Akua Naru - Tales Of (Wo)men lyrics

Yeah, we're gonna take this one
All all around the world, y’all yeah, yeah
This ione this one right here goes
Out to all my people wherever you are, uh

To my people stuck in poverty, uh
All around the world, yeah
To my people who be sufferin', uh
This for you, y'all
To my people who be fatherless
You’re just like me, ay
To my people who be sufferin'
My ghetto children

Yo, they say that time tells the tales of men
The clock ticks as I dwell
Within where the self begins
My school of thought start expellin' friends
Till I'm a yo, I'm alone again
On the poem again
A Love Jones in the cold of winter
Lecture new move to Cologne for him
My heart and soul for him
I figure love is like a journey when
You lose yourself to find your
Home again, and yo, the road is thin
Let's travel my path, a long battle
Teenage parents and drug
Addicts, gangster rap, love ballads
Green tea and thug passion
The plight is enough
Passive like say somethin', see what happen
Another portrait of the
Hard stares, fingers snappin'
Raw and wasted talent
Handcuffs urban fashion
I suppose it’s off balance and it must be
Where you at y’all? Hey

To my people stuck in poverty, uh
All around the world, yeah, that's right, uh
To my people who be sufferin’, uh
This for you, hey
To my people who be fatherless
Uh, huh, yeah, uh
To my people who be sufferin'
Uh, my ghetto children look

I was in Beijing carrying the burden of
Had to put it down to dissect, overstand it
The antics of life and
Livin' could damage the
So I stay strict and keep my
Name balanced like I'm Robin Givens
Scottie Pippen status Malcolm
Been the dreams deferred
We know all about ’em so found 'em
Renaissanced on the streets of Harlem
North Philly, Hussein, that modern day Sodom
Phone call with a sister that
I known since college
Talkin' that old waitin', that exhale garbage
The problem we forget with how
We play a part in
How we attract maintain the nonsense
Regardless, had to climb inside
Search the gardens, uh
Astonished to find I was lookin' for a father
A elder sat me down, stripped me of my armor
Said you'll only find his private parts
He'll never have half his heart
Uh, and he will never have half his heart
And he could never have half his heart
And he will never have
Said he will never have half his heart

To my people stuck in poverty, uh
All around the world, yeah, uh
To my people who be sufferin', uh
This for you, y'all, uh
To my people who be fatherless
Uh, huh, that's right, uh
To my people who be strugglin', strugglin'
Hey, my ghetto children, uh
And for all my people stuck in poverty, uh
All around the world, yeah, uh
To my people who be sufferin', uh huh
Damn uh to my people who be
Motherless, uh, that's right, mm
To my people who be sufferin'
For all my people, uh, to all my people
Y'all

From Lagos to Cape Coast san Juan to LA
Caracas, Kinshasa, uh
And all around the world, uh
From Brooklyn to Kingston
From Illadelph' to Paris
Bangkok to Berlin, uh
And all around the world

Rock! Hey uh uh
Y'all better play the horns y'all hey
They say that time tells the tales of men
Come on! All right, okay uh, hey
They say that time tells the tales of men
Yeah uh