lirik lagu nancy dupree - self-love
[intro: spoken word]
i’m going to let you go home with something warm in your soul (give it to me) (don’t stop now)
oh, bless your heart, bless your heart
i’m going to let you go home feeling good
because i’m going to give you something sweet
this is another bicentennial poem
and i want you to take it and you tuck it wherever you want to tuck it
but i want you to carry it with you everywhere you go
and when the temperature drops to 45 below zero
you don’t have to worry
because you got your poem to keep you warm
all right now, all right, all right
the poem is called self love
and the poem said
do you want to see a miracle?
i mean, like, do you want to see a miracle?
yeah
go look in the mirror
and you ought to be grinning while you’re looking
because in spite of slavery, and lynching
and cops, and courts, and welfare, and unemployment, and disease
there you is, in living color
smile pretty for the people
and while you smile, let your sweet lips say thank you
to all them folks who kept on keeping on
because without them, you know, without them
your mirror would be empty
and when you walk, i want you to hold your head up
and walk that walk
yes, do it to death
because a whole lot of folks did it to death for you
you don’t believe me?
yes
check your history
malcolm, martin
george jackson, lil bobby hutton, monroe trotter
and those are just a few of the ones that we heard about
if you put them all together, single file
the line would stretch to the sun
and that’s over 92 million miles, child
so you walk that walk, and you talk that talk
n0body talks the king’s english like we talking
in rochester, and down south, and harlem
and south philly, and wherever two or more bloods get together
them words be kicking, and cutting, and dancing, and weeping
and they ought to
because they be made out of slave rap
and lynching, and cops, and courts
and welfare, and unemployment, and disease
so you look in that mirror and you grin
and i want you to walk and talk so strong
that when the next bicentennial rolls around
somebody will be looking in a mirror
and you
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