Lift You (feat. Sophia Al-Maria)

I just wanna say, I really appreciate this 'cause nobody ever asks to use my voice for a track To read in a time of war, to read it again Think about it, to read it aloud To record it, to try again To listen back, to send and unsend To worry about getting old, to feel old To remember I felt older before To have experienced so much love, to have resisted To be bitter, to think of you To feel your mood like the weather, to not let it affect me anymore To not let it affect me anymore To feel angry, to know what you're talking about To fear being taken advantage of To fear being used, to fear being poor forever To fear ending up on the otherside of a border To fear imprisonment, to fear detention To fear witchhunters and their generals To know what will happen to the people I love To know it could happen to me To want to flee precarity, and create a structure for thinking about you and me To draw the outline of your figure in my mind To want to lift you To want to lift you, in grace out of gravity To roll a smoke, to look at my phone To blow out the smoke, to glance up To have a bad view, and try and show you To be told it isn't clear To feel like a failure, to stop trying To feel like a failure, to stop trying To change the subject, to prefer not to talk To laugh, to joke, to ask Some new friends, an old question that's been bothering me Do you believe one can love unconditionally? To want to run To want to hide To want to talk To die of pride To want to run To want to hide To want to talk To die of pride