Stranger In This Land

Stranger In This Land Lyrics

Song Stranger In This Land
Artist Joy Denalane
Album Desert Flower (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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[00:13.56] I was the daughter
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[00:19.30] Of a little known king
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[00:22.71] When they came
[00:24.18] And put me in a castle
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[00:28.54] My eyes had never seen
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[00:33.03] They spoke in tongues
[00:34.23] I've never heard
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[00:36.48] They took me to the sea
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[00:39.10] At the edge of the earth
[00:44.40] I journied tempest waters
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[00:47.49] Reached these distant shores
[00:49.49] My clothes are tattered
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[00:52.40] And my soul is worn
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[00:54.74] I bore a daughter
[00:56.46] In captivity
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[00:59.17] They came late one night
[01:01.22] To take her away from me
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[01:05.80] I cried and I cried
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[01:08.47] Oh, Lord have mercy on me
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[01:11.22] Can't they see
[01:13.01] That little girl
[01:13.75] Is royalty
[01:14.70] I held my ground
[01:18.13] And took my stand
[01:20.47] Can't help
[01:22.08] Feeling sometimes
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[01:25.27] That I'm a stranger
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[01:29.35] In this land
[01:30.66] In this land of mine
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[01:38.43] My mother used
[01:39.80] To cook and clean
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[01:42.99] For the rich folks
[01:44.46] On the hill
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[01:48.01] Made sure
[01:48.74] I got an education
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[01:53.42] And could hardly
[01:54.27] Pay the bills
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[01:57.07] I studied
[01:58.67] Schools of thought
[02:02.84] And philosophies of man
[02:05.13] Started questioning
[02:06.27] The contradictions
[02:07.07] In this land
[02:09.40] I left the classroom
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[02:11.43] Joined the rallies
[02:12.74] In the street
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[02:14.90] Marching hand in hand
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[02:16.95] In the Mississippi heat
[02:19.65] I spent so many years
[02:21.85] Of my life on the move
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[02:25.41] That confrontation
[02:25.91] Was the only thing i knew
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[02:30.75] Talking unity and how
[02:32.53] We gone push on through
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[02:34.61] Can't even say no more
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[02:38.52] If anything's improved
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[03:25.93] I'm a family man
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[03:27.99] With a wife
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[03:29.94] And two kids to feed
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[03:34.82] I dedicated my life
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[03:40.40] To seeing we succeed
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[03:44.62] The way I sought to make it
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[03:47.35] I learned to follow the rules
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[03:50.67] So we can make sure
[03:52.14] Our children visit
[03:53.72] The finest schools
[03:55.66] Grandmas on the weekends
[03:58.21] Going on about the good old days
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[04:01.59] When decent black folks
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[04:04.18] Be trying to make a change
[04:06.00] My parents used to tell me
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[04:08.52] To live my life steadfast
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[04:11.13] But some may ask me
[04:13.70] What it is that I have
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