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Christine Autumn: Black Matter
Christine Autumn Sings Her Song

LOVE'S GOT ME

I never want to run
Just want to see the sun
And have someone of my own
Someone who'll hold me tight and love me through the night
Until the morning comes
Loves got me singing the blues once again
Loves got me singing the blues once again
Keep on it, stomp on it, don't let it eat you up,
Don't let it swallow you whole
I share my life and honey,
For memories, matrimony,
Make me more than your friend
And while the feeling's strong,
I want to hear you moan,
Say my name while you pray
Loves got me singing oh blue once again
Loves got me saying oh blue once again
If I ask you to stay would you tell me to
Go away go away go away go away go away go away go away?
Now that the mornings here
All night I didn't hear
No one you called your own
And I'm still sitting here
Same one you gave some cheer
It was a glorious night
Loves got me singing again
It's alright
Loves got me singing
You leave I'm alright
Keep on it, stomp on it, don't let it eat you up
Don't let it swallow you whole
I never want to run
Just want to see the sun
And have someone of my own
Someone who'll hold me tight
And love me through the night
Until the morning comes
Loves got me singing oh blue once again
Loves got me saying oh blue once again
I never want to run
Just want to see the sun
And have someone of my own
Someone to hold me tight
And love me through the night
Until the morning comes

DON'T SING THE BLUES

Up in the early morning
with your sad, sad blue face on
You say to yourself life can't get much harder
You meet some people some fine people
You meet some people
They stay, but they only stay a while
But don't sing the blues sister don't sing the blues tonight
Dying ain't a reason cause living is a reason to live
Dying ain't a reason cause living is a reason to live
Go take a walk on the outside
Let that sun play with your hair
Ride through breeze like life's about to expire
We sing we laugh we pray
Good bye people
We run we hide away
Hello
We laugh we cry we say
Still here
Not ready for the other side
Dying ain't a reason cause living is a reason to live
Dying ain't a reason cause living is a reason to live
Why sing the blues sister
Why sing the blues tonight
In the early evening when sky is like a fire
You'll rise like the bird
Spread ashes even higher
You meet some people
Some fine people
You meet some people
They stay and some stay a while
Dying ain't a reason cause living is the reason to live
Dying ain't a reason cause living is the reason to live

I'VE BEEN THINKING

I don't want my life to be to be to be only
I don't want to strive for honey, money, only
I've been thinking about life
I've been thinking about love
I've been thinking, and thinking,
Thinking and a thinking and a thinking about you
I don't want to live in fear, in fear, only
I don't want to be lonely, lonely, only
I've been thinking about love,
I've been thinking about love
I been thinking and a thinking and a think-ing and a thinking and a thinking about you
Started thinking about God
And the fact that we are wanted, wanted, always
To remember and remember and remember and remember that I
I don't want a plan,
but I want it, I want it,
then I don't
I don't need a man to forget that I am,
a goddess, a goddess, a goddess, a goddess
I've been thinking about life,
I've been thinking about life,
I've been thinking, and a thinking, and a thinking, and a thinking, and a thinking
How to live
I've been thinking like you
and the fact that you are
You don't have to give,
You don't have to love,
You don't have to live,
Peace.

THE HUMAN RACE

All around that All I need
We got to go All I want
Never mind that is to belong
All the rhythm go to one seed
Imhotep* said Heal thyself
We've got to go is so real
We all do it to belong
Say we got it to one deed
We need to know
What's become of us
We got to go All I need
All the blessings come all I want
Hotep** is to belong
We've got to get it to one seed
We've got to get it Heal thyself
All around that is so real
We've got to go to belong
Never mind that to one deed
To the human race
To the human race
To the human race
All the rhythm go
To the human race
With the human face
Imhotep* said All I need
We've got to go all I want
We all do it is to belong
Say we got it to one seed
We need to know heal thyself
What's become of us is so real
We've got to go to belong
All the blessings come to one deed
Hotep**
We got to get it
We got to get it
*Imhotep -- An ancient Egyptian doctor, architect, high priest, scribe, vizier known best as the architect of the Step Pyramid. Used here as a synonym for "A wise man"
**Hotep -- from the Egyptian -- translates roughly as "to be satisfied, to be at peace". Currently in vogue as a hip-hop greeting.

I DON'T MIND

I don't mind the rain that falls
I don't mind when you say you'd call.
I don't ask you where you go
When I do it's just my heart.
Let me know you are a friend.
Let know when love's away.
And I don't know mind when frost gets old.
When flowers die some others grow.
I don't ask you why you're cold
Or why your eyes hide why you go.
But let me know that I'm a friend
Let me know
I know you can.
I don't mind when you say you care
Looked at me then walked instead.
At any age you got to know
Loving me means don't let go.
Now you say you are my friend
Then introduce me to her then.
I don't mind the rain that falls
I don't mind when you say you'd call.
I don't ask you where you go
When I do it's just my heart.
I don't mind when rain drops fall.
Turn to snowflakes all in rows.
I never asked you at the end
Because I thought we'd begin again.

