Black Hole by Al Riordan Lyrics
[spoken, echoed]
You know it's difficult to explain to people
Your- uh- body is taken from you, you know?
In an instant
Your consent taken
and your foundation
You have to rebuild everything
[Instrumental of "Burning Star" plays in the background]
At the same time, you have to fight to get people to believe you.
And to fight to stay safe.
Your trust for yourself and others is gone [laughs]
No one ever understands and people stop showing up
'Cause they'll never know exactly what it feels like
And they don't ask
They don't know that there's more going on then you will еver say
Normal people, you know,
worry about food and crushеs and school work
While I was worrying about surviving
and making it through an investigation
Defending my right to my body and my consent
It's isolating
And debilitating
No one deserves to be raped
And no one should have to go through it alone
But I'm alive
And I'm stronger
I made it out the other side of a black hole
You know it's difficult to explain to people
Your- uh- body is taken from you, you know?
In an instant
Your consent taken
and your foundation
You have to rebuild everything
[Instrumental of "Burning Star" plays in the background]
At the same time, you have to fight to get people to believe you.
And to fight to stay safe.
Your trust for yourself and others is gone [laughs]
No one ever understands and people stop showing up
'Cause they'll never know exactly what it feels like
And they don't ask
They don't know that there's more going on then you will еver say
Normal people, you know,
worry about food and crushеs and school work
While I was worrying about surviving
and making it through an investigation
Defending my right to my body and my consent
It's isolating
And debilitating
No one deserves to be raped
And no one should have to go through it alone
But I'm alive
And I'm stronger
I made it out the other side of a black hole