They say my family’s falling apart
While I’m tryna’ build
I’m tryna’ follow my excitement and navigating the guilt.
And jealousy has beat compersion a battle of the wills.
I know you tried to share the wine with me before it spilled.
You took my holy body in your mouth and broke the bread.
I took you wholey in my body and created kids.
I never thought I’d see the day that we would split.
Now it’s upon us, dreams laid out in coffins, grief for what we wanted, talks become the longest, time stretches to find us, we cannot rewind us, life becomes a movie, doubt tries to consume me, fear sets fire to me, nostalgia woos me.
I don’t want to lose you, you don’t want to leave me.
I think love is boundless you find love in boundaries.
Ours are rearranging, damn I hate this pain thing.
None of this is simple, king.

I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep.

And when our babies came and we were celebate for weeks,
We would celebrate the break and gift each other sleep.
And talk about the days that they would play together, stay together, always have each other make our way together, pray together strong or weak.
But honesty is part of me like heart and bones and teeth.
And when I saw a part of me reflected in another, you know I had to tell you ‘cause I couldn’t keep it under wraps and covers.
Had to wonder, asked some questions many blunts and many blunders could’ve done it better
I’m sure, less hurt.
So I sit and write again instead of trying to speak, paper to pen feels safer to me.
I tried to keep my love in writing but it leaked and now I’m getting used to the space between you and me.
Expectations no longer what I thought they'd be.
I feel like you landed hard and jumped off of me.
A platform for what you needed to be.
But you don't see it like I see it, you say you don't see like I see.
You say you always knew I’d find a rapper and leave.
You claim not be psychic but I swear you're more psychic than me.
You claim to be my partner but you’re feelin’ more sidekick to me.
You claim to be beside me but monogamy just isn’t for me.
You tried to be behind it but you say that I'm killing your dreams.
I understand why you’re choosing to leave.

I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep.

And now I’ve got this song inside me praising who I hope to be.
And now I’ve got a king beside me who really believes that my heart is good enough to guide me, so I sing him to sleep.
And write poetry with him lying under a tree, and talk about things I thought were bound to be in notebooks, I wrote hooks about the way his tongue took me to a place of reprieve.
And when he told me that he loved me I could finally breathe and see the parts of me released that were bound to be free under the touch of a man’s hands who could finally see a woman in the flesh for who she really could be beyond bounds and boundaries.
So we commit to new things and do things differently and redefine community, hip hop and loyalty.
I know it’s all outside the box but it’s bound to be.
I really found myself in modeling authenticity and honoring the inner-me so here it is all laid out, I'm on stage now and I'm saying farewell to the parts of me that I just can't keep.

I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep, I know you’re something that I just can’t keep.