Cast Aside

[Chorus: Brother Ali]

Avoiding the eyes of passersby

Tossed away and cast aside

The silence amplified

Too much to say, I can't describe

Avoiding the eyes of passersby

Tossed away and cast aside

The silence amplified

Too much to say, I can't describe

[Verse 1: Brother Ali]

I'm numb and unaccompanied

Maybe feeling love is a luxury

I hunger for the subtlety of company

The discovery of being touched and seen

I love with reckless abandon

Chest expanding, stretch your whole hand in

Core passion thеre for the grasping

I make no dеmand of my companion

I cross the line from melancholy to madness

Cycle spiral, I feel I'm abandoned like

I ain't valid, taken for granted

Might as well be stranded on another planet

I ain't welcome here

Simply tryna get a clear fresh breath of air

They treat me like a creature from yesteryear

Like it's some uniform that I never wear, let me disappear

[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]

I never understood why they thought I was no good

I guess it look like I was made that way

When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold

I want a home to chase this pain away

[Chorus: Brother Ali]

Avoiding the eyes of passersby

Tossed away and cast aside

The silence amplified

Too much to say, I can't describe

[Verse 2: Brother Ali]

Hard times in this crazy town

Heartless eyes want to stare me down

They fight corruption with ugliness

Closest thing to justice is punishment

This country is a science project

The old push their hate out, young internalize it

The stand-in that passes for love

Possession and sex and attention and drugs

But maybe if I'm famous

I can exist and won't have to explain it

Erased and nameless or disgraced and shameless

Privacy is sacred

Glad tidings to the strangers

[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]

I never understood why they thought I was no good

I guess it look like I was made that way

When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold

I want a home to chase this pain away

[Chorus: Brother Ali]

Avoiding the eyes of passersby

Tossed away and cast aside

The silence amplified

Too much to say, I can't describe

Avoiding the eyes of passersby

Tossed away and cast aside

The silence amplified

Too much to say, I can't describe

[Outro: Brother Ali]

Yo, um, so, I actually recut the hook for "Cast Aside"

I went down, like the way that you told me to the first— when I was at your crib

I just thought that like, the original way I heard it, I was like, "Well, maybe I could pull it off," but

I— so I recut the hook, and it's, it goes down instead of up now

And I think it sounds way better, but I didn't have, uh

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, I didn't have time to—

That, them calling for prayer means it time, we're starting fast, and so

Um, I didn't get a chance to like edit it and send it to you, but

But I recut it and I think it's a lot better

I gotta hear it all put together, but

I think that one is good now

Um, so I'll be able to send it to you tomorrow, in sha' Allah