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RENAISSANCE LYRICS
[HOOK]
What happens when there's no paintings on the walls
Form over function then everything falls
A Gallery of classics will they even sell at all...
What's its worth? auctioning your soul
[CHORUS]
What's it worth? Auctioning your soul X3
Is the price too high, is the price too low
[NAY]
Ayo I'm just an artist going thru hardships
My paints clear to see upon the wall and you cant miss,
Yeah I've put in pride in my work since I started,
My ink cartridge it stays hitting the target Like a sicker Archer-ist,
My product gets the Loco stamp before it hits the market
A rocky road my seatbelt strapped up just in case that the car flips
I'm not a makeup artist musical my vinyl's shiny sprayed n varnished
Critics wanna talk until my name is tarnished
[TY]
Like a defaced Mona Lisa in a broken frame
The red velvet rope gets singed in the open flames
[LOUIS]
I blackout like Caravaggio on his darkest days
Golden bars while I'm sat smoking the purple haze
Were the renaissance in response to the loss of faith
The price of pigment…. or the cost of paint
[TY]
I'm dark, I'm tar, nah fuck it I'm noir
Je ne sais quoi the value is then its au revoir
[NAY]
Hasta la vista see u later amigo
I'm painting pictures like I'm Marcus Rodrigo, they ain't appreciating,
the price of livings high, but this arts depreciating,
Local Healers, we got fans ima keep em waiting
[TY]
With the cypher to decipher the deceiving the ways
Like DaSafo I'm just watching how the truth sways
Parliament, cant par with dem
Little Britain trippin' hows little Derek doing Ok
[LOUIS]
We’re the usual suspects like Keyser Söze
Drinking the Smirnoff mixed up with the OJ
Murder without a trace no DNA on the gloves
Shouts out to 4i2i and Stowaway
[NAY]
If you ain't messing with the real you can go away
Nowadays its strange antiques getting thrown away
[LOUIS]
I’ll dash Claris Cliff off a cliff
I’m not old I’m Vintage but life’s still a shower of shit
[TY]
Watch it rain, down the drain, like an itsy-bitsy spider
I’m just caught up in a web of lies, my internet provider
Got me reading these, conspiracies, sipping on the cider
All these theories, I’m like J…Robert Oppenheimer
And the energy flows through me, I’m the copper wire
Faster than an auctioneer, is there a proper buyer
Going once, going twice, sold from a top supplier
But it's sad, cus it's only worth more once you die, uh
[HOOK]
What happens when there's no paintings on the walls
Form over function then everything falls
A Gallery of classics will they even sell at all...
What's its worth? auctioning your soul
[CHORUS]
What's it worth? Auctioning your soul X3
Is the price too high, is the price too low
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2. |
Neva Left
03:31
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NEVER LEFT LYRICS
[HOOK]
Ayo I'm back up In this bitch just like I never left X3
Yo its like we never left we back
[LOUIS]
Back in the room getting boujee in Bruges
Sleep's the cousin of death, so we’re never gunna press snooze
There’s a million ways to die every way you loose
So save me twos of that zoot...
This is only one of two times you’ll see me dressed in a zoot suit
And one them is when I’m, practising voodoo
That’s how my crew moves tighter than most
Demigod or more..either way, we’re still ghost
Lost in the whispers of the smoke
We remain in translation by our definition of dope!
We’re the G.O.A.T.’s that were never even chose
Rockin’ Baphomet's head sat upon our thrones
Carved from our enemies bones, getting stoned
While I throw a mother fucking, b-boy pose society implodes
That's how it goes So we’re back up in this bitch
L Cypher, Faux Sala in case you didn’t know, yo!
