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