Opia - Malcolm London, Jamila Woods

Opia

The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye

Which can feel both invasive and vulnerable

You’re a mess young boy, you’re a mess young boy

(I'm a mess, I’m a mess, I’m a mess, I’m a mess)

Open your eyes, open your eyes

Open your eyes

I just see it different

Oranges and apples

One nation under God

Foreclosing the chapel

Everybody’s sinning while they pointing fingers

High horse getting straddled

Even I’ll snake, If my baby need a rattle

One day he gon' detox like Dr Dre dropping Detox

They say one day he gon' detox

He ain’t gon' detox, nah

They only see depression when they see the scars

Thinking you a big fish they don’t see you dreaming in a pond

Here we go

Open your eyes and see (Opia)

All you have is all you need

Open your eyes and see (Opia)

All you have is all you need

(Praying for telekinesis)

You’re a mess young boy, you’re a mess young boy

(Telekinesis for all my neices)

Open your eyes, open your eyes)

Open your eyes

I’m an Ethiopic claustrophobic, my city atrocious

Think our violence is bad, our politicians is bogus

My insurance don’t cover all the drugs that I’m dosing

Don’t need diagnosis to see prognosis is hopeless

Optometrist, optimist seeing optical opposites

Two sides of my city seeing opposite obstacles

They Blink 182, when I blink 187

All my dogs been to jail, we just waitin' to go to heaven

We ain’t gotta touch for eye contact

Suicide, where my mind run laps

Be careful not to wash up on shore

You can still drown running from sharks

Hey Iron Man, they don’t want Tony Stark

Say you wanna be Mr. 106 & Park

Bow Wow, crowds, now

Italian brows, scowl, clowns, Ciao

Go and open up your eyes

Take a walk in shoes not your size

Chance made the Grammys all online

I’mma take the westside all worldwide

We can change the world with a whole sixteen

Niggas think it’s sweet like they all sixteen

You Buy, Buy, Buy but you ain’t N’Sync

I been a strategist since age fifteen

Look me in my eyes

And tell me what’s inside

Though my frame move too fast sometimes

For my heart to catch up, but that’s alright

Open your eyes and see (Opia)

All you have is all you need

Open your eyes and see (Opia)

Open your eyes