Yea, so we got this called "for women" right Originally, it was by simone She said it was inspired by, you Down south, in the south, used to call her mother antie She no mrs. Just She if anybody ever 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 before I get to steppin' We got in a conversation she she a 107 Just her was a blessing and her essence was a lesson She had her wrapped And long that peeked out the back Like antenna to help her get a sense of she was at, imagine that Livin' a century, the strenght of her Felt like an had been sent to me She lived nigga to colored to negro to black To then african-american and right back to nigga You figure she'd be in the twilight But she alright, cuz she done the circle of life yo Her skin was black it was packed with melanin Back in the days of slaves she packin' like 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 a lot of energy even 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 whip used to crack upon Strong to take all the pain, that's been again and again and again and again and flipped It to the love for her nothing else matters What do they call her? they call her aunt
I know a with a name as beautiful as the rain Her face is the same but she suffers an pain Seems she only deals with losers who be usin' games Chasin' the brothers away like she confused in the brain She to get it where she fit in On american dream mission paid tuition For the receipt to find out her history was and started flippin' the world through very different eyes People askin' her what she'll do it comes time to chose sides Yo, her skin is yellow, like her face is blond word is bond And her hair is and straight just like sleeping beauty See, she truly feels she belong in 2 worlds And that she can't relate to other Her father was and white still livin' with his wife But he himself on her mother late one night They call it rape right and now she take flight Through life hate and spite inside her mind That keep her up to the break of a lot of times (I gotta myself) She had to herself They called her the unwanted seed Blood still blue in her and still red when she bleeds (Don't, don't, hurt me again)
Teenage lovers sit on the stoops up in Holdin' hands the apollo marquis dreamin of stardom Since they was born the streets is watchin' and And now it got them generations deseases don't kill you they just got problems And that get you first Yo, it's getting worse, when children hide the fact they pregnant Cuz scared of giving birth How will I feed this How will I survive, how will this shine? Daddy dead from crack in '85, mommy dead aids in '89 At 14 the hit the same streets they became her master The children of the enslaved, they grow a faster They bodies become While they keepin' the of a child her arrival Into womanhood was up by her survival Now she 25, barely out her own Doin' whatever it strippin', workin' out on the block Up on the phone, about (My is tan like the front of your hand) (And my hair) (well my hair's alright way I want to fix it, It's it's fine) (But my hips, these hips of mine invite you daddy) (And I fix my lips my mouth is like 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 if you got enough money to buy) (You better with the compliments we running out of time,) (You wanna talk whatever we could do it's your dime) (From harlem's from where I came, worry about my name,) (Up on one-two-five they call me 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 came from god and when life get she always speak to him She'd kill her babies than let the master get to 'em She on the run up north to get that mason-dixon 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 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 maybe teachers Or graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug addicts will grow to be old women, some 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 when the rainbow's enuff,) (I'll kill the first muthafucka mess with me, I never bluff) (I got time to lie, my life has been much too rough,) (Still running with barefeet, I ain't got but my soul,) (Freedom is the goal and death is small on the whole, in many ways) (I'm awfully bitter days 'Cuz the parents god gave me, they 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 guess my name.)