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album: Peace Beyond Passion (1996)
::I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record)
Just sit back and. Relax.
Listen to the 8-track
I’ll dig you like an old soul record
Remember back in the day
When everyone was black and conscious.
And down for the struggle.
Love brought us all together.
Just sittin’ back and talkin’.
Cultivating a positive vibe.
Blue lights in the basement.
Freedom was at hand and you could just taste it.
Everything was cool. Diggin’ on me diggin’ on you.
Everything was cool and brothers were singing
”Ain’t no woman like the one I got”
I’m diggin’you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. Relax. Listen to the 8-track.
I’ll dig you like an old soul record.
Now brothers (be) base-in.
Running from the beat-down cops that be chasin’.
Running out of time. Running out of patience.
In this war of the conscious mind.
I need some black-on-black love.
A slow grind for these changin’ times (the booty-slammin’ part!)
Beautiful brown bodies. Pimp, switch and sway.
To the soulful sounds. Gotta get up gotta get down.
‘Cause you give me good feeling.
You give me good feeling. Yes you do.
I’m diggin’ you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. Relax. Listen to the 8-track.
I’ll dig you like an old soul record.
::If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)
You say that’s your boyfriend
You say I’m out of line
Funny… he said I could call him up anytime
You can say I’m wrong say I ain’t right
But if that’s you boyfriend he wasn’t last night
Now I’m the kind of woman
I’ll do almost anything to get what I want
I might play any little game
Call me what you like but you know it’s true
You’re just jealous ‘cause he wasn’t with you
Don’t mean no harm I just like what I see
And it ain’t my fault if he wants me
Got what I wanted and the feeling was right
So if that’s your boyfriend he wasn’t last night!!!
Boyfriend
boyfriend yes I had your boyfriend
Now late at night he calls me on the telephone
That’s why when you call
All you get is the busy busy tone
You’re upset ‘cause you’re one stuck-up bitch
Maybe he needed a change a switch
And who am I not to oblige
Especially if the man is fly
So call me what you like
Call me what you like
While I boot slam your boyfriend tonight
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 cover girls and clairol ads
Makin’ no mistake what’s white is right
Livin’ in a world where the TV shouts
”Forget where you come from!”
And damn I thought I was shootin’ up Africa in my veins
White man voodoo slow my brain the while man fights wars and
enslaves
All in God’s name
What ya trying to achieve with your sun tan lotion
You wanna keep me down keep me down
Revolution against this racist institution
The white man shall forever sleep with one eye open
Dehumanize me.
Criticize, set aside.
Livin’ in the midst of genocide I hear voices voices are what I hear
Uprise would you die for your right
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 your weary head and let me run my fingers through your dreds
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down
As I bathe my body in the sun
In the land where life began stands a man
One with nature with his head held high
He never questions why
Together we make the fruit of life
So I love and treat him right
So rest you weary head and let me run my fingers through your dreds
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down
Let me run my fingers through your hair x4
*kinky dred love*
Caress and kiss your tears away
I wanna touch your body
Walk through your mind
Undress you slowly
Take my time…
“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
Her caresses warm and penetrating she loves the black boy
His existence predestined to be one of no remorse compassion
Or the delusion of equality
But the love he gives (a doxology for her)
He praises and cares for what he can never be
There’s such purity in a love that is essential to the loving of one’s self
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 skin
Back to the ghetto
Serenaded by the violence outside the window
Project aristocrats gather they realize
That our hearts and minds are shackled by the lies
But he finds peace when he looks into her eyes
And see her blackness is fine
The blackness of her skin the blackness of her mind
Straight from the womb
Right smack dab in the middle of…
Poverty insecurity no one to save me
The young black man lays his head on her young black thighs
So that the child in her womb can hear the tears
That the black man cries
Soon come on a wave of positivity the big swinger,
Swingin’ like a jazz singer travelin’, movin’, movin’,
Steppin’ in my three-quarter shell-toes,
Groovin’ love to hear the brothers signify sisters with their head held
high
Summertime, the livin’ is easy dreaming of seas of dark tranquility
On the project train full speed on the project train heading for my love
that’s sweet like sugercrane
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 beauty
Dancin’ in your head
Your soul’s on ice
Your soul’s on ice
Brother brother
Are you suffering from a social infection mis-direction
Excuse me does the white woman go better with the brooks Brothers
suit?
