Lyrics For Women - Ursula Rucker

My hair is platinum blonde, today
I know no sorrow, cause
Ain't nothing I care to know, but
Where my check so I can get my tix for the Jay-Z show
I do aspire to be a video-ho do
Pop-eye got shot last night
That's how it go, in da ghetto
Read the tattoo on the left breast
My name is Lexxus, yeah girl
My name is Lexxus, get it right
My skin was young, so young
My hair was pressed and curled
And tied with ribbons that Sunday morn
I screamed in the basement of the church, I screamed
The last day I would ever see
Ma and Pa would never know the woman I would grow up to be
I was an involuntary offering for humanity
Why dey hate me, so, so, so
What did they call me
My skin is tough, this woman
Lunch and home, mistake and love maker
Double shift worker, sometimes warrior, sometimes weak
God-given, God fearing, God doubting
This, bearer of wisdom and fruit and pain
This, once girl sometimes still
Saint, sinner, teacher, multi-tasker, friend, this everyday wonder
This woman, this nation-builder
This raiser of leaders, of losers, of babies, of boys who will become men
Girls who will become women
Some call me mama, hey mama
My eyes are a rainbow
I reflect the spectrum
My heart weighs heavy
Even with joy I feel so much
I am ablaze, I am the source
I can feed you or starve you
Breath life into you or bleed you
I can fuck you or love you
I don't care how they call me
Call me crazy, divine, Ma'at, true honeybun
Supreme Pontifica, electric lady, holy prostitute
I don't care what you call me
I know who I is, I know who I is
I know who I is, I know who I is
Mammy, mulatto, welfare mom