Hard Times
Me'Shell Ndegeocello Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Me'Shell Ndegeocello:

"better by the pound." Pleasure is the motivation For the human race Everything…
A Tear and a Smile When we make love I feel it so deeply When we…
Akel Dama Who covers themselves with the light As if it were a…
Andromeda & The Milky Way Take me down to your river I wanna get free with…
Aquarium Sabina Sciubba : Hmm, hmm, hmm I'm a fish in an aquar…
Article 3 You wanna lock me away cuz I hurt I was a…
Barry Farms Kiggo wellman : "so go-go music is party music..." Slic…
Beautiful Such pretty hair May I kiss you May I kiss you there So…
Better By the Pound Pleasure is the motivation For the human race Everything…

Bitter You push me away bitterly My apologies fall on your deaf…
Bittersweet You enchant me so my bittersweet flower Mystery of the sage…
Body Come on Come on You know what you like Come on You know what…
Call Me When you want me, baby, yeah Just call, call me When you…
Come Smoke My Herb My voices tell me Be still Have faith Stay clear of the rat…
Criterion Yeah So its me And some of this shit 'cause it tells you …
Crying In Your Beer Sometimes I float too far from the shore Sometimes I forget…
Dead Nigga Blvd. Part 1 You sell your soul like you sell a piece of…
Deuteronomy: Niggerman All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be…
Die Young I hope you all die young Make it up as I…
Dred Loc Let me run my fingers through your dred locks Run them…
Earth Let me be the rain You thirst for Let me…
Ecclesiastes: Free My Heart The sun rises and the sun goes down and hastens…
Elliptical I received a message from God In the form of a…
Eve When we make love I feel it so deeply When we make…
Evolution No eyes, no more tears to cry No tongue to hurt…
Faithful My daddy made no excuse I believe my lies are truth Why…
Fellowship Would you walk A righteous path Without the promise Of heave…
Fool of Me I remember when you filled my heart with joy Was I…
Forgiveness & Love Forgiveness and Love Forgiveness and Love great white …
God Shiva God Shiva is imminent love and transcendent reality God Shi…
GOD.FEAR.MONEY Yeah God shinin' the light He just turned on the spotlight…
Good Intentions So amazing Your Love You are Beautiful You alone soothe My l…
Grace Can't say I have ever been faithful Except to God Never fe…
Haditha The signs that have occurred and continue to intensify One o…
Headline I read in the paper They got a pill To bring…
Hot Night "I was a member of the Communist Party I'm not a…
I'm Diggin You Just sit back and relax Listen to the 8-track I'll dig you…
If That's Your Boyfriend You say that's your boyfriend You say I'm out of lineÂ Fu…
Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio In my weariness... [Claude Mckay: "If We Must Die."] …
Interlude: Blah Blah Blah Dyba Dyba Dyba (Ring) (Ring) (Picking up) Hello? Yeah, this is …
Isolation end the suffering the meek shall one day inherit the…
Jabril I could no longer Hope Wish or dream As I…
Let Me Have You let me hold you let me disappear inside your arms…
Leviticus: Faggot Faggot better run learn to run ''cause daddy's home His swe…
Liliquoi Moon Mama never cared much 'bout dreams Or Love She said it remin…
Love Song #1 When you want me baby, yeah Just call me When you want…
Love You Down It never really mattered too much to me That you were…
Lovely Lovely With your fingertips when you kiss my lips I know that…
Loyalty They were both young He believed in himself only In his ov…
Make Me Wanna Holler My mother used to whore herself And my father Would reap t…
Mary Magdalene I often watch you the way you whore yourself You're so…
May This Be Love Waterfall Nothing can harm me at all My worries seem so ve…
Michelle Johnson Searching for satellite signal I do some right I do some…
Nocturnal Sunshine let me Kiss your mind bathe your soul in a…
Outside Your Door Here I am waiting. Just waiting. Anticipating a chance to …
Papillon INSTRUMENTAL…
Picture Show A hopeless romantic that's what I've been called. So don't …
Pocketbook Look-a-here Huh Come on Yeah Come on Come on Y…
Poison Ivy she comes on like a rose and everybody knows she'll get yo…
Priorities 1-6 I hail from a suburb Outside southeast No I ain't…
Relief : A Stripper Classic Thank you for holding A representative will be on the line…
Remember Kiss you Touch you Let you know My Lovin' will…
Satisfy Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me Only you Only you…
Shirk You believe You did nothing wrong To lead us down this roa…
Shoot'n Up And Gett'n High He lived two train stops away I was a train ride…
Sincerity He loves With sweetness and sincerity While she can only p…
Slaughter She said she loved me I ran away Don’t say you love…
Solomon Only you have made my bad days turn good You was…
Soul On Ice We've been indoctrinated and convinced by the white racist s…
Soul Spaceship Riding in my soul spaceship Governed by heart I can see, I…
Stay I want you I can't get you off my mind Ooh…
Step Into the Projects She's darker than a child's deepest sleep And into his mind…
Sweet Love Tell me, what is a girl to do. I try so…
Tear And A Smile When we make love I feel it so deeply When we…
Thankful Just wanna be happy motherfuckers like fancy things Big hou…
The Chosen Cassandra Wilson: Your lips are like strands of scarlet You…
The Sloganeer Get a bang out of life Suicide, straight to paradise If yo…
The Teaching From Money Talks soundtrack You're the best lover I've ever…
The Way They say you're the way the light The light is so…
The Womb ( Instrumental )…
Tie One On Are you here Are you here Are you here Alone Are you h…
Trust Put your tongue In my mouth Make me wet Run…
Two Lonely Hearts Excuse me, you headin' my way? Tryin' to find something…
Untitled "Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin the…
Virgo A mega-system consisting of the Milky-Way, Andromeda and o…
WASTED TIME You rarely notice but I hang on your every word Everything…
Way They say you're the way the light The light is so…
Who Is He and What Is He to You A man we passed just tried to stare me down And…
Who Is He and What Is He to You? A man he passed, just tried to stare me down And…
You've Really Got a Hold on Me I don't like you, but I love you Seems that I'm…

