Re: who is smarter lyrics
Harry Belafonte song "man smart women smarter"
I say let us put man and a woman together
To find out which one is smarter
Some say man but I say no
The woman got the man de day should know
He's saying let's compare the Sexes.
Sex, not gender, is the focus.
It's a play on words.
And not me but the people they say
That de man are leading de women astray
But I say, that the women of today
Smarter than the man in every way
That’s right de woman is uh smarter
That’s right de woman is uh smarter
That’s right de woman is uh smarter, that’s right, that’s right
He's saying that men in his culture tend to smooth talk women into having sex. They tell them they love them and that they'll marry them so as to have sex with them. The men are leading the women astray (leading them down the path of premarital sex)
Ever since the world began
Woman was always teaching man
And I you listen to my bid attentively
I goin’ tell you how she smarter than me
The world began with Eve teaching Adam to pick and eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. According to some thinkers, if you cut an apple in half, the inside looks like the female genitals. In other words, Eve teaching Adam means that Eve tempted Adam with sex, thereby causing the fall of Man(kind). He's saying that Eve was smarter than Adam
because she was the one to sweet talk, or smooth talk him into having Sex.
Samson was the strongest man long ago
No one could a beat him, as we all know
Until he clash with Deliah on top of the bed
She told them all the strength was in the hair of his head
Deliah was known to be beautiful. She used her beauty to tame Samson. Her beauty was her weapon of power.
You meet a girl at a pretty dance
Thinking that you would stand a chance
Take her home, thinking she’s alone
Open de door you find her husband home
Women are not innocent; they, too, like men, can sweet talk a guy into doing anything, like, for example, driving them home. They don't want to date the guy, they just want a lift home in a car so they don't have to walk. Women sweet talk men. That's their power. He's saying that men are blind to a woman's ways.
I was treating a girl independently
She was making baby for me
When de baby born and I went to see
Eyes was blue it was not by me
He was dating many woman, one of which got pregnant; she told him he was the father, he wasn't the father though. She only said it because she needed a husband or she needed someone to help her take care of the child. When the child was born, it wasn't his. He knew right away that she tricked him; she lied to him; she used her condition (pregnancy) to get a husband.
Garden of Eden was very nice
Adam never work in Paradise
Eve meet snake, Paradise gone
She make Adam work from that day on
The Garden of Eden was for Adam and Eve to enjoy. They didn't need to work for food; there was an abundance of food. Once Adam ate the apple from the forbidden tree, God sent the two out of Eden, to never return again. In their new place, they had to work for food, all because Eve tricked Adam into eating the forbidden apple (i.e. for having sex). He is saying that Eve is powerful because she tricked Adam; in other words, he's saying that men are naive when it comes to the ways of women.
The song should be entitled:
Men beware of women! They aren't as innocent as you think.
