Bed time then
It's time for dreams
No one waitin'
To warm the dark
No one hopin'
That I'll wear red
No one wantin'
To spark my spark
No one needin', needin'
To share my bed
Don't break promises, Emmie (nobody's arm)
Do like you say you do (to cradle my head)
Don't give yourself options (to talk about)
Most folks lives without 'em (news, talk about views)
Most folks does without (talk about change)
('Bout the president death!)
Lost track of the time, Mama, sorry
Aunt Claudia say she'd mind the children
Say she don't mind minding them
Sorry, Mama, I was out
Being shiftless, having fun
What kind of fun?
You remember fun, Mama?
Out at the parking lot
'Longside the A&W
Bunch of us talking
Dancing to the radio
The president's dead!
I know
The radio play music anyway
Just some old white man
Sent Larry off to Vietnam
Sorry he dead
I ain't killed him
I'm too tired to fight
You don't do me right
I can't do with no daughter
Shiftless as you
Just some old white man
Don't care 'bout the black man!
Emmie Thibodeaux
Since when you say "black man"?
You say colored or Negro
Like you were raised up to
Say he do stuff for us
Get our vote
He just ignores us
Same old story, Mama
Same tired old lie
If you gotta do it, Mama
Go ahead and cry
I ain't got no tears to shed
For no dead white guy!
Free, free
Lonesome and free
Go on and get yourself to bed, girl (no one pacin')
Whoever put a mouth like that on you? (The floor for me)
I know I didn't do it (flower)
And God didn't do it (don't need)
Some days I just don't know (no honey)
What I'm gone do (bee)
How you knees today? (If free means misery)
They fine (that's what I be)
Go on to sleep
(Ain't nobody's baby)
Don't wake up the baby
(Ain't property)
Say prayers for us all (got nothing I own)
Give your Mama a kiss ('cept being alone)
Apologize to God for being such an unholy priss (free and)
And a caution, and a sass (lonely)
'Fore your Mama whups ya