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How Did You Do It? Lyrics by Danielle Lopresti

2001

[Intro]
We stand; eye to eye and
We share; height and age and art
We are so alike and we are worlds apart
[Verse 1]
What if we traded families... traded childhoods
Traded shape and color, I give you Fat Albert - for Nigga Girl?
What if we traded the belt buckle for the hard-working absence?
My mom's sobbing for your mom's silence?
'Cause my pain's almost nothing but
A cool, calm, summer rain
Compared to the scars on you from your feet to your face
[Chorus]
Tell me:
How did you do it?
How do you now?
Where did you put it?
Tell mе Tell me
[Verse 2]
I am trying hard to conceivе the inconceivable
But because I love you as I was born to
I keep reaching for the Absurd:
Understanding the feel of flesh tearing
The crack of your teeth against
Your own daddy's fist
Now my pain's almost nothing but
A cool, calm, summer rain...
The hardest part for me is the admitting:
I don't know I would have succeed where you landed standing
I think I would have fallen on my knees, fallen on my face
I think I would've died before my legs grew
Long enough to run away
I think I would've bitten off my tongue or
Chewed down my fingers or done fatal harm
To the next Ku Klux child who spit in my face
I think I would've died
[Outro]
Could I ever, have I ever, have I ever, ever, ever been that brave?
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Danielle Lopresti

Danielle Lopresti

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