1. |
Kingdom Hearts
03:33
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It's hard to chill a warm heart
Niggas try to break it but it bends
Before she's pulled apart
No I cannot fake the wounds the scars that come with keeping open arms
She sits right upon my sleeve
She reminds me to breathe
As she gets to pounding heat
Underneath my skin's sheets
I tried to engrave her with diamonds
All that shit fell off right behind her
She's simple, she's warm and tender
You better be glad that you met her
But if there's one thing I need to teach
It's that some parts should be hard to reach
But how can I give you all of me if I'm protecting myself from the unseen?
How should I see? How should know?
How this will last
How will this flow
Don't get attached, he'll let you down
But sex ain't no fun with no feelings around
Should I shy away from what makes me feel good?
What makes me feel good don't always do what it should
Right now I'm thinking bout how can't nothing be right
Unless you come through alright, unless you're spending the night
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Sheapers
02:16
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Cut from a different cloth
They aren't who they seem to be
Her poetry like pipe dream epiphanies
Storyteller stuck in her own histories
Save the scrutiny, you couldn't walk a mile in her billie jeans
If I put money on your head,
Then that's a penny for your thoughts
(I found the girl of my dreams) In my dreams
(x2)
Cut my tongue up so I could speak less
My mind's in color so I don't see sense
But I don't have to pretend
Past or present there ain't no fucking pretense
I'm out of touch I'm out of reach (x2)
If you don't call, we won't speak
I could turn a shepherd to a sheep...
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3. |
Desire (Interlude)
01:32
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What else can be said about that thing called desire?
I can say it is the want, to yearn, to crave for something, and yes I feel it all.
To want; to lack that which I wish for, to feel that roll in my blood and that lick in my belly.
A pining so poignant I feel it slip from my heart through my sex down my legs.
An ache that expands along my back yet coils within my womb.
I don't want to need anything from no body, so I can't call it a need, but when there's thirst is it not my right to drink?
I don't want to be so eager, and my body feels alight, put through this appropriate predilection for the object of my eye;
My eye through my mind that makes life alive, that burn through my body that creates magnetic ire.
This is desire, I am desire, I do desire, I desire
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4. |
Fwm
02:06
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(Young biddy) with some knowledge
(Oh yeah) she so bad yeah she fucking up the college
(So bad) She don't need no man, is she fucking with your bondage?
(Is you fucking with that) Can't get her come on, can't catch her come on
(x2)
Actors out here, but they ain't treating
Zombies, they move fast, they ain't seeing
You can't know that if you do not believe in
That voice inside of you, it holds no secrets
If you could wake up, then you could be it
The moon meets the sun, and she and bleeding
Kept the Midas touch for those who knew to glean it
Wake up, you know what's up, come on, wake up
Would you get attached if I ain't mean it?
Can I bring it back down to the fiending?
Lusting for a life I know I do not need
Can't crawl through the night life, I feel defeated
You know that I'm right
Just open up your eyes and realize
This is beyond your fight beyond my fight
But I can't help waging a war with words
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5. |
Pray
01:42
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It's God's will that we be brought to feeling
That we be brought to healing
That we feel him sealed in
It's in them pills that we take to elevate us
But we'll hope they'll placate
Oh we underestimate us
I know we don't understand there's always a higher plan
Think of us as cells creating for man
Then we decompose and return to sand
I know I am that I am
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6. |
Hollywøød Africans
02:20
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In you I can see some essential reflections of me
You teach me to guard not with walls but boundaries
Over time I've seen so much shit it's clear to me that
All I have to do to be is look at me (you) with honesty
When things ain't going south boy, don't you feel it?
Can't you feel the power, don't you sense the realness?
While we're manifesting mangled lines and faux tantric feelings
We could be manifesting marble floors and french ceilings.
Mercury ceilings, mercury sealed it, mouth shut, you wouldn't want to hear it
But now I know that there were things that needn't be said
Cause samo ain't dead, we're Hollywood Africans
Now I won't say that was nothing
I felt that pain it was something
I felt my blood get to rushing
When you ain't see it was fronting
But I can't blame you for doing you through and through
Cause that's what I needed to(o) but then with deflecting you
My wings with trust they flew
It's this fragility that might be the death of me
It keeps me up with it's heckling
'Do they really ride? Are they on your side? Would they let it slide? If you were gonna die, would they really cry or would it be a lie?'
