Yea, so we got tune called "for women" right Originally, it was by simone She said it was by, you know south, in the south, they used to call her mother antie She no mrs. antie She said if anybody called her antie She'd burn the whole goddamn down I'm over 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 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 head And long dreads that out the back antenna to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine that Livin' a century, the strenght of her Felt like an angel had been to me She from nigga to colored to negro to black To afro then african-american and right back to You figure she'd be bitter in the But she alright, cuz she done sseen the circle of yo Her was black like it was packed with melanin Back in the of slaves she packin' like harriet tubman Her are long and she moves like song Feet with corns, hand with But her heart is warm and her hair is And it attract a lot of energy negative She gotta dead that the wrap is her remedy Her back is strong and she far a vagabond This is the back of the masters' used to crack upon Strong enough to take all the pain, been Inflicted and again and again and again and flipped It to the love for her children else matters What do they call her? they call her sara
I know a girl with a as beautiful as the rain Her face is the but she suffers 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 dream mission paid tuition For the receipt to find out her was missing and started flippin' Seeing the world very different eyes People askin' her what do when it comes time to chose sides Yo, her is yellow, it's like her face is blond word is bond And her hair is long and straight just sleeping beauty See, she truly like she belong in 2 worlds And that she can't to other girls Her father was rich and white livin' with his wife But he forced himself on her mother 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 find myself) She had to remind They called her safronia the unwanted Blood still blue in her vein and still red when she (Don't, don't, hurt me again)
lovers sit on the stoops up in harlem Holdin' hands under the apollo marquis dreamin of they was born the streets is watchin' and schemin' And now it got generations facin' deseases That don't kill you they just got And complications that get you Yo, it's getting worse, when children hide the fact they pregnant Cuz scared of giving birth How will I this baby? How will I survive, how this baby shine? Daddy dead crack 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 a little faster They become adult While they keepin' the thoughts of a her arrival Into was heemed up by her survival Now she 25, grown out her own Doin' whatever it strippin', workin' out on the block Up on the phone, about (My skin is tan like the of your hand) (And my hair) (well my hair's alright way I want to fix it, It's alright fine) (But my hips, these sweet hips of invite you daddy) (And when I fix my my mouth is like wine) (Take a sip don't be shy, tonight I be your lady) (I too good for your mercedes, but first you got to pay me) (You better quit with all the question, who's little girl am i) (Why I'm yours if you got money to buy) (You better stop the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna whatever we could do that it's your dime) (From harlem's from I came, don't worry about my name,) (Up on one-two-five call me sweet thang)
A daughter up in georgia, ripe and ready to plant seeds Left the plantation when she saw a even thought she can't read It from god and when life get hard she always speak to him She'd rather her babies than let the master get to 'em She on the run up north to get across that In she learned how to be patient and keep wishin' The promise of eternal life death for those that god bless She the next baby she'll have will breathe a free breath And get from a free breast And love alive Otherwise they'll have to give up being to survive Being maids, cleaning ladies maybe Or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug will grow to be old women, some will die before they born They'll be mothers, and lovers who and make songs (But me, my skin is brown and my is tough,) (Like the I give my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first that mess with me, I never bluff) (I ain't got time to lie, my life has been too rough,) (Still running with barefeet, I got nothin' but my soul,) (Freedom is the goal Life and death is small on the whole, in ways) (I'm bitter these days 'Cuz the only parents god gave me, were 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 to georgia on a train,) (Folks 'round there me peaches, I guess that's my name.)