Comments on: Tonight In Brooklyn | I’m From Barcelona, A Camp, Lauryn Hill http://www.bumpershine.com/2007/08/06/tonight-in-brooklyn-im-from-barcelona-a-camp-lauryn-hill.html Pop culture specialist. - Bumpershine.com is a New York based blog mainly about music, with some stuff about movies, books, television, technology, deals, brooklyn, canada, and freshdirect thrown in for good measure. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:48:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Spiritual Poet http://www.bumpershine.com/2007/08/06/tonight-in-brooklyn-im-from-barcelona-a-camp-lauryn-hill.html#comment-4085 Spiritual Poet Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:04:33 +0000 http://www.bumpershine.com/2007/08/06/tonight-in-brooklyn-im-from-barcelona-a-camp-lauryn-hill.html#comment-4085 Sister Lauryn I discovered you when you ran the Fugees to victory Who is this Queen, who is telling my life’s true story? I was 10 years old, but too old living in a child’s body Saw too much death in my hood, dead corpses rotting But Sister Lauryn saved my mentality implanting seeds Watering with her sweet voice, fertilizing all my needs Ready or Not, life came too fast and nearly toppled me I prayed to God to save me from my family and community Then the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill held me captive To have a beautiful voice like yours, anything I’d give All my hurt and pain diminished when I listened to you I found a way out of mental slavery, you unstuck my glue Now they talk about you and dog you out like the pound Never realizing all the Greatness and God in you I found Your Unplugged album was Allah (swt) speaking through Your lyrics come from the Higher Source never Voodoo Out of this captivity I long to be set free in this lifetime Away from all the sterotypes from all the evil crime All of the systems designed to treat us like animals Labeling us and treating positive folks like criminals See I understand you Sister Lauryn like I know myself A reflection of you, I am, I accept the hand God’s dealt We may not seem normal and they might call us insane But all along they are the ones insane in the membrane Never understanding that our true purpose is not vanity Never understanding that love and unity is the only key Never understanding that the system is designed for us to fail Never understanding that we are conditioned to go to jail Sister Lauryn, I commend you for standing your ground You are the diamond in the ruff that my soul has found Because of your music my life changed from inside out You showed me what my true purpose in life is all about You are a beautiful mother to all of your 5 little precious souls They depend on you to be strong, your love won’t grow old Allah (swt) needs you to keep up the fight for all of humanity Cheers to you Lauryn Girl for exposing the truth about this insanity 3/22/2009 9:02:05 PM Sister Lauryn

I discovered you when you ran the Fugees to victory
Who is this Queen, who is telling my life’s true story?
I was 10 years old, but too old living in a child’s body
Saw too much death in my hood, dead corpses rotting

But Sister Lauryn saved my mentality implanting seeds
Watering with her sweet voice, fertilizing all my needs
Ready or Not, life came too fast and nearly toppled me
I prayed to God to save me from my family and community

Then the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill held me captive
To have a beautiful voice like yours, anything I’d give
All my hurt and pain diminished when I listened to you
I found a way out of mental slavery, you unstuck my glue

Now they talk about you and dog you out like the pound
Never realizing all the Greatness and God in you I found
Your Unplugged album was Allah (swt) speaking through
Your lyrics come from the Higher Source never Voodoo

Out of this captivity I long to be set free in this lifetime
Away from all the sterotypes from all the evil crime
All of the systems designed to treat us like animals
Labeling us and treating positive folks like criminals

See I understand you Sister Lauryn like I know myself
A reflection of you, I am, I accept the hand God’s dealt
We may not seem normal and they might call us insane
But all along they are the ones insane in the membrane

Never understanding that our true purpose is not vanity
Never understanding that love and unity is the only key
Never understanding that the system is designed for us to fail
Never understanding that we are conditioned to go to jail

Sister Lauryn, I commend you for standing your ground
You are the diamond in the ruff that my soul has found
Because of your music my life changed from inside out
You showed me what my true purpose in life is all about

You are a beautiful mother to all of your 5 little precious souls
They depend on you to be strong, your love won’t grow old
Allah (swt) needs you to keep up the fight for all of humanity
Cheers to you Lauryn Girl for exposing the truth about this insanity
3/22/2009 9:02:05 PM

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