Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?   Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?      What if I was gone forever?   No more chocolate kisses, no nappy dugout ever   No mama, no daughter, no sister, no, no sister friends   Tell me my brother, what would become of you then?   What if, poof, every black female in the world disappeared?      Your man-child left unattended   Lost when no one behind the steerin' wheel   Tell me, c'mon, how would that make you feel?   C'mon, c'mon, help a sister say      Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?   Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?      Your beautiful brown would be forever gone   When no more cocoa wombs to carry your brown on   You right there, would be the last of your kind   Can you feel this song? How does that affect your mind?      'Cause if there was no me, there'd be no you   Ooh, can you feel me? Is this song comin' through?   That's the science in it but it's so much more intense   Reach into your soul for the answer   Reach wherever you need to, to find it      Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?   Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?      Say you be trippin', say you pimpin' it   Talkin' 'bout how you da man   What you are is somethin' different   By-product of when massa ruled your life   Spreadin' babies everywhere, couldn't think, couldn't care      But you can now, you can, you can   C'mon and man up, damn it   Tell me how you'd feel?   No mama, no daughter      Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?   Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?      Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was gone?   Tell me how you'd feel?   Tell me how you'd feel if I was, if I was?