Shaped by darkness as much as light
Descendant of the sharecroppers' plight
From can't see in the morning to can't see at night
To second sight
With the wherewithal to fight
An exercise of excision, excavation, exorcism
To heal the spirit and reveal the prism beyond the prison
Groomed by addiction, tuned by a vision
One woman, one mission
Follow me
I am the wildest dreams of rebels and kings
Incredible odds, I battled and won
And circled the sun and sat in the bed of a fiend
Daughter of dust, trudge through the
Rocks to chase them revenue streams
My family's familiar with crops but they
Ain't accustomed to none of the cream
The funniest thing, spent the first two of my years unable to scream
'Cause I was born wrapped in ancient
Pain, the kind that needed to cling
We went from slaving farms to Reaganomics, hell of a schwing
A different war but same old target, backs embellished with rings
Never, clever
Needles turn to Nino's era
Brown girl with the thin skin
They said I'd never make it this far
That was the devil, baby, this God
I'm one of heaven's favorite sisters
Brown girl with the thin skin
They said I'd never make it this far
That was the devil, baby, this God
I'm one of heaven's favorite sisters
Look at me now, look at me now
Look at me now, look at me now
Look at me now, look at me now
Look at me now, look at me now
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