Little Simz - Broken (Official Audio)

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Official Audio for "Broken" by Little Simz

LYRICS

Feel you’re broken and you don’t exist

When you feel you’re broken and you cannot fix it

Feel you’re broken and you don’t exist

When you feel you’re broken and you cannot fix it

What does it mean to be broken

The wound is painfully open

The beauty is in the finding

The darkest parts of the ocean

Deep waters in motion

The tide was coming in heavy

I always knew I was chosen

To handle whatever chose me

Picking all of my poisons

Abandoning my emotions

Questions got me feeling like I should’ve never have spoken

Damn right I’m spilling

The narrative they keep switching

All I wanted to do was uplift the woman

You gotta move if you ain’t backing the vision

They wanna see you a victim

And giving up on your mission

I been hitting some lows

And never telling a soul

You can have everything and nothing still nobody knows

There’s a reason why the doves will never fly with the crows

Chapters eventually close

Your friends’ll turn into foes

Everybody’s so obsessed with the CEO

She’s probably got the most troubles that she’ll never disclose

Dealing with the dark by taking the white to the nose

Poker face in action continuing with the show

Scrutinised for freeing the truth about the system

All she wanted to do was uplift the women

- Hook -

What does is mean to broken?

Feels like your light has been stolen

Can’t recognise you are golden

And you don’t see that your loved

Smoking weed on your one’s

Isolating yourself

I am even enough?

Now you question yourself

Man this week had been tough

Been saying that for a year

How do I disappear?

Can I hide from my fears?

Sometimes a feather can feel like a stone

When you so weak you can feel that shit in your bones

She was lonely

Taking anyone to her home

Getting cosy

Internal insecurities travelling so deep

We all go thru our hardships

With no life book so knees to the carpet

And pray your being guided by a force so you can’t sink

Look how far you’ve and still you’ve only just started

You exist

You alive

You are deserving of life

You are a beacon of light

You are determined to fly

You have a journal inside

You have the power to write

You, have the opportunity everyday to decide

Chose love

It might just blossom into a new love

But whatever happens know that you’ve won

- Hook -

Ain’t no happiness in it

Fake smiles just to deal with all the pain you’ve been given

As a child they didn’t tell you that you dreams can come into fruition

You’ve never been to that place you envision

Sky gave you limits

You had no choice but to accept

Forced into work to contribute to the profit of Britain

That sneeze will be blessed but the coughing will kill him

It’s the Armageddon city this shit might damage your soul

They won’t take the weight of you when you can’t manage the load

Like they’re just waiting to hear a fucking crack in your bones

Generational trauma you’ve had to deal with alone

No father how do you become a man on your own?

Did the best that you could with you tools you were loaned

Didn’t know how to break the mould and now your raising a clone

Gives me comfort to believe you’d want the best for your seed

Wishful thinking if the intentions don’t align with the deed

And If what you hear contradicts you read

War ready but traveled to this country for peace

Crabs in a barrel your neighbour feeling the same shit

But he might screw you if someone offers a payslip

No one ever told you your mind is not to be played with

No one ever taught you bout moderation and patience

Under all the eyes and the pressure and the scrutiny

Why’s is mental health a taboo in the black community?

- Hook -

It shouldn’t be a norm to live your life as a tragedy

To live your life in a state of confusion and agony

promises you made reflect the promises they gave you

And all these harsh experiences don’t reflect you age

No family to save you

No friends to aid you

Can’t even speak English so there’s no one to explain to

Only God to pray to

They denied you of hope but you found your way through

That’s a break through

21 landed in London with hardly any funds

27 tryna get back to being 21

Cos nothings changed still no money but more things to pay for

So the blood pressure rises slowly by the day

Work 2 jobs just so rice is on the children’s plate

Landlord tells you this is the last time you can be late

Health issues that you try to suppress

But all your health issues are derived from stress

You tried your best gave an arm and a leg

Only tears a cold house is what you’ve been left with

Self hate for the black skin you were blessed with

Hard to believe there’s something greater you were destined for

Prepping for, gave your life to others you didn’t invest in yours

A broken soul selected for God’s plan

Everything will be what it’s meant to when it’s in gods hand

- Hook -