I have psychotic dreams
Your jism in a white chalk line
You let my sister go by
Used to be customary to bow one’s eyes at the sight of a white face
konks and fade
Creams sad passion deferred dreams I am a reflection of you
Black and blue pure as the tears of coal-colored children crying for
acceptance
You can’t run from yourself
She’s just an illusion
Black love anthems play behind white-skinned affection
New Birth stereophonic spanish fly let her cry.
But you no longer burn for the motherland brown skin
You want blond-haired, blue-eyed soul
Snow white passion without the hot comb
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 you want more
You can be king for a day I’ll be your queen let me treat you that way
When you need me baby, yeah!
Just call me
Are you into this
If not we can do that ‘cause when we get together
it’s like Lena Horne singin’ Stormy weather”
We can get loose and kinky
Be my teddy bear, forget your every care
the M-E-S-H-E-E-L and I aim to please your every little fantasy
You can be king for a day I’ll be your queen let me treat you that way
Get loose work out
Work up a sweat till you fall out I’m in the mood for love
So we can play house I’ll treat you like Julius Caesar
Best to bet that I’ll treat you like a king, ring a ding ding
Just call me up ‘cause it ain’t nothing but the real thing
Dazin’ glazin’, so amazin’
Snugger than a bug in a rug
So let’s get crazy
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 up I hope you talk to me.
Here I sit outside your door.
Talk to me.
I’d be content to just sit here and talk to you.
In my dreams you love me and me only.
The way you kiss and hold me.
Love is what I search and search to find.
But until then I’ll just dream for the meantime.
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 hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you
I wanna hold your hand take you to a picture show.
I wanna hold your hand.
In my script there’s a love scene.
Just picture it.
Candles and warm apple cider.
Sly Stone on the radio.
Caress your funky dreads in the candle glow.
Whisper in my ear.
‘Cause I’m in the mood for love.
I’m just a hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you.
Kiss and hug you.
Baby squeeze you tight.
I wanna hold your hand.
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 will.
But my love is far stronger than pride.
Even though I know there’ll always be another by your side
Let me make sweet love to you baby x2
Cry my tears by candlelight.
I’m just another lonely heart, here on a lonely night.
Screams of passions.
I call out your name making love to another.
Just to ease my pain.
Will this ever change?
Will you ever feel the same way about me?
Let me make sweet love to you baby x2
::Two Lonely Hearts (On The Subway)
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 talk to me or we could just sit here and daydream
Say, you headin’ my way
Two lonely hearts on the subway
Singin’ the blues on the subway train
They say you're the way the light
The light is so blinding
Your followers condemn me your words used to enslave me
Jesus cured the blind man so that he could see the evils of the world
Perchance blindness is but a dark thought overcome by the light
Maybe Judas was the better man and Mary made a virgin just to save
face
I too am so ashamed on bended knees
Prayin' to my pretty white Jesus
Brother John Paul convinced himself of his wisdom to judge to forgive to
condemn
Mother Mary full of grace I'm so confused by her pale white face
God so loved the world he gave his only son
But many mothers bear children martyrs of greed bitter love
While the so called chosen make war
So many suffer in the name of god their faith at a closed door
All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true
All I wanted was a nigger man
All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true, be good to me
While doin' the evil that niggers do
My view of self was that of a divine ho
Like the ones portrayed on the white man colonized minded rap shows
Oh the afro dizzy act of my blak rebel
I am a woman and to this world I accommodate myself
My place is in my blak man's defiance my nigger divine for his Sadness
So well complemented mine
When I look at you so blak and blue
My love for you sad but true
All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true
All I wanted was a nigger man
One night on a love high we metamorphasized into gigantic blak
butterflies
And for the first time I saw the god inside
I realized my nigger redefined was the blak man divine and he could
take me higher
And the divine woman was what the blak man desired
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat;
for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die
To them he said I will greatly multiply your pain and your
conception; in pain shall you bring forth children, and you shall be
dependent on your husband and he shall rule over you
Then god said, let us make man in our image
