Here I stand you Brown, color of the mountains, colossal as the Wrapped so deliciously my own joy and misery Feathers of my paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand you, the color of the night Frozen by the of me, an Afro Angel Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Angel off your pedestal from perchin' above You on the prowl now, downtown, searchin' for In all the wrong places, outside your stations Hopin' he new hit single, is tryin' to mingle
Today, he is in town, puttin' it down You in the car with your friends, my limo around Puttin' a bug in my boy's ear, 'S' is for free do anythin' for Omar or Phil, bring you to me
And me, hypnotized by the devil as well Hold out my hand as an into my hotel No to RSVP, place your hand in my palm As all girlfriends gettin' jealous, damn she landed the bomb
to trade your spirit for some crass, whack wage Somethin' small, simple as a pass back stage But now I lay me, down to And I the Lord my soul to keep
Afro Angel, against the world You don't have to your soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, from Heaven above Never forget that you are loved, you know you are loved
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh Lil Bobby got a gun now, age Destined to spend his life inside a cage it Rage inside, pride, denied respect He can't take it though he earn it but he ain't learned that yet
Out on the town, reckless he's been bullied before But now he straps, and no more, high Flexin' on every guy that walk by but start pal 'Cuz if the gun from the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now
pull it on a stranger, ahh, fun for the crew Surprised he realized, damn dude got one too Smile's upside down now, ain't so cute Bobby's a deer in a headlights, pump, it or I'll shoot
Then a sniper, cleanin' his rifle, Bobby disobeys his commands One shot rings out then only the stands Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's But for
Afro Angel, against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw your pride Afro Angel, sent from Heaven Never forget that you are loved, you know that you are You know you are loved,
Back in high school, was the sweetest, the bomb Hot to death, though in grade a teenage mom Knocked up by some thug named Russ in the drug But had the cutest kid you ever
Then all the from her mom, she stepped to Russ Told him it's either drugs or us either them thugs or us The ultimatum, either bein' a thug in the world Or start lovin' your
And say God, bear me witness, no doubt, ya dear But to go from dollar 50 gees a week to 30 gees a year That ain't happenin', I guess he wasn't that He came back the next and the whole family was gone
Yo, straight moved away, without as little as a word Well, needless to say, Russ was a perturbed Then in a fury put the on her girlfriend Shawn And like a clumsy chef she spilled the on where they had gone
Upstate Schenectady, Tamika answered the It was the last person she to be just stared, he said, "Do you love me for me? You can do the cars, vacations, and jewelry?"
"Down with me? Period, life's stress and strife" She said, "Yeah", he said, "In that case you please be my wife?" Then like a sign from the sky, the cried Like an angel sings, I love y'all more anything
Afro Angel, against the world You don't to sell your soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, from Heaven above Never forget that you are loved, you know that you are
Angel, born against the world You don't have to sell your soul and away your pride Angel, sent from Heaven above Never that you are loved, you know that you are loved