Something In The Water - Daveed Diggs, Emmy Raver – Lampman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look at the desert we made

And everybody knows it, nowhere else to go

So it’s home