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Women Write Lyrics

Women Write Lyrics was an outgrowth of Women Talk Music and Admiring Female Rap Lyrics, our first two programs.

We offer Women Write Lyrics periodically in different forms. Sometimes women write individually and sometimes collaboratively.
 
Please enjoy the tracks and the lyrics that resulted from the 2015 program created through discussion, writing activities, and guest artists. The participants completed their songs individually and in collaboration with other women in the group. All the women had the opportunity to record at Centerline Studio, most for the first time in their lives.
 
Please enjoy the tracks and the lyrics that resulted from the program.
 
We will be offering another Women Write Lyrics program in the spring of 2016. Be in touch to sign up. All programs are free.

The Lyrics

Untitled- Work in progress 
by LaMeia Reddick & Killa Atencio

 
Ms Laura Nelson
I honor your legacy 
One day in May,
They hung you from a tree 
I thank God that your sprit came to me 
You said, dear child
Just be all that you can be 
One day soon the world sure will see 
Know the truth and it will set you free 
And that's why I'll never forget her 
Because black girls, we feel her pain 
And the fact still remains...
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine 
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine
(Nobody knows you) 
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine
(Nobody knows you)
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't 
Stop 
Mine
 
Nobody knows you
 
Sister Annie Mae,
I honour your legacy
A fighter for our people 
You will always be
They interrogated & accused you
They put a gun in your mouth,
They abused you 
I thank the Creator, 
That I know your truth 
I'll carry that courage and bring it to our youth 
Been throwing my hands up forever 
Resistance song it can only get better
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine 
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine
(Nobody knows you) 
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't stop mine
(Nobody knows you)
 
They tried to stop her shine 
But they can't 
Stop 
Mine
Baby Pangs
by Kayla Borden & Moe

 
Thanks Mom and Dad 
Providin a life you never had
(grown'n Up)
For puttin me + sis on this earth
Had no favorites, only at birth
Close relatives yeah, they the bomb
Get it girl!!
Never forget about your self worth
Don’t follow no gimmicks, cant read Your life of your palms
Mama always said, you can do 
Do anything, anything you
Put your mind to
Watch out for the devil,
He comes in many disguises
Demons gathering giving
Your mind a screw
Constant reflections, you'll know what to do or do you?
 
She got the baby baby Baby pangs, Baby Paaaangs, Baby Paaangs , Baby Paaaangs 
  
Looking thru a 2 way mirror
Looking at her parents with fearrr
(Livin) 9 to 5 to the day that we die
(Till the day that we die)
Pushing us to be educated, to stay Bright ( like a diamond)
With these early morning + late nights
Movies paint a picture,  Perfect Life
But nothing, Nothing but a fable
Sacrificing to put food on the table
Corrupt gov't with their laws and taxes (they ain’t helping us)
Are own wont support us,
Over a million unheard track(s)
So much talent unexposed
(no chances for these boys + girls)
All they know about making $$
Being pimps and hoes
insecurities,
Broken promises working out the telly
Mixed medicines, trauma,
She wasn't ready
Cash coming quickly,
So steady
Ma, Ill tell you... She wasn't ready
Chargin up before
grippin slidin that pole
She’s getting deeper in that dark hole
All that has happened to her
She doesn’t give a Woe!!!.... Woe!!!!
 
She got the baby baby Baby pangs, Baby Paaaangs, Baby Paaangs, Baby Paaaangs 
 
A bird’s eye view through the sheets
(on the window)
Boy oh Boy,
He was sent out on the streets
Nine years old,
And he got mouths to feed
No father figure,
He cant let his eyes bleed
He's the man
When he's pulling that trigger
On the streets
Is where his ego gets bigger
The trap house just around the corner
No snitchin, not a peep
or you miles be a foreigner 
Nowadays......... Nowadays
Friends are not true friends (no more)
Relationships are not relationships
Just crappy situationships 
 
He got the baby baby Baby pangs,
Baby Paaaangs, Baby Paaangs , Baby Paaaangs 
 
Yes!!!
We doing it for the fams.
Doing it for the fams!!!
The good times were all met up and jam
Reminisce about all
the good times + bad
Talking about the ones we lost
And maybe had grown'n up
You gave us all that you could
Warned us about all the bad
And the good 
This crazy world, you've left us
to choose
This crazy life, what you got to lose
 
She got the baby baby Baby pangs,
Baby Paaaangs, Baby Paaangs , Baby Paaaangs 
  
When I see mothers
& their kids walkin’ bout
Something inside me (inside of me)
Causes self doubt
Cause I always like to say,
Don't want my own 
But that voice deep down,
Say don’t wind up alone
It's a mad world,
Could I make it any better
This clocks tick’n - go about + get'er
When I have these dreams,
I'll tell you what I see
Just me and my clone,
and admission is free
When I see these mothers
They got me thinkin
I could do that too,
if I cut out this drinkin
I'd have all the rights, rules,
instincts and wits
Then the sun comes up and reality hits 
 
She got the baby baby Baby pangs,
Baby Paaaangs, Baby Paaangs , Baby Paaaangs 
Taking Myself On
by Moe

 
The moon has come up –
And I’m going down
You're gone, but I can still hear
You're voice weighing on me
 
I'm lighting candles around
Waters running here I stay
Sister, I love you
 
I am all alone
Nobody round, nobody to hold me down
It’s the same place but its different now
I'm taking myself on, oh I’m taking myself
 
I raised my voice, and you raised your fists
Oh baby, I am done with this
 
I am all alone
Nobody round, nobody to hold me down
It’s the same place but it’s different now
I’m taking myself on,
Oh I’m taking myself
 
Take a look in the mirror
And I take back what is mine
Take back, what is mine
Sister I love
Sister
Kitchen Love
by May Chung & Nzingha Millar

 
Find a cure for self-doubt
Measure time in spoons
Before the cups be out
Warm carefree afternoons
 
Speak your words less curt
Stir the pot any way
The more you do it the less it hurts
I hear my mother say
 
A raven not a dove
Light of truth you see
Discipline without love
My mother’s recipe
 
Her way to love us yet
You call it the remedy
I learn not to forget
Your mother’s legacy
Don’t Want 2 Admit
by Tamar Dina

 
Fifteen felt as old as ever
When I lived that age
My besty's crush
First introduced me
Round the fire pit
He said try this, try this
So i nod ok and take a hit
All a sudden legs feel funny
i don't mind to lose my money
Chasing feeling ever after
Hanging with these b-rate people
Grown men in a basement
Subbing 'V' atop my name
Laughing at my innocence
But jokes on them
My high is free 
 
*
i don't want to admit it x 3
i am so addicted
*
 
i go to classes buzzing cousin
Then to work humming humming
Parents worry, make them sick
What they know
They're immigrants
Years past they go fast
I’m not counting burning hash
Everything done ordinary
i do with my green enhance
Where it come from I don't ask
Links to guns and human flesh
Speaking of i feel good
Baby wanna get it on?
Think I’m ugly then I toke
Now I’m feeling confidant
Yeah I’m pretty yeah puff puff
Sober sex freaks me out
 
*
​
20 years is a long time
 
Damn plants getting stronger
Giving me paranoia
Promise myself I’ll smoke less
Throw that thought into the trash
Sinking feeling I can't stand it
inner voice making statements
Wake up hung with regrets
My mistakes keeps stacking up
When I puff I feel ambitious
Tho my actions lack conviction
Nothing's fun without my lift
Think i need a therapist
She says we do harm reduction
i keep blazing like its nothing
We just sit around and talk
Me and boo is breaking up

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