just for me

Just Leila

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bits of pieces

You all live in my reality
I created you and you and me
Everything’s a story
Product of my curiosity

Lot of lil strings between us all
We pull and get pulled so far
Swirling bits pieces made of stars
We are yes we are part of it all

Some green some gold warm desert glows
Some sage some spice and smoky lights
Champagne we paint a bubbly sky
Away we sway in my delight

Lot of lil strings between us all
We pull and get pulled so far
Swirling bits of pieces made of stars
We are yes we are part of it all

Champagne flowing in my veins
Today is every single day
Buffets here to entertain
Away we flying in my plane
Come fly in my plane

Cause people need a story
Cause people need a story we depend
Our minds are designed
To filter and to fill
To want and to will
To take and to build
A recreation
A simulation
With bits of pieces
We make our reasons
But if you die in the mind
You die in real life
So fill your story
With bits of pieces
But just remember
To not believe ’em
Your mind’s a maker
An instigator
Till sooner or later
We’re back in nature

Lot of lil strings between us all
We pull and get pulled so far
Swirling bits of pieces made of stars
We are yes we are part of it all

bébé?

Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer?
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé.
Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer?
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé.

On a passer des nuits entières à parler de bébé
Tu m’a dit attends, faut d’abord pratiquer
Et même si tu ne m’entend pas je suis à tes côtés
Mais ca y’est, y’en a marre d’avoir peur
Il faut que tu sache

Je veux un bébé 
Fais moi un bébé
Veux-tu un bébé
Un bébé avec moi

Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer?
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé.
Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer?
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé.

En tant que femmes tout le monde essaie de nous dire comment faire, comment être
Tant d’opinion bidons de gens qui doivent se taire
Et même avec ou sans enfants jugées on se sent
Critiquées, blâmées, censurées
Je suis pas désolé…

Je veux un bébé 
Fais moi un bébé
Veux-tu un bébé
Fais moi un bébé
Un bébé avec moi

Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé
Tu veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer, veux m’aimer
Je veux un bébé, un bébé, un bébé

don’t be alarmed

Though it was dark in the prison cell
There were no thoughts that I was in hell
my captors were worried
Of me absurdly 
Bustling in and checking me out
Testing all the locks not stressing me out
I was just sitting there and waiting
Watching everybody operating

Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be don’t be don’t be
Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be don’t be don’t be
Don’t be alarmed

I looked inside - inside my mind
I was mesmerized by what I found
There were no doors no walls no locks
All along I knew I could walk
Guards freaking out like little ants
Oh the big collapse, our lives might end
But I was always free and
We can stop this pretend

Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be don’t be don’t be
Don’t be alarmed
Don’t be don’t be don’t be
Don’t be alarmed

Prison free …

more than dna

Voices in my head
Even family’s not friend
You’re so pretty like your mom
Let me straighten that hair up

Brushing, tugging, roughing, judging every strand of curl
(Matay garfousH / they don’t know)
Touching, smiling, lying, seeping energies to curse
(Shnou tey dirou / what they’re doing)
Afraid to see what you call love is only what you need
(Matay garfoush / They don’t Know)
Trained to please don’t leave us swimming in our own disease

I don’t have to stay, buried in your ways
I’m telling you I’ve already walked away
I don’t have to pay for sharing in your name
I’m telling you I’m more than DNA

I’m more than DNA
Breaking out of this cell
I’m more than DNA
Disentangling twisted strands

Wanting more from life
Is evolutionarily divine
Leaving shit behind
A symptom of my ever-growing mind

(Mithl sarough / Like a Rocket)
Oh how open I am feeling when my ears and eyes are closed
(Ghanen Terou / Going to fly)
Seeing clear begins with looking in and knowing that you’re home

I don’t have to stay, buried in your ways
I’m telling you I’ve already walked away
I don’t have to pay for sharing in your name
I’m telling you I’m more than DNA

I’m more than DNA
Breaking out of this cell
I’m more than DNA
Disentangling twisted strands

Kan khasnee al waqt besh en shouf wa nfhem / I needed time to see and understand
Aljawab aich ma3aya / that the answer lived in me
Al maghrebia al jadeeda / a new Moroccan
semiwnee gheir Leila / Call me Just Leila

Wahad el nhar tqalbou 3liya matelkawni / One of these days you’ll be looking for me and you won’t find me

ché pas

Ché pas, Ché pas ou est-ce qu’on est / I don’t know, I don’t know we’re we are
Ché pas, Ché pas qu’est-ce qu’on fait / I don’t know, I don’t know what we’re doing

desert song

I can’t fight her power
She is mine I am hers
Circles, death and then birth
She lives through me and I serve

This our desert song

From the desert I was born and the desert I go to
Just a little water I can make it I can bloom

I keep on walking keep on walking I’m in tune
I keep on flowing keep on flowing in the dunes

In the desert
In the desert 

I hear her singing in the sand
I hear her echo through the land
The winds they bring me to her feet
There’s nothing left to do but weep
She holds me sweet perfume oh I think this is peace
I dig my feet in deep oh I will never leave

In the desert
In the desert

I can hear her
I can feel her
I can be her
I can be her
I can be be
I can be be be
I can be be her

This our desert song

just for me

Of course, of course I care what people think.
It sucks to say, I don’t even like saying it

And that’s why just for me
Because, I, it was a reminder
Because I spent so much of my life not having it just for me

It was a gift for myself
It is a gift for myself
Cause I, I was making music,
Or I was thinking of other people at first
And it wasn’t working out

I really needed to tell myself,
I don’t care how people are going to hear it take it, whatever,
just separate myself completely from it 
Because it would fuck with my head
But then this is the one thing that is like,
It can be just me
And I need that protection

Shit, I got a line in one of the songs saying how open I feel when my eyes and ears are closed
It just feels so freeing to block everything else out
Because I don’t always give myself that space in the real world
And I can gift myself the space to be whoever the fuck I want.