Written and performed by two members of the NYU Slam Team, the first team ever to win the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) two years in a row.
lyrics
[Fourth Dream - Safia & Jamaica]
my body is a pill, small, and love is the wrong man's tongue to tell
me so
my body dissolves
my body finds men who are water and calls them home
my body is everything that happened to me
love is a thing my body borrows to forget
love is a pill
my body is water.
my body is a tongue and love dissolves
love calls the wrong men home
love makes my body a stain and goes
looking for water on the wrong man's tongue
love is a house, my body is a bath drawn in floodwater
my body trickles in through the floorboards
love is the carpet that I've ruined
love is an alternative to water,
love is just something to do until the wars start
my body is a border drawn up by some man long ago
love is everything that happened in between
love is the floorboards
my body is decoration
love ruined all the carpets
my body is the carpet
my body is the stain
love makes it all dissolve
love is an alternative to home
love is floodwater
my body burned to the ground
my body called the wrong man home
love started the fire
my body is everything that happened after
the wrong man is an alternative to love
the wrong man is a map
home is where he puts the lines
my body is a border drawn by accident
by the wrong man's tongue
love makes scars on my body and calls them borders
the wrong man mistakes my body for a body of water
love let the wrong man decide what my body mistakes for home
love started the fire
my body is a house on fire
my body drew a bath in floodwater
the wrong man is floodwater
love and the wrong man are an alternative to hating my body
my body is a body of water, poured over everything that happened
to me
my body makes every scar an island
the wrong man makes my body small, a pill
love makes the water
and my body dissolves
credits
from Back Up, Black Out,
released August 26, 2013
Poetry (written & performed) - Safia Elhillo
Singing (performed) - Jamaica Osorio
Original song - Lighthome by Matt Corby
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