[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