Mother dearest, let me inherit the earth. Your mother is a woman and women like her cannot be contained. You must wear it like she wears disappointment on her face.
You go to the bathroom to apply your mother's lipstick. You find the black tube inside her beauty case where she keeps your father's old prison letters. Theo Wargo/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "Accountability" We blame for the night for the dark, for the ghosts. Her hips grind, pestle and mortar, cinnamon and cloves. Pull me in, pull me in, pull me in." Sometimes when he'd have her nipple in his mouth, she'd whisper, "Oh, my God." That, too, is a form of worship. God was in the room when the man said to the woman, "I love you so much. Wakes up smelling of zinc, grief sedated by orgasm, orgasm heightened by grief. Her heaven will be a love without betrayal. Most bomb p*ssy who, because of me, sleep evaded. Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted.
Here lies the mother of my children, both living and dead. So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me? Here lies the body of the love of my life, whose heart I broke without a gun to my head. Theo Wargo/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "Apathy" Why can't you see me? Why can't you see me? Why can't you see me? Everyone else can. My father's arms around my mother's neck, fruit too ripe to eat. We can pose for a photograph, all three of us. Are you cheating on me?Ĭheating? Are you cheating on me? "Anger"
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I grew thickened skin on my feet, I bathed in bleach, and plugged my menses with pages from the holy book, but still inside me, coiled deep, was the need to know. I crossed myself and thought I saw the devil. I sat alone and begged and bent at the waist for God. I whipped my own back and asked for dominion at your feet. I got on my knees and said 'amen' and said 'I mean.' Went to the basement, confessed my sins, and was baptized in a river. In that time, my hair, I grew past my ankles. Fasted for 60 days, wore white, abstained from mirrors, abstained from sex, slowly did not speak another word. Closed my mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less awake. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News/Getty Images "Denial" The past and the future merge to meet us here. In the tradition of men in my blood, you come home at 3 a.m. Unknown women wander the hallways at night. I tried to make a home out of you, but doors lead to trap doors, a stairway leads to nothing. So what else did Beyoncé say in Lemonade? Here it is, broken down by title: "Intuition" But you are the love of my life." Deep stuff, am I right? "Anger" ends with the words "Why can't you see me? Everyone else can," while "Apathy" begins with, "So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me?" In the middle of "Resurrection," she says, "Why are you afraid of love? You think it's not possible for someone like you. What does it all mean?īeyoncé speaks slowly and distinctly against quiet backgrounds with crickets in the distance. More often than not, the words in Lemonade were eerie. Is Lemonade all about Jay Z? Is it about Beyoncé's parents? Did Jay Z cheat on her? Is everything OK? But perhaps the most powerful element to the album was Beyoncé's speaking parts throughout the songs and chapters, which features poetry by Warsan Shire, a Somali-British poet. It left fans feeling #blessed, but also with tons of unanswered questions.
From diving off buildings to cheating allegations to wedding photos, the visuals, along with the poetic music, were top-notch. Remember how confused you felt after seeing the trailer for Lemonade? Well, if you watched Beyonce's visual album on HBO, which combined film, art, and some incredible new songs, it may have left you just as perplexed.