Guided - Broken Home pt.4

by Makaya McCraven / Gil Scott-Heron

From the album: We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

Track 16 of 18 on We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (2020).

Duration: 1:57

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Lyrics for Guided - Broken Home pt.4

And so my life has been guided All the love I needed was provided And through my mother's sacrifices I saw where her life went To give more than birth to me, but life to me And this ain't one of the clich茅s about black women being strong Cause hell if you're weak, you're gone But life courage determined to do more than just survive And too many homes have a missing woman or man Without the feeling of missing love Maybe they are homes that are hurt But there are no real lives that hurt without reach, but not broken Unless the homes of soldiers stationed overseas Or lost in battles or broken Unless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers Seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilots Who lost their lives, but not for what their lives stood for Because men die, men lose, they are lost and they leave And so do women I came from what they called "A broken home" But they ever really called it "A house" They would have known how wrong they were We were working on our lives and our homes Dealing with what we had, not what we didn't have My life has been guided by women But because of them; I am a man God bless you mama, and thank you

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More from We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

  1. Special Tribute - Broken Home pt. 1
  2. I'm New Here
  3. Running
  4. Blessed Parents
  5. New York is Killing Me
  6. The Patch - Broken Home pt. 2
  7. People of the Light
  8. Being Blessed
  9. Where Did the Night Go
  10. Lily Scott - Broken Home pt.3
  11. I'll Take Care of You
  12. I've Been Me
  13. This Can't Be Real
  14. Piano Player
  15. The Crutch
  16. Guided - Broken Home pt.4
  17. Certain Bad Things
  18. Me and the Devil