When I heard you, you fascinated me
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I even ask God why it took so long
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I searched for myself, then you showed up
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When I heard you, you fascinated me
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You were there shattered, so misunderstood
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Blatantly different from how they talked about you
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Your gaze revealed how much you disagreed
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They turned you into a crutch for what you hated most
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Yeah, what did they do to you?
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Brown girl, what did they do to you?
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When I heard my brown girl
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Something there made me happy
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Today I see it's all my fault
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For not listening to what the brown girl says
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She's straight talk and words of life
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Your speech is my favorite reading
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You turned inside out what I thought I knew
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'Cause your standpoint taught me to see life
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I wake up early just to see you
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Brown girl, God was inspired when He made you
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You looked at me so deep
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It felt like a sword with two edges
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And it cut me right inside the soul
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Splitting spirit, joints, marrow
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And even my intentions
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Anyone who judged never knew you
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The whole world flipped through; lucky is the one who read you
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Every time we talk
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And assemble a version of me
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That's way better than this one
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It's that I'm in such a hurry
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To leave for a place better than here