Colors Change - Tank and the Bangas

Was I too much or too tough for thinking that everything I did was simply not

enough?

Was I supposed to tell you that I’m wrong?

Or there’s certain things that you should’ve known?

Doesn’t winter turn to spring?

Don’t you see colors changing things?

You say I say too much (Ooh)

You say my leaves ain’t green enough (Ooh)

You say you can’t take that I’ve changed (Ooh)

Weren’t you supposed to do the same?

Was I different or missing the faces that drew you to me?

Too naive for such things, make believe I don’t see

How long can I be so green?

No forest, just trees

Floating that free

You say I say too much (Ooh)

You say my leaves ain’t green enough (Ooh)

You say you can’t take that I’ve changed

Weren’t you supposed to do the same?

(Ooh, ooh)

I’m not some island

You didn’t discover me, you know

Weren’t I on purpose?

Weren’t I?

Wasn’t I waterfall for desert mouth?

Wasn’t I Plymouth Rock?

All of the sudden I’m too hard for you

I’ve suddenly become arithmetic

Too much magic and math to watch for too long

Do I bore you with tired eyes?

Am I grass growing too slow for you?

How did I manage to become such a heel for you?

Something to look out for?

Am I a slippery slope?

A stop sign in the garden of your Eden or Eve

That wasn’t as naive as you’d like to have seen

Or did my ocean consume you?

Did my waves not behave?

How did I taste to you once you knew that his mouth was there too?

Too much to swallow, I see

Did I confuse you?

At how easy his breeze lifted my hair?

And your heat wet my neck?

Yes

Did I confuse you at how I could be a sea for you and land for him?

I was both of these women, I am, I is

I am swamp water and ocean tree

Coconut water and mint leaves

Healer and hurricane, spit and shoot

Too fast food for you

Too ready, too weighted

Too window open

Too side door swingin'

Too woman?

Well?