I know it’s been a min since I left you trippinTo figure it out on your own
Now they over here screaming
Take it up a notch
Take it take it up a notch
Take it up a notch
Take it take it up a notch
Stretchin out that long neck
Till is disconnects, misrepresents those dreams you’ve been fighting for.
Tip toe, dance across those fine lines
We call boundaries, because they ain’t got no boundaries.
Chew on your words, swallow it’s it meaning,
Spitting it out like sinful delight
This is what they wanna leave you with.
Now they over here screaming
Take it up a notch
Take it take it up a notch
Take it up a notch
Take it take it up a notch
These notches that threaten
To put a damper if we keep going the way we’ve been going
But you’re over here screamin
I can take it
I can take it take it
I can take it
I can take it take it
But ya can’t
Can’t take being stretched thin
When you’ve had too much I find you
Crumbled under the sheets
As though you were crumpled under these rocks
Threatening to smash the love out of you
Cast stones in my direction
For defying abusive tradition
When I left.
Over here screaming
Hit’em girl hit’em hit’em
Drag’em girl drag’em drag’em
Laughing at the misuse of fists.
This is what ya’ll call love.
Nah, why would I become the abuser
For a liar, thief, waster of time
Ain’t we too great for that shit
Why tear myself apart with hands
That could easily replicate the damage
That cause cracks to deepen
Iimbs to hang off bone
Bones that can barely hold itself up.
It’s time to replenish.
So I’m over here screaming
Time to walk away
Time to time to walk away
Time to walk away
Time to time to walk away
Cuz why would I want someone
Who doesn’t want me
Why fight, expend energy, cry tears
Over love that don’t want me
Didn’t want me to begin with
Would’ve been easy had they kept it a buck
But when you’re lonely as fuck
You hold on to people
Like a child’s prized toy
Forgetting that I was never yours to own in the first place.
Insecurity got you runnin in circles
Lookin uncomfortable
I bask in the warmth of the unknown
I gotta weed out the unpleasantries
Replant love seeds so I grow roses from vine like tresses
Until skin leaks lavender
And my womb births lilies
Over here screaming
Forgive ‘Em forgive ’em
Cuz we love’em we love’em
Forgive ‘Em forgive ’em
Cuz we love’em we love’em
– rise & shine | letting go
Jari G. Planning 