Concrete Pillow

[Chorus: Alli Simpson]
So build me up
And take me home
I’ll leave behind this concrete pillow

[Verse 1: D Minor]
I know it’s hard to see the future and imagine it’s bright
I have dimmed my lights down I keep crashing at night
Every foster home I’m roster in I’m highly distorted
The pain ain’t going nowhere I don’t try to avoid it
Adapted to nightmares so it is hard to stay focused
Homie I’ve been homeless I struggle to know what hope is
Told my bro hold tight a cold night and I hate it
Sleep through the horrors tho not to know if I make it
Used to scrunch up newspaper stuck it under my jacket
Underneath the layers homie I was broken and damaged
Often wondered what happened if I'm loving and happily
I not used to that tho I am destruction and havoc
Sometimes its to much to bare can you carry my load
I know the streets snatch you up so we rarely die old
I used to sleep next to bakeries to gain some warm
Kind of crazy how you save me in the heart of the storm

[Chorus: Alli Simpson]
So build me up
And take me home
I’ll leave behind this concrete pillow
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[Verse 2: D Minor]
My decisions are haunting me I am staring at fate
And you ain’t missing much then watching me deteriorate
Like an undeveloped form which was born for life
Instead tortured in darkness and torn from light
And my burden is so heavy that my neck is weak
Use concrete as a pillow yes I slept on streets
And I don’t understand why its rest in peace
Even tho it ain’t an option for most that left deceased
I can greet you with a smile while I’m calling your name
Understand my grin homie there is torture and pain
And the burden I’m carrying is now a ball and chain
I often run in sunshine then I walk in rain
It’s the tune that smooths me it pours like medicine
My music can tell my story more then I ever can
I ain’t trying to get sympathy or blow up my chest
It’s the only way homie I release all my stress

[Chorus: Alli Simpson]
So build me up
And take me home
I’ll leave behind this concrete pillow
X2

[Bridge: D Minor & Alli Simpson]
It's a concrete pillow
It's a concrete pillow
Lost and lonely and I'm just a shadow
Concrete pillow
It's a concrete pillow
Lost and lonely and I'm just a shadow

[Chorus: Alli Simpson]
So build me up
And take me home
I’ll leave behind this concrete pillow
X2