Here I stand you Brown, color of the mountains, colossal as the so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the Frozen by the potential of me, an Angel Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Afro off your pedestal from perchin' above You on the now, downtown, searchin' for love In all the wrong places, your radio stations Hopin' he new hit single, is tryin' to mingle
Today, he is in your town, it down You in the car with your friends, my limo around a bug in my boy's ear, your 'S' is for free You'll do for Omar or Phil, bring you to me
And then me, hypnotized by the devil as Hold out my hand as an invitation into my No need to RSVP, place your in my palm As all your girlfriends jealous, damn she landed the bomb
Willing to trade spirit for some crass, whack wage Somethin' small, simple as a pass back stage But now I lay me, down to And I the Lord my soul to keep
Afro Angel, against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your Angel, sent from Heaven above Never forget that you are loved, you that you are loved
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh Lil got a gun now, age fifteen Destined to his life inside a cage it seems Rage inside, pride, been respect He can't take it though he earn it but he ain't learned that yet
Out on the town, reckless abandon he's bullied before But now he straps, and no more, attitude Flexin' on every guy that walk by but don't pal 'Cuz if the gun from the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now
Let's pull it on a stranger, ahh, fun for the Surprised he realized, damn dude got one too Smile's down now, games ain't so cute a deer in a headlights, pump, drop it or I'll shoot
Then like a sniper, cleanin' his rifle, Bobby disobeys his One shot rings out only the stranger stands Could of Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's wings But for
Afro Angel, against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw away pride Afro Angel, sent from Heaven forget that you are loved, you know that you are loved You know you are loved,
Back in school, Tamika was the sweetest, the bomb Hot to death, though in grade a teenage mom Knocked up by some thug Russ in the drug game But had the kid you ever seen
Then all the pressure her mom, she stepped to Russ Told him it's either them drugs or us either thugs or us The ultimatum, continue bein' a thug in the world Or start lovin' your
And say God, me witness, no doubt, lovin' ya dear But to go from dollar 50 gees a to dollar 30 gees a year That happenin', I guess he wasn't that strong He came back the next week and the family was gone
Yo, straight moved away, without as little as a word Well, needless to say, Russ was a little Then in a put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn And like a clumsy chef she spilled the beans on they had gone
Upstate Schenectady, Tamika the door It was the last person she to be They just stared, he said, "Do you me for me? You can do the cars, vacations, and jewelry?"
"Down with me? Period, through stress and strife" She said, "Yeah", he said, "In case would you please be my wife?" Then a sign from the sky, the baby cried an angel sings, I love y'all more than anything
Afro Angel, born against the You don't have to sell soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, sent from Heaven Never that you are loved, you know that you are loved
Afro Angel, born the world You don't have to sell soul and throw away your pride Angel, sent from Heaven above Never that you are loved, you know that you are loved