Melanin Queens

So many shades, so many flavours to savour

Savour

Caramel, cocoa, mahogany, ebony, opal

Beautiful in every hue

God was well pleased when She made you

Sassy, classy

She a queen, so call her your majesty

Your highness

And she stay cocoa buttered up so she forever shining

The epitome of everything womanly

She a deity to me

Melafeminine

A.K.A. black woman

This one's for my melanin queens

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me

This one's for my melanin queens

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me

I walk around town and let my melanin glow

Long hair, don't care, a teeny-weenie afro

So when you walk around town, let your melanin glow, girl

'Cause we so full of magic, we should let it show

We so innovative, we so damn creative

Yes, yes

Effortless style, where you get that? I made it

It comes naturally

We don't follow, we lead

Sensuality, strength and vulnerability

Educated, complicated, made beautifully

Yet unappreciated in society

So this is for the pretty brown girls like me

This one's for my melanin queens

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me

This one's for my melanin queens

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me

So if you love the skin you're in

And you know that you're winning, say, "Aye"

Aye

Don't be afraid to shine

Hold your head up high and say, "Aye"

Aye

When the world puts you down

Stand up tall, fix your crown and say, "Aye"

Aye

And if you're melanin proud

Turn this song up loud and say, "Aye"

Aye

This one's for my melanin queens

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me

This one's for my melanin queens

Oh, yeah

This is for the girls that look like me

This is for the girls that look like me