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Selling God 01:46
Everyone’s selling God and Sin Everyone’s moving for a bill Money money like they're closing deals People leaving all afraid to feel People moving all afraid to chill Homies getting broke chasing things Busy in selling souls to buy a dream And another dream and another dream and another thing And another dream and another dream and another dream and another thing! Homes are empty, fathers are missing Life’s tricky mama let me sing Leaders are lying, truth’s missing Life's fickle Annie I keep on living But Little racists are back in the biz, railing against Everything and everyone that isn’t the right Colour they like Witch-hunts, it’s Salem again Police States, public trials Kangaroo courts, social media Loneliness and alienation Pointless wars, terrorism: killing fields People dying for no fucking reason 24hr, news cycles: next story please Immigration, refugees People moving, searching for home: murdered at home, hated abroad Rich people, One Percenting Multiple-homes in different places, different nations Poor people can’t even move, it’s money over everything All you others are pieces of shit! Fighting for hand-outs and places to live, in There’s no home for you There's no home for you There's no home for you There's no home for you Stuck in prisons Or in ghettos, or favelas: Social-housing Or other places where even dogs can barely live in Where’s home?
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Get Up 03:22
Refrain I had to grow uuuuup, from the age of 3 months maaa You have to be dowwwwn, for you to get up maaan I had to stand uuuuup, and take the first step maaa She's up in the skiiiiiiies, it's all for my grandmaaa Verse 1 Can't point to home to save my life, the only things i know are laybyes Can't lay to rest in these lonely streets, just wave a hand and pass 'em by. Countless brothers that i see, Counting losses that i feel. A lot of sisters that i meet, Carrying weights and trying to breathe. Much of the life, that we live Lots of the fights, that we're in: WASTE OF TIME. You see it when you get near, feel it when you get there. You see it when you get here, and get it when it get served. Baabaa! Refrain i had to grow uuuuup, from the age of 3 months maaa You have to be dowwn, for you to get up maaan I had to stand uuuuup, and take the first step maaa She's up in the skiiiiiiies, it's all for my grandmaaa I had to stand uuuuup, and take the first step maaa She's up in the skiiiiiiies, it's all for my grandmaaa Verse 2 There are skeletons in these homes. Who's never caught in the zone? Who's never searching for home? Countless rebels that i see, but i never get to see a cause. A lot of people claim to live, all i see are shadows fighting to breathe. I see my homies, on these boiling streets, clothing shiny: covering defeat. A lot of fathers missing , Loyalties: twisted, a thousand questions to God just fight to stand up, These ways can get dark, before you get home Caught in a maze Getting lost in these ways Baabaa! Closing Chorus (JustPercy) You got to get uuuuup, and move on now You got to get uuuuup, and move on now You got to get uuuuup, and move on now You got to get uuuuup, and move on now
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Refrain It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head It's all in your head Hoooo! (SWITCH TEMPO) It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head Verse 1 Strategise in here Load their hearts with fear No one's ever safe It's seeming like a curse Touch their skins and bite and tear Leave their bodies soaked in tears Whoever gives an eff in here, Is better somewhere living safe This world is full of colder hearts and, The warm-hearted always survive, But the narrative's not for them It's for the meaner souls in all of them Refrain It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head It's all in your head Hoooo! (SWITCH TEMPO) It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head Verse 2 I told them dress it down Then you put it up Babe the work's sick as fuck, Keep it minimal: let the homies lap it up I pray they hear the sound This life will be the death of us The words reveal the monsters in us Been trying too hard to clean it up Take a pipe and horse it down There are Pimps and Prophets in this place Puppets and Whores as well Refrain It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head It's all in your head Hoooo! (SWITCH TEMPO) It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head Verse 3 Walk over meet life and kiss it Hurry before It's midlife And crisis Once you take the keys you get in Hell on you and that kind of thinking Where the heck did'you even get it? You can't be locking doors on us Whoever said we want to get in? Let us pass-by in peace Let us by-pass the key: syndrome! Refrain It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head It's all in your head Hoooo! (SWITCH TEMPO) It's all in your head It's all in your head Hhhaa! It's all in your head
