Between Me, You & Liberation Lyrics

Song Text:

[First Verse]
She rested her head upon my chest
Sensed liberation
in between breaths
Wonder if sex is what she found it in
Peace, found it
laying down with men
Wasn't there to judge her, many ways I loved her
It
was more than bodies we shared with each other
We layed under the cover of
friends
A place where many lovers began
I began, to feel her body shake in
my hand
Body language, it's so hard trying to understand
Usually after
sex, it's a good feel
Took by silence, emotion stood still
I could feel,
her tears spill, from her grille
Hurt from before that began to build
She
told me hold me, a story she assembled it
Tellin' it, trying not to remember
it
It was a story of innocence taken
Thought she could redeem, through
love makin'
When she was eight 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
My heart turned, I
thought of what this man did
She forgave him, she grew to understand
it
Her soul was tired and never really rested
Only with men through
aggression
Said it was a blessing and it happened for a reason
By speaking
it, she found freedom
Between me and you [echo]

[Chorus -
Cee-Lo]
Sometimes I wish a, careless whisper
Serenade her, without
speaking a word
Because of you I'm stronger, I'm afraid no longer
I feel
so alive in me, you have liberated me

[Second Verse]
She laid,
I watched her breathe
Happy to be here, not afraid 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,
becoming a child
Somehow, I knew she'd make it
The life of one so given
early would God take it?
Hurt she placed in, hope and prayer
Hurt she
placed in chemo and lost hair
I stare with my eyes closed
Wonder when the
body leave does the mind go
Watchin' Jordan became less important
Seeing
this disease eat away my aunt's organs
According to doctors theres 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 (?) was
(?)
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
[echo]

[Chorus]

[Third Verse]
He spoke
with his eyes, tear-filled
A lump in his throat, his fear built
My whole
life it was in steel
This ain't the way that men feel
A feeling, he said
he wish he could kill
A feeling, 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'd come, for him to tell me
As he did, insecurity held me
I felt like he
failed me
To the spirit, yelled help me
I'd known him for like what seemed
forever
About going 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 truly loved him
No longer he said had he hated
himself
Through sexuality he liberated himself
Between me and you
[echo]

[Chorus]

Liberation...
Peace