Well special request to my Nubian empress
With her bon African, her African descent
And I've got to tell ya
Yeah
Cocoa butter kisses, wipe my tears away
I wanna feel you like cold water dripping down my face
I wanna fly high like the stars that I see
Like the birds in the sky
Like the birds in the sky
How do you reconcile (reconcile)
Rectify (rectify)
Free your mind
Bondage, they have me in shackles
How do you smile
When you got nothing to smile about?
How do you love when you got no one
Coming back to the house?
Black woman, sometimes
Sad woman, but all of the time
She's a queen from another place
Why are you so displaced?
She's a goddess walking on earth, baby
Ay, gold and diamonds running in your genes
How dem neva tell you magic in your melanin
Mi love the curls and the curves of your skin
The way you walk and you talk, everything
"Black," the black print of beauty
"Black," herstory's history
Yeah and nuh call ar nuh Barbie
Cah Barbie want a Ken, you a Queen, need a King
Black woman, sometimes
Sad woman, all of the time
She's a queen from another place
Why are you displaced?
Yeah, she's a goddess walking on earth, baby
Baby, yeah
Baby
How do you love
How do you love the way you do?
What did I do to deserve you?
Why do I always desert you
How do you feel when they don't feel for you?
How do you love when they don't love you back, no
Woman, sometimes
(How do you love, how do you love the way you do?)
How do you love
How do you love the way you do?
How do you love
How do you love the way you do?
Black woman