Lyrics: Soundtrack Artists. For Colored Girls.

Anika Noni Rose:
Dark phrases of womenhood
Of never having been a girl
Half note
(Scattered without rhythm)

Loretta Devine:
No tune distraught
Laughter falling over a black girls shoulders
(Expired)

Phylicia Rashad:
Its hysterical
The melodilessness if her dance
Don't tell nobody
Don't tell a soul
She's dancing on beer cans
(And shingles)

Janet Jackson:
This must be the spookulous
Another song with no singers
Lyrics no voices
And uninterrupted solos
Unseen performances
Are we ghouls
(Children of horror)

Whoopi Goldberg:
The Joke
Don't tell nobody
Don't tell a soul
Are...are we animals
(Have we gone crazy)

Kerry Washington:
I can't hear anything
But maddening screams

And the soft strings of death
And you promised me
You promised somebody, anybody
(Sing a black girls song)

Tessa Thompson:
Bring her out to know herself
To know you
But sing her rhythms
(Caring)

Thandie Newton:
Struggle
Hard times
Sing her sing of life
She's been dead soo long
(Closed in silence)

Kimberly Elise:
Soo long
She doesn't know the sound of her own voice
Her infinate beauty
She's half notes scattered without rhythm
No tune
Sing her size
Sing a song if her possibilities
Sing a rightious gospel
Let her be born

All in unison:
Let her be born
And handled warmly

And this is for colored girls
At the ends of their own rainbows