Yea, so we got this called "for women" right Originally, it was by nina She said it was by, you know Down south, in the south, used to call her mother antie She no mrs. Just She said if anybody ever her antie She'd burn the whole goddamn place I'm over past Coming into the new millenium, we can't our elders
I got off the 2 in brooklyn on my way to a session Said let me this woman up the stairs before I get to steppin' We got in a she said she a 107 Just her presence was a and her essence was a lesson She had her wrapped And long dreads that peeked out the Like antenna to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine a century, the strenght of her memories Felt like an angel had been to me She lived from to colored to negro to black To afro then african-american and back to nigga You figure be bitter in the twilight But she alright, cuz she done the circle of life yo Her skin was black like it was with melanin Back in the days of slaves she packin' like tubman Her arms are long and she like song Feet with corns, with callouses But her heart is warm and her is wooly And it attract a lot of even negative She dead that the head wrap is her remedy Her back is strong and she far from a This is the of the masters' whip used to crack upon Strong enough to take all the pain, been Inflicted again and and again and again and flipped It to the love for her children nothing matters What do they call her? they call her sara
I a girl with a name as beautiful as the rain Her face is the same but she suffers an unusual Seems she only with losers who be usin' them games Chasin' the real brothers away like she in the brain She to get it where she fit in On american dream mission paid tuition For the receipt to find out her history was and started flippin' Seeing the world through different eyes People askin' her what she'll do when it comes time to chose Yo, her is yellow, it's like her face is blond word is bond And her hair is long and just like sleeping beauty See, she truly feels she belong in 2 worlds And that she can't to other girls Her father was rich and white still livin' his wife But he forced on her mother late one night They call it rape that's right and now she take Through life with hate and spite her mind keep her up to the break of light a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to herself They called her safronia the unwanted Blood still blue in her vein and still red when she (Don't, don't, don't me again)
Teenage lovers sit on the stoops up in Holdin' hands under the marquis dreamin of stardom Since they was born the streets is and schemin' And now it got them generations facin' don't kill you they just got problems And complications get you first Yo, it's worse, when children hide the fact that they pregnant Cuz they scared of giving How will I feed baby? How will I survive, how will baby shine? Daddy dead from crack in '85, mommy from aids in '89 At 14 the hit the same streets they became her master The children of the enslaved, they grow a little They become adult While they the thoughts of a child her arrival Into was heemed up by her survival Now she 25, barely out her own Doin' whatever it takes strippin', out on the block Up on the phone, talkin' (My skin is tan like the of your hand) (And my hair) (well my alright whatever way I want to fix it, It's alright fine) (But my hips, these sweet of mine invite you daddy) (And when I fix my lips my mouth is wine) (Take a sip don't be shy, tonight I wanna be lady) (I ain't too good for your mercedes, but you got to pay me) (You better quit with all the question, sugar little girl am i) (Why I'm if you got enough money to buy) (You stop with the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna talk whatever we could do it's your dime) (From harlem's from where I came, worry about my name,) (Up on they call me sweet thang)
A come up in georgia, ripe and ready to plant seeds Left the when she saw a sign even thought she can't read It came from god and when get hard she always speak to him She'd rather her babies than let the master get to 'em She on the run up to get across that mason-dixon In church she learned how to be patient and wishin' The promise of eternal life after death for those that god She swears the next baby have will breathe a free breath And get milk a free breast And beeing alive Otherwise they'll have to give up being themselves to Being maids, cleaning maybe teachers Or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug Some will grow to be old women, some will die they born They'll be mothers, and who inspire and make songs (But me, my is brown and my manner is tough,) (Like the I give my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the muthafucka that mess with me, I never bluff) (I got time to lie, my life has been much too rough,) (Still running with barefeet, I ain't got but my soul,) (Freedom is the ultimate Life and death is small on the whole, in ways) (I'm awfully bitter these 'Cuz the parents god gave me, they were slaves,) (And it crippled me, I got the of a casualty,) (But I through my babies and I change my reality) (Maybe one day I'll ride to georgia on a train,) (Folks 'round there me peaches, I guess that's my name.)