Name: Graves
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: Graves is about burying our troubles and running away instead of unpacking and dealing with them. Although we may create the facade of successful lives, the traumas we’ve buried are always ours and tend to resurface and haunt us until it is dealt with accordingly.

Graves

from The Way Back Home by Aisha Badru

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Graves is about burying our troubles and running away instead of unpacking and dealing with them. Although we may create the facade of successful lives, the traumas we’ve buried are always ours and tend to resurface and haunt us until it is dealt with accordingly.

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We fit our pain into a box
Dug a six foot hole and filled it to the top
Then we put a road over the dirt
To navigate away from the hurt

Still back there
Is a box with our name
Where we buried the pain
Where we buried the pain
Still back there is a box with our name
Where we buried the pain, the blame, the shame

We haven’t healed a thing
We’ve just concealed the pain

Built a big city over the graves
Thought the bright lights would keep the ghost away
Bought a nice house at the top of the hill
Like the further away the less we would feel

Still back there
Is a box with our name
Where we buried the pain
Where we buried the pain
Still down there is a box with our name
Where we buried the pain, the blame, the shame

We haven’t healed a thing
We’ve just concealed the pain

We haven’t healed a thing
We’ve just concealed the pain

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from The Way Back Home, released December 3, 2021

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