Enthralled not by her curious blend Lyrics – Matana Roberts
Singer: Matana Roberts
Title: Enthralled not by her curious blend
His daddy ran all over cain
Shadow children is just how he used to call them
With his signature angelic grin
A few of them were under my tutelage even
He took loving care of all of ’em though
Not one ever went hungry or unwanted
His mama made peace with it and carried on
But i remember, when i first heard the whispers about his daddy’s liaisons
And i thought
I could never
Sometimes when i get a bit wistful missing out on my boys growing strong
I replay choicеs in my head
And i just come to understand that what wе are dealt is not necessarily what we choose
But one can only take so much humiliation
When 〈.?.〉 came home that day and told me he wanted his little shadows to know all that was ours
I couldn’t handle it
We fought
Said words to each other that to this day i cannot repeat
The sting is too lasting even in its fading memory
He told me if i didn’t liked it i had to leave
Man of the house
Love, honor and obey was my appointed charge he said
At first i refused
But then i decided to call his bluff
I scooped up the boys, i knew i needed to get back to my own born home to feel a sense of root, until i could figure out what to do
When i tell you his people did not like me
So attached to the colored line that my supposed mystery tone
Represented supposedly stain
They had had a long history of marrying each other to keep the tone consistent
Double cousins on both sides, but a deep familial love, i will give them that
But because i was not local, they couldn’t be sure i might not get passage way to what granny used to call throwback child
Every one of my siblings, mamma and daddy looked like me in tone
And there was no throwback to be found, but yet his family went on imagined it
You know, i was a school teacher somewhat accomplished in my thought if i do say so myself
Yet my intellect was forever under-reviewed
I look at it all now and i still laugh
Because well they didn’t know i was electric, alive, spirited, fired and free
My spirit overshadowing, my dreams too bombastic
My eyes too sparkling and my laughter too true
My name is your name, our name is their name
We are named
We remember, they forget
My name is your name, our name is their name
We are named, we remember, they forget
My name is your name, our name is their name
We are named, we remember, they forget
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