Alicia Keys - Elaine Brown (Interlude) lyrics

Okay, can I do one more? It's really
Quick so he said, "Blow black mother
Black mother" He always
Announce the title and say, "black
Mother" This is rap
This is hip hop, this is all that
From the street poetry from the street

Black mother
I must confess that I still breathe
Though you are not yet free
What could justify my crying start
Forgive my coward's heart
But blame me not the sheepish me
While I be sleeping in a deep deep sleep
And I be hazed and dazed and
Vipers fester in my hair
Black mother, I curse your drudging years
The rapes and heart-breaks, sweat and tears
But, I swear on siege night dark and gloom
A rose I'll wear to honor you
And when I fall the rose in hand
You'll be free and I a man
For slave of natural death who dies
Can't balance out to two dead flies
I'd rather be without the shame
A bullet lodged within my brain, black mother