Say The Word

[Intro]

Say the word

Say the word

[Verse]

My mama made it work, she fed her baby birds

Papa fled and left the earth within his eighty-eighth

Tectonic plates shifting, set aside my ways

Livin' for the finer thangs, struck and cut a vein or nerve

Say the word the play up on the field was overturned

Smoke would cover up the pain, I saw my father burn

Spliff after spliff in the crib, I would watch and learn

I run the race, you move impatient tryna make it first

I grew complacent, I was stationed whеre I caught that urge

On the vеrge of breaking through, I'm tryna break these curses

I only got myself to blame, it's me against that person that I was before

My hung face, brittle as a flake

I'm pushing buttons, tryna see it twirl

Whispers in the dark, them teeth was sharp

I got a lion heart, I'm tryna save the world

Who a save me? Save me a seat

Stray from feeling that I can't breathe

Or I can't be thoroughly me, at thirteen

My Egún in the sea, all in between the coasts from Cote d'Ivoire to Benin

Unraveling at my seams, my heart was knotted beneath

I don't want to be a burden, Todd said, "You are not to me"

A single tear up in my eyes, my lotus flower blossoming

I would smile like Siddartha

Pull the sword up out the stone with ease, I'm Arthur

And when I feel alone, l'm still a part of

Large love, loving me was always in the cards, huh?

[Chorus]

Say the word, it's amazing how I'm claiming what I've merely earned

They told me, "Keep from by the edge," when I was clearly perched

Lookin' for a push, deep within it is where Navy learned

Say the word, it's amazing how I'm claiming what I've merely earned

They told me, "Keep from by the edge," when I was clearly perched

Lookin' for a push, deep within it is where Navy learned

[Outro]

Say the word, say the word

Tryna save the world

Just say the word