[Spoken Word Interlude: Tina Lawson] I think part of it is accepting that it’s so much beauty in being Black and that’s the thing that, I guess, I get emotional about because I’ve always known that. I’ve always been proud to be Black. Never wanted to be nothing else. Loved everything about it, just… It’s…
[Verse 1: Solange] Don’t touch my hair When it’s the feelings I wear Don’t touch my soul When it’s the rhythm I know Don’t touch my crown They say the vision I’ve found Don’t touch what’s there When it’s the feelings I wear [Pre-Hook: Solange] They don’t understand What it means to me Where we…
If you don’t understand us and understand what we’ve been through, then you probably wouldn’t understand what this moment is about. This is home. This is where we from. This is where we belong And if it ain’t for the better of the people, nah, ’cause you, you robbing and stealing from the people that…
[Interlude: Master P] And they offered me a million dollar deal, and had the check ready. Said I wouldn’t be able to use my name. I was fighting my brother, because “Man, you shoulda took the million dollars!” I said “No, what you think I’m worth? If this white man offer me a million dollars…
[Intro: Solange] One for us [Chorus 1: Solange] All my niggas in the whole wide world All my niggas in the whole wide world Made this song to make it all y’all’s turn For us, this shit is for us [Chorus 2: Solange] All my niggas let the whole world know Play this song and…
[Intro] We been lovers on a mission We been lovers on a mission (All the way) But what’s love without a mission? We been lovers on a mission (All the way) So let’s take an intermission [Chorus] You know I have the world to think And I know I gotta go ahead and take some…
[A Cappella Interlude: Nia Andrews and Kelly Rowland] You did it from the get go, get go Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go look for magic, yeah They not gon’ get it from the get go, get go, get go, get go Don’t let, don’t let, don’t let anybody steal your magic, yeah But I…
[Intro: Nia Andrews and Kelly Rowland] …have it, yeah [Verse 1: Solange] First one’s a fool, who’ll be the fool now? Who’s gonna get in line? First one to go, first one to fight the way Let’s go to moonlight, then they will never find Let’s go to home, free from the mother mind Come…
[Verse 1] I went away This concrete don’t have love for me I took a day Too much talk and not much to see I know you always speak on something So I’ll leave on the mic for you [Chorus] And I’m going all the way But I’ll leave on the lights for you Oh…
[Spoken Word Interlude: Master P] But man, I done been through it all, so I, I said, “I wanna tell my story.” ‘Cause I never cried or nothing, and that’s where the “Make ’em say uhh uhh,” that’s like my pain. That’s basically what it is. That’s my battle cry. Think about it. None of…
[Chorus: Solange & Kelela] Candy red things gonna spin With that big body, boy, you’re bound to win And that armor in your mouth You’re gonna shine Your wrist talking, boy, it’s only time Put the incense on Cover up the smell And if your boys go down, I know you’ll never tell You’re a…
[Spoken Word Interlude: Master P] That’s what make my life complete, knowing that it’s a higher being, a higher power, knowing that these people done paved they way. You know, our great-great-grandfathers and grandmothers that came here, they found some kind of way to make the rhythm. You know, and they kept rhythm, no matter…
Narrator Joseph’s coat annoyed his brothers Brothers But what makes us mad Are the things that Joseph tells us of the Dreams he’s often had Joseph I dreamed that in the fields one day The corn gave me a sign Your eleven sheaves of corn All turned and bowed to mine My sheaf was quite…
Ché: Goodnight and thank you, Magaldi You’ve completed your task What more could we ask of you now? Please sign the book on your way out the door That will be all If we need you, we’ll call But I don’t think its likely somehow Eva: Oh, but it’s sad when a love affair dies…
Joseph I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain To see for certain what I thought I knew Far far away, someone was weeping But the world was sleeping Any dream will do Joseph & Children I wore my coat, with golden lining Bright colors shining, wonderful and new And in the east, the dawn…
Father we’ve something to tell you, a story of our time. A tragic but Inspiring tale, of manhood in its prime. You know you had a dozen sons? Well now that’s, not quite true. But feel no sorrow, do not grieve, he Would not want you to. There’s one more Angel in Heaven, there’s one…
Your eyes crashing into my eyes Was I accidentally falling in love Your words didn’t mean to heal the hurt We’re coincidentally more than enough All these days I never thought That I would need someone so much, who knew? But I don’t think I ever planned For this helpless circumstance with you You’re scared,…
Some folks dream of the wonders they’ll do, Before their time on this planet is through. Some just don’t have anything planned, They hide their hopes and theirs heads in the sand. Now I don’t say who is wrong who is right, But if by chance you are here for the night. Then all I…
Narrator: Joseph was taken to Egypt in chains And sold Where he was bought by a captain named Potiphar Potiphar had very few cares. He was one of Egypts millionaires. Having made a fortune buying shares In pyramids. Potiphar had made a huge pile. Owned a large percentage of the Nile. Meant that he could…
Narrator Next day, far from home The brothers planned the repulsive crime Brothers Let us grab him now Do him in, while we’ve got the time Narrator This they did and made the most of it Tore his coat and flung him in a pit Brothers Let us leave him here All alone and he’s…
This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid Nothing I say will convince him This isn’t a trick. A drink on clear moonlit night I relax, she smiles, There’s something peculiar Going on. So through no fault of my own I’m stuck here to carry the can. Embarrassed, uncertain, marooned. Now she can’t…
Young and wasted I feel out of my mind Painted faces Float above the sky Don’t know where I’ve been With These Shots of jameson They Got my head spinning Oh, I hope this never ends These are the best years Of our mindless nights Only freedom There’s no sleep in sight Caught up in…
I met you in the dark You lit me up You made me feel as though I was enough We danced the night away We drank too much I held your hair back when You were throwing up Then you smiled over your shoulder For a minute, I was stone cold sober I pulled you…
[Verse 1] Don’t wanna be an American idiot, Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America. [Chorus] Welcome to a new kind of tension, All across the alien nation, Where everything isn’t meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow, We’re not…
[Verse 1] I’m a poor wayfaring stranger While traveling thru this world of woe Yet there’s no sickness, toil, nor danger In that fair land to which I go [Pre-Chorus] I’m going there to see my Father I’m going there no more to roam [Chorus] I’m only going over Jordan I’m only going over home…
He said I’ve been where you’ve been before Down every hallway’s a slamming door No way out, no one to come and save me Wasting a life that the Good Lord gave you There’s somebody saying what I’m saying to you Open my eyes and told me truth They said: just a little faith and…
Kapitalet höjer hyrorna och staten bostadsbidragen så kan man fiffla en smula med den järnhårda lönelagen och till och med betala mindre i lön än priset för mat och för hyra för staten skjuter så gärna till om levnadsomkostnaderna blivit allt för dyra. Sida vid sida, tillsammans hjälps dom åt staten och kapitalet, dom sitter…
The coconut nut is a giant nut If you eat too much, you’ll get very fat Now, the coconut nut is a big, big nut But it’s delicious nut is not a nut It’s the coco fruit (it’s the coco fruit) Of the coco tree (of the coco tree) From the coco palm family There…
The grip of satan baby Had his fingers ’round our soul ‘Till Malachi obeyed every word the Lord had told All pretending to be real But the spirit of the cheat and face of deciet Kept the veil over the beast Malachi, Malachi exposed the lie Malachi, Malachi exposed the lie The face of evil…
In your mind’s eye come let’s go Further than all timid souls know Then when we fear our end, it begins As the tide moves with the moon Madness moves the force that ruins All the children in its path Know its wrath Blinding white or maybe grey What’s in store are we its prey?…