Duets: No One Waitin'

It's time, then

It's time for dreams

No one waiting to warm the dark

No one hoping that I wear red

No one wanting to spark my spark

No one needing, needing to share my bed

Don't break promises, Emmie (Nobody's arm)

Do like you say you say you do (to cradle)

Don't give yourself options (my head)

Most folks lives without 'em (to talk)

Most folks does without 'em (about news)

Talk about views, talk about change

'Bout the President's death

(How the day went, or how time flown) Lost track of time, Mama, sorry

Aunt Claudia say she'd mind the children (or life been spent)

Say she don't mind mindin' them (or I'm alone)

Sorry, Mama, I was out bein' shiftless

Havin' fun

What kind of fun?

You remember fun, Mama

Out at the parkin' lot

'Longside the A&W

Bunch of us talkin', dancin' to the radio

The President's dead

I know

The radio play music anyway

Just some old white man

Sent Larry off to Vietnam

Sorry he dead

I ain't killed him

I'm too tired to fight

You don't do me right

I can't do with no daughter as shiftless as you

Just some old white man (oh)

Don't care about the Black man

Emmie Thibideaux!

Since when you say "Black" man?

You say "colored", or "Negro", like you was raised up to!

Say he do stuff for us

Get our vote

He just ignore us

Same ol' story, Mama

Same tired old lie

If you gotta do it, Mama

Go ahead and cry

I ain't got no tears to shed

For no dead white guy

Free, free

Lonesome and free

Go on and get yourself to bed, girl (no one pacing)

Whoever put a mouth like that on you? (the floor for me)

I know I didn't do it (Flower)

God didn't do it (don't need)

Some days, I don't know what I'm gonna do (no honeybee)

(If free mean misery)

How your knees today? (then that's what I'll be)

They fine

Go on to sleep

(Ain't nobody's baby) Don't wake up the babies

(Ain't property)

Say prayers for us all (Got nothin' at all)

Give your mama a kiss ('Cept bein' alone)

Apologize to God for being a such unholy priss (Free and lonely)

And a caution and a sass

'Fore your mama whoops your -