We Need Hugs, Too.

Verse 1:

I mourn your whispers

Fatigue across your cheek

A silk ribbon of lullaby is tightrope

Rub tenderly

Before those ghosts, they bleed

Bittersweet rupture

Your stomach turns

And you was a youngster

Praying on the floor

And hope the concrete don't

Blur you from your youth

Oh, brother, mother, please, please

Don't you cry, no

Maybe someway, maybe somehow

We'll make it through this night

Chorus:

Run, baby boy, just run

Run, baby girl, just run

Verse 2:

Tainted misconceptions, American deceptions

You box braid your mother's callus into cornrows

Tryna find connection

In these halls of questions

Tryna swim through misery, just tryna feel the mold

Everything is everything, I see internal bleeding

Hands tied, clamped callus, in your prayers pleading

Ça va aller, you say in your retreat

I just pray you find some peace