Ego Trip by Nikki Giovanni Lyrics

I was born in the Congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the Sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star That only glows every one hundred years Falls into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad I sat on the throne drinking nectar with Allah I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe to cool my thirst My oldest daughter is Nefertiti The tears from my birth pains created the Nile
I am a beautiful woman I gazed on the forest and burned out the Sahara desert With a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle, so swift, so swift, you can't catch me For a birthday present when he was three I gave my son, Hannibal, an elephant He gave me Rome for Mother's Day
My strength flows ever on My son, Noah built Newark and I stood proudly at the helm As we sailed on a soft summer day I turned myself into myself and was Jesus
Men intone my loving name, all praises, all praises I am the one who would save I sowed diamonds in my back yard, my bowels deliver uranium The filings from my fingernails are semi-precious jewels
On a trip North, I caught a cold And blew my nose giving oil to the Arab world I am so hip, even my errors are correct
I sailed West to reach East And had to round off the earth as I went The hair from my head thinned And gold was laid across three continents
I am so perfect, so divine, so ethereal, so surreal I cannot be comprehended except by my permission I mean, I can fly like a bird in the sky