[ Featuring Rapsody ]
Black woman
Unprotected in this world
Is she loved?
Is she treasured?
Is she heard?
Oh, black woman
Are you wanted in this world?
Oh, black woman
Are you valued in this world?
They try to look you over like they don't care
They say they want your body but not your hair
Oh, they tell you change your nose
Keep your skin too fair
But everybody knows it
Deep down they're scared
'Cause oh, black girl
They owe you apology
Oh, black girl
Don't give 'em your energy
You're the healer of the world
You're the healer of society
You're the healer of the world
You're the healer of society
Talk
They call it evening 'cause it's black as Eve
Mitochondrial gene imitating my behind how I fit my jeans
Black don't lack
Henrietta, I'm singing Erykah
Healer, I feel her
What's a king if he ain't got a Coretta?
Ask Hakeem, for a queen he'd fight a lion
Y'all stay lying tryna lower our self-esteem (nah)
Feel unseen and unprotected
Brainwashed brothers
Learn from the real ones that check you because they love us
How you hate someone that look like your whole mother?
Guess she shoulda used a rubber
But I don't judge her
Knowing each of us tryna make it
They take it
Too beautiful to change our faces (come on)
This beauty contagious, no cap
Braided our hair as a map
To freedom from racists
Innovative
Nothing 'bout this genealogy basic
Where the roses, the applause?
We deserve praises
Without a black women you'd still be stuck in the matrix, you know
'Cause oh, black girl
They owe you apology
Oh, black girl
Oh, don't give 'em your energy
You're the healer of the world
You're the healer of society
You're the healer of the world
You're the healer of society (yeah)
