Barbarian - Mona Haydar

We them barbarians

Beautiful and scaring them

Earth-shaking, rattling

Be wild out loud again

We them barbarians

Jasmine and frankincense

Feminine invading them

Beautiful barbarians

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

A beast before;

now?

They wanna be wearing my skin

We don’t let them win

We’re beautiful barbarians

Lemme think back

I remember days

On these big lips

Oh, they used to hate

Now the script flipped

Oh hayy!

They got a lipkit, Kylie J

100 real talk, that’s what I’m on

If I’m a savage, then you’re a fraud

My chains off, won’t be long

See me glowing, look at God

So fresh and so eloquent, uh

I keep it humble and elegant, uh

Your beauty standard irrelevant, uh

A revolution is so imminent, uh

We keep it joyful and bedouin, uh

I see my mama as evidence, uh

Nobody needs your benevolence, wha?

Feminist planet is imminent, ah!

We them barbarians

Beautiful and scaring them

Earth-shaking, rattling

Be wild out loud again

We them barbarians

Jasmine and frankincense

Feminine, invading them

Beautiful barbarians

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

A beast before;

now?

They wanna be wearing my skin

We don’t let them win

We beautiful barbarians

Barbarian?

That’s how you really feel?

Like you didn’t start war over oil fields?

Opium, poppy seeds, money moves, Cardi B

Tried to make me hate me

For my hips and nose

Now they got impostors

On a spread in Vogue

Not a single feature

That they let us own

Oh, they packing fillers

Styrofoam

Ultralight beam metaphysical, uh

Power no longer invisible, huh?

Your beauty standard is cynical, oh!

A revolution is so critical

Power so deep and so mystical

They say the personal is so political, oh

Women, our future is winnable

We gotta be indivisible

We them barbarians

Beautiful and scaring them

Earth-shaking, rattling

Be wild out loud again

We them barbarians

Jasmine and frankincense

Feminine, invading them

Beautiful barbarians

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

Say it again

Beautiful barbarians!

A beast before;

now?

They wanna be wearing my skin

We don’t let them win

We beautiful barbarians

This nose: DECOLONIZE

This hair: DECOLONIZE

This skin: DECOLONIZE

This body: DECOLONIZE

This mind: DECOLONIZE