Amid the Roses/Lonely Woman

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Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters

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There is tropical warmth and languorous life
Where the roses lie
In a tempting drift
Of pink and red and golden light
Untouched as yet by the pruning knife.
And the still, warm life of the roses fair
That whisper Come
With promises
Of sweet caresses, close and pure
Has a thorny whiff in the perfumed air
There are thorns and love in the roses' bed
And Satan too
Must linger there
So Satan's wiles and the conscience stings
Must now abide-the roses are dead

Some horn whistling at you but you gone inside
Gone girl gone
Some horn tryna come inside you but you gone aside
Cast your hairnet, so much bullshit in its meshes
Call-in the coal to see
But you fine & slow like honey
Like ole timer molasses, you got time

You remind old men of some woman they couldn't have
Mind them of their mothers they didn't know before they was born
You remind them of Mary before Christ and Jodeci
Of Whitney before Bobby
There is always a before haunting the lonely woman
Somebody you used to be before you was really you

You be swingin from your own breezes & then the storm hits
Then the heatwave comes down
The world's trouble at your back like an Olympic sprinter
Grill in her spine, diamond grill in her spikes
And this version, this version of you ain't like you remembered
No, I don't recognize this lonely woman you've become
And your mothers wouldn't recognize her either

Where is her free jazz, where is her way out of the box of form & time
Where is her avant-garde doorway, moth-haired shamans
Greeting with arms full of fruit, limbs like baseball bats wielded by the greats
Where is your zest for this orange of life
Some petty, some mean-ass, small-ass people got you down, girl
There is not enough love for you here

What do you call a song that ends & begins again
What do you call a woman who is lonely for herself
What do you call a black soul on the brink
What do you call the river when it runs through your house

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