Plantation Lullabies

Me'shell Ndegeocello Plantation Lullabies Lyrics
1.Untitled(Instrumental)

( instrumental )


2.I'm Diggin' You(Like An Old Soul Record)

Just sit back and. relax.
Listen to the 8-track
I'll dig you like an old soul record

Remember back in the day
When everyone was black and conscious.
And down for the struggle.
Love brought us all together.
Just sittin'back and talkin'.
Cultivating a positive vibe.
Blue lights in the basement.
Freedom was at hand and you could just taste it.
Everything was cool. diggin'on me diggin'on you.
Everything was cool and brothers were singing
'ain't no woman like the one i got'

I'm diggin'you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. relax. listen to the 8-track.
I'll dig you like an old soul record.

Now brothers (be) base-in.
Running from the beat-down cops that be chasin'.
Running out of time. running out of patience.
In this war of the conscious mind.
I need some black-on-black love.
A slow grind for these changin'times (the booty-slammin'part!)

Beautiful brown bodies. pimp, switch and sway.
To the soulful sounds. gotta get up gotta get down.
'cause you give me good feeling.
You give me good feeling. yes you do.

I'm diggin'you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. relax. listen to the 8-track.
I'll dig you like an old soul record.


3.If That's Your Boyfriend(He Wasn't Last Night)

You say that's your boyfriend
You say i'm out of line
Funny he said i could call him up anytime
You can say i'm wrong say i ain't right
But if that's you boyfriend he wasn't last night

Now i'm the kind of woman
I'll do almost anything to get what i want
I might play any little game
Call me what you like but you know it's true
You're just jealous 'cause he wasn't with you
Don't mean no harm i just like what i see
And it ain't my fault if he wants me
Got what i wanted and the feeling was right
So if that's your boyfriend he wasn't last night!!!

Boyfriend boyfriend yes i had your boyfriend
Now late at night he calls me on the telephone
That's why when you call
All you get is the busy busy tone
You're upset 'cause you're one stuck-up bitch
Maybe he needed a change a switch
And who am i not to oblige
Especially if the man is fly
So call me what you like
Call me what you like
While i boot slam your boyfriend tonight


4.Shoot'n Up And Gett'n High

He lived two train stops away
I was a train ride away from heaven
We signify about politics, low income housing birth control and
abortion
The capitalistic hand around my throat
Shootin'up dope to cope in this dehumanizing society
We both found god when he o.d'd
He found beauty in my black skin
Amidst the cover girls and clairol ads
Makin'no mistake what's white is right
Livin'in a world where the tv shouts
'forget where you come from!'
And damn i thought i was shootin'up africa in my veins
White man voodoo slow my brain the while man fights wars and
enslaves
All in god's name
What ya trying to achieve with your sun tan lotion
You wanna keep me down keep me down
Revolution against this racist institution
The white man shall forever sleep with one eye open
Dehumanize me.
Criticize, set aside.
Livin'in the midst of genocide i hear voices voices are what i
hear
Uprise would you die for your right


5.Dred Lock

Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
Run them all over your body 'til your hollor stops
As in life they grow a high on high
Ooh! how i love a black man oh my my
Lay your body down to give yourself strength
As you walk through this world of confrontation
Rest your weary head and let me run my fingers through your
dreds

( sing along part )
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down

As i bathe my body in the sun
In the land where life began stands a man
One with nature with his head held high
He never questions why
Together we make the fruit of life
So i love and treat him right
So rest you weary head and let me run my fingers through your
dreds

( sing along part )
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down

( mack vibe )
Let me run my fingers through your hair x4
*kinky dred love*
Caress and kiss your tears away
I wanna touch your body
Walk through your mind
Undress you slowly
Take my time


6.Untitled

'her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin the blackness
of her mind'
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Darker than blue darker than her blackness
Unblemished her features broad and striking
She cradles his body with her large hands
Her fingers stretch endlessly into his world of pain
Her caresses warm and penetrating she loves the black boy
His existence predestined to be one of no remorse compassion
Or the delusion of equality
But the love he gives (a doxology for her)
He praises and cares for what he can never be
There's such purity in a love that is essential to the loving of
one's self


7.Step Into The Projects

She's darker than a child's deepest sleep
And into his mind she creeps
In this world of lies and confusion
She's the only thing not clouded by illusions
The pain of everyday life is hidden by the blackness of our skin
He searches to find peace within
He finds love in the blackness of her skin

Back to the ghetto
Serenaded by the violence outside the window
Project aristocrats gather they realize
That our hearts and minds are shackled by the lies
But he finds peace when he looks into her eyes
And see her blackness is fine
The blackness of her skin the blackness of her mind

