1. |
28 Sunninghill
00:48
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2. |
Selling God
01:46
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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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3. |
Get Up
03:22
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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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4. |
All in your Head
03:16
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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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5. |
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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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6. |
I Be
03:03
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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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7. |
76 AC/DC
02:51
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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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8. |
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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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9. |
Mveli Baba
01:29
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(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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10. |
Alt State
01:29
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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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11. |
Bipolar ft Sinkende
04:50
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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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12. |
Mveli Baba 2
03:52
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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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13. |
Never Again
04:42
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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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