Conversations Lyrics

Conversations

Tell me what's on your mind

Yea yea

Just a baby only one years old

It all started my life had unfold

Desperation for separation like fool's gold

Creating a habitation was only her memo

Masked by the mystery of her sunken enemies

She always did the best for me

Never pressing me she left me with the family

She knew an angel protecting me heavenly

A warrior of my life continuously blessing me

Days out on South Walter

I didn't falter when gunshots blew over PJ Hill

Or the bar on the corner where I lost some bills

Or when I saw them people passing pills

As I sat on the edge of my aunt's window sill

Nowadays they all try to contact

Like they can tell

My life story like some stated fact

But I hate all that chit chat

I'm just here running bases ready to bat

This the life I live

Matter of fact

Conversations like letters unopened

Back-and-forth motion ayy

What's on your mind

Sitting in the classroom

With my notes pens and pencils

Drew out the outlines

Even when I ain't had no stencils

Teachers treating me like

I'm naive like Gretel and Hansel

But I been self-supporting

Bitch I'm the mantel

Im a Black girl in a white world

With black curls who somehow beat the statistic

They never could imagine

Someone black young and gifted

Whispers on low

How she got them three certificates

Triplicate ain't significant

But the insignificance is magnificent for a Black femme

Chewing gum

That's what they called me back then

Can't remember when I last heard about them

Like where you at fake friend

Winter came heater broke

Little change we was poor

Dad did nothing

Problems he loved to ignore

Complaining again why we asking him for

He searching for me now

Wow I deplore

See I ain't even sleep in a minute

Nightmares like Raven with her visions

But I envision a world

Where I made a difference

Where fat girls can be treated with love

Not belligerence

Cuz some of y'all hating but be into it

Conversations like letters unopened

Back-and-forth motion ayy

What's on your mind

Conversations

Conversations

Conversations

What's on your mind

Tell me what it is on your mind

Shauna Moon