How It Make You Feel

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

What if I was gone forever

No more chocolate kisses

No nappy dugout ever

No mama, no daughter, no sister, no

No sister friends

Tell me my brother

What would become of you then

What if, poof, every black female

In the world disappeared

Your man-child left unattended

Lost with no one

Behind the steering wheel

Tell me, mmm-mmm-hmm

Come on, how would that make you feel

Come on, come on, help a sister say

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

Your beautiful brown would be forever gone

With no more cocoa wombs to carry your brown on

You right there, would be the last of your kind

Can you feel this song, how does that affect your mind

'Cause if there was no me, there'd be no you

Ooh, can you feel me

Is this song coming through

That's the science in it

But it's so much more intense

Reach into your soul for the answer

Reach wherever you need to, to find it

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

No, mama, no, daughter, yeah

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

Say, you be trippin', say, you pimpin' it

Talkin' 'bout how you da man

What you are is somethin' different

By-product of when Massa ruled your life

Spreadin' babies everywhere, couldn't think, couldn't care

But you can now

You can, oh, you can

Come on and man up

Damn it, tell me how you'd feel

No mama, no daughter

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

(No auntie, no grandma, nobody to look to, how you come on)

Tell me how you'd feel (Tell me how you'd feel)

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone

Tell me how you'd feel

(If there's no me, there's no you, ooh, baby, ooh)

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone (Tell me how you'd feel)

Tell me how you'd feel (Mm, think about it, think about it, yeah)

Tell me how you'd feel

If I was, if I was gone