[HOOK X2]
Ayo I'm back up In this bitch just like I never left X3
Never left, never left yo
[NAY]
You know who it is you ain't gotta guess who’s back
Fist up, I'm proud, ahh yes I’m black
Yo I took it back to basics I started off with A and the B
Abandoned boat then absconded at sea
I wish…still stuck in a piss poor society
Scraping from the bottom they wish for notoriety
I’m still keeping god beside of me
The angels know I’m fly as he
I’m lighting up my spliff I’m going higher G
Metaphorically I’m into the clouds
Come back and then I stage dive into the crowd
Haven’t seen my boy J in like 3 years it's all good
We're catching up over 3 beers its all hood
So shout out to the peeps that never doubt me
All the way to Belgium we travelled from Notts county
I’m a star player Nay so there's no game without me
And if I ever leave il come back and il be…
[HOOK]
Ayo I'm back up In this bitch just like I never left X3
Never left, never left yo
[TY]
Onyx told us that where we're living in our last days
So throw ya guns in the air in a mad rage
Whats mines is mine & what's yours is mine
Fuck the pork the swine
Pricks, porcupine, uh
Ty Healy yo I walk the awkward line, between
Being spiritual healer, the Peacekeeper
A safe teacher with a great demeanour
Or fuming like Akuma, the raging demon
But I got big balls word to the prayer beads
Died 1000 deaths in 10 lifetimes at least
But now I'm back on earths surface with a purpose
To Swear on everything I write like I wrote it in cursive
My brain is a UFC cage by design yeah
And the pain - is real as Adesanya
Kingdom fall and the Dynasties die
But best believe I will come back one more time just like…
[HOOK]
Ayo I'm back up In this bitch just like I never left X3
Never left, never left yo
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Pavement Cracks
03:56
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PAVEMENT CRACKS LYRICS
[TY]
I take a slow stroll down the old cobbled road
I cop a Kopparberg, cop a burger
then I cop off with a bird, cah
I quite liked her actually
In the dive bar feeling like I drowned at sea
Catch me in the smoker section no cigarette
I came out for some fresh air that I do regret yeah
Use my light but dont pocket that shit
I use it for the candles back at the crib
It's not bitches in the living room getting in on
Till 6 in morning everyone's still chatting shit
So I drink and then think of some random things
How many turtles got their necks caught in 6 pack rings?
The weeds brown like recycling bins
And this towns got the slightest little ting
Of despair in the air
But I got a tab on the bar pull up lend an ear
[HOOK X2]
We take two steps forward and one step back
Stepping over dreams in the pavement cracks
Searching for the answer in the bottom of a bottle
When you can’t find it who’s to blame for that?
[NAY]
I got my new crepps Ima two-step it out one step back
Nay loc, I’m too hot get back
When you see me with VC, we’re fly as sheezy
If you don't believe me ask Ty Healy, dreadlocks black
Summertime, Chillin with Mascoto barefoot wine
Lost my flip-flops barefoot time
Lost my hat in the sea, whys it happen to me
And why you silly motherfuckers even chattin’ to me
It's like I’m tryna be on Mars but it’s Saturn I see
Without a way of getting back to the earth
I should have packed me a hearse
Guess I’ll write a couple tracks and rehearse
I know the hook but I might struggle rapping the verse
You know or maybe you don't, maybe you do
Look at what these Guinnesses are making me do
Maybe it’s the bright city lights that's making me blue
It may be Covid-19 or it may be the flu
[HOOK X2]
We take two steps forward and one step back
Stepping over dreams in the pavement cracks
Searching for the answer in the bottom of a bottle
When you can’t find it who’s to blame for that?
[LOUIS]
Put a podcast on, run a bath and pour the wine
Light the candles up, it’s time to relax my mind
I’m the kind of guy that gets decadent with it
You can feel the ambience in every single lyric
But I’m also the kind of guy that had to call an ambulance
At the end of the night cus someone’s too high
I’ve lived both lives, flipped the coin and seen both sides
Partied in penthouses and raved onsite
Perforated my eardrum and named myself Cypher Sore eyes
Maybe it was a poor price to pay
But how you supposed to qualify your own life
If you’re too afraid to live your life anyway?
[HOOK X2]
We take two steps forward and one step back
Stepping over dreams in the pavement cracks
Searching for the answer in the bottom of a bottle
When you can’t find it who’s to blame for that?
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Water 4 Flowers
03:37
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WATER FOR FLOWERS LYRICS
[LOUIS]
I've always tried to head towards the light like plants and phototaxis
Moving forwards never backwards
Its become my art form, my practice and my praxis
Attracting good vibes as the planet spins on its axis
Will we all actualise? I doubt it.
Just always try and bring your best vibes no doubt about it
Surely that’s the meaning of life
What's the point of regrets if there is no option to ever rewind
Learn from your mistakes… persevere whatever it takes
You don’t need to play it safe just play it clever
And face your demons in whatever forms they take
And have faith no matter how low you feel it gets better
I’ve been at the zenith and the nadir
But when the pen hits it cleanses all my senses and I'm back here
Back in the room now pass me some shrooms
Never really learnt from my mistakes but maybe someday soon
[HOOK]
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, why was I
Such a ___back then?
