Rapsody, Nomsa Mazwai - In the Town lyrics

Downtown, in the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town

Word around town spread
She lying on her deathbed
Used to spend most her days
Making sure they love fed
Corners used to hold her
Like coasters do Colas
And then when his satellite cobra striking
And her disses paying good bread
She young, 18
Never listened to what her mom said
Her daddy touch her fatty
Now her real daddy insulted
Using his child to put some
Money in they wallet
She young, child bearing a child
She feeling nauseous
Sick of the world but got a fetus
Need to feed it
So her need to me and then give
It pleasure all for her baby girl
She curls her hair with irons
Not hot as the heat she lyin with
That got her sick and now
Her insides inside her dying
Cars past they flyin
But everything around her slowing all
She sees the money that the
Town give to buy her soul, at 18 years old
Remind me of so many young girls
I know in the town

In the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town in the town
Downtown, in the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town

The nights move fast when the
Lights turn off slow she all done shopping
Got some brand new platforms
She could walk the town flagging
Down new Acuras or
Shiny Accords with two pastors in back of 'em
Don't make her feel God
Can't forgive her for all of those
Said she stack her paper and
Won't change forever ho
And she ain't even showing so she
Going for all the dough
Cause the stress piling up and what she
Need is some help to cope
Exchange with drug dealers
Some blow for blow hilla
Tryna take her mind off the
Killer like pillars dope
Her mind stay on it
Wishing God would just make it snow
And take her off the streets
If only just for Monday though
The town hard and she scarred and
She just wanna let go on her dying bed
She take her last breath on an overdose
Only hours after pushing out
A young baby though
She named her a miracle and
Prayed for her baby's soul

In the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town in the town
Downtown, in the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town

And now she older, 16 on the corner
Raised by her mom and daddy
Smoking marijuana
Her real mom and daddy though
She never got to know 'em
Never knew a different life because no
One was there to show her
Take her by the shoulders
Tell her she was beautiful
Without a shame you never paid that at
Her age won't use you all
She never finished school and never
Got to go to prom
And spent most her weekends working
Putting needles in her arm
All the older women say she
Look just like her mom
And how she used to read
The scripture from the Bible, mark and John
But now she's all alone in
The town by herself
Like her mom tending to they needs
Living for the wealth
Worried 'bout her health and the
Life that's inside her
Reading scriptures from the Bible
Now and this is the cycle of the town

In the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town in the town
Downtown, in the town downtown, in the town
Downtown, in the town