More songs by Jon Batiste
Description
Associated Performer: DOE feat. Jon Batiste
Acoustic Guitar, Associated Performer: DOE
Guitar, Associated Performer, Alto Saxophone, Background Vocal, Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Composer, Mixing Engineer, Producer, Wurlitzer Piano: Jon Batiste
Drums: Alvin Ford
Electric Bass Guitar: Michael Batiste
Electric Guitar, Synthesizer: Max Townsley
Background Vocal: Kimberly Thomas
Background Vocal: Mia Jones
Background Vocal: Danelle Belt
Background Vocal: Shirley Hernandez
Background Vocal: Wendy Winn
Background Vocal: Jamiah Hudson
Background Vocal: Quintavious Johnson
Background Vocal: Ashley Johnson
Background Vocal: Sheldon Thomas
Background Vocal: Christian Walker
Background Vocal: Michael Walter
Background Vocal: Amos Evans
Background Vocal: Isiah Tatum
Background Vocal: Reuel Belt
Trumpet: Steve Patrick
Trumpet: Mike Haynes
Trumpet: Tyler Jaeger
Trombone: Barry Green
Trombone: Matt Jefferson
Composer: Dominique Jones
Editor, Mastering Engineer: Irvin Johnson
A& R Director: Carmen Walker
Recording Engineer: Aaron Dutton
Recording Engineer: Buckley Miller
Additional Engineer: Darren Blackensee
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Kaleb Rollins
Recording Engineer: Drew Duggan
Additional Engineer, Editor: Darren Schneider
Lyrics and translation
Original
I imagine myself running my fingers through your hair.
You lay your head on my chest and lay your heart bare.
You tell me where it hurts, baby, don't, don't hold it.
Baby, your tears are manly.
Baby, your tears are manly.
I imagine myself looking so deep into your eyes, the midnight oil of melanin no longer despised.
I tell you you're enough the way you are, you're enough.
And baby, your pain is human.
Baby, your pain is human.
And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy, I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. If I'm ever, ever blessed to love a
Black boy, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough, you're enough. "
As my fingers trace the narrative written in your scars, the journey that you carried alone is now ours.
I sing out for your pain when it hurts so deep.
Baby, you are my glory.
Baby, you are my glory.
And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy,
I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. Oh, and if
I'm ever, oh yeah, oh, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough.
" Hey, and I need you to know, -Black boy. -I see your struggle.
-I said I need you to know. -I see your whisper, I see your prayer.
-Oh, I need you to know.
-I'll be your shoulder, come hold me -tight. -In the rise and in the fall.
-Ohhh!
-I see -your fear, I see your struggle. -I see you.
-I see your whisper, I see your prayer. -I need you to know that I, I see you.
-I'll be your shoulder. -Ooh, and in the rise. . .
-In the fall. -Ooh, ooh,
Black boy, I see you.
English translation
I imagine myself running my fingers through your hair.
You lay your head on my chest and lay your heart bare.
You tell me where it hurts, baby, don't, don't hold it.
Baby, your tears are manly.
Baby, your tears are manly.
I imagine myself looking so deep into your eyes, the midnight oil of melanin no longer despised.
I tell you you're enough the way you are, you're enough.
And baby, your pain is human.
Baby, your pain is human.
And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy, I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. If I'm ever, ever blessed to love a
Black boy, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough, you're enough. "
As my fingers trace the narrative written in your scars, the journey that you carried alone is now ours.
I sing out for your pain when it hurts so deep.
Baby, you are my glory.
Baby, you are my glory.
And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy,
I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. Oh, and if
I'm ever, oh yeah, oh, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough.
" Hey, and I need you to know, -Black boy. -I see your struggle.
-I said I need you to know. -I see your whisper, I see your prayer.
-Oh, I need you to know.
-I'll be your shoulder, come hold me -tight. -In the rise and in the fall.
-Ohhh!
-I see -your fear, I see your struggle. -I see you.
-I see your whisper, I see your prayer. -I need you to know that I, I see you.
-I'll be your shoulder. -Ooh, and in the rise. . .
-In the fall. -Ooh, ooh,
Black boy, I see you.