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Hurdles

from I Am Water by Jesse Abraham

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I learned at a young age / That just cause you're young doesn't make you safe / I was putting dirt on a grave / Before I had grown old enough to shave / Man, I could barely lift that shovel / Was a struggle but the trouble that I felt soon doubled / My dad died was I ten / He was healthy and young and had a new girlfriend / My mom never made amends / Then six months passed, I'm at a funeral again / My uncle wasn't healthy like my father / But the good die young, and the old die harder / Wasn't a martyr / I ain’t sacrifice a thing / Might’ve been smarter to let myself feel the pain / But instead I learned how to function / Smile for the people who expect you to crumble / And now I know / That a hurdle hurts more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go / I had always seen on TV / What it's like to be weak / That wasn’t gonna be me / I tried to be strong for my sister / Our dad was gone and Mom didn't seem to miss him / It was wrong how he left her / Was it wrong how he left us? / I didn't ever consider it / That's just what death was / Fast forward two years / My mom sits me down to talk but it's just tears / She tells me that my best friend Shaun / Got hit by a car and he's dead, he's gone / She cried and hugged me and I felt / Nothin / I was shocked / I was scared / I was 12 / "So this is what my life is bout to be? / I can make it / I can take through these bouts," I believed / Did I grieve? / No, not really / Too hurt to feel pain / So I pretended I was healing / And now I know / That a hurdle hurts more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go / Scarred but not scared / 14 and fearless / Nervous bout nothin / Terrified and tearless / Never cried / Never shied away from tryin / My motto became ‘if I'm not cryin, I'm lyin” / Cause pain woulda been real / But my strength wasn’t / A man allows himself to feel hurt / A child doesn’t / So when another friend died the next year / Cuz he jumped off of a bridge / I allowed myself to feel / I knew the meaning of temporary / The cemetery was my secondary seminary / And that’s how I feel in February / Power is helpful but pain is necessary / To grow is to develop / Develop can mean to break / To break can mean to struggle / And struggle can lead to strength / So the lesson that I learned might sound strange / But the real strength’s ingrained in the pain / And now I know / That a hurdle hurts more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / The hurt’ll hurt a little bit more / Little bit more / If the hurdle is yours / Let it go.

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from I Am Water, released January 29, 2014
Prod. K.O. Beatz

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Jesse Abraham Brooklyn, New York

UMA Lyricist of the Year Jesse Abraham was born in NYC. His debut LP, One Day, spent weeks on DJBooth’s Top 5 & was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2011 Underground Music Awards. In '12, HipHopDX declared him their “DXNext” artist, right at the start of Abraham’s push towards his next full-length LP, the project entitled I Am Water, scheduled for a 1/29/13 drop via Fat Beats Records. ... more

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