Anthony Joseph - Tamarind (Official Video) video free download

Music composed and produced by Meshell Ndegeocello

Directed by Julien Bittner; Produced by Bridges Film. Shot at Marché aux Puces (Paris St Ouen)

From new album "Time", produced and composed by Meshell Ndegeocello

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LYRICS

She was

a black whip

of a woman.

Had a look that

kissed the silver edges

of razors

and blazed

with lips that were

raised up

to a fearsome mouth.

She was fearless

Crossing the hard road in her

high thighed denim

and the bus drivers and the shopkeepers

stared down from their canteens

to watch her stroll past

in the deep white heat of midday

like some emissary of the sun

that couldn't be touched

or even whistled after.

Just the glimpse of her

could sting, cramp and paralyse

Make men say, 'Shiiiiiiit'.

And cuss inside their own mouths.

Dark seed of her skin

like tamarind,

she was the kind

of woman

who made time

stand

.still

But no one knew her grooving in the ghettos of her life,

no one saw her drying her clothes on a radiator overnight.

No one saw her making rags into fashion

or wiping tears from her daughters eyes,

'Your daddy loves you' she says

'He just can't control his anger sometimes.'

No one saw her waking at 5 am

to go to her cleaning job in the city

or leaning on the bus stop

long distance to her mother.

No one saw the full spectrum of her mind,

her dreams, her education, the experiences that made her stroll like scissors cutting

or the wit of her lips

that could leave marks in water. Everyone says she's beautiful. And in the midday

when the asphalt is summer soft

and the children are playing in the streets,

she lets the dark seed of her glow

like Tamarind.