[00:00:04] Here I stand before you - brown [00:00:06] Color of the mountains [00:00:08] Colossal as the earth [00:00:10] Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery [00:00:13] Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind [00:00:17] Here I stand before you the color of the night [00:00:22] Frozen by the potential of me [00:00:24] (Uh uh uh uh uh-uh-uh-uh-uh) An Afro Angel [00:00:30] Afro Angel off your pedestal from perchin above [00:00:32] You on the prowl now downtown searchin for love [00:00:35] In all the wrong places outside your radio stations [00:00:38] Hopin he with new hit single is tryin to mingle [00:00:41] Today he is in your town puttin it down [00:00:43] You in the car with your friends followin my limo around [00:00:46] Puttin a bug in my boy's ear your "S" is for free [00:00:49] You'll do anything for Omar or Phil bring you to me [00:00:52] And then me hypnotized by the devil as well [00:00:54] Hold out my hand as an invitation into my hotel [00:00:57] No need to RSVP place your hand in my palm [00:01:01] As all your girlfriends getting jealous damn she landed the bomb [00:01:04] Willing to trade your spirit for some crass whack wage [00:01:07] Something small something simple as a pass back stage [00:01:10] But now I lay me down to creep [00:01:12] And I - pray the Lord my soul to keep [00:01:15] Afro Angel born against the world [00:01:21] You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [00:01:26] Afro Angel sent from heaven above [00:01:33] Never forget that you are loved [00:01:38] You know that you are loved [00:01:45] Lil Bobby got a gun now age fifteen [00:01:47] Destined to spend his life inside a cage it seems [00:01:51] Rage inside pride been denied respect [00:01:53] He can't take it though he gotta earn it [00:01:56] But he ain't learned that yet [00:01:57] Out on the town reckless abandon he's been bullied before [00:01:59] But now he straps and no more [00:02:02] Attitude high [00:02:02] Flexin on every guy that walk by [00:02:04] But don't start pal [00:02:06] Cuz if the gun came from the whiz Cowardly Lion got heart now [00:02:08] Let's pull it on a stranger [00:02:10] Ahh fun for the crew [00:02:12] Surprised when he realized damn dude got one too [00:02:14] Smile's upside down now games ain't so cute [00:02:17] Bobby's a deer in a headlights [00:02:19] Pump drop it or I'll shoot [00:02:20] Then like a sniper cleanin his rifle Bobby disobeys his commands [00:02:23] One shot rings out (gunshot) then only the stranger stands [00:02:27] Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's wings [00:02:29] But for what [00:02:31] Afro Angel born against the world [00:02:37] You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [00:02:42] Afro Angel sent from heaven above [00:02:49] Never forget that you are loved [00:02:54] You know that you are loved [00:03:01] Back in high school Tamika was the sweetest the bomb [00:03:03] Hot to death though in tenth grade a teenage mom [00:03:06] Knocked up by some thug named Russ in the drug game [00:03:10] But had the cutest kid you ever seen [00:03:12] Then all the pressure from her mom [00:03:14] She stepped to Russ [00:03:15] Told him it's either them drugs or us [00:03:17] Either them thugs or us [00:03:19] The ultimatum either continue bein a thug in the world [00:03:22] Or start lovin your girl [00:03:23] And say God bear me witness no doubt lovin ya dear [00:03:27] But to go from $50 Gees a week to $30 Gees a year [00:03:30] That ain't happenin [00:03:31] I guess he wasn't that strong [00:03:32] He came back the next week and the whole family was gone [00:03:35] Yo they straight moved away without as little as a word [00:03:38] Well needless to say Russ was a little perturbed [00:03:42] Then in a fury put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn [00:03:44] And like a clumsy chef she spilled the beans on where they had gone [00:03:48] Upstate Schenectady [00:03:48] Tamika answered the door [00:03:50] It was the last person she expected to be [00:03:53] They just stared