| Everlasting life from womb of a black woman
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| Show respect every time that you see that sister coming
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| Everlasting life from womb of a black woman
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| Show respect every time that you see that sister coming
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| Don’t you forget, where you came from
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| She brought you in the world, fed you, led you onto the right road,
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| she the same one
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| That put up with you through the whole picture
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| The one that hid you in the closet when them fool’s came to get you
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| Day by day, struggling hard with this world, going at it
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| Tryna fix it so her son can have it better than she had it
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| Nine months on the inside, the realm of protection
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| End result, birth establishing the eternal connection
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| He can kill a hundred men, be in the pen or hold the ___
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| Lose his friends, all his ends and mama still gon' come and see him
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| She might hug you, she might just cuss you out and make you melt
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| Real love is when she bust you with that belt
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| Black Goddess, giver of life, but if you buck her she gon' cut ya
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| But you’ll still be quick to murder anybody if they touch your mother
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| All civilization, infinite power they summon
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| Every great man that ever lived came up out a woman
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| You got…
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love unconditionally
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| (You got)
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love that is unconditionally
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| Cause ain’t nobody down for ya like your mama is
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| Girl, you been there from the dirt but I took you for granted
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| Why you ain’t left me a long time ago, I can’t understand it
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| See I done lied, you done cried, but you swallowed your pride
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| Even at times she caught me cheating, she was hurt, but she let it slide
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| Know all my business, but you know she ain’t telling
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| Struggle with me if I’m stressing, why my album ain’t selling
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| No reversing real lady, never once heard her curse
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| Mentally our thoughts connect, like we was the same person
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| Straight saying she’ll be with me, if them fools ever bust me
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| Her brother fouled up when he see me and her daddy don’t trust me
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| I should of known that, done broke up two or three times and gone back
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| No matter where we roam at, we both know where home at
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| Yo, she down with me, never tryna be fast
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| And thread the reaches out her purse and straight give me her last
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| If I pop up on the late night, I ain’t gotta run game
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| No questions asked, she just happy that I came
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| Understand you got…
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love that’s unconditionally
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| (Know that you got)
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love that’s unconditionally
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| Tell me that you loving, loving life
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| Call a lady out her name like it ain’t no big deal
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| But let 'em disrespect your mama, you be ready to kill
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| Y’all don’t always see eye to eye and nah she ain’t perfect
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| But she give a cause for given you your life so it worth it
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| If your beating on your black queen, that’s promise for the kill
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| If you run out while she’s pregnant you’s a sucker for real
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| If you sell some crack to her, you gon' die real slow
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| You gon' suffer if you take her while she telling you no
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| See tears of pain during labor, while she pushing you loose
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| But tears of joy after witnessing the life she produced
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| And then you put your hands on the one that bring forth life
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| If you so hard, slap the police like you slap on your wife
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| Cause you got…
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love unconditionally
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| (unconditional love, unconditional love)
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| You got
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| Everlasting life
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| The life that she give you
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| And the love that is unconditionally
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| (unconditional love, unconditional love) |