Here I before you Brown, color of the mountains, colossal as the Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and Feathers of my paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I before you, the color of the night by the potential of me, an Afro Angel Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Afro Angel off your pedestal from above You on the prowl now, downtown, searchin' for In all the wrong places, outside your radio he with new hit single, is tryin' to mingle
Today, he is in town, puttin' it down You in the car with your friends, my limo around Puttin' a bug in my boy's ear, 'S' is for free do anythin' for Omar or Phil, bring you to me
And me, hypnotized by the devil as well Hold out my hand as an invitation into my No need to RSVP, place hand in my palm As all your girlfriends gettin' jealous, she landed the bomb
Willing to trade your spirit for crass, whack wage Somethin' small, somethin' simple as a pass stage But now I lay me, to creep And I pray the my soul to keep
Afro Angel, born against the You don't have to sell your soul and throw away pride Angel, sent from Heaven above Never that you are loved, you know that you are loved
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh Lil got a gun now, age fifteen to spend his life inside a cage it seems Rage inside, pride, been denied He can't take it he gotta earn it but he ain't learned that yet
Out on the town, reckless abandon been bullied before But now he straps, and no more, attitude Flexin' on every guy that walk by but start pal 'Cuz if the gun came the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now
pull it on a stranger, ahh, fun for the crew Surprised when he realized, damn got one too Smile's down now, games ain't so cute Bobby's a deer in a headlights, pump, drop it or shoot
Then a sniper, cleanin' his rifle, Bobby disobeys his commands One shot rings out only the stranger stands Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's But for
Angel, born against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw away pride Afro Angel, sent from above forget that you are loved, you know that you are loved You you are loved, yeah
Back in high school, was the sweetest, the bomb Hot to death, though in grade a teenage mom Knocked up by thug named Russ in the drug game But had the kid you ever seen
all the pressure from her mom, she stepped to Russ Told him it's either them drugs or us them thugs or us The ultimatum, either continue a thug in the world Or lovin' your girl
And say God, bear me witness, no doubt, ya dear But to go from dollar 50 a week to dollar 30 gees a year That happenin', I guess he wasn't that strong He came back the week and the whole family was gone
Yo, they moved away, without as little as a word Well, to say, Russ was a little perturbed Then in a put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn And like a clumsy chef she spilled the on where they had gone
Schenectady, Tamika answered the door It was the person she expected to be just stared, he said, "Do you love me for me? You can do the cars, vacations, and jewelry?"
"Down me? Period, through life's stress and strife" She said, "Yeah", he said, "In case would you please be my wife?" Then like a from the sky, the baby cried Like an angel sings, I love y'all than anything
Afro Angel, born the world You don't to sell your soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, sent Heaven above forget that you are loved, you know that you are loved
Afro Angel, against the world You don't have to your soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, from Heaven above Never forget you are loved, you know that you are loved