album cover
Seeds
album cover
Seeds was released on September 9, 2021 by sweetearth as a part of the album Dirt. Honey. Glitter. Water. - EP
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2021
Labelsweetearth
LanguageEnglish
BPM126
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

So, this is a depiction of our
grandma’s grandma’s grandma’s Susie Boyd
She and many of the women living
In the Dahomey region of West Africa in the 1700’s
Were watching their family members
Get snatched up and
Sold away to an uncertain future
They fortified themselves in the mountains
They defended themselves
They ran, they did everything they could
But they were aware
That their future would be similar
To their family members
So what they did was
They gathered up their cowpea, their millet, their sorghum
Their black rice, their black eyed peas, their egusi seeds
And braided it in their hair
I’m an urban gardener
Becuase I flower myself
Venus fly trap baby,
I devour myself
Survival’s the mood
Can you grow your own food
Have you sharpened your tools
Baby what can you do?
You talking to creatrx
The matriarchect of the matrix
And my own universe
Where lack girls reign supreme
Or gender means no thing
Octavia of the rap world
Dreamer bitch, creator girl
Plotting world domination
As the bringer of good things
I believe in black futures
We gon still be here
You tried to kill us all
And you didn’t play fair
But our mothers they knew
They planted seeds in our hair
Becuase they believed against odds
In a future of tilling and reaping on soil
And they believed against odds
 that they would have descendants
To inherit the seeds
I got the vision you seek
I got the structure you need
I got it all in me
I am the seed
I got the vision you seek
I got the structure you need
I got it all in me
I am the seed
And I invite you
To also think of an ancestor
Who had foresight for you
And at the count of three
We are going to call their name into the space
With a loud, firm, voice
Written by: Ayanna Clarke, Kennethq Pineda
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