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