Straight from the womb
Right smack dab in the middle of
Poverty insecurity no one to save me
The young black man lays his head on her young black thighs
So that the child in her womb can hear the tears
That the black man cries
Soon come on a wave of positivity the big swinger,
Swingin'like a jazz singer travelin', movin', movin',
Steppin'in my three-quarter shell-toes,
Groovin'love to hear the brothers signify sisters with their
head held high
Summertime, the livin'is easy dreaming of seas of dark
tranquility
On the project train full speed on the project train heading for
my love that's sweet like sugercrane


8.Soul On Ice

We've been indoctrinated and convinced by the white racist
standard of beauty
The overwhelming popularity of seeing, better off being, and
looking white
My brothers attempt to defy the white man's law and his system
of values
Defiles his white woman, but my mum, master's in the slave house
again
Visions of her virginal white beauty
Dancin'in your head
Your soul's on ice
Your soul's on ice
Brother brother
Are you suffering from a social infection mis-direction
Excuse me does the white woman go better with the brooks
brothers suit?
I have psychotic dreams
Your jism in a white chalk line
You let my sister go by
Used to be customary to bow one's eyes at the sight of a white
face konks and fade

Creams sad passion deferred dreams i am a reflection of you
Black and blue pure as the tears of coal-colored children crying
for acceptance
You can't run from yourself
She's just an illusion
Black love anthems play behind white-skinned affection
New birth stereophonic spanish fly let her cry.
But you no longer burn for the motherland brown skin
You want blond-haired, blue-eyed soul
Snow white passion without the hot comb


9.Call Me

Dial the 7 digits,
It's quite simple
I'll be there in a hurry
Jack be quick jack be nimble
Call me up when you feel the need to talk
When words aren't of the essence i'll soothe you with my
presence
A kiss here and there from head to toe
Just call me up when you want more
You can be king for a day i'll be your queen let me treat you
that way
When you need me baby, yeah!
Just call me
Are you into this
If not we can do that 'cause when we get together
It's like lena horne singin'stormy weather'
We can get loose and kinky
Be my teddy bear, forget your every care
The m-e-s-h-e-e-l and i aim to please your every little fantasy
You can be king for a day i'll be your queen let me treat you
that way
Get loose work out
Work up a sweat till you fall out i'm in the mood for love
So we can play house i'll treat you like julius caesar
Best to bet that i'll treat you like a king, ring a ding ding
Just call me up 'cause it ain't nothing but the real thing
Dazin'glazin', so amazin'
Snugger than a bug in a rug
So let's get crazy


10.Outside Your Door

Here i am waiting.
Just waiting.
Anticipating a chance to run into you.
I sit here for hours.
One day i even sat through a rain shower.
For just a glance.
A chance to talk to you.
You're probably wondering how i even know you.
For now you're just my dream.
And when i wake up i hope you talk to me.
Here i sit outside your door.
Talk to me.
I'd be content to just sit here and talk to you.
In my dreams you love me and me only.
The way you kiss and hold me.
Love is what i search and search to find.
But until then i'll just dream for the meantime.


11.Picture Show

A hopeless romantic that's what i've been called.
So don't talk 'bout love 'cause i'll fall.
Moved by the way you walk, talk.
The color of your eyes.
I want to hug and kiss you when you walk by.
The way you eat your cereal
So cute reading shakespeare in your birthday suit
Just a hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you
I wanna hold your hand take you to a picture show.
I wanna hold your hand.
In my script there's a love scene.
Just picture it.
Candles and warm apple cider.
Sly stone on the radio.
Caress your funky dreads in the candle glow.
Whisper in my ear.
'cause i'm in the mood for love.
I'm just a hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you.
Kiss and hug you.
Baby squeeze you tight.
I wanna hold your hand.


12.Sweet Love

Tell me, what is a girl to do.
I try so very hard to try and please you.
Even though you know you don't really care.
Or is that you find your feelings too hard to share.
Friends say i'm crazy for the way that i feel.
You don't love me now.
You probably never will.
But my love is far stronger than pride.
Even though i know there'll always be another by your side

Let me make sweet love to you baby x2

Cry my tears by candlelight.
I'm just another lonely heart, here on a lonely night.
Screams of passions.
I call out your name making love to another.
Just to ease my pain.
Will this ever change?
Will you ever feel the same way about me?

Let me make sweet love to you baby x2


13.Two Lonely Hearts(On The Subway)

Excuse me, you headin'my way?
Tryin'to find something to brighten up my day
Maybe i could talk to you or you could talk to me
Your eyes seem to call out for some comfort
Is it the everyday racism
Or a pain from deep within
I may not understand now but then again
You could talk to me or we could just sit here and daydream

Say, you headin'my way
Two lonely hearts on the subway
Singin'the blues on the subway train

Black black yes it's hard and that's a fact
But i can rise above
When i have love
Here comes the train
Please don't turn and walk away stay
We could read some ntozake shange
And i loose myself in the book
I escape to my heavenly tomb
Or we could read the voice
It's your choice
I just want to get to know you
Your lovely black face
Accompanied by some strictly roots
As we venture it's just nice to be near you