Introvert / Woman (Live at the BRIT Awards 2022)

[Part I: Introvert]

[Verse 1: Little Simz]

The kingdom's on fire, the blood of a young messiah

I see sinners in a church, I see sinners in a church

Sometimes I might be introvert

There's a war inside, I hear battle cries

Mothers burying sons, young boys playing with guns

The devil's a liar, fulfil your wildest desires

Now I don't wanna be the one to doctor this

But if you can't feel pain, you can't feel the opposite

The fight between the Yin and Yang's a fight you'll never win

I study humans, that makes me an anthropologist

I'm not into politics, but I know it's dark times

Parts of the world still living in apartheid

But if I don't take this winner's flight, that's career suicide

Though I should've been a friend whеn your grandma died

I see the illness еat my aunt laying in her bed

I see her soul rising as her body gets closer to death

[Refrain: Cleo Sol]

Find a way, I'll find a way

The world's not over

I will make it, don't you cry

In God we trust

'Cause we're not alone

[Verse 2: Little Simz, Cleo Sol]

I need a licence to feel

Internal wounds and I'm not tryna be healed (No, I don't, no, I don't, no)

I sabotage what we are trying to build

'Cause of feelings I keep inside, but it's time to reveal (Reveal, reveal)

[Segue: Emma Corrin]

And so it begins

The story of never-ending

Your introversion led you here

Intuition protected you along the way

Alone, but not lonely

Your truth unveils with time

As you embark upon the journey

Of what it means to be a woman

[Part II: Woman]

[Verse 1: Little Simz]

Naija women, got the melanin drippin'

L-O-N-D-O-N, city girl livin'

In the back, lookin' like fire, chili pepper

Yoruba girl tougher than imperial leather

He was gettin' bitter, she was gettin' better

Diamonds are forever

Miss Sierra Leone, lookin' like a gem

Works hard in the week, party on the weekend

Know you wanna live, no one watchin' how you spend

Got a thing, finer things and the finer men, huh

Miss Tanzania, she a do or die

Say she want to know more 'bout the Sukuma tribe

We hit the... Once wasn't enough

I got an ocean full of knowledge, you could scuba dive

Miss Ethiopia, play so jazzy

Sit you down and school you on Selassie

[Pre-Chorus: Little Simz]

Tell 'em you're nothin' without a woman (No)

Woman to woman, I just wanna see you

Let me hear you sing

[Chorus: Cleo Sol, Little Simz]

I love (Say what?) how you go from zero to one hundred (That's right)

And leave the dust behind, you've got this

All action, no talk

[Verse 2: Little Simz]

Barbadian honey, know you reppin' for your country

Sun kissing your brown skin, lookin' like (Money)

Said she focusin' on bein' an accountant

When you have beauty and brains, they find it astoundin'

Why? She been gettin' it on her own

Self made, ain't nobody doin' gold digger

Now, Miss India always speaks with her chest

Respect from her people 'cause she leads them the best (She a leader)

Huh, real life queen in the flesh

Crown get heavy, still it be's on your head

My Brooklyn ladies, know you hustle on the daily

Innovative just like Donna Summer in the eighties

Your time, they seein' you glow now

Intelligence, elegance, show 'em how

Miss Jamaica understand food for the soul

She get up in the kitchen know she throw down

[Pre-Chorus: Little Simz]

Ain't nothin' without a woman

Woman to woman, I just wanna see you glow

Tell 'em

[Chorus: Cleo Sol]

I love how you go from zero to one hundred

And leave the dust behind, you've got this

All action, no talk