[00:00.00]Giving Something Up - Amel Larrieux
[00:13.57]'76 when a man
[00:14.88]Told his wife 'baby doll sorry i can't stay'
[00:18.01]Left with 5 kids she was forced to become
[00:20.27]Superwoman and go earn some pay
[00:22.95]A college-educated girl
[00:25.45]Washing dishes in a man's world
[00:27.63]Now what good is a degree
[00:30.01]When you've got mouths to feed
[00:32.82]She is that girl maybe you know her
[00:35.33]Maybe you've been maybe you are today
[00:37.76]Insert your year where the year is
[00:39.64]If to this story you can relate
[00:42.38]Giving something up
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[01:02.70]'97 a mother has no choice
[01:04.20]But to go find work and leave her kids alone
[01:06.77]Far from heaven so she's gone
[01:08.82]5 days out the week to bring a piece home
[01:12.01]Her man is off somewhere up some dress
[01:13.57]Bringing her back some other woman's sickness
[01:16.88]Her baby girl is crying 'Mama please
[01:19.01]When you're gone the neighbor's chasing me'
[01:22.13]Around the world from Pakistan
[01:24.14]Down to Soweto back to New York City
[01:26.69]Insert your year where the year is
[01:29.26]If to this story you can relate
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[01:51.26]Giving trying self-relying
[01:53.70]Feeling teaching always preaching
[01:56.20]Dreaming losing being abused and
[01:58.51]Dying crying sacrificing
[02:01.01]Hurting being told we're worthless
[02:03.44]Birthing buried alive in the earth and
[02:05.95]Hoping mending spirits broken
[02:08.38]Flying and somehow surviving
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