Yea, so we got this called "for women" right Originally, it was by simone She said it was inspired by, you Down south, in the south, used to call her mother antie She no mrs. Just She said if ever called her antie She'd burn the whole goddamn down I'm over that Coming into the new millenium, we can't forget our
I got off the 2 train in brooklyn on my way to a Said let me help this woman up the before I get to steppin' We got in a she said she a 107 her presence was a blessing and her essence was a lesson She had her head And dreads that peeked out the back Like antenna to help her get a sense of she was at, imagine that Livin' a century, the of her memories Felt like an had been sent to me She lived from nigga to colored to to black To then african-american and right back to nigga You figure be bitter in the twilight But she alright, cuz she done sseen the of life yo Her skin was black it was packed with melanin Back in the days of slaves she packin' like tubman Her arms are long and she moves song Feet with corns, hand callouses But her heart is warm and her hair is And it attract a lot of even negative She gotta dead that the wrap is her remedy Her back is strong and she far from a This is the back of the masters' whip used to upon Strong enough to all the pain, that's been Inflicted again and again and again and and flipped It to the love for her children nothing else What do they call her? they her aunt sara
I know a girl with a as beautiful as the rain Her face is the same but she suffers an pain Seems she only deals losers who be usin' them games Chasin' the real brothers away like she in the brain She tried to get it she fit in On that american dream paid tuition For the receipt to find out her history was missing and flippin' Seeing the through very different eyes People askin' her what do when it comes time to chose sides Yo, her skin is yellow, it's like her face is blond is bond And her hair is long and straight like sleeping beauty See, she feels like she belong in 2 worlds And that she can't relate to girls Her father was rich and white still with his wife But he himself on her mother late one night They call it rape that's and now she take flight Through life with hate and spite inside her That keep her up to the break of light a lot of (I gotta myself) She had to remind They called her the unwanted seed Blood still in her vein and still red when she bleeds (Don't, don't, hurt me again)
Teenage lovers sit on the stoops up in Holdin' hands under the marquis dreamin of stardom Since they was the streets is watchin' and schemin' And now it got generations facin' deseases 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 of giving birth How I feed 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, they grow a little They bodies become While keepin' 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, talkin' (My is tan like the front of your hand) (And my hair) (well my hair's whatever way I want to fix it, It's it's fine) (But my hips, these hips of mine invite you daddy) (And when I fix my lips my 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 quit with all the question, sugar who's little girl am i) (Why I'm if you got enough money to buy) (You better stop with the we running out of time,) (You wanna talk whatever we could do that it's 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 plantation when she saw a sign thought she can't read It came from god and when life get hard she speak to him She'd kill her babies than let the master get to 'em She on the run up north to get that mason-dixon In church she learned how to be patient and keep The promise of eternal life after death for that god bless She swears the next baby have will breathe a free breath And get milk a free breast And love alive Otherwise they'll have to up being themselves to survive Being maids, cleaning maybe teachers Or graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug addicts Some will grow to be old women, some will die they born be mothers, and lovers who inspire and make songs (But me, my skin is and my manner is tough,) (Like the love I my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka that mess me, I never bluff) (I ain't got time to lie, my has been much too rough,) (Still running with barefeet, I got nothin' but my soul,) (Freedom is the ultimate Life and death is small on the whole, in ways) (I'm awfully these days 'Cuz the only parents god gave me, they slaves,) (And it me, I got the destiny of a casualty,) (But I through my babies and I change my reality) (Maybe one day I'll ride back to on a train,) (Folks there call me peaches, I guess that's my name.)