DISCOG
VIDEOS
40X:
woke up in a white room, didn't expect to / doesn't feel like just a week ago / kept thinking bout all i lost coming out to you / what I didn't know the moment i opened up my phone / is I'd find / forty letters / from forty strangers saying / it gets better / i think that’s whenever i
figured out i'm stronger than i ever thought i could be / got a dose of my own divinity / gonna love who i love, but first i'm gonna love me / 40x / every day / i hit a low / but I'm okay / i'm okay
RECOVERY:
took a loan from your knuckle bone / blood in the light of day / but if i’m going down, you’re going down with me / at five years old, i was told / you use your fists to pray / caught up in a country that demands violence from me / well i can see the future / stitches and sutures / but i’ll set my mind loose / let me show you how we do when / we bring down heaven / heaven
i was born a lover / you’re never gonna make me hate you / and i was raised to recover / recover / Grams had hope, Momma had hope and they handed it down to me / so i believe / in recovery
CONVERSION:
writing so the room don’t spin / notebook paper, a ballpoint pen / i can’t keep lying to you / remember when i took that stage? / saw you clapping when i said i’d changed / both of us stockholmed in someone else’s truth
i wrote you a letter / cuz i couldn’t say out loud / i love you but / i won’t let you take me down
WHITE TEARS:
white was the name i gave myself / it was the magic that i used to gain power and wealth / security and comfort too / and white was the name that i used / white was the altar where i sacrificed / offered all of my inheritance, it was the price / laid down my culture, said goodbye / and burned them on the altar where i sacrificed
who are my people / who is my tribe / can crooked instruments / draw steady lines / if i give up my power / i give up the thing that binds me to my people / and white were the tears i cried
TELESCOPE:
k i’ll admit it / i jumped in too early / white knuckled my worry away / until that black hole of pain / became your hurting, and duh / that kinda baggage has collateral damage / i’m sorry that the nights aren’t ours when you’re lonely / and that you’re so far away / i see you staring at me / across the milky way / and i could build a telescope / see the stars from every angle / but it still won’t make ‘em align
you were the right one / just at the wrong time