[CHORUS]
Iv grown, I seen the light like… photosynthesis X3
Yeah, the air is nice and I’m flowing like water
[VERSE]
This an open a letter for the doors I shut behind me
It's For closer the foreclosure did remind me
That I been building up like a skyscraper
My boys are scaffolding, support bring balance when
I needed walking off ledge yeah my minds made up
I'm so glad that me and mum finally made up
Cus I was drowning in debt and the lying about it
Not paying her rent but then buying an outfit
Just to flex to get sex to prove I'm over my ex
And I was but even still my life was a mess
Bad mental health was a temporal hell
I'm Good now It's not that easy for everyone else
I recommend buy some plants put on your shelves
Every time you water them you look after yourself
It takes time effort sunshine for better, days
Open up flower bud you be amazed
[HOOK]
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, why was I
Such a ___back then?
[CHORUS]
Iv grown, I seen the light like… photosynthesis X3
Yeah, the air is nice and I’m flowing like water
[NAY]
Ayo I'm voss water outta the drain pipe you know what Nay's like
Getting drunk and high in the same night
I was a yungen drinking on Snakebite
You'd always see me rolling never riding the same bike,
We rode into the sunset until it was daylight
We'd sell you shit and rob it back we tryna get paid twice
Sometimes we played dice with our life But the shit didn't break right,
Now pieces of my heart left colder than shaved Ice
My aunty died it reduced me to Sea melt,
My mum's sis I never comprehended how she felt
Life had me feeling insecure like a kid without a seatbelt
Acting like I'm fine but I needed help
Ashamed of things that I did back then,
Oh why, why was I such a ___ back then
Now I've grown yo from a killer bee in a jungle,
To a young who's keeping it humble…I’m on point
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Anti-Gravity Suit
02:52
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ANTI-GRAVITY SUIT LYRICS
[NAY]
Can we survive maybe thrive on another planet?
Another world, yeah you’re watching three brothers plan it
Cus this world is too bloody manic
It’s full of savages so Ty close the hatch and don't fucking panic
The rockets ready and I'm happy to shoot
Strap up my boots and the flyest Anti-gravity suit
We made a mess of our planet, we abandoning ours
Spend a couple grand on stars before landing on Mars
Up in space, green aliens are banged behind bars
No drinking Pepsi out a can or drinking jam from the jar, rah!
Burn fossil fuels leaving our mark
On the park, two men in black flee from the narks, gone
I bid the earth farewell
Yeah I'm hoping for heaven but preparing for hell
Before I fly through the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
No birds are near, spaceman word I’m here
[LOUIS]
From the far side of the moon, I look back at the planet
And the way its being ravaged by man in a panic
Capitalist fanatics with that tragic ideology
Astronomical bars make no sense like astrology
Now our future's written into the stars
Evicted from the earth by the economy for what ever it's worth
Hope we find ice sheets on mars
And it doesn’t turn out to be tomb world just like ours
Welcome to the expanse, the virus of man
Bringing democracy on whatever planet he happens to land
Dropping freedom bombs created our own vision
Call it panopticon Escape the prison we created to live in
See you laters getting high off the spaceship vapours
Call me 'king sighs’ I’m fed up, what's in the papers?
How long can we be patient?
Our planets amazing but the human race is gwarnin like Satan
[TY]
I used to play Galaga in the arcade
Wishing I could be a spaceman one day
In the future which is now which is wow...
