Nikki Giovanni - Ego-Tripping (there may be a reason) 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 New/Ark 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 j**els 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