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[00:02.15](Ooh, Ohh)
[00:03.96]Here I stand before you - brown.
[00:05.76]Color of the mountains
[00:07.55]Colossal as the earth
[00:09.36]Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery
[00:12.92]Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind
[00:17.59]Here I stand before you, the color of the night
[00:21.13]Frozen by the potential of me
[00:23.85](Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh) An Afro Angel
[00:28.34]Afro Angel off your pedestal from perchin above
[00:31.18]You on the prowl now, downtown, searchin for love
[00:34.73]In all the wrong places, outside your radio stations
[00:37.43]Hopin he with new hit single, is tryin to mingle
[00:40.14]Today, he is me in your town, puttin it down
[00:42.90]You in the car with your friends, followin my limo around
[00:45.68]Puttin a bug in my boy's ear, your "S" is for free
[00:49.27]You'll do anything for Omar or Phil, bring you to me
[00:52.02]And then me, hypnotized by the devil as well
[00:54.73]Hold out my hand as an invitation into my hotel
[00:57.42]No need to RSVP, place your hand in my palm
[01:01.01]As all your girlfriends getting jealous, damn she landed the bomb
[01:03.79]Willing to trade your spirit for some crass, whack wage
[01:06.41]Something small, something simple as a pass back stage
[01:10.03]But now I lay me, down to creep
[01:11.87]And I - pray the Lord my soul to keep
[01:14.55]Chorus:
[01:15.52]Afro Angel, born against the world
[01:20.92]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride
[01:26.38]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above
[01:32.69]Never forget that you are loved
[01:38.10]You know that you are loved
[01:39.03]Lil Bobby got a gun now, age fifteen
[01:47.16]Destined to spend his life inside a cage it seems
[01:50.76]Rage inside, pride, been denied respect
[01:53.59]He can't take it though he gotta earn it
[01:55.32]But he ain't learned that yet
[01:56.28]Out on the town, reckless abandon he's been bullied before
[01:59.88]But now he straps, so no more
[02:00.76]Attitude high
[02:01.63]Flexin on every guy that walk by
[02:04.33]But don't start pal
[02:05.24]Asif the gun came from the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now
[02:08.07]Let's pull it on a stranger
[02:09.85]Ahh, fun for the crew
[02:10.79]Surprised when he realized, damn dude got one too
[02:13.49]Smile's upside down now, games ain't so cute
[02:17.03]Bobby's a deer in a headlights
[02:17.97]Pumk, drop it or I'll shoot
[02:18.80]Then like a sniper, cleanin his rifle, Bobby disobeys his commands
[02:22.48]One shot rings out (gunshot) then only the stranger stands
[02:26.18]Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's wings
[02:29.71]But for what?
[02:30.67]Chorus:
[02:31.50]Afro Angel, born against the world
[02:36.95]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride
[02:42.44]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above
[02:48.75]Never forget that you are loved
[02:54.17]You know that you are loved
[03:00.57]Back in high school, Tamika was the sweetest, the bomb
[03:03.24]Hot to death, though in tenth grade a teenage mom
[03:05.97]Knocked up by some thug named Russ in the drug game
[03:09.57]But had the cutest kid you ever seen
[03:11.38]Then off of pressure from her mom
[03:13.13]She stepped to Russ
[03:14.93]Said it's either them drugs or us
[03:16.78]Either them thugs or us
[03:18.66]The ultimatum, either continue bein a thug in the world
[03:22.22]Or start lovin your girl
[03:24.07]And say God, bear me witness, no doubt, lovin ya dear
[03:26.72]But to go from 50 g's a week to 30 g's a year
[03:29.46]That ain't happenin
[03:30.30]I guess he wasn't that strong
[03:32.17]He came back the next week, and the whole family was gone
[03:33.93]Yo they straight moved away, without as little as a word
[03:38.56]Well, needless to say, Russ was a little perturbed
[03:41.26]Then in a fury put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn
[03:43.91]And like a clumsy chef she spilled the beans on where they had gone
[03:46.69]Upstate Schenectady,
[03:48.43]Tamika answered the door
[03:50.22]It was the last person she expected to be
[03:53.07]They just stared
[03:53.92]He said you love me for me?
[03:55.73]You can do without the cars, vacations, and jewelry?
[03:58.44]Down with me?
[03:59.33]Period.
[04:00.29]Through life's stress and strife
[04:02.09]She said, Yeah, He said in that case
[04:02.99]Would you please be my wife?
[04:04.86]Then like a sign from the sky, the baby cried
[04:06.66]Like an angel sings
[04:08.43]I love y'all more than anything
[04:10.24]Chorus:
[04:11.14]Afro Angel, born against the world
[04:13.82]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride
[04:22.07]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above
[04:27.48]Never forget that you are loved
[04:32.80]You know that you are loved
[04:34.64](Repeat Chorus)
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