Linda Faye ft. Jona Crooner & Khalid Salaam Lyrics

You came up in the world as a project girl

Got hurled into poverty trying to survive the atrocity

Under Jim Crow policy where black bodies get found decomposed

That's why they nicknamed it Smelly Road trying to survive the woes

White man tip toeing not knowing months later Grace will be showing

The cycle repeats you and JR had to keep your siblings so school

You wasn't visiting dropped out at fourteen they say the ends

Justify the means when your life's on a balance beam

A young teen with pain experiencing the things you can't explain

That all changed at a softball game when you met Sonny

A young country boy still in school pretty soon ya'll jump

The broom now your womb is filled he quit school

Started working at the mill you praying Jesus please take the wheel Ya

Last night I had a dream beautiful as Linda Faye that brought a song an Angel

As bright as her day in my eyes

She is perfection I see she is all these things and more

As time fast forward now you praising the Lord throughout

The years you been sanctified and holy ghost filled

As your family build four kids you taught us to kneel at the alter

And say Thou Heavenly Father he's not the author of confusion

Your soul is soothing from the word outside they pitching on the curb

At times you was brave telling thugs ya'll need to get saved

Cause we living in the last days so the tithes you gave

Family members stayed when they had no place to go

You would open the door either the couch or the floor

You let them stay until things got better even though we're

In a single wide trailer still under pressure still facing oppression

On a daily my birth certificate says Negro baby like I'm sold into slavery

But you told us God will make a way taught us to pray instead of being the prey Ha

Last night I had a dream beautiful as Linda Faye that brought a song an Angel

As bright as her day in my eyes

She is perfection I see she is all these things and more

I Love Linda Faye, I Love Linda Faye