I wonder how many aliens have seen earth but turned around
No proven encounters I guess it’s not worth their trouble
They ain’t landed they don’t wanna know us on a surface level
So we’re Alone is cosmos like no one else exists
I'll fly the mothership to find distant relatives
I’m off to space it’s not safe here
Staring doom in face, Victor Vaughn in the mirror, yeah
Ima start an intergalactical blog
Documenting my travels this the captain's log
My heart nearly stopped getting shot by the pulse phaser
I think they clocked our destructive nature
But it's back to reality staring in the void
Blank screen, game over, please insert another coin
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Guru
03:05
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GURU LYRICS
[NAY]
Ayo I'm reminiscing back in the day we throwing gogos
Slammers on the pogs and sleepers on neon yo-yos
Way B4 dis Loc dog menace or Nay Loco
Now u can take a photo of Nay and his mafioso,I got,
Hella styles and P, I aint d ghost though
Watch me resurrect from the dead, there's no YOLO
Bro u no I love you 2 death but no homo
Little piggies ready 4 slaughter I hate popo,ha,
The cops wouldn't be racist if they were Robo,
Ain't no flies on me, at Lake Como
Then we hit Sardinia and Spain, no rain like
Ciao 2 Giuseppe n ola senior Manolo…
And we bringing back, fire by the boatload
I stay in power of my empire Like I'm Lobos
You.. no solos, albums with no promos,
You're weak and my team will turn you rappers into Dodos
[TY]
All the best rapper die but I'm still Alive Woohoo
I think a lot of gang stars need a guru
If ya guns go pew pew then why you on youtube
Big man you aint shit, you just a little boys poo-poo
You need to clean ya clock it seems a little cuckoo
You didn't choose the streets, right? Nah the streets choose you
Grow up that's not the true you
Ya acting like ya never had Thomas Tank engine that went Choo Choo
I hate that lump in your throat when you get the new news
Ya need a bouquet for a new grave boohoo
Too young, too many funerals too soon
Fuck a black one I want a blue suit and new shoes
Tryna stay positive, only get a few views
Viral is a disease…who knew
I still push the black magic herbal Zulu
Like Jimi Hendrix just a child of voodoo
[LOUIS]
As the music moves you Lou Cypher, not Saha
Avant-Garde like those artists that went duh duh
Pack a liver full like I’m drunk, munching Foigois
Dining out in Liverpool and garmed out in Carhartt
Get let off Scott Lee, like my labels ‘Blah’
Start to cut you in half like a magician..ta dah
Now I’m bouncing out the kitchen we’re leaving turrah
It’s Cypher, Local Healers bringing the best bars Ta Raas
What's better than nothing… Nada
Getting existential like I’m chilling with Jean Paul Sartre
Have you seen anything darker than the media that’s produced by that dick
What's his name, Paul Darce?
I’ve done my research like I’m Nardwuar, Ah ha
Like Alan Partridge, you’re gunna get parred hard
Faux Sala, Lou Cypher trained in the dark arts
Cypher’s in the car park, Healers make the car start
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Let Go
05:11
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LET GO LYRICS
[HOOK X2]
Sometimes you gotta just X3
Learn to let go
[TY]
It’s one of the hardest things you have to do in life
Like admitting when your wrong when your opinion is strong
There's point 1% chance in like 99.99
999999999 you get it?
Someone call the emergency line
In fact no don't police kill blacks half the time
They say I over exaggerate, "it’s only like that in the states"
You don't see my hurdles I'm running a different race
Now I cannot tell a lie, I've got a lot of allies
And They brighten up these dark roads like cats eyes
So I channel my anger, crystals for my Chakras
Deep breaths, meditate, I'm still a Son of Saka-
Noue, won’t be around for many more days
I'm bout to set sail and go away Bon-voyage
But don't trip I'm gunna reflect on my trip
See my face in the water turn to ripples cus of fish (swimming)
[HOOK X4]
Sometimes you gotta just X3
Learn to let go
[LOUIS]
Have you ever looked into a narcissist’s life?
And seen their whole personality disappear before your eyes?
As you pull apart the thread that ties together all their lies
Thread by thread until you find that there’s nothing left
And yet you find you still had to try
You need to let it go yo! This is toxic as dog shit
You’ll never win stuck in the middle of that mosh pit
Friends said it was a hot topic…shouldn’t touch it
And they were probably right so give it up and let it go yo!
Karma, from their seeds their own fruit will grow
Probably drama
So just let it go we all know that scenario
So let it go yo! So let it go yo!
So let it go we all know that scenario
So let it go yo! So let it go yo!
So let it go, we all know that scenario...
[HOOK X4]
Sometimes you gotta just X3
Learn to let go
[NAY]
Planet earth is the pitch you'll never win on
Walking with the lord in these journeys that I been on
With X-Ray vision, you can see the Incision
Printed in my heart, I took a sharp knife from the kitchen
I'm close to heaven but my respirator still on
Family are struggling at making a decision
Yeah I know that you love me cus every day you let me know
Now someway and somehow, you gotta let me go
Just like a helium balloon in the air
All words from a hater and the rumours they share
Truth is I don't truthfully care
Fuck being worried bout some leaves falling from trees that are soon to be bare
It’s life and I refuse to lose sleep for that
I lost a little stack, I ain't stressing Ima make it back yo
While enjoying the ride like it’s a merry go
Shout to Faux Sala pull the chorus back and let it go
[HOOK X4]
Sometimes you gotta just X3
Learn to let go
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