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She rested her head upon my chest |
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Sensed liberation in between breaths |
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Wonder if sex is what she found it in |
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Peace, found it laying down with men |
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Wasn't there to judge her, many ways I loved her |
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It was more than bodies we shared with each other |
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We lay under the cover of friends |
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A place where many lovers begin |
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I began, to feel her body shake in my hand |
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Body language, it's so hard trying to understand |
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Usually after sex, it's a good feel |
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Shook by silence, emotion stood still |
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I could feel a tear spill from her grille |
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Hurt from before that began to build |
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She told me hold me, the story she assembled it |
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Tellin' it, trying not to remember it |
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It was a story of innocence taken |
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Thought she could redeem, through love makin' |
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When she was eight she was raped by her father |
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And tried to escape through multiple sex partners |
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Felt pitiful, she had only learned, |
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To love through the physical, inside it burned |
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My heart turned, I thought of what this man did |
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She forgave him, she grew to understand it |
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Her soul was tired and never really rested |
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Only with men through aggression |
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Said it was a blessing and it happened for a reason |
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By speaking it, she found freedom |
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Between me and you |
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Sometimes I wish a, careless whisper |
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Still could be heard, without speaking a word |
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Because of you I'm stronger, I'm afraid no longer |
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I feel so alive lately, you have liberated me |
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She laid, I watched her breathe |
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Happy to be here, not afraid to leave |
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I couldn't conceive her not being here |
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Death in her face her not having fear |
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Less than a year she was diagnosed with it |
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Memories of that year, so close and vivid |
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Happiness, would only visit, once in a while |
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To watch an adult, becoming a child |
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Somehow, I knew she'd make it |
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The life of one so given early would God take it? |
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Hurt she placed in, hope and prayer |
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Hurt she placed in chemo and lost hair |
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I stare with my eyes closed |
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Wonder when the body leave does the mind go |
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Watchin' Jordan became less important |
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Seeing this disease eat away my aunt's organs |
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According to doctors there's no cure |
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We went through doubt, and cases of insure |
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Wish I knew then how to heal with herbs |
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Knew a part of her I could heal with words |
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But the Creator was sending for her |
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What seemed like the end was the beginning for her |
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Like that, she didn't want us to remember her |
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No more medication did she want us to give to her |
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It spread from her liver to her lungs to her last breath |
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Only to be freed through death |
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Between me and you |
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He spoke with his eyes, tear-filled |
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A lump in his throat, his fear built |
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My whole life it was instilled |
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This ain't the way that men feel |
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A feeling, he said he wish he could kill |
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A feeling, not even time could heal |
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This is how real life's supposed to be |
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For it to happen to someone close to me? |
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So far we'd come, for him to tell me |
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As he did, insecurity held me |
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I felt like he'd failed me |
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To the spirit yelled 'help me' |
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I'd known him for like what seemed forever |
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About going pro we dreamed together |
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Never knew it would turn out like this |
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For so long he'd tried to fight this |
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Now there was no way for him to ignore it |
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His parents found out and hated him for it |
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How could I judge him? Had to accept him if I truly loved him |
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No longer he said had he hated himself |
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Through sexuality he liberated himself |
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Between me and you |
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Liberation... |
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Peace |