Yea, so we got this tune "for women" right Originally, it was by nina She said it was by, you know Down south, in the south, used to call her mother antie She no mrs. antie She said if anybody ever called her She'd burn the whole goddamn place I'm over that Coming into the new millenium, we can't our elders
I got off the 2 train in brooklyn on my way to a 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 and her essence was a lesson She had her wrapped And long dreads peeked out the back antenna to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine that Livin' a century, the of her memories like an angel had been sent to me She lived from nigga to to negro to black To afro then and right back to nigga You figure be bitter in the twilight But she alright, cuz she done sseen the circle of yo Her skin was black it was packed with melanin in the days of slaves she packin' like harriet tubman Her arms are long and she moves song Feet with corns, with callouses But her heart is warm and her is wooly And it attract a lot of energy even She gotta dead the head 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 to take all the pain, that's been Inflicted again and again and again and and flipped It to the love for her children nothing matters do they call her? they call her aunt sara
I know a with a name as beautiful as the rain Her face is the same but she suffers an unusual she only deals with losers who be usin' 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 started Seeing the world 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 word is And her hair is long and straight like sleeping beauty See, she truly like she belong in 2 worlds And that she can't relate to other Her father was rich and white still livin' with his But he himself on her mother late one night They call it that's right and now she take flight Through life with hate and inside her mind That keep her up to the of light a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to herself They called her safronia the seed Blood still blue in her and still red when she bleeds (Don't, don't, don't me again)
lovers sit on the stoops up in harlem Holdin' hands under the marquis dreamin of stardom Since they was born the streets is and schemin' And now it got them generations deseases don't kill you they just got problems And complications get you first Yo, it's getting worse, when children hide the fact they pregnant Cuz they scared of giving How will I feed this How will I survive, how will this baby Daddy dead from crack in '85, mommy dead from in '89 At 14 the baby hit the same streets they became her The children of the enslaved, they grow a little They bodies become While they the thoughts of a child her arrival Into womanhood was heemed up by her Now she 25, grown out her own Doin' whatever it takes strippin', out on the block Up on the phone, talkin' (My skin is tan like the of your hand) (And my hair) (well my hair's alright whatever way I 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 be shy, tonight I wanna be your lady) (I ain't too for your mercedes, but first you got to pay me) (You better quit with all the question, sugar little girl am i) (Why I'm if you got enough money to buy) (You better with the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna whatever we could do that it's your dime) (From harlem's from where I came, don't worry my name,) (Up on they call me sweet thang)
A daughter come up in georgia, ripe and ready to plant Left the plantation when she saw a sign even 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 after death for those that god bless She swears the next baby have will breathe a free breath And get milk from a breast And beeing alive Otherwise they'll have to give up being to survive Being maids, cleaning maybe teachers Or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug 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 my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka that with me, I never bluff) (I ain't got time to lie, my has been much too rough,) (Still running barefeet, I ain't got nothin' but my soul,) (Freedom is the ultimate Life and death is small on the whole, in ways) (I'm awfully bitter 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 and I change my reality) (Maybe one day I'll ride back to on a train,) (Folks 'round there call me peaches, I that's my name.)