Music and Lyrics by Alastair Moock ©1997 Moockshake Music
She stood in the field with the skies in her eyes
While her black, curly hair fought the wind
Her muscles were tense as her hand held the fence
And her breath drew the whole world in
I hid behind glass with her breasts in my brain
Casting myself as the geek
Losing the strength in the tone of my voice
And singing like a bird with no beak
And the moon melted down and the rain ceased its sound
And the blackness stood still on the hills
The mountains shivered in the cold of the night
And the fishes drew breath through their gills
The trees drew their leaves and their chlorophyll heaved
And the rivers began to leak
As I mumbled the words with a slip of my tongue
Don’t let her strength make me weak
In society she sat with her feet on her desk
And she left when she felt she was done
And her gaze burned a hole in my cultured forehead
With a blaze that darkened the sun
And her mouth uttered words like I never have heard
With a force that made its own wake
Like the sound of a storm on the roof of a home
Or a drum beating for its own sake
When an expert looked at her and laid down the facts
Her brown eyes never did blink
She would stare down his words ’till they started to cry
And history began to sink
The questions she answered were not the ones asked
‘Cuz correctness was not what she seeked
And the minds of the people all wished the same thought
Don’t let her strength make me weak
She walked down the street in a white man’s town
And she planted each step with her feet
Humming a song that was not from this place
And moving to a personal beat
And knowledge in her eyes knew an unknown life
Memories I did not understand
Memories that women with dark colored skin
Were unwelcome on American land
So the tears of her past, now a furious howl
Moved passer-bys out of the way
And the force of her smile and the sway of her hips
Could change the course of this day
She stood in the town and the buildings fell down
And she wore her pride like a crown
And my mind felt her body and I yelled for a week,
Don’t let her strength make me weak