than their teeth
Is it for TV or for curing disease

Sister are you whitening down for the black men
Or do you just want more high-class white friends

Must you defile your temple for show now
For all your chemicals, like a perm the whiteness will grow out

For you are a beacon of hope for the future
But your unnatural does nothing for you

So bathe in the beauty of your hazelnut splendour
They say the juice is sweeter the darker the berry

Bright skin
Light skin
Why are you lightening?
Your light skin

Nothing wrong with your Nubian queens brothers
Rejecting your own is like a blasphemy of culture
That’s why nuff sisters are in uproar

Unno pick up dem gyal like yu name a summer breeze
Unno too fool yu might get lef with a STD
Or maintenance payments for a baby
Or even deported back a yard
I wouldn’t want a failed marriage and a visa on my score card
Oh lord oh lord how can we stop this
Probably by making real black women available in higher quantities

Afro or shaven craniums make the billboard
That image is so played out even the Ku Klux Klan want it outlawed
We have a lot to be thankful for from talents to the strength within
So while you abide in the image of God there is no reason
To lighten your skin

Bright skin
Light skin
Why are you lightening?
Your nice skin