Yea, so we got this 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. Just She said if anybody called her antie She'd burn the whole goddamn down I'm over that into 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 before I get to steppin' We got in a she said she a 107 Just her presence was a blessing and her essence was a She had her head And long dreads that peeked out the Like to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine that a century, the strenght of her memories Felt like an angel had been to me She from nigga to colored to negro to black To then african-american and right back to nigga You figure she'd be bitter in the But she alright, cuz she sseen the circle of life yo Her skin was black it was packed with melanin Back in the days of she packin' like harriet tubman Her arms are long and she like song Feet with corns, with callouses But her heart is warm and her hair is And it attract a lot of even negative She gotta that the head wrap is her remedy Her is strong and she far from a vagabond This is the back of the 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 matters What do they call her? they her aunt sara
I a girl with a name as beautiful as the rain Her is the same but she suffers an unusual pain Seems she only deals with losers who be them games Chasin' the real away like she confused 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 and started flippin' Seeing the world through very 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 like sleeping beauty See, she feels like 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 himself on her mother late one night They call it rape that's and now she take flight Through with hate and spite inside her mind That keep her up to the of light a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to herself They her safronia the unwanted seed Blood blue in her vein and still red when she bleeds (Don't, don't, hurt me again)
Teenage lovers sit on the up in harlem Holdin' hands under the apollo marquis of stardom they was born the streets is watchin' and schemin' And now it got them generations facin' don't kill you they just got problems And complications that get you Yo, it's getting worse, children hide the fact that they pregnant Cuz they 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 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 strippin', workin' out on the block Up on the phone, talkin' (My is tan like the front of your hand) (And my hair) (well my alright whatever way I want to fix it, It's alright fine) (But my hips, these hips of mine invite you daddy) (And when I fix my my mouth is like wine) (Take a sip be shy, tonight I wanna be your lady) (I ain't too good for your mercedes, but you got to pay me) (You better quit with all the question, who's little girl am i) (Why I'm if you got enough money to buy) (You better stop the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna talk whatever we could do that it's dime) (From from where I came, don't worry about my name,) (Up on they call me sweet thang)
A daughter come up in georgia, ripe and to plant seeds Left the plantation when she saw a sign even thought she can't It came 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 to get across that mason-dixon In church she learned how to be and keep wishin' The promise of eternal life death for those that god bless She swears the next baby she'll have will breathe a breath And get milk from a breast And love 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, will die before they born They'll be mothers, and lovers who inspire and make (But me, my skin is brown and my is tough,) (Like the love I give my babies when the enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka that with me, I never bluff) (I ain't got time to lie, my life has much too rough,) (Still with barefeet, I ain't got nothin' but my soul,) (Freedom is the goal Life and death is on the whole, in many ways) (I'm awfully bitter these the only parents god gave me, they were slaves,) (And it me, I got the destiny of a casualty,) (But I live through my and I change my reality) (Maybe one day I'll back to georgia on a train,) (Folks 'round there me peaches, I guess that's my name.)