Brown skin, you know I love your brown skinI cant tell where yours begins, I cant tell where mine endsBrown skin, up against my brown skinNeed some every now and then:oh hey: Where are your people from? Maybe Mississippi or an IslandApparently your skin has been kissed by the sunYou make me want a Hershey’s […]
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Always In My Head
You’re like a cool breeze, on a summer’s dayYou are a river running through the desert plainYou are my shelter, from the pouring rainYou were my comfort, even before the pain I can hear the sound of five drummers in the windThe leaves blowing in the breeze, ring out like guitarsA tin can rolls across […]
Little Things
Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh Been around the whole world, still ain’t seenNothin’ like my neighborhoodAnd of all the fancy satin and silkMy white cotton feels so good Searched high and low for a placeWhere I can lay […]
Get It Together
One shot to your heart without breaking your skinNo one has the power to hurt you like your kinKept it inside didn’t tell no one elseDidn’t even want to admit it to yourselfAnd now your chest burns and your back aches>From 15 years of holding the painAnd now you only have yourself to blame if […]
Outro
Grandma LousieUncle JoeAunt JoanneUncle paraAnd to all of the namesThat I do not knowBut whose blood runs thru my veinsThis is a song for you
Ready For Love
I am ready for loveWhy are you hiding from meI’d quickly give my freedomTo be held in your captivity I am ready for loveAll of the joy and the painAnd all the time that it takesJust to stay in your good graceLately I’ve been thinkingMaybe you’re not ready for meMaybe you think I need to […]
Healing
I release all these disappointmentFrom my mental physical spiritual and emotional bodyCause I know that spirit guides meAnd love lives inside meThat’s why I today I take life as it comes
Talk To Her
When you talk to her talk to herLike it was somebody elseTalk to your mamaDon’t get smartBut I have a heart to heartand just like you wouldWould you doubt usCause everything you do or sayYou got to live with everydayShe’s somebody’s babyShe’s somebody’s sisterShe’s somebody’s mama Now when you go to herSpeak truthfullyHonest as you […]