Let's go back to the time when the mind and soul were divine faith
unquestioned
Mother father god said let us make man in our own image god
was not alone as no one should be I search for a righteous hand to rule
over me
For you are a holy people to the Lord your god; The Lord your god
has chosen you to be a beloved people to himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth
The Lord shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the ends
of the earth, as swift as the eagle that flies; a nation whose
language you do not understand
Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people and
your eyes shall look on, and you shall grieve over them all the day
long and there shall be no might in your hand to do anything
The fruit of your labors shall a nation that you know not eat up and
you shall be wronged and oppressed always
::Ecclestiastes: Free My Heart
The sun rises and the sun goes down and hastens back to the
place Where it rose that from thence it may rise again
Finding all things wearisome unsatisfied my eyes not satisfied
with Seeing, my ears unsatisfied with hearing
Wondering of that which is now that which has been and that which is
to be
For my time on earth I pay dearly for the past
Confusion embraces my heart for to know self is to forgive self my
Sojourn of truth
Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand
Sadness fills my heart
Too weak to get by, slave to disConténtment self-pity
I come forth from my mother's womb naked shall I return to the
earth to go as I came
Taking nothing of this supposed worldly gain
Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand
Hook:
Free my heart
Faggot better run learn to run 'cuz daddy's home
His sweet lil' boy just a little too sweet
Every night the man showed the faggot what a real man should be
The man and the faggot will never see
for so many can't even perceive a real man Tell me
Not that the faggot didn't find a woman fine and beautiful
He admired desired their desires
He wanted love from strong hands
The faggot wanted the love of a man
His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life
Go to church boy
Faggot you're just a prisoner of your own perverted world
No picket fence acting like a bitch that's all he sees ain't that what
faggot means
No love dreams
Only the favors sweet Michael performed for money to eat
'Cause the man kicked the faggot out the house at 16
Amen mother let it be
Before long he was crowned QUEEN for all the world to see bloody body
face down
The wages of sin are surely death that's what mama used to say
So there was no sympathy
Let he without sin walk amongst the hated and feared and know true
trial and tribulations
See my dear we're all dying for something searchin' and searchin'
Soon mama found out that god would turn his back on her too
Save me save me from this life
I pray to my Lord above save me they say you're the way the light
I often watch you the way you whore yourself
You're so beautiful
You flirt and tease enviously I wish you'd flirt with me
Perhaps I'm enticed by what you are
I imagine us jumpin' the broom foolish I know that's not the life you live
You live alone in a crowded bed never remembering faces
Conversations just a body for the lonely
Spend one night with me satisfy me for free and I'll love you endlessly
I overheard you say you'd give them what they wanted
So give me what I want
Tell me I'm the only one
I want to marry you
Tell me I'm the only one
In a harlot's dress you wear the smile of a child with the faith of
Mary Magdalene
Yet you wash the feet of unworthy men
Come and I'll set you free into an endless valley of fruits both sweet and
sour
And whatever displeases your palate my kisses will wash away
Stay. If you must dance, dance for me
Blessed are the pure at heart for they shall see god so close your eyes
and dream
For the world will blind you and I'll judge not so that I may not be judged
Please give me what I want
Tell me I'm the only one
I want to marry you
Tell me I'm the only one
God Shiva is imminent love and transcendent reality
God Shiva my supreme reality
I am here no longer a vision birthed into my body
I accept praise, blame, joy, sorrow
I realize we are in truth the truth we seek god
Perfect this very moment
God Shiva is imminent love and transcendent reality
God Shiva my supreme reality
Desire no more what you already possess
You are already free my nature is to love you
My soul identical to god
On a journey to return to my creator bliss
You are my mind of the mind
My eye of eye
Life of my life
::Who Is He and What Is He To You
A man we passed just tried to stare me down
And when I looked at you you looked at the ground
I don't know who he is but I think that you do
Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you
Something in my heart and in your eyes
Tells me he's not someone just passin' by
And when you cleared your throat was that your cue
Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you
