Pummeled, bruised, again and again
All in the name of love
Heavenly screams out of torture
The eyes have it
What hue so blue
has you?
Your offspring hear you sing
What’s in your eye that makes you cry
You can’t deny how fallen is the sky
Still, yet you try
All in the name of love
It’s all you know
And you return to what you know
Always for a new show
Sunglasses for the star
But the stars do not hide the sunglasses
So used to the freight train
Sucker punched for the pain
More pain for the sucker
Black girl’s lividity
Fails to honor pity
All those who sit above
Pull the strings of the lonesome dove
Stupid and dumb
Minus a thumb
Without a pulse King Kong revives
Failure and pointless strives
The price you pay for stirring lives
What attention
Did you fail to mention?
They see you as oblivious
Bordering on delirious
Green-eyed girl in a white girl’s world
Once made the boy’s toes curl
Now you’ve made them all so livid
Too bad only models pivot
Not knowing history
Makes for facial space blistery
Can you keep a secret?
Keep it
Without getting
Pummeled, bruised again and again
Without committing a new sin
You’ll never win
Black Girl, Black girl
Just hanging in the White man’s world
Pummeled, bruised again and again
After the sinful sin
But the cat’s eyes
may guide you in the dark
and protect you from the dog’s bark
