this is lit my most favourite song you've ever written i love it so much

this is a song i wrote about turning 18. aka all the associated grief, of things u thought u would have ages to figure out by this time that still arent figured out etc etc. this is lit j the live version i sang at school the other day ! maybe ill do a proper version after exams or something like that. idk !! also  to everyone who said this song reached them i love you i love you so so much. the fact that the stories i write so personally about myself are felt and held so wholly by other people is a kinda magic ill never be able to wrap my head around :’)

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i wrote the lyrics of this song at a kali maa temple in hyderbad, india. 

￼the song is about fate and prayer. i believe in fate, and how i don’t have any real control over the way the dominoes fall. but i still pray for the people i love, despite believing that it’s all out of my control anyway. and that’s !! confusin !!

‘tree roots’ are a metaphor for prayer. they ground me, they support me, and yet i find myself tripping over them. also, prayer and religion literally form my cultural roots so yeah !

at various points in the lyrics, the ‘i’ singing swaps from me to God, but i think for the most part the protagonist can be both. 

it’s totally up 2 u . (except it isn’t because your decisions aren’t urs if u believe in an objective fate. haha.)

tree roots

من النهر إلى البحر

are you watching
there is nowhere left to go 
would i matter if i looked like someone you know 
all your money and good deeds 
will not return my blood to me
from the river to the sea 
please do not forget me

#freepalestine

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shr¡ya

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