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Lyrics for For Women by Talib Kweli:
| | | Artist: | Talib Kweli |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | For Women | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 246 | | | | Lyrics: | [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
Antie
she'd burn the whole goddamn place down
I'm over past that
Coming into the new
millenium, we can't 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 she'd be bitter in
the twilight
But she alright, cuz 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
a vagabond
This is the back of the masters' whip used to crack upon
Strong enough to take
all the pain, that's been
Inflicted again and again and again and again and flipped
It to
the love for her children nothing else matters
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