Africa's Inside Me-Arrested Development

[00:00.00]Africa's Inside Me -Arrested Development [00:00.000] 作曲 : Fulani Faluke/Arrested Development [00:18.671]Universal as I stroll down the street [00:20.600]Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me [00:23.40]I used to sport a curl made by Jerry [00:24.749]A Jerry curl [00:25.809]But as time passed it didn't last [00:27.389]After my curl I never combed my doo [00:29.319]I used to sport a cap but the naps [00:31.09]Kept shining through [00:35.08]Shining [00:36.158]My sista got a brand new perm [00:38.387]My boys says she looks pretty [00:39.516]Fine body real firm [00:40.376]Folds at her job loves her new touch up [00:42.756]I can tell her white boss gets a kick [00:44.556]When she's all done up [00:45.776]My sista loves her blackness [00:47.56]But the US [00:47.906]Says that her perm is her attractiveness [00:49.886]But Africa keeps coming stronger [00:51.376]We found out [00:52.146]It ain't a perm it's a temporary [00:54.216]Don't heve sash to go to the music school [00:56.356]No money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba [00:58.466]My moms had a record player and the 45's [01:00.596]I put the needle on the record [01:01.956]And I kicked it crazy live [01:03.06]Scratching it up catching the breaks [01:05.515]Spirits within me had me do what it takes [01:07.734]Grammy's I win &one again like my Egyptian kin [01:10.324]It's Africa within makin'something outta nothing [01:12.753]Africa's inside me [01:15.83]Taking back her child [01:16.983]She's giving me my pride [01:19.173]And setting me free [01:21.823]Africa's inside me [01:24.23]Taking back her child [01:26.03]She's giving me my pride [01:28.333]And setting me free [01:39.393]What's that land across those waters [01:41.343]What's that spirit makin'love to my daughter [01:43.683]Telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks [01:45.953]Allowing her the choice to [01:47.13]Twist her hair &make it lock [01:48.223]Yo I don't like it I just don't like it [01:50.313]Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin' [01:52.583]And sooner or later Africa's glory and toil [01:54.443]Will teach an old dog new tricks [01:56.393]Why and the world can't everybody [01:58.613]Recognize that Africa's in everybody [02:00.893]We all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers [02:03.283]But first we gotta accept who is our mother [02:05.413]Rather embracer of the jungle [02:08.483]Or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth [02:10.703]And developments Arrested for nothing [02:12.922]Gumbo's within'soulful H20men be droppin' [02:15.981]Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins [02:17.511]Within'to exist as afro USA men [02:20.121]Residing in Fulani was once Christian [02:21.891]Start fishin'like FOS and found origin [02:25.150]Africa's inside me [02:27.90]Taking back her child [02:28.850]She's giving me my pride [02:31.200]And setting me free [02:34.00]Africa's inside me [02:36.40]Taking back her child [02:37.889]She's giving me my pride [02:40.238]And setting me free [02:43.638]Africa's inside me