Joy In The Mourning (Feat. Laura Mvula)

There's no way to clothe what I've laid naked
There's no way to hide the burning sun
I am nearly unconscious
Barely existing
Love is pressing me
Out of living
Out of dying
There is no use in resisting
I used to wonder
Who would want their heart broken
But now that mine has been split open
I wonder who would want their heart closed
Ever
Can you drink from the coconut without striking it
Can you smell the aloeswood without lighting it
There's so much sweetness is violence
So much beauty in breaking
Can you birth without bleeding and crying and screaming and dying
I've been lying living on the outside of life
Bleeding my gums against the coconut's shell
But not until I smashed my hardened heart
Against harder rocks
Did I learn that living is a labor
And dying is an art
And there's beauty in the breaking
And joy in the mourning

Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the mourning

I could never despair because
Imagine Jonah with no whale
Imagine Joseph with no well
Jesus Christ noel
Oh y'all don't study the prophets oh well
Make sure my daughters know well
The true believer takes no L
The true believer takes no L
Even my brothers that wake up in the AM with the AR
Like Kendrick with no "L"
Treat Regan like a saint the way the snow fell
Everyone knows that coke sells
But forget that souls sell wholesale
Y'all play gangster then go tell
Because you're softer than what hoes sell
Forget jail
The devil got y'all moving like there's no hell
Shipwrecked on a lake of fire with no sail
When greed and lust prevail
The shaton have you imprisoned with no cell
Like 25 to life
But I'm like 20 5s for life
Keep it 100
Hypocrites will not survive the night
Poem sounding like a thief in the night
Some kinda Christ
Give the blind their sight
Give the dead their life
I willed a fortune no Vana White
Called the wife planned a flight
To a remote location where the sand is white
To reflect on God's creation it's only right
I'm a reflection of God, Creator, it's only right

So I can never despair because
Because Imagine Jonah with no whale
Imagine Joseph with no well
I mean Jesus Christ noel
Oh y'all don't study the prophets oh well
Make sure my daughters know well
That the true believer takes no L
The true believer takes no L
The true believer takes no L
The true believer takes no L

But joy
Even a long life is a short night
But joy
Even a long life is a short night
But joy cometh in the morning
Fa inna ma'al usri yusra
Inna ma'al usri yusra
Even a long life is a short night but joy
La illaha illa anta
La illaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu minal thalimeen
Astaghfirullah Rabbi wa atubu ilaih
Astaghfirullah