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7. |
Reflections
02:41
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Thinking bout my homies while I'm stuck here sipping lonely bubbly
Thinking bout them other fuckers that could never hope to love me
I don't know why I feel empty when he tries to stay the night but I want to be alone
I don't know bout home, don't really know where's home
Complain about being lonely then ask to be alone
But contentment in my solitude is something I should hone
I could go on and on, but you would hate the drone
Green bud crumbling everyday with every stone
That's how it goes
If it's affection that you're asking for I'll give it from my core
But niggas go on and twist it make me feel like some whore
Rip money from my poor wretched heart that bleeds girl scout cookies that you take because she asked
You care cause you feel guilty
You care cause you feel bad
You care cause you feel pity
Can't you see me and feel glad?
There's no point in raising tension, there's no point in being mad
I'm holding on to whispers of some happiness we had
I can't really move from the place where I'm at
I don't really know what's beyond what I cap
I don't really know what's beyond being bad
But I know I'm a make it cause my mind can't relax
Don't need clout I can't fake it got that sway on the mass
And you know we been breaking bread with real fucking masters
It's a disaster when you can't answer the fundamental questions dealt right by your hand, sir.
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8. |
Sunkissed
03:40
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I'm not expecting you to understand
But my god I know I got a plan
Don't gotta prove myself where I stand
Was so concerned with you believing in me
That I forgot in the end only got me
And as I let go to the flow of this breeze
Finally I can see
It took me awhile but look at me now
That girl with that style who's eyes beguile you
Whether brown or blue
They don't have no clue the work that I do
The weight that I pull
No now I'm not asking you to understand
But I know I cannot be nobody else
Gotta do me for me and be who I am
Gotta let my light radiate through the land
Looking for purpose here deep within
On this morose rock that only spins
Oh yeah I know I gave too much of a shit
But now I know I won't forget me again
I got the mind to make my daddy proud
I got the voice I'm gonna sing out loud
I got the body, face, don't need the clout
Just wanna be and spread my message around
Believe
Believe in the things that you want to be
Don't let nobody control you or you won't see
Go ahead, unlock them boys (that voice) that you taught could not be free
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9. |
Walls Down (Interlude)
05:03
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Nigga you think you can come and ride the wave?
Ain't you know that with me no your guard ain't safe?
Bring them walls down, baby, watch me make a play
Bring my walls down, I'm inside anyway.
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10. |
Hey...
04:13
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Will you start again with me my friend cause we have changed?
Or has there been far more distance than we can save?
I’m looking out for myself cause I don’t want to feel i need someone else
You’re down to offer your help but I can get me done all by myself
You know i can’t ask even though I can because i got some shit that makes me feel I’m bad but
Meet me and let go to chance cause I swear I can change if i know i can ask ya
Will you start again with me my friend cause we have changed?
Or has there been far more distance than we can save?
I know I don’t want to have all the power that I do over your feeling but
I know its mine I can’t deny that it backfires and lands on me cause
Your pain got me writhing bad and i’m down on the ground waiting for your hand oh
Please know that I got your back I can change for myself and that’s why I ask ta:
Start again with me my friend cause we have changed?
Or has there been far more distance than we can save?
We can have it all if you want
Please, don’t let me go
Start again with me my friend cause we have changed?
Or has there been far more distance than we can save?
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11. |
Hooks N Loops
02:40
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Love me in my skin
Ochre pot pies, tender thick thighs to dive in
Roasted crisp eyes, deep onyx skies you soar in
Want you in my
skin.
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Nkiru Emelle New York, New York
I AM INK.
graceful, useful, an implement for beautiful creation.
deep, dark, vast, sensual, hypnotizing
in its skin.
if you dive deep into a pool of it, your eyes will burn, your nose will sting, but as your heart slows its beat you will be surrounded by blissful, open, nothingness.
nothing survives within it, yet without it nothing lives on.
and so it is; free, black, ink.
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