A look at three different women, who all have gone through pain in their own way. . .
lyrics
[Chorus]
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me (Cause she's crumbling)
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl and I don't see who can help me
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl, just a little girl
[Verse 1]
Lisa drinks a lot with her husband,
But her husband's not who she's lovin
Her husband's not good at something like trusting her out in public
Got his name on the sublet, he makes the money that runs it, so she's
Bound to him, a gag order don't frown at him
And don't give him lip, cause he'll make it split drowinin in his prescription He's her addiction, fuck her conviction,
Everytime he gets convicted, she tricks the system
And bails him out, so he can wail and shout
Sometimes her son is home, so she behaves until her cousin takes him out
And then she eggs him on, it's like she likes it
They're drunk and she takes his ear and then she bites it
Who do ya know who goes to work black and blue, that's a clue
But no one said anything like "shhh, that's a clue"
You don't know how hard it is to stare right at the bruise
I worked with her at the drive-thru, 6am to noon
[Chorus]
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me (Cause she's crumbling)
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl and I don't see who can help me
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl, just a little girl
[Verse 2]
His nose is runny, suppose it's funny, but now it's bloody
Always corroding, this dope is broke cause coke is money
We're slow like honey to him, his world is super sunny
His daughter wanted a pony, he told her, 'okay, Jenny'
She's savin pennies for rabbit food, her mother doesn't
Have the heart to break it to her, Daddy's breakin that one, too
He's busy wallowing behind a closed door
And he's comin to you no more, unless you are his paid whore
He's still a deadbeat, his bed wreaks like dead meat
For ten weeks, he's been on a binge, he calls it a winning streak
There's still nothing in his fridge, so when his little peach visits him
it's out to Mcy D's and then the town beach
He gives her just enough hope and rope to hang herself
She gives him just enough hope to fuckin kid himself
He's too deluded, inflated to go and kill himself
But he's goin and flurtin with death dirty like his bill of health
[Chorus]
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me (Cause she's crumbling)
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl and I don't see who can help me
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl, just a little girl
[Verse 3]
Life gets weirder and weirder the more it goes on
She just found out he's not her real dad, wait hold on
Always noticed no resemblance, but never asked questions
She's light headed on the night he said it and has to role on
With school, the eighth grade, where secrets even friends say
She just started to wax her eyebrows and now the wax and wane of life
The ebb and flow has come and scooped her up, is this God with punishment
Cause she used booze to loosen up?
At the party the other night, she's starting to feel a bit
A squeeze in the stomach, now vomits comin up she's running
Barely made it to the bathroom, mother's in the staff room
And when she punches out, she's comin home to feel the wrath soon
What made him choose now, she moves to the ground
A carousel of emotion, inhaling aerosol motion
What other secrets are kept from her, it has to be destined
That the man who rejected her is out there expecting her
[Chorus]
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me (Cause she's crumbling)
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl and I don't see who can help me
If you see me, just walk by, please don't mind me
Cause I'm dust to the world, just a little girl, just a little girl
credits
from Clinical,
released March 6, 2014
Written, recorded by Clinical. Chorus by Rebecca Ramer
Clinical is a Boston based rapper/producer born and raised in Rhode Island. Coming from independent, underground hip hop
and garage band jams, Clinical joins different musical influences, creating beats that incorporate live instruments with virulent samples. Clinical raps in relentless conversation style, hitting everything from corporate and government control to family love and tribulations....more
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