Between Me, You and Liberation

Common

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    Verse 1 (Common)
    She rested her head upon my chest
    Since liberation in between breaths
    Wonder if sex is what she found it in
    Peace, found it layin down with men
    Wasn't there to judge her,in many ways I loved her
    It was more than bodies we shared with each other
    We laid under the cover of friends
    A place where many lovers begin
    I began, to feel her body shake in my hand
    Body language, it's so hard tryin to understand
    Usually after sex, it's a good feel
    Took by silence, emotions stood still
    You could feel her tears spill, from her grill
    Hurt from before that beginning to build
    She told me hold me, stories she assemblin
    Tellin it, tryin not to remember it
    It was a story of innocence taken
    Thought she could redeem, through love makin
    When she was 8 she was raped by her father
    And tried to escape through multiple sex partners
    Felt pitiful she had only learned
    To love through the physical, inside it burned
    A hard t?, I thought of what this man did
    She forgave him, she grew to understand it
    Her soul was tied and never really rested
    Only knew men through aggression
    Said it was a blessin and it happened for a reason by speakin it
    She found freedom
    Between me and you, between me and you, (repeat)

    Chorus (Cee-Lo)
    Sometimes I wish I, ?
    S? her, without speaking a word
    Because of you I'm stronger, I'm afraid of no longer
    I feel so ?, you helped liberate me, me, me (repeat)

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    Verse 2 (Common)
    As she laid I watched her breathe
    Happy to be here, not affraid to leave
    I couldn't concieve her not being here
    Death in her face, her not having fear
    Less than a year she was diagnosed with it
    Memories of that year, so close and vivid
    Happiness would only visit, once in a while
    To watch an adult, becomin a child
    Somehow, I knew she'd make it
    The life of one, so early would God take it?
    Heard she placed it hope and care
    Heard she placed in chemo and lost hair
    I stared with my eyes closed
    I wondered when the body leaves does the mind go
    Watchin Jordan became less important
    Seein this disease eat away my aunt's organs
    Accordin to doctor's there is no cure
    We went through doubt, and cases of insure
    Wish I knew then how to heal with herbs
    Knew a part of her I could heal with words
    But the creator was ?ful
    What seemed like the end was the beginning for her
    Like that, she didn't want us to remember her
    No more medication did she want us to give to her
    It spread from her liver to her lungs to her last breath
    Only to be freed through death, between me and you, (repeat)

    Chorus (Cee-Lo)

    Verse 3 (Common)
    He spoke with his eyes tear filled
    A lump in his throat as fear build
    My whole life it was instilled
    This ain't the way that men feel
    A feelin he said he wish he could kill
    A feelin not even time could heal
    This is how real life's supposed to be?
    For it to happen to someone close to me?
    So far we've come, for him to tell me
    As he did, insecurity held me
    I felt like he failed me
    'Till his spirit yelled help me
    I've known him for like what seemed forever
    About goin pro we dreamed together
    Never knew it would turn out like this
    For so long he tried to fight this
    Now there was no way for him to ignore it
    His parents found out, and hated him for it
    How could I judge him?
    Had to accept him if I truely loved him
    No longer he said had he hated himself
    Through sexuality he liberated himself
    Between me and you, between me and you (repeat)

    Song details

    Composition: Ahmir Thompson, James Jason Poyser, Dee Jay, Common, Thomas Decarlo Burton, Pino Paladino, and Thomas Burton

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