Track 8 – Copper & Cream
Verse 1
You loved me in the open, but not in the light,
A half-whispered truth in the heat of night.
In the sun, we’d pass like strangers do,
But in your arms, the world felt new.
They saw my skin and called it mistake,
Said love like ours was a risk to take.
But we carried it quiet, we carried it proud,
Even when the whispers got too loud.
Verse 2
I was copper and cream, your forbidden hue,
A prophecy some feared would come true.
In Lusaka, they’d see me as out of place,
In Manchester rain, just another face.
But love was our shield and also our chain,
Sweet as wine, but it carried the stain.
You kissed me deep, but I felt the divide,
Every touch was a war we both denied.
Verse 3
They said my blood was a map of the crime,
Drawn by hands that erased the time.
A child of two worlds that never agreed,
Born of the want and the power’s greed.