Bag Lady"
Bag lady you gone hurt your back
Dragging all them bags like that
I guess nobody ever told you
All you must hold on to
Is you, is you, is you
One day all them bags gone get in your way
One day all them bags gone get in your way
I said one day all them bags gone get in your way
One Day all them bags gone get in your way
So pack light
Pack light
Pack light
Ooh ooh
Bag lady you gone miss your bus
You can't hurry up
Cause you got too much stuff
When they see you comin
Niggas take off runnin
From you it's true oh yes they do
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
I said one day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
So pack light
Pack light
Pack light
Ooh ooh
Girl I know sometimes it's hard
And we can't let go
Oh when someone hurts you oh so bad inside
You can't deny it you can't stop crying
So oh, oh, oh
If you start breathin
Then you won't believe it
You'll feel so much better
(So much better baby)
Bag lady
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Ooh, ooh
Girl you don't need it
I betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Need someone to love you right)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, I betcha love, oh)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Oh...)
Betcha love can make it better...
Bag lady, hmm
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Girl you don't need that, hmm
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Source: Wikipedia - The song is about a woman trying to begin anew in a relationship but she has too much emotional "baggage", and can't get close to people. The moral of the song is to "pack light", and have hope for the future.
I take this song many ways. In the literal sense, a bag lady is a homeless woman who is living out of her bags. It seems that Erykah is not only implying that a woman is to begin a new romantic relationship but one with herself, letting go of her history and past. Even the most well-dressed people are carrying a metaphorical bag on their bag of burdens and worries.
She says you might "miss your bus" meaning perhaps, any opportunities in the future because you are weighed down by your perceived problems and issues that you can't let go. That "bag" can be many things: alcohol, jealousy, vanity, etc. If could be a number of things for a number of people.
It's about being conscious of the emotional baggage you're carrying and checking yourself and making sure that you are consciously in the moment, living each moment and taking it for what it is--good or bad, and moving on. It's about not holding grudges, not regretting past mistakes, or being bitter about a great life that has changed (and probably not for the best). She's say "betcha love can make it better", but love for yourself is also a way that can heal a lot of internal issues one may have with oneself.
In her music video, each black woman is dressed in a different coloured dress and headwear, possibly symbolizing that each dress is a different sort of 'baggage'.
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