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Chorus Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey I'm too far from home I'm too far from home Too far from home Too far from home I'm too far from home Too far from home Ikhaya likhaaashana! Verse 1 We're stuck in a struggle for gain So we're dodging and trudging again A lot of my people are gone Five of my cousins are killers I'm stuck in a bind and a hole It's a struggle to nourish a soul I'm busy trying to make a living But the devil on my shoulder is breathing Annie I'm stronger than that, but the forces are bigger than I am I have a son and some habits to feed So I'm balancing God and some sin I'm tryna be stronger for me And tryna be better for him I will cut a throat, rob and steal, catch a joke, catch some feelings, Poke and choke, move and fall Till I get Back home Chorus Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey I'm too far from home I'm too far from home Too far from home Too far from home I'm too far from home Too far from home Ikhaya likhashaaana! Verse 2 We're pushing the same cart, mess with the same ones and getting the same cuts. We stand on the same place if nothing is changing we blame it on others and forget about us. We're stuck on the same things and harvest the curses and wonder what the hell is wrong with us. You're pushing some daisies I'm picking daffodils you wonder what the Hell is that to us. Do we get to work: and sort it out. Or we stay the same: and flame the fires. Do we hope for change: or we work it out. And get back home Chorus Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey I'm too far from home I'm too far from home Too far from home Too far from home Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey Heyaa heyaa heyaa heya hey I'm too far from home Too far from home Ikhaya likhashaaana!
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I Be 03:03
I was born for love and war Either i love or i draw Heart on the sleeve and knife in the pocket You touch any of mine its my finger in your eye-socket Fear's the constant in all these stories Twisted emotions and darker forces I got a knife scar at eleven years Stabbed a brother at 17 Battled for years,nobody ever wins Saw hell for no bloody reason Lived to tell the tales Zero conceptions of heaven and hell A price is paid;mine's everynight i hardly sleep Messed up breed its me and my brothers who internally bleed Love is foreign to us,but we are searching for it still I was brought to the earth by a broken heart She chose to raise other people's kids 3 months old and living on luck My grandmama homie taught me to live These are the stories that love will reveal Nevermind the shadow in every passing seed A step in the darkness is all that it is Broken voices from fatherless kings Tell us to breathe,Teach us to live, Love us not leave, Lovers that leave, Look at these eyes and love us and leave, A love that is short and a pain that is deep, Chant us to sleep!! My sisters fuck and dream My brothers fuck and leave Searching for faith ,dying to believe, hanging faces: broken dreams Someone heard a scream! Its never safe to dream in here, no one's ever building I read till i can hardly see This world will never be changed by ignorance Too much negative shit Being black is a sin. Seemingly My skin's darker that is everything: that they see in me My mind has no equal, that is everything that i be My son needs food i have no time for monkey business I lay the pain out, like i was born for storms Everytime i touch a nerve, i know that I'm home I'm striving to live By live i mean live Really really live See as far as i please Walk the earth and feel the breeze Feel as deep as i breathe Love as best as i live HOOO!!
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76 AC/DC 02:51
Refrain Me and my homies, everyone's moving like it's 76 in the zone (*4) Verse I told my sisters chill, slow is how you feel Uhm I told my homies sit! then I said the same thing Uhm I told my sisters chill, slow is how you feel Hey! I told my homies sit up! then I said the same thing Uhm It's better they get down, there's no reverse now Hey! It's better they pray hard, it's satanic verses now Hey! It's better they get down, there's no reverse now Hey! It's better they pray hard, it's satanic verses now Hey! World's gone crazy, still we rock n roll Homies get settled...we live a life of whores World's gone crazy, still we rock n roll Uhm Homies get settled...we live a life of whores. Young brothers live, AC/DC Grown brothers here, still on anarchy: anti-PC Young brothers live, AC/DC Uhm Grown brothers here, still on anarchy: anti-PC Uhm Lighter steps on ground, heavy-duted minds Hey! New black breed, life's set on Mars Uhm Lighter steps on ground, heavy-duted minds Uhm New black breed, life's set on Mars Hey! Refrain Me and my homies, everyone's moving like it's 76 in the zone (*4)
