♪ I don't know about how things really are now ♪
(audience applauds)
(upbeat music)
- It's like your best day.
Your prettiest day.
Your most exciting day, all rolled into one.
Where all the work that you've ever done,
everything you've ever intended,
or wanted to happen in your life
gets honored, and saluted, and acknowledged,
by people whom you respect, and who inspire passion
and artistry in all of us.
And there you are included amongst those people.
It's really kind of surreal.
(audience clapping)
♪ I don't need you ♪
♪ to love me ♪
♪ I don't need you love ♪
♪ I've got- ♪
♪ I've got my sister, ♪
♪ I can feel her now ♪
♪ She may not be here, ♪
♪ but she's still mine ♪
♪ And I know- ♪
♪ That she still love me ♪
♪ Got my house, it still keeps the cold out ♪
♪ Got my chair when my body can't hold out ♪
♪ Got my hands doing good like they supposed to ♪
♪ Showing my heart to the folks that I'm close to ♪
♪ Got my eyes though they don't see as far now ♪
♪ I don't know 'bout how things really are now ♪
(audience applauds)
(soft piano music)
♪ I'm gonna ♪
♪ take a deep breath ♪
♪ I'm gonna hold my head up ♪
♪ Gonna put my shoulders back ♪
♪ And look them straight in the eye ♪
♪ I'm gonna flirt with somebody as they walk by ♪
♪ I'm gonna sing out ♪
♪ Sing out ♪
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
the Tennessee State University Choir.
(audience applauds)
♪ I believe I have inside of me ♪
♪ everything that I need to live a bountiful life ♪
♪ With all the love alive in me ♪
♪ I'll stand as tall as the tallest tree ♪
♪ And am thankful for each day that I'm given ♪
♪ Both the easy and the hard ones I'm living ♪
♪ But most of all, I'm thankful for ♪
♪ loving who I really am ♪
♪ You're beautiful ♪
♪ Yes, I'm beautiful ♪
♪ And, I'm here ♪
♪ Here ♪
♪ Oh yeah, I'm here ♪
(audience applauds)