[Chorus] Mother-Father before I forget Thank you for all that you have been to me...
I was born black, i live black, And i'ma die probably because i'm black Because...
Mama was the one who reached down and tied my shoelace. Mama spit on her...
All you kids get out the back door I've never seen her this bad before...
She knows that I've been doing something wrong, But she won't say anything. She thinks...
The silken skies that so remind and mesmerize And finally...
She's a butterfly But she flies too high She won't...
And aubrey was her name, A not so very ordinary...
I wanted love so very bad that I could almost...
see the clouds adrift so far below Ever changing as...
There's a reason for the life that you live And...
Lost and all alone I always thought that i could...
Don't shut me out, shut me out, out of your...
We're, we're comin' apart again We're goin' back, back to...
Take me anyway you want me 'cause i need your...