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Shaped by darkness as much as light Descendant of the sharecropper's plight From can't see in the morning to can't see at night To second sight With the wherewithal to fight An exercise of excision, excavation, exorcism To heal the spirit and reveal the prism Beyond the prison Groomed by addiction Tuned by a vision One woman, one mission Follow me I am the wildest dreams of rebels and kings Incredible odds I battled and won Then circled the sun and settled here, bred of a fiend Daughter of dust, trudged through the rocks to chase them revenue streams My family's familiar with crops, but they ain't accustomed to none of the cream The funniest thing, spent the first two of my years unable to scream 'Cause I was born wrapped in ancient pain, the kind that needed to cling We went from slaving farms to Reaganomics, hell of a swing A different war, but same old target, backs embellished with wings Niggas, never, negus, clever Needles turned to Nino's era Brown girl with a thin skin They said I'd never make it this far SongtexteThat was the devil, baby, this God I'm one of heaven's favorites, Ishtar Brown girl with a thin skin They said I'd never make it this far That was the devil, baby, this God I'm one of heaven's favorites, Ishtar Look at me now, look at me now Look at me now, look at me now Look at me now, look at me now Look at me now, look at me now Aus Songtexte Mania