Brown Girl Lyrics

Brown Girl Lyrics 

I'm more than the colour of my skin

I'm a girl that likes to sing

All I know is what's within

Not just a brown girl in the ring

 

Go to school and learn their ways

Told how to think and what to say

While my mother says to pray

I pray for better days

God, please help them see

They ain't no different from me

Not above, not beneath

Teach them equality

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm more than what they think of me

More than the colour tones that they see

More than urban, R&B, more than a slang that I speak

Close your eyes, don't say your word

Don't speak about what you seen or heard

Let's pretend that it's OK

Just the way the devil likes to play

Look in my eyes, look in my eyes

I can't lie, I can't lie

All these years of my life

I'm judged from the outside

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

And if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

Said if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

I'm talking 'bout

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing