Intruder Alert
She said there was no love in her heart,
Cause one day a rapist attacked her and broke that all apart,
She said there was no way to fix it or to cover her scars,
Then one day a guy came along and probably could help her start,
He was sincere, made her believe it was safe, for her to trust again,
Before long she was cool with giving hugs to him,
Knew that it was right, cause something was wrong,
The alarms in her mind didn’t tell her he didn’t belong,
There was no..
This is the first, I don’t know what you call it, stanza or something from Lupe Fiasco’s song “Intruder Alert” on his sophomore album, The Cool. I’ve listened to the whole song (and if you listen to it, the entire song is not about the above story) and i’m still not sure how I feel. It seems like women song-writers and artists talk about domestic violence and even sexual assault from time to time but you almost never hear a man go into that area. Even if this comes off as lacking some sort of authenticity, I think it’s pretty consistent to his general style of music writing. Whether he’s successful in getting his point across, is up to you. In his debut album, he talked about sex-workers, white supremacists, drug dealers and tries to get the listener to sympathize with everyone on some level. In any case, I guess it takes some guts for him to write these kinds of lyrics, include these kinds of stories on such a popular album.