Noble Nobles - Esperanza Spalding

Dining debutantes in pearl and powdered sugar face

Their refined tastes

Come suckle from mama’s wet maid, you know

Drinking dapper gents in wig and rosy cultured views

Toasting the news

All cargo on Jesus was sold today

Manifest and lavish

God wants him to have this

And without a doubt believe his

Ends are noble so the savage means

Are deleted from the scene so

We can believe that we are

Noble nobles what a savage myth

Walking pioneers in blazing trails and rushing gold

So far from home

But none of them shed any tears at all

Not at all

Talking founding fathers with a free philosophy

That don’t mention me

Or the stain of red blood on their hands, at all

Now, we all

Replay it till we understand

The moral

Of, the story we’re shooting again

Tomorrow’s savages!

Manifest in lavish

God wants him to have this

And without a doubt, believe his

Ends are noble so the savage means

Are deleted from the scenes

So we can believe that we are

Noble nobles, what a savage myth