Arrested Development AFRICA’S INSIDE ME & Tennesy Dom omladine Beograd Aleksandar Zec
Arrested Development
AFRICA’S INSIDE ME
Tennesy
Dom omladine Beograd
video/audio Aleksandar Zec
Writer: THOMAS, TODD (SPEECH)/SAMPLE, JOSEPH LESLIE
Universal as I stroll down the street
Africas’s a bolling over flowing inside of me
I used to sport a curl made by Jerry
A Jerry curl
but as time passed it didn’t last
after my curl I never combed my doo.
I used to sport a cap but the naps kept shining through.
Shining!
My sista got a brand new perm
my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm
folds at her job loves her new touch up
I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she’s all done up.
My sista loves her blackness
but the US. says that her perm is her attractiveness.
But Africa keeps coming stronger-we found out
it ain’t a perm it’s a temporary
Don’t heve sash to go to the music school
no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba
my moms had a record player and the 45’s
I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live
scratching it up catching the breaks
spirits within me had me do what it takes
Grammy’s I win & one again like my Egyptian kin
it’s Africa within makin’ something outta nothing!
CHORUS: (x2)
Africa’s inside me
taking back her child
she’s giving me my pride
and setting me free.
What’s that land across those waters?
what’s that spirit makin’love to my daughter
telling her not to eat he mama’s ham hocks
allowing her the choice to twist her hair & make it lock.
yo I don’t like it, I just don’t like it.
Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin’
and sooner or later Africa’s glory and toil
will teach an old dog new tricks
Why and the world can’t everybody
recognize that Africa’s in everybody?
we all ask why can’t we be sista’s and brothers
but first we gotta accept who is our mother
Rather embracer of the jungle
or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth
and developments Arrested for nothing
Gumbo’s within’ soulful H20 men be droppin’
Happenin’s like Homosapians Hustlins
within’ to exist as afro
residing in Fulani was once Christian.
Start fishin’ like FOS and found origin!
CHORUS
Lord I’ve really been real stressed
Down and out, losin ground
Although I am black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic
Brothers and sisters keep messin up
Why does it have to be so damn tuff?
I don’t know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull
My grandmas past, my brothers gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you’re supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)
But lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)
(Chorus) Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan
Lord it’s obvious we got a relationship
Talkin to each other every night and day
Although you’re superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way
Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)
Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)
Chorus
Now I see the importance of history
Why people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games
I ask you lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightment of all my folks
He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth
And he was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...
The lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searchin for are
The answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee
Chorus
Send “Tennessee“ Ringtone to your Cell
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