I'll Never Understand(f/ Bernadette Kabango)-Shad

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:01.05]Bernadette [00:05.58]The killers [00:30.99]You've invaded my nights [00:33.33]Singing your haunting lullaby [00:36.09]Drowning other voices [00:38.67]Choking [00:40.20]Suffocating [00:42.12]Numbing [00:43.56]Sending me to sleep [00:45.90]You've awakened me many mornings [00:47.97]Like an unexpected alarm [00:50.34]Shattering my dreams [00:52.50]Confusing [00:53.88]Terrorizing [00:55.32]Traumatizing [00:57.72]I've talked to you in tears and anger [01:01.32]Spat on you in rage [01:03.51]Whispered to you in sorrow [01:06.00]Tied you in chains [01:07.80]Thrown you in jail [01:10.41]I've pulled you out [01:12.03]Asked you many questions [01:14.28]Knowing there would be no answers [01:15.87]Shad [01:21.24]I'll never understand how flesh being torn apart feels [01:24.63]Or how after all this suffering a heart heals [01:27.48]On the rich green fields where they killed old and young [01:30.36]Cold and numb [01:31.59]Under the light of a golden sun [01:33.63]It still stuns [01:34.38]Tell me what possesses man [01:35.91]To [01:36.12]In anger [01:36.54]Raise his hand [01:37.53]I'll never understand [01:44.55]Bernadette [01:44.82]I tied you in chains [01:47.16]Again and again [01:48.99]Round and round [01:51.27]Until the chains [01:52.53]In my dizziness [01:54.36]Bound me to you [01:56.46]You and I becoming one [02:00.51]Bound by the chains of hate [02:02.70]I knew then the choices to make [02:06.36]Shad [02:06.51]I'll never understand how it felt [02:08.37]When my mom lost her dad [02:09.93]Her sister and the only brother that she ever had [02:12.66]And I'll never know what's more sad [02:14.55]The fact they could've been spared [02:16.23]Or the fact that to this day nobody cares [02:18.27]For the innocent [02:19.35]Victims of a full fledged holocaust [02:21.24]Because folks only holler if the cost [02:23.22]Of dollars lost is high [02:24.45]So regardless of the number of lives [02:26.91]When poor blacks die [02:27.96]They always turn a blind eye [02:29.52]And I'll never understand why [02:30.96]Bernadette [02:31.23]I untied the chains [02:31.71]Letting go of those who converged on my dad [02:36.21]Beating [02:36.99]Pounding [02:38.58]Leaving him dead [02:41.10]I untied the chains [02:42.75]Letting go of those who propelled the grenade [02:46.71]Scattering my brother's brains [02:50.19]I untied the chains [02:51.87]Letting go of those who knifed my sister's throat [03:05.10]Leaving her begging for a better death [03:08.82]I untied the chains [03:10.50]Painfully [03:12.06]Purposefully [03:13.65]Knowing the one who said to do it Seventy times seven [03:18.93]Totally understands the depth of my pain [03:25.32]Shad [03:25.47]I'll never understand how people can go on and live [03:28.92]The miracle of finding the strength to forgive [03:31.71]To resurrect peace [03:33.15]To close up wounds so deep [03:35.22]They pierce souls beneath heart beats [03:37.35]To be a willful slave to a loving God's commands [03:40.29]The key to a freedom that I'll never understand