It wont be clean and easy
There's more to carry than a case or two
I come with a history that I wont forget in a life with you
This man's been true to me and I didn't come by him easy
Shame shame crying shame
Losing more than a family name
Don't let your footsteps falter
You're gonna get wet if you dip in the water
Be sure what you take me for and I wont ever want for more

One of these days
I'm waiting on a day
When nobody comes to trample my meadow
Biding my time
There's gonna be a time
Might take a while
But changes are coming
And it wont be long
When everything you said
Won't sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head
And when I wake up
I wont see you on the bathroom floor
In the tangle of clothes we left lying there
It wont be long

Whose sticky hands are these?
And what is this empty place
I could be happily lost but for your face
Here stands an empty house
That used to be full of life
Now it's home for no one and his wife
It's a hovel and
Who can take your place?
I can't face another day
And who will shelter me?
It's cold in here
Cover me

Under these fingertips a strange body rolls and dips

Baby loose that frying pan
You don't live to feed that man
Nothing's gained through self-denial
'Cos you weren't born to be servile
Don't you know you've gotta
Rise - Think about what you do now
Where do you belong
Are you somebody's niggababe
Or does the fight go on

Do you think the hurting is gonna go away
If you leave uprising for another day

I can't begin to tell you how it feels
It's a clear blue sky
Out here my heart so full it's fit to burst
Just counting the hours
Home, such a long way gone
How to share a day, here's my only way
Send myself to you
Wishing you were here

I can't begin to tell you where I've been
It's a world behind
And if we are to find our heaven here
We just have to look harder
Now I can see you

Well now everyone says you've got a heart of gold
Huh! Yeah it's one of those things being brought and sold
Now it's back on the market I've been told
Hoodoo, you
Well I rue the day I ever saw your face
[Thank you God for the day I saw his face]
Even more the day I opened up my place
You can go and park your car in space
Hoodoo you. Hoodoo
Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

Well sugar sweetness
Move yourself
I gotta go I got a meet to make
Fine as it is back there
Back up your tin can
Pack off your sweet behind
Aint got no time to fool around
Aint no wet nurse to you child
Pick it up

Baby meeting with my main man
And I get a belly full of lovin'
Meeting with my main man

When I get through here gonna make my way

Have no faith
Believe me, don't believe in me
I'm gonna let you down
You make it so very easy
He's waiting for me
That's the way I ever want it to be
It's always been the same
Yes it has, do you see. Wanna be where I belong

I belong
What am I supposed to do?
If he were there I wouldn't be with you
And you know the time is wrong
I'm going home back where I belong

I saw a face, grey as the cold December
A face I know, not the one that I remember
I wanted to hide but I cant run out on you forever
[Milky eyes like opal stones
Staring through a stained glass window
It's never too late to change your mind
Looking through a stained glass window]
It's never too late

I know a man, couldn't change the peace that stands between us

Is your heart so heavy
That it weighs you down
So all you have is time
Don't turn away
We have both seen darker days
And there's always a light that shines

[Do you feel like] all your hopes are a long way gone
[Does it seem like] every road only takes you down
[Do they shut you out]
Don't be afraid of what they say
Throw back your head and cry

When you need somebody, find me there