KEEP IT RIGHT

Keep it on through the night
When we talk the feelings come
You and I don't see as one
My darling see right from wrong.
Except for days, I might not be
Except for days, I might not be
All the things you want me to be
Let's not fight
Let's not be right
Why foolish me loves to dream.
If you're gonna love me,
Love, love me right
Loving me through the night.
You walked in to my life
And like the sun you were warming me
Warming me.
And like the sun this feels just fine
Loving me all the time.
If you're gonna love me
Love, love me right
Loving me all my life.
So keep it on through the night
Let's make love
It feels alright.
Take some time to keep it
Keep it right.
Loving me through the night.
My lover my lover my lover
oh- oh- oh- oh
oh- oh- oh- oh
Loving me though the night
Loving me through the night
If you're gonna love me,
Love, love me right
Loving me through the night
I surrender to love to love
Tomorrow the sun still shines.
If you're gonna love me,
Love, love me right
Loving me all my life
My mother, my father, my sister, my brother,
Loving me all my life.

DO YOU BELIEVE

It's a crying shame
That I don't see
Why the gods keep testing me.
Do you believe in yourself?
In yourself?
Here I am, still asking you.
"Are you trying to make this moment true?"
All I am
All that is...
Is not apparent.
Take it higher still
Higher still.
Gonna take it even higher still.
All my life love was you
All my life I knew that love was you.
Do you believe in yourself?
In yourself?
It's a crying shame
We spend our lives
Groveling , shaming, never asking why.
Are we gods or man or something else?
Let's take it higher still
Higher still
Gonna take it even higher still.
At the end of day
All we got is our love and ourselves.

WAITING SO LONG

I've been waiting so long for someone to say hello
I have known you since the world began
And I'll know you till we meet again.
And I've been waiting so long for someone to call my own.
My love, looks like we need someone
To remind us how we first began.
And I've been waiting so long for someone to call my own
Oh love, looks like we'll be someone who discovers this time
We will not run we will not run we will not run
Gotta get some want to go home never you mind all of the time
Now that you're mine don't waste the time running away why don't you stay?
Gotta get some want to go home never you mind all of the time
Now that you're mine don't waste the time running away why don't you stay?
Gotta get some want to go home never you mind all of the time
Now that you're mine don't waste the time running away why don't you stay?
And I've been waiting so long for someone to call my own
Love, love
Don't want to see myself.
In the mirror of life
And so hold on.
I've been waiting so long for someone to call my own.
Life, life is like a merry go round
Sending flowers and me around and round.
Gotta get some want to go home never you mind all of the time
Now that you're mine don't waste the time running away why don't you stay?
Gotta get some want to go home never you mind all of the time
Now that you're mine don't waste the time running away why don't you stay?

ANCIENT MOTHER

Ancient mother god as I greet you today
Feel the children's sorrow
Show us what to say
I 'm a lover of the light
Looking at the sky
Hoping that tomorrow
Sure will get it right.
When I close my eyes
And my mind is clear
See another day to
Remember why I'm here.
Baby hold on hold on hold on to your dreams...
And feel and feel like you be...
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Breathe, breathe, breathe
Ancient mother god as I greet you today
Feel the children's sorrow
Show us what to say
I 'm a lover of the light
Looking at the sky
Hoping that tomorrow
Sure will get it right.
When I close my eyes
And my mind is clear
See another day to
Remember why I'm here.
Baby hold on hold on hold on to your dreams...
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Breathe, breathe, breathe
Ancient mother god as I greet you today
Feel the children's sorrow
Show us what to say
Trees grow on your skin
Oil is not your blood
Crystals are what sparkles
No promises no fear.
Baby hold on hold on hold on to your dreams
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Goddess my oh my
Breathe, breathe, breathe
Ancient mother god as I greet you today
Lift our children's sorrow
ashay, ashay, ashay*
May we all be free to discover love
Love the many flowers
All of them are me.
Baby hold on hold on hold on to your dreams.

*ahsay - from an African language. Hip-hop for "peace."

MAMA WATER US

I walk across the water
I walk across the sea
And I see you beneath the stars and the moon.
See patterns of our lives
Ah! never speak as though
And I --I- II-I-I-I - I
See you as a summer breeze.
Ah- my, my, my love
Ah- my my, my, love
Across the sea.
Never will you marry me
I remember sunless nights, in your arms.
I remember you.
And I loved you then.
I see patterns of our lives
Deep within the earth.
And Mama, Mama nourish us.
So new love will emerge.
And I -I -I loved you then.