Homemade - Nicole C. Mullen

Riding the city bus on the way to school

Me and my two sisters and all the ridicule

The older girls on the back of the bus

Would laugh and call us names

They’d talk about our hair, our clothes

And call us homemade

See the «not so good ole days»

Can make you weak or make you brave

I’ve never been the most beautiful

No I ain’t never been the most popular

But it’s amazing what love can do

It’s amazing what a little love can do

Every thought and action is like a boomerang

What goes around will come back baby

So careful what you say

And the little ugly ducklings are swans that got away

Cause Cinderella stories, they still happen everyday

Where the «not so good ole days»

Could make you weak or brave

I’ve never been the most beautiful

Don’t care I’ve never been the most popular

Still it’s amazing what love can do

It’s amazing what a little love can do

I bumped into a stranger just the other day

She said «Can you spare a dollar sista?»

«My man he ain’t got paid»

So I gave her what I had, then I recognized her face

She was the leader of the girls who used to call us homemade

Back when the «not so good ole days»

Could make you weak or brave

I’ve never been the most beautiful

I ain’t never been the most popular

But it’s amazing what love will do

Ain’t it amazing what

Homemade love will do