Trilogy won Harmo Award for the Best Dinah/You story
You are a 18 year old, senior in high school in Oakland and have every girl in the school wrapped around your pinky. You're singer/rapper/songwriter and you're not afraid to let people know who yo...
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I was perched on a wooden bench in front of a Yamaha Grand Piano provided to me by the venue I was sitting in. I wanted to perform an acoustic version of the song so I dropped the background track for this song. I was looking at about 6,000 people in front of me who had out their phones either recording or taking pictures. I was about half way through my very first headline tour set and I was preparing to play a song that was written a little while ago.
"So, I know you guys love when I sing about love. And you really like ballads for some reason. But I never really gave you guys a slow ballad,"
They were doing a constant scream as I spoke which is something I don't think I could ever get tired of.
"I wrote this song with a good friend of mine a while ago. Her name is Tori Kelly. You guys might know her. Sorta preppy, curly blond hair, can hit high notes like there's no tomorrow."
They screamed even louder as I mentioned the singer making me smile.
"Well we wrote this song and I wanted to share it with you guys tonight because... well, because I want to show you guys a different side of me I guess."
I turned back to the piano as I played the first note of the song and started singing.
Tell me that's it's over. It's not like we both can't see. That would actually be a weight off my shoulders. Tell me that you've fallen out of love with me.
And I gotta admit that would hurt, But you tryna my feelings only makes it worse for me.
I looked back towards the audience to see that almost everyone in the venue had their phone lights up. I even saw a lighter here and there making me chuckle inside.
So you can hurt me babe. It's not like I've never been hurt before. Cause to tell the truth to you baby, There's only one thing I want, (only one thing I want) Just don't lie me babe.
Tell me that your leaving. Tell me you've been cheating, deceiving me. Now that I could believe it. Tell me that you've found somebody who loves you better than me.
I closed my eyes as I sang the chorus again having a small flashback of feelings that I had the night we wrote the song.
Whatever you do just don't say. That everything is okay. Cause every single minute of every single day I can feel you drifting away. And you tryna spare my feelings, Mess up everything that's killing. Killing me baby, oh.
So you can hurt me babe. It's not like I've never been hurt before, no. Cause to tell the truth to you baby, yeah There's only one thing I want (one thing that I want). Just don't lie to me. Just don't lie to me. Whatever you do just don't lie to me. There's only one thing I want, Just don't lie to me babe. It's not like I've never been hurt before.
