Yea, so we got this tune "for women" right Originally, it was by simone She said it was inspired by, you Down south, in the south, they used to her mother antie She no mrs. antie She said if anybody called her antie She'd burn the whole goddamn place I'm over past into the new millenium, we can't forget our elders
I got off the 2 train in 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 presence was a blessing and her was a lesson She had her wrapped And dreads that peeked out the back Like antenna to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine a century, the strenght of her memories Felt like an had been sent to me She lived from to colored to negro to black To afro then african-american and right to nigga You she'd be bitter in the twilight But she alright, cuz she sseen the circle of life yo Her skin was black like it was packed melanin Back in the days of slaves she like harriet tubman Her arms are long and she moves like Feet with corns, with callouses But her heart is warm and her is wooly And it attract a lot of energy negative She gotta dead that the head is her remedy Her back is and she far from a vagabond This is the back of the whip used to crack upon Strong enough to take all the pain, that's Inflicted again and again and again and again and It to the for her children nothing else matters What do they call her? they call her sara
I know a girl with a name as beautiful as the Her face is the but she suffers an unusual pain Seems she deals with losers who be usin' them games the real brothers away like she confused in the brain She to get it where she fit in On that dream mission paid tuition For the to find out her history was missing and started flippin' the world through very 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 straight like sleeping beauty See, she truly like she belong in 2 worlds And that she relate to other girls Her father was rich and white still livin' his wife But he forced himself on her mother late one They call it rape that's right and now she take Through life with hate and spite inside her That her up to the break of light a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to remind They her safronia the unwanted seed 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 of stardom 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 hide the fact that they pregnant Cuz they of giving birth How I feed this baby? How will I survive, how will this baby Daddy dead from crack in '85, mommy dead from in '89 At 14 the hit the same streets they became her master The of the enslaved, they grow a little faster They become adult While they keepin' the thoughts of a child her Into womanhood was heemed up by her Now she 25, grown out her own Doin' whatever it takes strippin', workin' out on the Up on the phone, talkin' (My skin is tan the front of your hand) (And my hair) (well my alright whatever way I want to fix it, It's it's 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, I wanna be your lady) (I ain't too good for mercedes, but first you got to pay me) (You better 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 compliments we out of time,) (You wanna whatever we could do that it's your dime) (From harlem's from where I came, don't about my name,) (Up on one-two-five they call me thang)
A daughter come up in georgia, ripe and 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 always to him She'd rather kill her babies let the master 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 god bless She swears the next baby she'll have will a free breath And get from a free breast And love beeing Otherwise they'll have to give up being themselves to Being maids, cleaning maybe teachers Or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and 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 I give my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka that mess me, I never bluff) (I ain't got to lie, my life has been much too rough,) (Still running barefeet, I ain't got nothin' but my soul,) (Freedom is the ultimate and death is small on the whole, in many ways) (I'm bitter these days 'Cuz the only god gave me, they were slaves,) (And it crippled me, I got the of a casualty,) (But I live through my babies and I my reality) (Maybe one day I'll ride to georgia on a train,) (Folks 'round there call me peaches, I guess my name.)