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 call her mother She no mrs. Just She said if anybody ever called her 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 let me help this woman up the stairs before 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 long dreads that peeked out the Like 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 sent to me She lived from to colored to negro to black To afro then african-american and back to nigga You figure be bitter in the twilight But she alright, cuz she done the circle of life yo Her was black like it was packed with melanin Back in the of slaves she packin' like harriet tubman Her arms are long and she moves like Feet with corns, hand callouses But her heart is warm and her is wooly And it attract a lot of energy negative She gotta dead the head wrap is her remedy Her is strong and she far from a vagabond This is the back of the masters' whip used to upon Strong enough to take all the pain, that's Inflicted again and again and again and and flipped It to the for her children nothing else matters What do they call they call her aunt sara
I a girl with a name as beautiful as the rain Her face is the same but she 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 american dream mission paid tuition For the receipt to find out her history was missing and flippin' Seeing the world through very eyes askin' her what she'll do when it comes time to chose sides Yo, her skin is yellow, it's like her is blond word is bond And her hair is long and straight just 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 livin' with his But he forced himself on her late one night They it rape that's right and now she take flight Through life with hate and inside her mind That her up to the break of light a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to remind They called her safronia the seed Blood blue in her vein and still red when she bleeds (Don't, don't, don't me again)
Teenage sit on the stoops up in harlem Holdin' hands under the apollo marquis dreamin of Since they was the streets is watchin' and schemin' And now it got them facin' deseases That don't kill you they got problems And complications that get you Yo, it's getting worse, when hide the fact that they pregnant Cuz they scared of giving How will I feed this How will I survive, how will this shine? Daddy dead from crack in '85, dead from aids in '89 At 14 the hit the same streets they became her master The children of the enslaved, they a little faster They become adult they keepin' the thoughts of a child her arrival Into was heemed up by her survival 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 whatever way I want to fix it, It's alright fine) (But my hips, these sweet hips of mine you daddy) (And when I fix my lips my mouth is wine) (Take a sip don't be shy, tonight I wanna be 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 enough to buy) (You stop with the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna talk whatever we do that it's your dime) (From harlem's from 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 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 to get across that mason-dixon In church she learned how to be patient and keep The promise of eternal life after death for those that god She the next baby she'll have will breathe a free breath And get milk a free breast And beeing alive Otherwise they'll to give up being themselves to survive Being maids, cleaning maybe teachers Or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and addicts Some will grow to be old women, some will die before they be mothers, and lovers who inspire and make songs (But me, my is brown and my manner is tough,) (Like the love I give my babies the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka that with me, I never bluff) (I got time 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 awfully these days 'Cuz the only parents god gave me, 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 back to georgia on a train,) (Folks there call me peaches, I guess that's my name.)