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PART 1 [There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now]*2 PART 2 You coming for me? Get on your knees you marrying the pain, get the ring out engage it! You talking to me? Watch out for rains and coming of storms Goliath niggas can't be David! You talking to who? Don't mumble-mumble or hide your shadow mama when you say something let me hear it! You coming for me? You talking to me? You talking to who? You coming for me? It's war! PART 3 Demon dreams Dirty schemes Blood on the wall Grass on the soles You getting no feel You getting no cause Cold cases,nobody shows Living's lying: screaming inside Demon and dreams, a cut in the seam Steady as he goes its not as it seems Striving to live, feeling the pain Striving to breathe, getting the same Hide n Seeking in shadows and games Losing some friends Rock n Rolling all your troubles away so you're always caught up with a blunt and a pen Heavy drinking all your demons away so you're always caught up in some troubles again Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze PART 4 [There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now]*2 PART 5 (Sinkende) Slaughter a goat and talk to the father he comes in a dream Its lonely down there the darker the place the desolate it be The grave is concerned nyana awunaki koze kube nini Mfundisi comes with the holy waters and cleanses the place Futha mfana koze kuphum' idimoni Jika mfana koze khuzi sayoni Dlozi lakhala yek'ubi sangqondo mina angithetheli ngingena inkonzo Darkness in dreams in darkness we dream the father the son the father the son you fathered none Baba kanjani? Sengaswela kangaki? Ingan'ezingaki? Ngathi wena vele nguwe onganginaki Nguwe onganginaki Akazi umama engangisiza kanjani Everyday inkinga ziyanda njabulo iyancipha my light dimming, The devil is grinning The womb of darkness swallows me under your watch unriddle me The water threatens to drown me father save me For the aborted one inkand' idikiz' okwengcwaba likathakathwayo Inkaba kayilahlwa inkanda kayitatshwa Am i condemned to be a wandering spirit in search of a home Father, where is home PART 6 You coming for me? Get on your knees you marrying the pain, get the ring out engage it! You talking to me? Watch out for rains and coming of storms Goliath niggas can't be David! You talking to who? Don't mumble-mumble or hide your shadow mama when you say something let me hear it You coming for me? You talking to me? You talking to who? You coming for me? Its war!
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Mveli Baba 01:29
(Being grown's a pain) Being grown's a pain The battles may change But the war's the same Been searching for the truth My hope's that it's not dead I'm looking for the heart That and other things Hoping that your life You're goin to find it there Nothing to canvass with They say numbers never lie A Ten is never 25 But these numbers never know us We see sugar-coated lines But the numbers never add up Manipulate and drive This world's full of fakers Every word that we say Steps that we take And a touch of the back And a shake of the ass is a testament for the choices we make And a flick of the wrist for the time element for the bad ones we made For a slice of the cake And a flickering faith for the time that is left And the lies that we breathe And the web that we weave For every pasture we leave And the schemes we conceive And the ones that we hurt And the laughter we sharing inspite of setbacks the integrity we have in the face of kickbacks and the love that we have that is trumping the hate and a God we forsake and the tales we believe
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Alt State 01:29
What is Life? Mine's a Frank without the deal Staircase for ending deals Ocean for catching eels I will keep the Blonde for getting free Makeout without a feel Before the sex and baby fears Take a block and make it whole Take a brick and build a home Take a street and give it light Have it miss the scary nights When i move im catching dreams Take a breath and make them live When you move you're getting near Take a step and watch it breathe I was born on dirty streets So i fight and face the fear I was made to never run Temper hot its blazing guns I hit the road and drag some gear A hundred and one things to be done Without the evil over-bearing I came here for God's work Mentally? So sharp im baring fangs (theories) Bang bang and never end Brainstorm for better ways Blazing Pac for better days [Getting stuck on Shaman ways Tippytoeing for the stage]*4
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PART 1 [There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now]*2 PART 2 You coming for me? Get on your knees you marrying the pain, get the ring out engage it! You talking to me? Watch out for rains and coming of storms Goliath niggas can't be David! You talking to who? Don't mumble-mumble or hide your shadow mama when you say something let me hear it! You coming for me? You talking to me? You talking to who? You coming for me? It's war! PART 3 Demon dreams Dirty schemes Blood on the wall Grass on the soles You getting no feel You getting no cause Cold cases,nobody shows Living's lying: screaming inside Demon and dreams, a cut in the seam Steady as he goes its not as it seems Striving to live, feeling the pain Striving to breathe, getting the same Hide n Seeking in shadows and games Losing some friends Rock n Rolling all your troubles away so you're always caught up with a blunt and a pen Heavy drinking all your demons away so you're always caught up in some troubles again Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze Fuck all your dreams, wake up and live; soaking in pain: feeling the breeze PART 4 [There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside There's some drama here, bring your troubles inside Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now Let's sort it Get it out Kick it out It's getting heavy now]*2 PART 5 (Sinkende) Slaughter a goat and talk to the father he comes in a dream Its lonely down there the darker the place the desolate it be The grave is concerned nyana awunaki koze kube nini Mfundisi comes with the holy waters and cleanses the place Futha mfana koze kuphum' idimoni Jika mfana koze khuzi sayoni Dlozi lakhala yek'ubi sangqondo mina angithetheli ngingena inkonzo Darkness in dreams in darkness we dream the father the son the father the son you fathered none Baba kanjani? Sengaswela kangaki? Ingan'ezingaki? Ngathi wena vele nguwe onganginaki Nguwe onganginaki Akazi umama engangisiza kanjani Everyday inkinga ziyanda njabulo iyancipha my light dimming, The devil is grinning The womb of darkness swallows me under your watch unriddle me The water threatens to drown me father save me For the aborted one inkand' idikiz' okwengcwaba likathakathwayo Inkaba kayilahlwa inkanda kayitatshwa Am i condemned to be a wandering spirit in search of a home Father, where is home PART 6 You coming for me? Get on your knees you marrying the pain, get the ring out engage it! You talking to me? Watch out for rains and coming of storms Goliath niggas can't be David! You talking to who? Don't mumble-mumble or hide your shadow mama when you say something let me hear it You coming for me? You talking to me? You talking to who? You coming for me? Its war!
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Mveli Baba 2 03:52
Chorus Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2 Show us the way, give us a trail; show us the way when we come into being *2 We're with the pain, stuck in the past; show us the way when we come into being *2 Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2 Verse 1 (Being grown's a pain) Being grown's a pain The battles may change But the war's the same Been searching for the truth My hope's that it's not dead I'm looking for the heart That and other things Hoping that your life You're goin to find it there Nothing to canvass with They say numbers never lie A Ten is never 25 But these numbers never know us We see sugar-coated lines But the numbers never add up Manipulate and drive This world's full of fakers Every word that we say Steps that we take And a touch of the back And a shake of the ass is a testament for the choices we make And a flick of the wrist for the time element for the bad ones we made For a slice of the cake And a flickering faith for the time that is left And the lies that we breathe And the wave that we weave For every pasture we leave And the schemes we conceive And the ones that we hurt Chorus Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2 Show us the way, give us a trail; show us the way when we come into being *2 We're with the pain, stuck in the past; show us the way when we come into being *2 Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2 Verse 2 Langston,strapped; looking through the window at the rushing maze from a bus seat im heading home for that Black Nativity bit Running, running, running, running Inner voice on standby, telling its vessel to simmer down and quit that bit Haah!! Push your buttons for the ones you love, then you move: happy burdens Always moving for the life we live, where's home? Heavy burdens Who's to know? The hop-along, is lifelong: what is to change? We have us, great ones, who love us; but we still get lost and play, undercover, lovers The shiny things, love us The city life's like a lover, calling us Lifelong flashes blinding brothers to the proper colour of things Chorus Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2 Show us the way, give us a trail; show us the way when we come into being *2 We're with the pain, stuck in the past; show us the way when we come into being *2 Mveli Baba, Mveli Baba *2
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Never Again 04:42

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This album looks at the idea of home (and its memories) both as a physical and abstract entity in a world where a lot of the times it gets really difficult to know where you belong, and where that state of not belonging becomes a source of both freedom and alienation, and where the outlet might be a constantly evolving mixture of fighting or acceptance, giving up or trudging on, hope or despair. Any of those can find a home...

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released June 26, 2018

WRITTEN & PRODUCED by Hillary Moyo & Perseverance Mativenga with Richard Juma & Luckmore Sibanda

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Hillary Keni-Witsani Zimbabwe

Avant-garde musician, writer, arranger and performer. Bends western music sounds to fit into African traditional and modern rhythms prevalent among the San and Kalanga people of Western Zimbabwe and Eastern Botswana.

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