By Button Poetry
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Transcript provided by YouTube:
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for Liz oh I have seen God she was
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dressed in silver sequins on TV she was
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ass up in her hips were immeasurable
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body glitter disco ball shaking America
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out to finally say it out loud
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fat bitches are sexy let’s say it let’s
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say it together let’s say it together
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fans bitches are sexy God she played flu
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over a hip-hop beat and torqued like her
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thighs invented thunder a baddie and a
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scholar heaven’s gates in the spotlight
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I have never found something worthy
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enough to kneel before but this god I
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can move like this God I can believe
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because here she is performing her
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miracles being fat black femme all at
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once giving classical music at rap beat
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and slapping it on the charts
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thank you God Liz oh to see your Chin’s
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on Billboard to see your lingerie draped
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sexy over the curve of your belly
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titties washing over the sides of you so
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hot we gonna split in the middle of the
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winter so hot we’re demanding to be
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worshipped what is praise if not the
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body’s way of exalting desire in this
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world I have found so few mirrors that
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don’t change something about me upon
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reflection but you but you God don’t ask
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me to beg forgiveness before I am
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accepted into your kingdom of self-love
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and jiggle you tell me there is no sin
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of size no physical measure of
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worthiness you challenge me to use my
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body in all of its black magic so excuse
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me while I feel myself alone at the
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party
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on stage in front of a crowd like God
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intended so I quit buying purses all
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together and use my titties to hold
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everything
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I hide blunts in my backpack and walk
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into the concert I make the room quake
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with my voice in step if shame is the
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foundation of myself hate then radical
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self-love is the wrecking ball I’m
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handling tonight and we’re gonna show
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that motherfucker who’s boss god I mean
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Liz oh I mean the girl getting it to the
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tempo fat black femme who looks like me
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the only shrinking is you need to worry
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about grows out your head you are a rich
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harvest a heavy celebration a body born
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worthy of all this praise
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[Applause]
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