[untitled] "Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin the…

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Comments from YouTube:

@susanhicks2300

2y↑5

Meshell Ndegeocello is just devastatingly talented. Sistah is so sinfully underrated. Check out some of her live performances here on YouTube

@EmpressReacts

✅

@DCbigpappa

2y↑2

This album, Peace Beyond Passion, came out in 1996. There is no other singular entity that guided me more in coming out three years later.

@MatthewNouriel

2y↑5

Me'Shell was very much an underground phenomenon and known within the music industry. Madonna signed her to her Maverick label prob around 92 or 93. I remember this song coming out and it meant a lot to myself and other lgbtq+ kids because at that time acceptance and visibility was still somewhat rare and we all knew at least someone who had been kicked out of their home. I don't believe she ever went very far commercially unfortunately.

@darnell49

2y↑2

Wow ‼️FUNKY WITH A REAL MESSAGE ‼️ SPEACHLESS

@andreassn5050

2y↑6

You'll get back to Me'Shell when you explore Madonna's Bedtime Stories album

@EmpressReacts

2y↑1

oh wow interesting!

@htbald1

2y↑3

"If that's your boyfriend" by MeShell rocks! The genre was termed "Neo Soul" back in the day.

@MichaelLesesne

2y↑2

This song was somewhat my story when I first heard it in 1996 at 18 years old.

@EmpressReacts

2y↑1

😥glad you survived

@TheRealKymiPoo

Me'Shell grew up in D.C. too. She played bass guitar with Go-Go band Rare Essence.

