Naïka – Layers (Official Lyric Video)

I wrote Layers to reflect the complexities of identity. Growing up, I never felt like I fully belonged anywhere, and I’ve always hated being confined to a single box. We’re so much more than the labels society places on us. This song is my way of embracing the layers that make us unique and encouraging everyone to celebrate the beauty of their multifaceted selves.

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🎤 Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Cheri,
Allow me to lay the story
Knees deep and I’m in it for the glory
Just a girl tryna navigate the world
Big dreams in her hands and a complex identity
I hate the boxes they suffocate me
Big claustrophobia
It’s not simple
It’s never simple

Late bloom I took some time to figure out
Who I was felt hollow in my skin
Wings clipped early but I did arise
Caterpillar, chrysalis, boss lady fly -I
Roll up and rest my eyelids
Been around the world enough to say this
Everybody’s trying to find where they fit
But it all comes down to this

Chorus:
I got layers, you got layers, we got layers
I got layers, she got layers many flavors
There’s not one right way to be
More than what the eye can see
Baby all these layers
Keep me warm and make me, me.

Verse 2:
And when they tell me that I “don’t look like I’m Haitian”
I say: “nan gyet marain ou”
I finally found my peace and I’m done getting sentimental
“Too this, too that, not enough this, prove that”
Lord knows,
You get used to switching codes
“Tell me where you from? Where you really, really from?”
Citoyenne du monde, child of the world
Dans ce grand mélange
Where do I belong?
I got my roots from Haiti to Madagascar
TCK raised in Africa
French vanille avec la voix de miel
Find me mixing my ugali with poisson gros sel

Chorus:
I got layers, you got layers, we got layers
I got layers, she got layers many flavors
There’s not one right way to be
More than what the eye can see
Baby all these layers
Keep me warm and make me, me.

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Written by Naïka | Produced by Caye

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