(Mmm, yeah)
Why, Naledi?
I need you to tell me why.
Naledi, I look at the pictures of us when we started,
Before all the promises fractured and parted.
You know how completely my world is tied to your grace,
Yet you left me drowning and searching your face.
The shadows in this room are getting so tall,
I’m waiting for a whisper, but I get no call.
Naledi, tell me why you had to hurt me so deep,
When you knew all the promises I swore to keep.
How could you shatter the heart that adored you this way,
When I loved you more deeply than words could ever say?
Oh, tell me why, Naledi.
Music can carry the vulnerability we try to hide,
Yet I'm left here alone with my grief and my pride.
You took the colors and painted them gray,
Turning the warmth of the sun all away.
I’m tracing the ghost of your hand in the sheets,
While the silence of midnight is all that repeats.
Naledi, tell me why you had to hurt me so deep,
When you knew all the promises I swore to keep.
How could you shatter the heart that adored you this way,
When I loved you more deeply than words could ever say?
Yeah, baby, tell me why.
Was it something I said? Was I not enough?
Was the road that we walked just a little too rough?
I’m aching, I’m breaking, I’m losing my mind,
Searching for something that I’ll never find.
(Oh, Naledi...)
So now I am left with these pieces of glass,
Watching the hours and the memories pass.
I gave you the truth, I gave you my soul,
But you left a crater, a dark empty hole.
I’m trying to heal, but the weight is too much,
I’m still reaching out for the ghost of your touch.
Naledi, tell me why you had to hurt me so deep,
When you knew all the promises I swore to keep.
How could you shatter the heart that adored you this way,
When I loved you more deeply than words could ever say?
I loved you, Naledi.
More than words could ever say.
Just tell me why...
(Mmm, baby)
(I'm still here, broken).