Black Woman

Woman cry

Give life

Mother Mary and baby the burden she carry all time

Woman cry

When give us life

And she begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners all time, whoa

Foreign man took me from land

Banish my name, I survived all the same

Enough commotion

Way across ocean

Through whip and chain I survived all the same

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?

Tied my neck

Ship it don't wreck

Bind me to tree, I survive, they will see

Whip they crack

Scar me pon my back

Soon we gone see who survive make us free

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?

Follow follow

People they know they follow

People they know they copy

People all up in my grotto

They see me like a genie, try to keep me in a bottle

Petty petty people keep them incommunicado

They tie you up in strings

They play **** like pizzicato

Lose sight of the picture scripture now they not so steady

Meanwhile I'm like Curtis Mayfield getting people ready

See into the future then cut through like a machete

Or cutlass, all these trappings leave these **** gutless

You can't make moves for justice

You can't make no adjustments

Drowning in corruption Charlie addict to convenience

Now they got you caught up & calling freedom extremists

We're not in agreement, I won't lay down politely

I closed my mouth for years and they still tried to fight me

I sat down on the sidelines and they still tried to bite me

They buried my career and promoted my peers to spite me

But they can't tell me nothing Charlie they don't underwrite me

I've had a lot of money thrown at me, none of that shit excites me

It's just another kind of case to get up in my psyche

To use me as an instrument to further push their puppet show

But I'm not inexperienced and this not my first rodeo

I'm not so shallow Charlie, I call it too precisely

Separate bone from marrow, so much soul that they dislike me

Intuitives, Charlie we be like fugitives

Until the universe responds to show them who the student is

Woman cry (Woman cry)

Give life (Gives us life)

Mother Mary and baby the burden she carries all time (Burden she carries)

Woman cry (Woman cry)

Gives us life (Gives us life)

And she begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners all time (Begs He forgives us)

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war before we free?