I want to make this a special tribute
To a family that contradicts the concepts
Heard the rules but wouldn't accept
In addition, women folk raised me
In addition, I was full grown before I knew
I came from a broken home
Sent to live with my grandma down south
When my uncles was leaving
And my grandfather had just left for heaven
They said and as every ologist would certainly note
I had no strong male figure right
But lily Scott was absolutely not your mail order room service type cast black grandmother
I was moved in with her temporarily, just until things were patched
'Til this was patched and 'til that was patched
Until I became at 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
The patch that held lily Scott who held me and like them 4
I became one more and I loved her from the absolute marrow of my bones
And we was holdin' on
I come from a broken home
She had more than the five senses
She knew more than books could teach
And raised everyone she touched just a little bit higher
And all around her there was a natural sense
As though she sensed what the stars say what the birds say
What the wind and the clouds say
A sensual soul and self that African sense
And she raised me like she raised 4 of her own
And I was hurt and scared and shocked when lily Scott left suddenly one night
And they sent a limousine from heaven to take her to god, if there is one
So I knew she had gone
And I came from a broken home