Love My Hair - Mickey Guyton

You want to touch it, don’t you?

Try to run your fingers through

Like the weight of your hand

Could ever make you understand

What it feels like to be

A different just like me

You know the weight of your hand

Could never make you understand

The things I’d do to try to fit right in

I’m tired of trying to justify my skin

I used to think

What God gave me wasn’t fair

I’d braid it all

Just to hide the curls up there

I found my freedom

When I learned not to care

Now I’m not scared

To love who I am

I love my hair

If I could go back to twelve

I would tell myself

That straight up or down

Baby, that’s your crown

Whoever made up those rules

They don’t apply to you

A straight up or down

I turn the world around

I used to think

What God gave me wasn’t fair

I’d braid it all

Just to hide the curls up there

I found my freedom

When I learned not to care

Now I’m not scared

To love who I am

I love my hair

(I love my, I love my, I love my hair)

(I love my, I love my, I love my hair)

The things I did to try to fit right in

I’ll never justify my skin again

I used to think

What God gave me wasn’t fair

I’d braid it all

Just to hide the curls up there

But I found my freedom

When I learned not to care

Now I’m not scared

To love who I am

I love my hair