My IQ (live)

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when i was four years old
 they tried to test my i.q.
 they showed me a picture
 of 3 oranges and a pear
 they said,
 which one is different?
 it does not belong
 they taught me different is wrong
 but when i was 13 years old
 i woke up one morning
 thighs covered in blood
 like a war
 like a warning
 that i live in a breakable takeable body
 an ever increasingly valuable body
 that a woman had come in the night to replace me
 deface me
 see,
 my body is borrowed
 yeah, i got it on loan
 for the time in between my mom and some maggots
 i don't need anyone to hold me
 i can hold my own
 i got highways for stretchmarks
 see where i've grown
 i sing sometimes
 like my life is at stake
 'cause you're only as loud
 as the noises you make
 i'm learning to laugh as hard
 as i can listen
 'cause silence
 is violence
 in women and poor people
 if more people were screaming then i could relax
 but a good brain ain't diddley
 if you don't have the facts
 we live in a breakable takeable world
 an ever available possible world
 and we can make music
 like we can make do
 genius is in a back beat
 backseat to nothing if you're dancing
 especially something stupid
 like i.q.
 for every lie i unlearn
 i learn something new
 i sing sometimes for the war that i fight
 'cause every tool is a weapon -
 if you hold it right.
 

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Duration
02:27
Key
9
Tempo
111 BPM

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