Leave Me Be is the funniest song on the album and it is about the Justice card. Both of those things are true at the same time. People expect Justice to arrive heavy. A scale, a verdict, somebody getting what is coming to them. I wrote Track 5 the opposite way. The boundary is real, but the delivery is light. That was the whole point.
The card behind it
The card is about fair measure. What you put in, what you get back, the books being honest. So the song does honest math out loud. I am not cursing anybody out here. I am closing a ledger that stopped balancing. There is a difference, and you can hear it in the tone. The line that holds the most weight is the plainest one: patience does not pay rent. Not a speech. A fact.
The part that took the most work
Writing anger is easy. Writing a boundary that is not angry is the hard version. The first drafts had bite in them, a sharpness that felt good to write and wrong to keep. Justice is not the bitter card. Bitter means you are still holding the rope. The whole move of Leave Me Be is putting the rope down and going back to your tea. You can decline someone fully and still wish them well on their way out.
Where it sits in the story
Track 4 was solitude you chose. Track 5 is the boundary that protects it. Na Mi Sef I Get taught me I was good company. Leave Me Be is what I do to keep the company good. The soft life in the chorus is not laziness. It is the thing you defend once you know what it costs to lose it. The tea is still hot. You are allowed to drink it.