These Tears ft. Natalie Lauren & Rich Perez Lyrics

Because y'all know how it feels, right?

Like, when you're around people that are grieving

It can be very difficult to be around people that are sad and depressed and grieving

You almost don't know what to do

You don't know what to say

But the places that were so liberating and so comforting

Were the places that allowed me to feel like I can be all those things

And love and intimacy were never in jeopardy

Like, I was broken

I was fragile

I was doubtful

I was paralyzed

These tears

They taste different

I think this happens often times in faith community

They feel different going down

If I were to experience sadness, people would say, but joy

Cause These tears

They taste different

They feel different going down

They feel different going down

Don't give me cliche when I'm questioning God

Don't give me easy answers when the questions is hard

Like if it's going to be all right, why I'm left in the dark?

Is death a blessing or not?

Would certain lessons ever get learned?

If loved ones never slept in the sod

Grief ain't like Netflix at all

Can't choose your seasons or when to exit the plot

Pressure's a lot

These tears

They taste different

They feel different going down

Cause These tears

They taste different

They feel different going down

Yeah

Let me cry

Let me feel

Let me try

Let me heal

Yeah, my eyes very filled

Yeah, my life very real

Yeah, my life very real

Yeah, my eyes very filled

Let me try

Let me heal

Three letters, R-I-P

Keep taking all out of me

Please, baby, pardon me

I done lost a part of me

Cliches, I ain't ask for those

I need a space where I can ask for hope

Life change pastor spoke

Dust to dust, casket closed

Yeah

I thought it passed me by, but that's a lie

Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy

My world different

I'm talking to my girl different

Altercation, arguing for energy

I'm escaping, digging a hole through Shawshank

Andy Dufresne, small shank

Drawing blanks

My memories was vivid

Then they all take the bulb away

Start to fade

I'm in the water

Hard to wait

It's hard to wait for God to save

It's all a daze

Don't give me cliche when I'm questioning God

Don't give me easy answers when the questions is hard

Like if it's going to be all right, why I'm left in the dark?

Is death a blessing or not?

Would certain lessons ever get learned?

If loved ones never slept in the sod

Grief ain't like Netflix at all

Can't choose your seasons or when to exit the plot

Pressure's a lot

I think this happens all the time in the faith community where

if I were to experience sadness, people would say, but joy

If I were to experience fear, people would say, but faith

If I were to experience doubt, people would say, but trust

And what it, what that conditioned me to believe was that

my feelings were juxtaposed to faith

And I, I realized that as I understood by virtue of people that were

giving me the permission to be broken and fragile was

my feelings of sadness, depression, and fear and anxiety

They weren't enemies, but allies to faith

They helped me to see God more clearly