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1. Leon Bridges – Sweeter ft. Terrace Martin
   • Leon Bridges – Sweeter (Live) ft. Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper
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         Channel:- Leon Bridges
         Date Released:- 2020-June-18th
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   • Leon Bridges – Sweeter (Official Video) ft. Terrace Martin
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         Channel:- Leon Bridges
         Date Released:- 2020-June-16th
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   • Leon Bridges – Sweeter (Live At Gold Diggers) ft. Terrace Martin
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       • Music video by Leon Bridges performing Sweeter (Live At Gold Diggers). (C) 2020 LisaSawyer63, Inc. under license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
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         Channel:- Leon Bridges
         Date Released:- 2020-August-18th
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Lyrics

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Hoping for a life more sweeter
Instead I’m just a story repeating
Why do I fear with skin dark as night?
Can’t feel peace with those judging eyes

I thought we moved on from the darker days
Did the words of the King disappear in the air
Like a butterfly?
Somebody should hand you a felony
Because you stole from me
My chance to be

Hoping for a life more sweeter
Instead I’m just a story repeating
Why do I fear with skin dark as night?
Can’t feel peace with those judging eyes

The tears of my Mother rain rain over me
My sisters and my brothers sing sing over me
And I wish I had another day, but it’s just another day

Hoping for a life more sweeter
Instead I’m just a story repeating
Why do I fear with skin dark as night?
Can’t feel peace with those judging eyes

Say I am hoping
for a life
For my brother and my sister
I know the reach might be long
Hoping for a life more sweeter

Words

Leon Bridges

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In an Instagram post, Bridges wrote, “Growing up in Texas I have personally experienced racism, my friends have experienced racism. From adolescence we are taught how to conduct ourselves when we encounter police to avoid the consequences of being racially profiled. I have been numb for too long, calloused when it came to the issues of police brutality,” he said. “The death of George Floyd was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. It was the first time I wept for a man I never met. I am George Floyd, my brothers are George Floyd, and my sisters are George Floyd. I cannot and will not be silent any longer. Just as Abel’s blood was crying out to God, George Floyd is crying out to me. So, I present to you Sweeter.”

Commenters

1. “‘Skin dark as light’ hits home if you know what I mean.”

Terrace Martin

Terrace Martin told about this song, “It is always an honor to share a platform with my dear brother Leon Bridges. This is meditation music; it is not music for the ears but rather music for the heart. I truly believe that eyes have been deceiving us for so long but the heart always tells the truth.”