@1stpageplacementNet

2y↑1

This is one bad sista!!! ✊🏽
Check out her song Soul On Ice

@derikcowan

2y↑1

That this song was released as a single is a testament I think to Madonna's vision for the Maverick label. While there are a couple of other songs I can think of that addressed LGBTQ youth homelessness because of familial rejection (Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy, Erasure's Hide Away), they do so from the standpoint trying to give hope to the person experiencing that rejection. Me'shell goes for the jugular here and it's the rage and sorrow of an older queer person screaming "stop killing our kids." I got this single in 1996 which was just a couple of years after I'd gone through being disowned by my family, and it's still hard for me to listen to. The only other pop releases I can think of that rage like this are Boy George's Cheapness and Beauty album and any time Madonna sings about HIV/AIDS (not going to name titles here other than Spanish Eyes, and that was a warm up act).

@raramonty5217

Me'Shell and John Mellencamp have a song they do together called Wild Night....check it out

@JohnJohn-xw8kj

The video got airplay on MTV and VH1 but not radio. I agree with you it is hard to listen either people relate or not but a great message.

@BayAreaSon

Hell I was bobbing to this the first time I heard it.didn’t let the words bother me

@petersavieri

❤️‍🔥 Thank you for reacting to this song. The video is so powerful. I love how Me’Shell is tinted pink to further show she has the understanding and like-minded experience to be a Queer ally to the story. She’s like an angel of empathy, watching this tragedy unfold. The deep and all too relatable irony of the refrain “His mother would pray ‘Save him, save him. Save him from this life” when in the end she gets her wish. By “this life” she obviously means homosexuality, but “sweet Michael” ends up removing himself from life altogether, and saving himself from homophobia.

I know it’s difficult to hear that word, but in a strange way it’s difficult for LGBTQ people to NOT hear these words of degradation reflected honestly and with empathy as they are heard by us so frequently in our lives, growing up. All the positive messages out there are so good, but yes also very marketing driven (though in a capitalist system it can be argued that when something becomes profitable it becomes ingrained cultural change… Think of the switch from fossil fuels: the only thing that has really escalated our transition to renewable energy has been that it’s beginning to become equitable or even cheaper than carbon sources).

I think the world has changed a lot, but the suffering is still real. I still meet people who have had this experience, thrown out and at least considering suicide as an option. It’s difficult for people to understand how a parent can flip their love to hate like that, but a lot of it is just plain ignorance. Because the suburbs and rural areas can be so inexperienced at living with diversity, the people there tend to all be heterosexual and live in conventional gender roles. This seemingly safe environment can feel deeply unsafe if you don’t fit that mold, so LGBTQ people either flee or move to the city to be around a more diverse crowd. This perpetuates our absence in the suburbs and rural areas, so people there don’t get as much chance to experience us as human beings. Hence so many falling for fictitious narratives that we are somehow warped or sinful. It’s a vicious cycle that is thankfully changing as more LGBTQ representation finds its way onto TV shows and movies, and into popular music and advertising. The further people live from the city, the more their main experience of diversity comes through the media, rather than everyday life.

The courage of Me’Shell to write and record this song, and the stunning LGBTQ allegiance of Madonna for signing this bisexual maverick to her ⚔️Maverick⚔️ record label AND release this song as a single instead of leaving it as an album track where it would only be listened to by people who already sympathised, plus the straight up (no in intended) FUNK of the song, makes it a strange cathartic pleasure for me to listen to. I’m sure a lot of LGBTQ people would agree. It’s not necessarily a song we want to hear all the time, but I’ve listened to it well over 100 times in my life, especially when I first bought the album. The release it gives me to hear this all too common horror story openly and fearlessly expressed, and in a musically cooler than cool song, made it a welcome revelation. I’ve cried ragefully listening to it, but I’ve also danced and felt lifted up by its acknowledgment of truth.

@omegawicked1

Its came 1996. Im heterosexual af. things will NEVER END. That community n lifestyle will never stop being challenge. It doesn't matter who the president, word twisting, making up sexuality. etc all of it is a ABOMINATION!!!!