Now when I add the sum of you and me
I get confused and I keep coming up with three
You're too much for one but not enough for two
Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you
Now you think I'm one not much for intuition
Lord is that what you really think or are you wishin'
Before you wreck your old home be certain of the new
Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you
I want you
I can't get you off my mind
Ooh you turn me on-stay
So sorry you think it's wrong being here alone with me
I wish I could understand you and what you feel
You must feel something or you wouldn't have let me get this far
So don't be afraid just give in
If you let me have you just this once I promise never to want you
anymore
'Cuz what's happening now feels so good
And the forbidden always arouses temptations
Come here let me have you
Just stay
Ooh baby come on let me
You enchant me so my bittersweet flower
Mystery of the sages come into my realm of imagination let me digest
you
You enchant me so my bittersweet flower
Shall we make love feel the waves of the ocean come to rest in the eye
of a storm
I cry myself to sleep over you
You come then you go
The more I fall the more you let go
The sweet taste of you stains my lips
Even through the pain it's only you I miss
Unlike those before I wanna free you
Let the sweetness of your kiss rush over me
I search so many lifetimes
Let my soul rest in your arms
And I'll let you inside
When we make love I feel it so deeply
When we make love I cry
When you kiss me my lips they burn with fear
For even a love that crowns may crucify
In the cradle of creation between the hand of love I died and there you
were
I was warmed amidst the gaze of your eyes, our minds wounded
by The need for understanding, our bodies betrayed by time
Do you hear me can you taste my pain for love has no other desire but
to fulfill itself
But to deny yourself the pleasure of that pain is to love selfishly
I stood there
Your heart lay captive in a cage fashioned by your fears not knowing
what to say
You have many lovers and yet I alone love you far beyond any lily white
fairy tale
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the
multitude
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my
every part turn into laughter
I want the hunger for your love and beauty to fill me from the depths of
my spirit
my mother used to whore herself
and my father
would reap the benefits of her labor
it was almost as if she was absent
absent from her own life
i remember
she would scrub the floors for the white folks
just to come home
to cook and to clean
for the man who broke her
and i Love to watch her dance to the tunes on
the soul stations, yeah
just to ease her mind
but my mother
she was vindictive in her own fashion
so she passed down to me her traits
like that of her brown eyes and her dark hair
she passed down to me
her sadness
make me wanna holler
the sadness fills my heart
make me wanna holler
make me wanna holler
make me wanna holler
baby
make me wanna holler
my child will one day ask me
what will i be?
as a child i promised myself
i'd never be
like my mother or my father
i would ask myself,
"did he feel so much pain
that it would make him wanna hurt another?"
but there was no excuse
there was no excuse to make up for the pain
that i knew my mother felt
but somewhere my destiny came
that i too became a slave, to my heart
wanting Love so badly
that i'd do anything
no matter the shame
make me wanna holler
i...
Love me
make me wanna holler
tell me
make me wanna holler
mmm, so sorry
make me wanna holler
so sorry
why?
i never got the nerve
to ask my father "why?"
but my mother
she would say,
she stayed for my brother and myself
but i would have sold my soul
just to share in one day
of my mother's desired happiness
when night fell
sometimes when night fell
i'd close my eyes
and i'd hide
close your eyes
when they would yell and scream
when my father would paint her
with a dark face
of being belittled, disrespected
and set aside
his liquor, the salve
for the unseen wounds
i learned so much from him
what did i learn?
how to hurt all of those
who try to get too close
make me wanna holler
make me wanna holler
sometimes i get so...
make me wanna holler
i just don't understand
why?
make me wanna holler
tell me why
mmm, so sorry
so sorry for the pain
make me wanna holler
so sorry
i'm so sorry
just play for me
play for me
she would close her eyes and cry
he would close his heart and hide
she would close her eyes and cry
after all this time
nothing's changed
make me wanna holler
make me want to holler
yes i do
make me wanna holler
sell my soul just to see ya happy
so sorry for the pain
make me wanna holler
so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, yeah
make me wanna holler
so sorry for the pain
i always thought my mother
deserved so much more
but i never knew how to fix that
i drown myself in guilt
i just don't know what to do
no
mama I Love you.