Cast Aside
[Chorus: Brother Ali]
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Verse 1: Brother Ali]
I'm numb and unaccompanied
Maybe feeling love is a luxury
I hunger for the subtlety of company
The discovery of being touched and seen
I love with reckless abandon
Chest expanding, stretch your whole hand in
Core passion thеre for the grasping
I make no dеmand of my companion
I cross the line from melancholy to madness
Cycle spiral, I feel I'm abandoned like
I ain't valid, taken for granted
Might as well be stranded on another planet
I ain't welcome here
Simply tryna get a clear fresh breath of air
They treat me like a creature from yesteryear
Like it's some uniform that I never wear, let me disappear
[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]
I never understood why they thought I was no good
I guess it look like I was made that way
When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold
I want a home to chase this pain away
[Chorus: Brother Ali]
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Verse 2: Brother Ali]
Hard times in this crazy town
Heartless eyes want to stare me down
They fight corruption with ugliness
Closest thing to justice is punishment
This country is a science project
The old push their hate out, young internalize it
The stand-in that passes for love
Possession and sex and attention and drugs
But maybe if I'm famous
I can exist and won't have to explain it
Erased and nameless or disgraced and shameless
Privacy is sacred
Glad tidings to the strangers
[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]
I never understood why they thought I was no good
I guess it look like I was made that way
When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold
I want a home to chase this pain away
[Chorus: Brother Ali]
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Outro: Brother Ali]
Yo, um, so, I actually recut the hook for "Cast Aside"
I went down, like the way that you told me to the first— when I was at your crib
I just thought that like, the original way I heard it, I was like, "Well, maybe I could pull it off," but
I— so I recut the hook, and it's, it goes down instead of up now
And I think it sounds way better, but I didn't have, uh
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, I didn't have time to—
That, them calling for prayer means it time, we're starting fast, and so
Um, I didn't get a chance to like edit it and send it to you, but
But I recut it and I think it's a lot better
I gotta hear it all put together, but
I think that one is good now
Um, so I'll be able to send it to you tomorrow, in sha' Allah
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Verse 1: Brother Ali]
I'm numb and unaccompanied
Maybe feeling love is a luxury
I hunger for the subtlety of company
The discovery of being touched and seen
I love with reckless abandon
Chest expanding, stretch your whole hand in
Core passion thеre for the grasping
I make no dеmand of my companion
I cross the line from melancholy to madness
Cycle spiral, I feel I'm abandoned like
I ain't valid, taken for granted
Might as well be stranded on another planet
I ain't welcome here
Simply tryna get a clear fresh breath of air
They treat me like a creature from yesteryear
Like it's some uniform that I never wear, let me disappear
[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]
I never understood why they thought I was no good
I guess it look like I was made that way
When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold
I want a home to chase this pain away
[Chorus: Brother Ali]
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Verse 2: Brother Ali]
Hard times in this crazy town
Heartless eyes want to stare me down
They fight corruption with ugliness
Closest thing to justice is punishment
This country is a science project
The old push their hate out, young internalize it
The stand-in that passes for love
Possession and sex and attention and drugs
But maybe if I'm famous
I can exist and won't have to explain it
Erased and nameless or disgraced and shameless
Privacy is sacred
Glad tidings to the strangers
[Pre-Chorus: Brother Ali]
I never understood why they thought I was no good
I guess it look like I was made that way
When I'm walking on this road, I feel so all alone and cold
I want a home to chase this pain away
[Chorus: Brother Ali]
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
Avoiding the eyes of passersby
Tossed away and cast aside
The silence amplified
Too much to say, I can't describe
[Outro: Brother Ali]
Yo, um, so, I actually recut the hook for "Cast Aside"
I went down, like the way that you told me to the first— when I was at your crib
I just thought that like, the original way I heard it, I was like, "Well, maybe I could pull it off," but
I— so I recut the hook, and it's, it goes down instead of up now
And I think it sounds way better, but I didn't have, uh
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, I didn't have time to—
That, them calling for prayer means it time, we're starting fast, and so
Um, I didn't get a chance to like edit it and send it to you, but
But I recut it and I think it's a lot better
I gotta hear it all put together, but
I think that one is good now
Um, so I'll be able to send it to you tomorrow, in sha' Allah