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lirik lagu nancy dupree - the brothers

[spoken word]
we back to love, y’all
we are showing up back to love
i’m sorry, we is showing up back to love
and as a black woman, i have a little message i want to lay on my brothers
and i guess i need to tell my brothers
y’all not gonna like this poem
you’re not gonna like this poem
and i tell you, i don’t like the fact
that i was able to write this poem
and, uh, you know
if, if, if, if the feelings that i express
this poem, and the experiences, and all the changes
were just limited to me, you know, that would be one thing
that’d be, you know, well
that me and nancy dupree got all kinds of hang~ups, you know
and she this, and she that
but as i have read this poem to women from 16 to 65
do you know that most of them tell me, say
hey mama, you sure enough must have been looking over my shoulder
so brothers, please hear me out
and i hope that you will do me a favor
and the favor that i’m asking of you
is that you make it possible, by the way you treat your lady
whoever she is, wherever she is
that you treat her so fine
that she won’t ever be able to write a poem like this
now i’m going to give you the rundown
i believed it, y’all
i believed it with a passion
they told me that all i had to do
was be a nice girl, keep my dress down
get good grades in school, and i would have it made
and let me tell you, i went for it
i was a nice girl
did not drink, smoke, nor cuss
and you won’t believe how long i kept my dress down
got them high marks in school and thought i was ready
i did, i really did
sorry
the main thing i was getting ready for, y’all
was my man
all right
i was going to be good to my man
i wasn’t going to be like the sister who nagged at her man
or like the one who took her man’s weekly pay
and left him with cigarette money
and sure enough, not like the one out there tipping with somebody else
no, mine was going to be different
i was going to love him
all that sweetness and tenderness i was saving
i was saving for him
i was gonna kiss him all over with my fingertips
my legs and arms would wrap him in a web of joy
woo, h~rny horse
my mouth would whisper sweet words
we’d share one another’s burdens
we’d laugh together
anger and frustration would melt
just by looking at one another
well, if you have lived at all
you know that i had to learn the hard way
i couldn’t believe it
i wouldn’t believe it
this wasn’t happening
them words weren’t coming out of his mouth
there was no way he could look me in my face and say
how do i know this baby is mine?
and he couldn’t admit it when he told me
when i move in with you, i’ll do the cooking and cleaning while you work
and y’all, that wasn’t him
that wasn’t him walking in the club with a white woman
not a white woman?
no, that wasn’t him
and he was telling the truth that payday
when he told me he only had $12
because he’d sent $100 to his mother
now that was true, wasn’t it?
right? yeah
and that wasn’t me sitting up
on the side of the bed in the middle of the night
crying and smoking cigarettes because he wasn’t home yet
and that wasn’t me out there with another man
wishing it was him
and that couldn’t have been me saying
don’t call me no more
and meaning it
i’ve said all this to say
i finally figured out my mistake
it took all them lonely nights
all them silent screams
all them cigarettes
to make me see where i made my mistake
i messed up by making the mistake
of thinking that the brothers was
mean

- lirik lagu nancy dupree

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