Africa's Inside Me Lyrics - Singles - Arrested Development

Universal as I stroll down the street 

Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me 

I used to sport a curl made by Jerry 

A Jerry curl 

but as time passed it didn't last 

after my curl I never combed my doo. 

I used to sport a cap but the naps kept shining through. 

Shining! 

My sista got a brand new perm 

my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm 

folds at her job loves her new touch up 

I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she's all done up. 

My sista loves her blackness 

but the US. says that her perm is her attractiveness. 

But Africa keeps coming stronger-we found out 

it ain't a perm it's a temporary 

Don't heve sash to go to the music school 

no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba 

my moms had a record player and the 45's 

I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live 

scratching it up catching the breaks 

spirits within me had me do what it takes 

Grammy's I win & one again like my Egyptian kin 

it's Africa within makin' something outta nothing! 

CHORUS: (x2) 

Africa's inside me 

taking back her child 

she's giving me my pride 

and setting me free. 

What's that land across those waters? 

what's that spirit makin'love to my daughter 

telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks 

allowing her the choice to twist her hair & make it lock. 

yo I don't like it, I just don't like it. 

Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin' 

and sooner or later Africa's glory and toil 

will teach an old dog new tricks 

Why and the world can't everybody 

recognize that Africa's in everybody? 

we all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers 

but first we gotta accept who is our mother 

Rather embracer of the jungle 

or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth 

and developments Arrested for nothing 

Gumbo's within' soulful H20 men be droppin' 

Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins 

within' to exist as afro USA...men 

residing in Fulani was once Christian. 

Start fishin' like FOS and found origin! 

CHORUS