• Mama’s making rosaries

    I pray her prayers’ll cover me

    She can hear it when I speak

    I’ve tried sparing her the honesty 


    This city makes it hard to breathe

    Counting money and losing sleep

    Seeing me, you’re seeing green

    Try to commodify the best of me


    My heart don’t trip

    But my feet might

    You’re bidding on my soul

    But there’s no price

    The way you take a woman and romanticize 

    Her pain, her pleasure, her sacrifice


    My heart don’t trip

    But my feet might

    You’re bidding on my soul

    But there’s no price

    The way you take a woman and romanticize

    Her pain, her pleasure, her sacrifice

  • I called mom sobbing, just being like, I can't do it. I can't do it. I feel like a little bird, and there's like someone's hands around me, and it’s just like, slowly, slowly squeezing me, and I, I'm gonna suffocate. And she was like, that's not good, Bella, that's not good.

    -Bella Genta

  • Corner of Church & Ninth 

    Swallowing my pride

    Three hours till my flight 

    This no time to fight


    I step to the side

    Wait on my tears to dry

    Confessing that you’re right

    Just for peace of mind 


    Didn’t mean to make you feel so comfortable 

    I’m gon have to charge you for that video

    Lying bout your dreams like they were made for two

    Curled up in your room

    I was a fool for you


    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd still

    Touch me the same

    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd still

    Call my name

    Waiting, hoping, praying I’d be enough

    To make you wanna change

    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd be

    Half the man that you claimed 


    So don’t think you can fix all this with a kiss

    Had me fly out, meet your family, had you talking bout kids

    I’m not dealing with your shit

    And the friends you’re sleeping with

    God bless the next girl

    When you’re her problem to fix


    Didn’t mean to make you feel so comfortable 

    Yes of course i'm charging for that video

    Lying bout your dreams like they were made for two

    Were you that vain

    Or was I just that gullible?


    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd still

    Touch me the same

    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd still

    Call my name

    Waiting, hoping, praying I’d be enough

    To make you wanna change

    Waiting, hoping, praying you'd be

    Half the man that you claimed

  • I want to see you- and I think you are- let go of a lot of the narratives of what other people told you and what you told yourself make you important or worthy. It's no big secret that you're gorgeous and you're talented and you're warm and all those kinds of things… But if one day you want to be a bitch, you're allowed to do that.

    -Bella Genta

  • Rumors fill up my phone

    But nothing’s factual

    Swear they love you

    Then fold, then they fold, no

    I'll probably regret giving this my energy

    I'm not the type to go and clear my name

    But you don’t know me babe

    Say you’ve heard some things

    But you don’t got no receipts

    Say you heard about me

    None of that he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    Fuck whatever he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    None of that he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    Fuck whatever he said, she said

    If he say I’m the one, he’s in pursuit

    She gon say that that’s just what she do

    And if you’re taking their word for truth

    Then what does that say about you?

    Smiling my face like we’re cool

    This ain’t nothing new

    Say you heard about me

    None of that he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    Fuck whatever he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    None of that he said, she said

    Say you heard about me

    Fuck whatever he said, she said

    I’m not explaining to nobody

    Seems like you already know buddy

    Don’t need my story no y’all got it

    Y’all got it now I’m not explaining to nobody

    Seems like you already know buddy

    Don’t need my story no y’all got it

    Y’all got it now

  • I don't want you to ever lose how deeply you feel, or how deeply you love. But I want you to love yourself and love your life so fucking deeply that when someone is not contributing to that, that you choose to love yourself more. Right, if it was little G they were treating like that, or if it was little Sofia, they were treating like that, or even if it was me, would you accept what you're getting?

    -Bella Genta

  • Finish your sentence

    It’s the last one you’ll get

    I’ve already done my time

    For the guilt on your breath


    Know that I’m better off, getting lost

    Prefer riding solo 

    You’re getting off, paying off

    Rent from my photos 


    You dream of redemption

    While I sleep in his bed


    I pray, you’ll stay

    Far removed

    I’m not your muse

    Go find, some other kind

    Of pretty fool

    Who’s stupid enough to love you


    Maybe you were wrong

    Maybe this is karma

    Why you picking battles 

    When the war’s already won?

    I waited at the corner

    You got what you wanted

    Now you miss the old me

    Well, look at what you taught her


    I’m better off, getting lost

    Prefer riding solo

    You’re getting off

    showing off, all our old photos 

    You dream of redemption,

    While I kiss him instead


    I pray, you’ll stay

    Far removed

    I’m not your muse

    Go find, some other kind

    Of pretty fool

    Who’s stupid enough to love you

    Who’s stupid enough to love you

  • I can’t fake it

    You done put this fire in me

    Staying patient

    Cautious where my heart is headed

    But you got me like

    Please pick up the phone when I’m all alone

    needing you right here

    Who’s been on your mind

    Got your time

    Like that ain’t my shit

    If I fall, will I land safely?

    Give you my all

    Will you waste it?

    Cus I’m on call

    I been patient

    I’m too involved

    My heart is aching

    Is it my fault

    If I call you baby

    Would you disgrace me?

    Too late for praying

    You already got the best of me

    God-forsaken

    Oh I could be a miracle

    If only you believe

    But you got me talking to myself

    “get yourself together

    baby we’re right here”

    It’s wild in my mind

    All the butterflies making it so clear

    If I fall, will I land safely?

    Give you my all

    Will you waste it?

    Cus I’m on call

    I been patient

    I’m too involved

    My heart is aching

    Is it my fault

    If I call you baby

    Would you betray me?

  • Say something

    Don’t leave it til the morning

    Sweet nothings

    We can no longer afford them


    On a late night

    And you’re downtown

    But it can’t wait now

    Didn’t kiss me on

    Your way out

    Thought I knew you, well
    Thinking you would stick around

    Maybe you think it would be easier to love somebody else


    Was I a fool for nothing?

    Following your lead

    Playing it cool, it’s nothing

    If I’m not what you need

    I thought we were onto something

    With you on top of me

    Oh was I a fool for loving

    With no guarantee?


    You begged me to let you in

    Oh you had me convinced

    That I was overly cautious

    In holding up the process

    Of loving you

    When it takes two

    Now I can’t get back

    What’s overdue

    Well I lost all of my commonsense

    And gave you all my innocence


    Shoulda never let my guard down

    You got me driving round

    These midnight streets near your house

    In case you hit me now

    Thinking back, yeah i was good all by myself

    But you been turning me into somebody else


    Was I a fool for nothing?

    Following your lead

    Breaking my rules becoming

    Your new fantasy

    Thought we were onto something

    With You on top of me

    Was I a fool for loving

    With no guarantee

  • Anytime you change, anytime you shift- for me, there's this deep fear and this deep pain of loss, of like, what parts of me am I losing that I really love but I have to leave behind? That's the painful part for me.

    -Bella Genta