Forgive Me

🎙️ Format: Spoken Word (half-rapped, no hook)

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🎵 Full Track Lyrics:

(Beat fades in with soft rain sounds, muffled thunder... piano keys start)

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Forgive me...

For not knowin’ how to love soft —

I grew up around hands that only knew how to hold grudges.

Forgive me…

If I laugh at pain like it’s comedy.

It’s just easier than cryin’ when the room quiet.

I ain't perfect —

I’m stitched up wrong, like God ran outta thread

And just hoped the soul would stretch right eventually.

I gave loyalty like lunch plates

And got played like barbershop tapes —

Rewound and used up.

Forgive me for the silence.

Sometimes I don’t speak 'cause I don’t know who listens

And the people I vent to be the same ones prayin’ I drown.

I told God,

“Don’t test me with no more loss,

‘Cause next time, I might fold like a prayer I don’t believe in.”

They say forgive and forget...

But I got too good a memory,

And too many tombstones walkin’ 'round wearin’ smiles.

Forgive me for the rage...

I been bit by too many hands I was tryna feed.

Now I treat everyone like they came with a blade tucked in the sleeve.

And maybe that’s not holy.

Maybe that’s trauma.

But tell me how to be peaceful

When every hug come with a comma...

And it never ends in love.

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(Spoken softly)

If I make it out...

Tell God I ain’t mean to question Him.

I just needed answers the street never gave me.

(beat fades to silence with distant thunder)