The Healing from The Healing by Jihad

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1.	The Healing	3:46

Lyrics

A little boy growing up, just me and my Mama/
Trying to make it through the day, can’t think of tomorrow.
Stuck on the day before, playing catch-up/
These bills don’t care how you feeling, never let up/
It’s feeling like a set up/
PAC said keep your head up/
Read up, to better understand why we fed up.
Head tough,
Taking care of myself/
In this Lair, taking care is rare in itself.
Preparing to help/
Mama with the bills, putting food on the shelf/
Got paid on the 11th, broke on the 12th.
But it’s all good/,
Thank God for EBT, knock wood/
I got addicted to TV just to get out of the hood/
I should/
Look into pretending some more/
Extending happy endings to all of those I adore/
Shit, I’d settle for the metal hinge to stay on our door/
Everyday’s a compromise with your eyes when you’re poor.

I was inept at theft, until I started stealing/
I was bereft with debt, until it hit the ceiling.
My whole set upset, we got the masses reeling/
Time to press reset, and begin the healing.

I was inept at theft, until I started stealing/
I was bereft with debt, until it hit the ceiling.
My whole set upset, I got the masses reeling/
Time to press reset, and begin the healing.

Childhood poverty trauma real/
It’s hard for me to think financially past a meal/
let alone substantially manage a deal/
to keep from getting manhandled for the whip that I wheel.
I am shortsighted/
I try to fight it/
when my fight or flight has been ignited.
But, it’s easier said than done/
to get anxiety won/
doing money math as I manically run.
Can I afford this, can I afford that/
Thinking the cost of everything is exorbitant.
That’s why we reach for the weed and torch it/
60 hours a week at work ain’t worth it.
Seems I’ve been working my whole life to pay rent/
Can’t save shit/
I’m betting this is a statement.
Most of us can feel,
Most of us have to deal with/
sense it’s most of us, it makes sense to repeal it.

I was inept at theft, until I started stealing/
I was bereft with debt, until it hit the ceiling.
My whole set upset, I got the masses reeling/
Time to press reset, and begin the healing.

I was inept at theft, until I started stealing/
I was bereft with debt, until it hit the ceiling.
My whole set upset, I got the masses reeling/
Time to press reset, and begin the healing.

Afraid I’m gonna get evicted/
Always paid on time, but anxiety addicted.
A forever fear engine/
Resemblin’/
A social control to keep us tremblin’.
And if your scared you’ll work for pay/
That’s just a hair above what you need to save.
That’s a great way to make sure we behave/
Or a gateway to ensure you’re a slave.
I meant that wording/
The intent of rent is to keep us hurting.
Keep us working/
To keep diverting/
Our worth into a landlord’s earnings.
Or should I say an investment/
Hedge fund apartment complex molested.
I hate and detest it/
We’ve been best-ed/
It’s about time that we reset it.
The rent is too damn high/
Y’all remember that guy?
We should give what he did a try/
Demand our needs are met, no compromise/
Why not us renters unionize.

Credits

from The Healing, released May 8, 2025
Producer: Dylahunn

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