"How It Make You Feel" lyrics

Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel

What if I was gone forever?
No more chocolate kisses
No nappy dugout ever
No mama, no daughter, no sister, no
No sister friends
Tell me, my brother
What would become of you then?
What if, poof
Every black female in the world disappeared?
Your man-child left unattended
Lost with no one behind the steering wheel
Tell me, mm
Come on, how would that make you feel?
C'mon, c'mon, help a sister say

Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel

Your beautiful brown would be forever gone
With no more cocoa wombs to carry your brown on
You right there would be the last of your kind
Can you feel this song?
How does that affect your mind?
'Cause if there was no me, there'd be no you
Ooh, can you feel me?
Is this song coming through?
That's the science in it
But it's so much more intense
Reach into your soul for the answer
Reach wherever you need to, to find it

Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
(No mama, no daughter, hey)
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel

Say, you be trippin', say you pimpin' it
Talking 'bout how you "Da Man"
What you are is something different
Byproduct of when "Massa" ruled your life
Spreading babies everywhere
Couldn't think, couldn't care
But you can now
You can, oh, you can
C'mon and man up
Damn it, tell me how you'd feel?
No mama, no daughter

Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
(Tell me how you'd feel)
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
(If there's no me, there's no you)
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was gone
Tell me how you'd feel
(Mm, think about it, think about it, yeah)
Tell me how you'd feel
If I was, if I was...