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🔻 Song Insight
“Tolerated” is a truth grenade disguised as a spoken-rap performance piece. Blending confrontation with vulnerability, the track dives deep into the emotional violence of being merely “accepted” rather than truly seen. It calls out performative allyship, social double standards, and the quiet cruelty of conditional love. With sharp lyrics and theatrical harmonies, it exposes how tolerance, when masquerading as support, can feel like a muzzle rather than a hand to hold.

The track’s layered structure — shifting between lo-fi filtered quotes, direct spoken truths, and En Vogue-style harmony breakdowns — mirrors the internal split so many queer people experience: one side shown to the world, the other buried under the weight of others' comfort. “Tolerated” doesn’t ask for understanding. It demands recognition.

🔻 Lyrics
Intro
You say you see me, but don’t get my ways.
Say it’s "tolerated"—'cause I don’t act that gay.
You think that makes you woke? You think that makes you okay?

Verse 1
"I can’t watch that—it’s about two guys. Eww."
What, you think we’re contagious? Like love’s a disease?
Relax, it’s not a scratch-and-sniff video scene.
We won’t rub off or rub on—don’t flinch when I touch your arm.
Just ‘cause I’m gay don’t mean every man’s my type—
Get over yourself, you're not that fine.
Don’t act confused like you’re the victim.
Pushback gets loud, but your silence is the real affliction.

Hook
Tolerance sounds kind...
But it’s got conditions you don’t define.
It says: “I’ll let you be—just don’t make me see.”
That's not love. That’s sanitized cruelty.

Verse 2
"You can sit by me… as long as you're alone."
"Just tone it down, pretend, don't make it known."
That ain’t support—that’s a closeted leash.
You call it freedom, but you're holding the keys.
You hype up lesbians, call it hot,
But flinch at two dudes kissing? That’s your rot.
You lost the plot—
Love is love, and you’re stuck in the knots.

Interlude – Vocal Breakdown
He like dudes.
—And he don’t hide it.
He like d*ck.
You tried to deny it.
He even like the scent of his pits.
Ooh, that man’s legit.
He likes when he’s dressed...
He likes the way they have sex.
He loves his chest, he loves his heart...
He loves his man—every part.

Bridge
You say you see him?
No—you see the parts that fit your frame.
That ain't love—no, that’s just shame...

Build-Up
He tolerates you—
Your unplugged views.
He tolerates the slurs you slide into.
He tolerates the cracks in your ‘jokes’—
He shrugs it off…
But don’t mean he's blind to the smoke.

Climax
Tolerance is a cover-up cloak...
It’s a handshake with a side of choke.
It’s bigotry in a satin robe...
A word that smiles while it says ‘no.’
Get your sh*t straight.

Spoken Bridge
Open hearts, open minds—
That’s the only freedom worth finding.
To love someone’s soul,
Not the packaging that’s assigned them.

🔻 Personal Reflection
There was a time when I felt grateful to be “tolerated.” Like being allowed to exist quietly was a win. But that was never freedom — it was survival. “Tolerated” was born from the realization that silence is not kindness, and invisibility is not safety.

I’ve heard the side comments. I’ve seen the discomfort when I speak freely. I’ve watched people cheer on queer pride from a distance — as long as it didn’t cross into their space, their family, their comfort zone. That subtle exclusion? It leaves marks.

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