Brother Ali’s new album “Us” is probably the best album of the year, and I’ve been bumping it nonstop lately. Pretty much every track is dope, and it was mad hard to pick just one to feature. Babygirl is a song about a woman who was abused as a child, and how it will continue to affect her for her whole life. Click below to listen to Brother Ali’s Babygirl:

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And be sure to follow along with the lyrics after the break.

[Verse 1]
There’s big pieces of her life she can’t remember/
Her mind shuts down, it’s trying to protect her/
Might be for the best to forget/
But it seems like always reappear when she least expects/
Late nights we lay awake/
Drowning in the lake the pours out of her face/
Years later she’s still not safe/
Memories leap out any time any place/
The way he smelled, the way he smiled/
The evil she even recognized as a child/
Hand on her throat, the sting of a fist/
Instead of her first kiss she got this/
Shameful feeling, painful secret/
Lonely knowing that nobody would believe it/
Every wound that escapes her time capsule/
Hurts like the day it was born and it’s brand new/

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there babygirl but I’m here/
I don’t know what to say, I just hear/
If there’s one wish I could make true/
I would shoulder that pain and take it all from you/
Don’t run babygirl don’t run/
You gotta face what you’re fighting head on/
Only one thing I can say in truth/
Gotta deal with the demons before they deal with you/

[Verse 2]
How can she find peace in her mind/
When love means returning to the scene of a crime/
I can feel it inside/
We reopen wounds every time we intertwine/
Such an evil design/
When you can’t even enjoy the sweetness you find/
Trying to see through the tears in your eyes/
And rebuild your shrine one piece at a time/
Made it all fade away/
Colors don’t burn no more, it’s all grey/
Can’t find heaven from within that shell/
But it’s enough of a blessing just not seeing hell/
Constant inner-dialogue/
Say just end this roller coaster ride you’re on/
Only one solution seems final/
Slide into a hole where your pain can’t find you/

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there babygirl but I’m here/
I don’t know what to say, I just hear/
If there’s one wish I could make true/
I would shoulder that pain and take it all from you/
Don’t run babygirl don’t run/
You gotta face what you’re fighting head on/
Only one thing I can say in truth/
Gotta deal with the demons before they deal with you/

[Verse 3]
She said if I was meant to die, he would’ve killed me/
There must be a reason that I still breathe/
I don’t have the tools to rebuild me/
But I still believe that one day I could feel free/
And my body can be mine again/
My eyes can learn how to shine again/
My inner child won’t have to hind and then/
And then when I’m stronger love can be invited in/
Sweet God that’s all I ask of thee/
I’m willing to give what you demand of me/
I’m learning to embrace the reality/
That life doesn’t always turn out how it’s planned to be/
I didn’t deserve what was handed me/
Only one who can grant happiness is me/
What it takes for her to face a day/
I can only hope to be half that brave/

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there babygirl but I’m here/
I don’t know what to say, I just hear/
If there’s one wish I could make true/
I would shoulder that pain and take it all from you/
Don’t run babygirl don’t run/
You gotta face what you’re fighting head on/
Only one thing I can say in truth/
Gotta deal with the demons before they deal with you/