Before The War

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(I need water. Give me water. Something invisible.)
Your mother the same way before the war.
She stayed inside some days before the war.
Remember when she froze before the door just like you froze, out in the garden?
And she was my best friend before the war.
I wanted children then before the war.
She always knew what we were destined for before before.
She always questioned what made hearts harden.
Something invisible something in me hardly predictable yearning to be
my pleasure your pleasure.
Something in the way the guards they fall and how the sirens sing gray whales to shore.
My pleasure. Your pleasure.
And if there's an ounce of forgiveness in me
I'll make it rain songs that their children will sing
and then you will see
then you will feel all that I know is real.
I thought that time would heal before the war.
I contained how I feel before the war.
I sensed that I was here before before
before they came for me out in the garden.
And she was my best friend before the war.
I never saw an end before the war.
I always felt
what we where destined for before before.
I always questioned what made hearts harden.
My pleasure. Your pleasure.
Something in the way the guards they fall and how the sirens sing gray whales to shore.
My pleasure Your pleasure !
And if there's an ounce of forgiveness in me
I'll make it rain songs that their children will sing
and then you will see then you will feel all that I know is real.
I thought that time would heal

before the war.
I contained how I feel before the war.
I sensed that I was here before before
before they came for me out in the garden.
And she was my best friend before the war.
I never saw an end before the war.
I always felt
what we where destined for before before.
I always questioned what made hearts harden.

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from Encrypted & Vulnerable, released June 5, 2020
Written by: Saul Williams, Gonjasufi

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