AALIYAH

Lyrics

I never recovered. Sleepless nights where all I could do was toss Toss like a salad, everything being ripped to the seams Pieces flying up and down like lettuce in a bowl Only for the pain to be done, temporarily… Take from me, take from my soul As you put me on your plate and consume me Think about where I come from, every piece of me Separate, yet never will be equal under your eyes You pick out the parts you don't like My tomatoes, my onions, my spinach, if you will And you take only the parts you like You ingest it, and to what? You throw away those parts, down the trash they go And they sit there, never going away Never properly dealt with, never utilized, never seen Are you happy now? You've cleaned me of what makes you sick, Trauma never goes away, everything makes me—