It's time, then
It's time for dreams
No one waiting to warm the dark
No one hoping that I wear red
No one wanting to spark my spark
No one needing, needing to share my bed
Don't break promises, Emmie (Nobody's arm)
Do like you say you say you do (to cradle)
Don't give yourself options (my head)
Most folks lives without 'em (to talk)
Most folks does without 'em (about news)
Talk about views, talk about change
'Bout the President's death
(How the day went, or how time flown) Lost track of time, Mama, sorry
Aunt Claudia say she'd mind the children (or life been spent)
Say she don't mind mindin' them (or I'm alone)
Sorry, Mama, I was out bein' shiftless
Havin' fun
What kind of fun?
You remember fun, Mama
Out at the parkin' lot
'Longside the A&W
Bunch of us talkin', dancin' to the radio
The President's dead
I know
The radio play music anyway
Just some old white man
Sent Larry off to Vietnam
Sorry he dead
I ain't killed him
I'm too tired to fight
You don't do me right
I can't do with no daughter as shiftless as you
Just some old white man (oh)
Don't care about the Black man
Emmie Thibideaux!
Since when you say "Black" man?
You say "colored", or "Negro", like you was raised up to!
Say he do stuff for us
Get our vote
He just ignore us
Same ol' story, Mama
Same tired old lie
If you gotta do it, Mama
Go ahead and cry
I ain't got no tears to shed
For no dead white guy
Free, free
Lonesome and free
Go on and get yourself to bed, girl (no one pacing)
Whoever put a mouth like that on you? (the floor for me)
I know I didn't do it (Flower)
God didn't do it (don't need)
Some days, I don't know what I'm gonna do (no honeybee)
(If free mean misery)
How your knees today? (then that's what I'll be)
They fine
Go on to sleep
(Ain't nobody's baby) Don't wake up the babies
(Ain't property)
Say prayers for us all (Got nothin' at all)
Give your mama a kiss ('Cept bein' alone)
Apologize to God for being a such unholy priss (Free and lonely)
And a caution and a sass
'Fore your mama whoops your -