- Talib Kweli For Women 歌詞
- Talib Kweli
- [Talib Kweli] (Spoken)
Yea, so we got this tune called 'For Women' right
Originally, it was by
Nina Simone
She said it was inspired by, you know
Down south.
In the south, they used to call her
Mother Antie
She said No
Mrs.Just Antie
She said if anybody ever called her
Antieshed burn the whole goddamn place down
Im over past that
Coming into the new millenium, we cant forget our elders[Talib Kweli]
I got off the 2 train in
Brooklyn on my way to a session
Said let me help this woman up the stairs before
I get to steppin
We got in a conversation she said she a 107
Just her presence was a blessing and her essence was a lesson
She had her head wrapped
And long dreads that peeked out the back
Like antenna to help her get a sense of where she was at, imagine that
Livin a century, the strenght of her memories
Felt like an angel had been sent to me
She lived from nigger to colored to negro to black
To afro then african-american and right back to nigger
You figure shed be bitter in the twilight
But she alright, cause she done sseen the circle of life yo
Her skin was black like it was packed with melanin
Back in the days of slaves she packin like
Harriet Tubman
Her arms are long and she moves like song
Feet with corns, hand with callouses
But her heart is warm and her hair is wooly
And it attract a lot of energy even negative
She gotta dead that the head wrap is her remedy
Her back is strong and she far from avagabond
This is the back of the masters whip used to crack upon
Strong enough to take all the pain, thats been
Inflicted again and again and again and again and flipped
It to the love for her children nothing else matters
What do they call her?
They call her aunt
Sara.Woman singing in the background[Talib Kweli] (+ Background Vocals)
I know a girl with a name as beautiful as the rain
Her face is the same but she suffers an unusual pain
Seems she only deals with losers who be usin them games
Chasin the real brothers away like she confused in the brain
She tried to get it where she fit inon that
American Dream mission paid tuition
For the receipt to find out her history was missing and started flippin
Seeing the world through very different eyes
People askin her what shell do when it comes time to chose sides
Yo, her skin is yellow, its like her face is blond word is bond
And her hair is long and straight just like sleeping beauty
See, she truly feels like she belong in 2 worlds
And that she cant relate to other girls
Her father was rich and white still livin with his wife
But he forced himself on her mother late one night
They call it rape thats right and now she take flight
Through life with hate and spite inside her mind
That keep her up to the break of light a lot of times(I gotta find myself) (3X)
She had to remind herself
They called her
Safronia the unwanted seed
Blood still blue in her vein and still red when she bleeds(Dont, dont, dont hurt me again) (8X)[Talib Kweli] (+ Background Vocals)
Teenage lovers sit on the stoops up in
HarlemHoldin hands under the
Apollo marquis dreamin of stardom
Since they was born the streets is watchin and schemin
And now it got them generations facin deseases
That dont kill you they just got problemsand complications that get you first
Yo, its getting worse, when children hide the fact that they pregnantcause they scared of giving birth
How will I feed this baby?
How will I survive, how will this baby shine?
Daddy dead from crack in 85, mommy dead from
AIDS in 89
At 14 the baby hit the same streets they became her master
The children of the enslaved, they grow a little faster
They bodies become adult
While they keepin the thoughts of a child her arrival
Into womanhood was heemed up by her survival
Now she 25, barely grown out her own
Doin whatever it takes strippin, workin out on the block
Up on the phone, talkin about (my skin is tan like the front of your hand)(And my hair...)(Well my hairs alright whatever way I want to fix it,its alright its fine)(But my hips, these sweet hips of mine invite you daddy)(And when I fix my lips my mouth is like wine)(Take a sip dont be shy, tonight I wanna be your lady)(I aint too good for your Mercedes, but first you got to pay me)(You better quit with all the question, sugar whos little girl am I)(Why Im yours if you gotenough money to buy)(You better stop with the compliments we running out of time,)(You wanna talk whatever we could do that its your dime)(From Harlems from where I came, dont worry about my name,)(Up on one-two-five they call me sweet thang)
Scratches +
Woman singing in the background[Talib Kweli] (+ Background Vocals)
A daughter come up in
Georgia, ripe and ready to plant seeds,
Left the plantation when she saw a sign even thought she cant read
It came from
God and when life get hard she always speak to him,
Shed rather kill her babies than let the master get to em,
She on the run up north to get across that
Mason-Dixon
In church she learned how to be patient and keep wishin,
The promise of eternal life after death for those that
God blessShe swears the next baby shell have will breathe a free breathand get milk from a free breast,
And love beeing alive,otherwise theyll have to give up being themselves to survive,
Being maids , cleaning ladies, maybe teachers or college graduates, nurses, housewives, prostitutes, and drug addicts
Some will grow to be old women, some will die before they born,
Theyll be mothers, and lovers who inspire and make songs,(But me, my skin is brown and my manner is tough,)(Like the love I give my babies when the rainbows enuff,)(Ill kill the first muthafucka that mess with me, I never bluff)(I aint got time to lie, my life has been much too rough,)(Still running with barefeet, I aint got nothin but my soul,)(Freedom is the ultimate goal,life and death is small on the whole, in many ways)(Im awfully bitter these dayscause the only parents God gave me, they were slaves,)(And it crippled me, I got the destiny of a casualty,)(But I live through my babies and I change my reality)(Maybe one day Ill ride back to Georgia on a train,)(Folks round there call me Peaches, I guess thats my name.)
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