Sa-Roc, Ledisi - The Sharecropper's Daughter lyrics

Do you know who you are?
Do you know where you been? My friends
We belong to the stars
And we blow with the wind amen
I've seen the mountains
I've counted the raindrops
And they all sing the same old song
It can't be long joy comes in the morning
So please, stay strong
They tried to choke us, ah
But baby, we still breathe
They thought that they could bury us
But they forgot that we were seeds
But they forgot that we were seeds

They forgot that we were seeds, y'all
They say that I just should get over it
But, I'm openly emotional 'cause closed
Mouths don't ever get fed
And I been starving for some
Help for all this
Arbitrary sadness circling the patterns
Of my heavy head and this shit ain't new
Waves of blue been aimed at these
Genes since way before Wranglers
Anger's raged through generations
And it seem like angels don't
Sang with us anymore
So we've been forced to wait out storms
That love to delay our celebration
Don't you ever tell me to be calm
I'm the spawn of tobacco sharecroppers
Prisoners of Virginia farms
Who worked their arms, backs
And fingers to the gristle
While the landowners paid a pittance for
All the heavy lifting done
We come from places, man
Where twelve-year-old little Black
Girls can't even name her rapist
Fam and if she ever did
They'd throw her family off the acres and
Send a burning cross from a
Mob of hooded faces, damn
That must have been when Nana's
Mind had a nervous break
And Granddad passed in church
After passing collection plates
This story comes through me
Like second nature
'Cause, I been hearing 'bout our pain and
Glory since I was a youngin, seven or eight
Despite that, we knew love more deeply
Than any other feeling
That's why I keep on bustin' through when
I reach and touch the ceiling
When I say I'm the best
I'm not expecting approval or clearance
I'm just hoping the rest of you see
The connection 'tween truthful and healing
I'm just hoping the rest of you see
The connection 'tween truthful and healing
I'm just hoping the rest of you see
The connection 'tween truthful and healing