[Verse 1: Daveed Diggs] There’s something in the water And everything we spit wet They keep telling me it’s something in the water And I ‘em they ain’t really seen shit yet It’s something in the water Born bright but the light bent brilliant Bay boys been above the wave ‘bout business and banks and straight off the building I’m feeling myself And numb to the rest Dumb is a choice When the world go blind and deaf Got my ASL co-sign, thank you Maria Never claimed a gang but it’s dope watching homies Twist fingers when I pull up Stylish, got my NY stylist See me on TV in Comme de Garçons Soon as it wrap I am back in my Warriors Cap on a flight back home And my home holler "go boy, get it, just please don’t forget us" And I sandwich time tryna get this lettuce Couldn’t stand with my grandmother Jessie She took her last breath, I was on set doing hella extra [Hook: Daveed Diggs] Look at the desert we made And everybody know its, nowhere else to go, so it’s home Look at the desert we made And can’t nobody see the way it used to be [Verse 2: Daveed Diggs] It’s something in the water And everything we think wet They keep telling me it’s something in the water And I tell ‘em they ain’t even had a drink yet It’s something in the water Swam out from a town that was drowning Came back with a bucket and a bullhorn And people act like I’m the only nigga shouting The rush for the land is loud And every other voice drowned out People dog-paddle just to stay above it While there’s new money laughing, yelling "who let the dogs out?" And I bite vicious, but their chains tight And the oak trees traded for shade from the high rise And the eyes might not adjust to the new light hue Swear it used to be a black town Chinaka laid my career with those words Her back is stronger than mine Maybe she’ll give our city the height it deserves I am just a wrecking light now Honestly, it’s too much on me, I can’t see the road up ahead Homies say I should buy Cartiers But they won’t keep the salt out, think I should get goggles instead [Hook: Daveed Diggs] Look at the desert we made And everybody knows it, nowhere else to go, so it’s home Look at the desert we made And can’t nobody see the way it used to be [Interlude: Daveed Diggs + Emmy Raver-Lampman] Look at the desert we made And everybody knows it, nowhere else to go, so it’s home Look at the desert we made And can’t nobody see the way it used to be [Verse: Daveed] So they keep saying It’s something in the water And everything we own wet They keep telling me it’s something in the water I can tell that they are gearing up to go get a piece Lakeshore or the Bottoms Uptown Temescal and the problem is Half of these neighborhoods didn’t exist before You felt a drip and got thirsty there’s something in the water [Interlude: Daveed Diggs + Emmy Raver-Lampman] Look at the desert we made Where money sucks everything dry Where culture is liquid and currently in short supply Where what we once called a community suddenly gets monetized And once again soil is tilled on our backs Just when we thought we were out When picking cotton becomes cottonmouth Look at the desert they called it a drought but [Daveed] There’s something in the water And everybody wanna taste Rolled in on the high tide And now the sandcastle’s erased There’s something in the water And the well’s dried up But we at the function double cupping like we don’t give a fuck And there’s something in the water [Outro] Look at the desert we made And everybody knows it, nowhere else to go So it’s home
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