Excuse me, you headin’my way? Tryin’to find something to brighten up my day Maybe i could talk to you or you could talk to me Your eyes seem to call out for some comfort Is it the everyday racism Or a pain from deep within I may not understand now but then again You could […]
Sweet Love - Plantation Lullabies
Tell me, what is a girl to do. I try so very hard to try and please you. Even though you know you don’t really care. Or is that you find your feelings too hard to share. Friends say i’m crazy for the way that i feel. You don’t love me now. You probably never […]
A hopeless romantic that’s what i’ve been called. So don’t talk ’bout love ’cause i’ll fall. Moved by the way you walk, talk. The color of your eyes. I want to hug and kiss you when you walk by. The way you eat your cereal So cute reading shakespeare in your birthday suit Just a […]
Here i am waiting. Just waiting. Anticipating a chance to run into you. I sit here for hours. One day i even sat through a rain shower. For just a glance. A chance to talk to you. You’re probably wondering how i even know you. For now you’re just my dream. And when i wake […]
Call Me - Plantation Lullabies
Dial the 7 digits, It’s quite simple I’ll be there in a hurry Jack be quick jack be nimble Call me up when you feel the need to talk When words aren’t of the essence i’ll soothe you with my presence A kiss here and there from head to toe Just call me up when […]
Soul On Ice - Plantation Lullabies
We’ve been indoctrinated and convinced by the white racist standard of beauty The overwhelming popularity of seeing, better off being, and looking white My brothers attempt to defy the white man’s law and his system of values Defiles his white woman, but my mum, master’s in the slave house again Visions of her virginal white […]
She’s darker than a child’s deepest sleep And into his mind she creeps In this world of lies and confusion She’s the only thing not clouded by illusions The pain of everyday life is hidden by the blackness of our skin He searches to find peace within He finds love in the blackness of her […]
Untitled - Plantation Lullabies
"her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin the blackness of her mind" Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind Darker than blue darker than her blackness Unblemished her features broad and striking She cradles his body with her large hands Her fingers stretch endlessly into his world of pain […]
Dred Lock - Plantation Lullabies
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks Run them all over your body ’til your hollor stops As in life they grow a high on high Ooh! how i love a black man oh my my Lay your body down to give yourself strength As you walk through this world of confrontation Rest […]
He lived two train stops away I was a train ride away from heaven We signify about politics, low income housing birth control and abortion The capitalistic hand around my throat Shootin’up dope to cope in this dehumanizing society We both found god when he o.d’d He found beauty in my black skin Amidst the […]
