I want to make this a special tribute To a family that contradicts the concepts Heard the rules, but wouldn't accept And womenfolk raised me And I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home
She had more than the five senses She knew more than books could teach And raised everyone she touched just a little bit higher And all around her there was a natural sense As though she sensed what the stars say, what the birds say What the wind and and the clouds say A sense of soul and self, that African sense And she raised me like she raised four of her own And I was hurt and scared and shocked when Lily Scott left Suddenly one night And they sent a limousine from heaven to take her to God If there is one So I knew she had gone And I came from a broken home
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