The Other Half - Jidenna

Every man deserves a woman

Every woman deserves a man

So, I’m about to ask

I have feel the strange vibration

And I had a lot of patience

But where is my other half?

Can somebody say?

Can somebody tell?

I love her, will I love her?

Can’t you hear my pray?

Many many days

I’ve wondered, will I wonder?

I wonder why she left me

I wonder why she left me

(Bring it back)

I wonder why (Yeah) she left me

I pray for my niggas surviving the pen

Demons taking my friends

Boys pretending they’re men

Bitch, don’t fuck up my zen

My homie told me you violated a body

And shawty, that put me on ten

She beggin' me now to add it to the list of the feelings I gotta keep in

Ain’t that the root of the drama?

How we just lock out the trauma

Fighting within, fighting without

Fighting, divide it and conquer

Like God didn’t make us compatible

They wanted to turn us to animals

We lynching at will, a lynch manual

But niggas are back from sabbatical (I wonder why)

Jaded on mental, us

The reason our family slipping up

'Cause our women won’t submit to us

You let a bitch run a crib and

Say it’s the bitch in us

We dominate to overcompensate

Our bravado dripping with the cowardice

Our marching power feeling powerless

Like I gotta get my niggas outta this hell, outta this spell

From the pill, on the powder, fish scales

From a rapper with the loudest tip drills

We don’t win with no amount of pistols

In a battle on the soul

Motherland be like

We can see eye to eye

They know it’s by design

That in the dark we shine

And that’s the bottom line

When we’re together, we stay strong

But they don’t want us to last long

We can see eye to eye, we can see eye to eye, yeah

(Bring it back)

Forgive me for the side I’ve shown

Can’t control this other half here on my own

I said forgive me for the side I’ve shown

Can’t control this other half here on my own, yeah, yeah, yeah

Uh

Why she left me, shit got way too messy

Show my mask to the world

Show my worst to my bestie

You were larger than

Got my Poppa temper

Don’t fuck with my dinner

Touch it, and you die like

That’s the rage in a age coming to a end

'Cause we must be greater men than we ever been

You know, you know we don’t break, we don’t bend, we resilient

They studying our genes

We the creme de la creme

We can see eye to eye

They know it’s by design

That in the dark we shine

And that’s the bottom line

When we’re together, we stay strong

But they don’t want us to last long

We can see eye to eye, we can see eye to eye, yeah

Forgive me for the side I’ve shown (Oh yeah)

Can’t control this other half here on my own, yeah (Oh yeah)

I said forgive me for the side I’ve shown (Oh yeah)

Can’t control this other half here on my own, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah)

Inside your window

Inside your window, remedies

A part of you, inside of me

Don’t forget shedding tears on woman’s knee

All we need’s empathy and this recipe

Close your eyes, feel the shoes could fit on your feet, yeah

I could see through, to the real you

Got the sharp side, like a hawk eye

I don’t want your skin, but from within

your eyes with the thick skin

Inside your window, ahh

Inside your window

But ain’t it amazing?

That it’s still love we’re receiving

Oh, and we could fill up the spaces

Oh, and piece it all back to one

And it’s amazing (Oh it’s amazing), Oh, it’s still love we’re receiving

Yeah, and we could fill up the spaces

Oh, and piece it all back to one (Piece it all back to one, mmm)

And it’s amazing, whoa, it’s still love we’re receiving

Oh, and we could fill up the spaces

Oh, and piece it all back to one (Piece it all back to one)

And it’s amazing, mmm, no, no, and it’s amazing

And it’s amazing, ahh, ahh