beans&cornbread

verse 1 (spoken southern diary rap) what if i fail what if they laugh what if i get uneasy when they point when i pass what if i look and what if it’s dumb what if i’m crazy what will they say when it comes will they send love or scroll right past treat my whole story like it never meant to last i got something calling me from deep inside like i’m supposed to speak like i’m meant to share my side like i’m shivering that i care but i’m writing anyway trying to leave a little truth where my silence used to stay ⸻ pre-chorus (build tension — soft singing tone) i climbed uphill through mountains through geography and grit found a version of myself i didn’t know existed yet left right left right kept moving through the night didn’t know where i was going just knew something felt right ⸻ chorus (rihanna-style emotional release) beans and cornbread kept me warm somehow purple pigs big dreams i still see them now silly heads silly little things left right left right still learning how to breathe ⸻ verse 2 (rap again — deeper, more reflective) through days i vanished through nights i moved did things that weren’t right just to feel something prove adrenaline and laughter warm and bright inside trying just to hold on to the pieces of my mind and when memory catches up like a shadow in your view you realize the distant version used to still be you therapists never brought me to understand my facts i had to learn survival through the stomping of my tracks left right left right forced to move like that stomped my way through darkness never turning back ⸻ chorus (repeat but stronger vocal) beans and cornbread kept me warm somehow purple pigs big dreams i still see them now silly heads silly little things left right left right still learning how to breathe ⸻ bridge (quiet emotional moment — very rihanna-coded) for ways to distract awareness of what haunted me at night i disappeared through days and learned to live inside the fight but somewhere in the motion somewhere in between i found the girl i used to be still walking next to me ⸻ final chorus (lift) beans and cornbread kept me warm somehow purple pigs big dreams i still see them now silly heads silly little things left right left right now i finally breathe