[water falling]
? [drumming] ?
- ? If you've never been crushed
? I'll spare you the layout
? just crawl into a cannon and sing as the fuse fade out
? What an incredible gift it is to soak in devastation
? To cry inside your coffin when the diggers grow impatient
? and you get to tell it all for 50 minutes a week
? to a counselor who cannot seduce you out of your sleep
? and all the king's horses carry all the king's men
? to the conclusion that a cheater was never my best friend
- (? Oooh, oooh ?)
- Diji: ? I'll be the light before it gets dark
? cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
? I never intended to push you far
? or force you into submission over who you are
? I'll be the light before it gets dark
? cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
? I never intended to push you far
? or force you into submission over who you are
[echoing] ? are, are, are
[metallic clinking]
[buzzing]
[out of breath panting]
? I think humility would rather have different reasons to visit
? but if it must, it will, and if it will, then you gon' get it
? now the scriptures' making sense in an ironic turn of events
? Caught me balling up my fists to the note of self righteousness
? instead of hog-tying my pain to a pen and a page
? so I scribbled until the miracle got to a vein
? and my momma was still my momma in spite of the war
? Who for her baby would choke an elephant out of its roar
- (? Oooh, oooh ?)
- Diji: ? I'll be the light before it gets dark
? cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
? I never intended to push you far
? or force you into submission over who you are
? I'll be the light before it gets dark
? cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
? I never intended to push you far
? or force you into submission over who you are
- ? Thaw out the joy in the heat of your palm
? pretend it's cool that Hope was leading you on
? write the bitterest, most infamous, villainous poem
? nearly blow out a lung every chance you get to perform
? believe your momma when she says that it broke her too
? and also when she says your ex ain't that cute
? then make peace with the sticks and stones inside of you
? and fly when she says you can go back to your school
- (? Oooh, oooh ?)
[zipping bag]
(? Oooh, oooh ?)
[phone chimes for incoming text]
[phone chimes again]
[writing audibly]