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my love is strong
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like my mother my love is so big it
0:07
needs a new name
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i’ve been chewed up in the mouth of a
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man i’ve been promised
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and lied to and real close with the
0:15
floor and my tear ducts and still
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my love know how to fill a room my love
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is a superpower
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got it from my mama who gave me her
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blood and my daddy’s last name
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i am named after a love that refused to
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break
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i am proof of what survives depression
0:31
death i inherited myself i’m an endless
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well
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clear water the surest you ever drank i
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look in the faces of men who left and
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say
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it was an honor to be loved by me
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you have no idea the world i built while
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humming a song that used to kill me
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i know my voice know what this spirit is
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capable of it
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is an honor to be loved by me when my
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love was spat on and bullied
0:58
twisted and made ugly by unworthy hands
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men
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who did not love me but wanted things
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from me
1:04
i could have chosen to float to believe
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in drifting
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and homelessness and anything that makes
1:10
me less rooted to this earth the thing
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is
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i was made for this held together by
1:15
warmth and a stitch of light
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guided by my mother’s hand and my
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daddy’s voice in the wind
1:20
i was made from this i couldn’t leave my
1:23
love if i wanted to
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it’s the truest thing i ever learned to
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do bear of the embarrassing smile
1:29
keeper of all my teeth i say i love you
1:31
and my body says we know how to do this
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i’ve been alive here unrequited here
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and there’s nothing wrong with carrying
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a love bigger than you
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a super power thread connecting
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everywhere i’ve been
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with everywhere i will go and i am
1:48
blessed to know
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i am blessed to know
2:00
you
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