| Intro: Brother Ali]
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| Bismillah, ya Allah, I make this a song about
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| About witnessing God through healing
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| And let it be what it is, I turn it over to you
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| Love, love, love
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| I’m tired of crying
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| Destroying and building
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| I’m done denying
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| I’m removing the ceiling
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| My whole life I’ve been dying
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| I’m getting busy living
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| I feel like I’m flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| There’s a cost for loving, it’s the cost of living
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| Don’t remorse for nothing, I just pray I’m forgiven
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| The telephone’s ringing, and the past is calling
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| It don’t offer me nothing, don’t ignore it, just listen
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| Survival tactics are perfect for survival mode
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| But they no longer serve a purpose once your life goes on
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| That suffering will always be a part of me
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| But to serve suffering, is idolatry
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| Shout out to Liza Garza, Samir and Aja Black
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| Respect to Shaykh Hamza, one day I’ll pay y’all back
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| What I learned my thirty-sixth time around the track
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| I’m hugging every single curve, never looking back
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| Pain is a revelation, what a scar is revealing
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| Gone but not forgotten, thank God for healing
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| Maybe the blessing that I’m missing in Salat is kneeling
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| To to return me to my feet, I forgot that feeling
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| I’m tired of crying
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| Destroying and building
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| I’m done denying
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| I’m removing the ceiling
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| My whole life I’ve been dying
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| I’m getting busy living
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| I feel like I’m flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I feel like I’m flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| It’s the feeling of flying
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| I’m acquainted with shame, I hated my name
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| I validated their claims and I stayed in my lane
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| I’m mistaking the chain, thought it was a lifeline
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| Just because it’s been around me all my lifetime
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| Success meant the world kinda felt out of tilt
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| Survivor guilt made me try to kill what I had built
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| And despair felt just like loyalty
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| I saw betrayal and the day feel joyfully
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| I done cried the blues, 'til my eyes refused
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| To make water for sorrow too dry to produce
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| I was tryna get loose, I climbed out of that noose
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| Now how could I accuse, the Most High of abuse?
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| I got a hole in my soul that the pain dug
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| And now I let it overflow when the rain comes
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| It’s the bittersweet taste when I make love
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| I can’t trust it’ll be there when I wake up
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| I’m tired of crying
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| Destroying and building
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| I’m done denying
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| I’m removing the ceiling
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| My whole life I’ve been dying
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| I’m getting busy living
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| I feel like I’m flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| It’s the feeling of flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| I’m not asking permission
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| It’s the feeling of flying
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| There’s a cost for loving, it’s the cost of living
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| Don’t remorse for nothing, I just pray I’m forgiven
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| The telephone’s ringing, and the past is calling
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| It don’t offer me nothing, don’t ignore it, just listen
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| I’m tired of crying
|
| Destroying and building
|
| I’m done denying
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| I’m removing the ceiling
|
| My whole life I’ve been dying
|
| I’m getting busy living
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| I feel like I’m flying
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| I’m not asking permission
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| It’s the feeling of flying
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| It’s the feeling of flying
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| It’s the feeling of flying |