Started out by messing around with my old electric guitar, ended up making this, lyrically a general message of not giving up despite meeting setbacks along the way
lyrics
Quit your crawling hear the calling of the butterfly
Should be gliding but you’re stalling and you wonder why
Give it your best shot, fail well never mind
Sigh when you cry but you try and you can’t deny
Don’t stop going keep sowing and you will reap
Swimming in a sewer no allure up hip deep
Sketch out the stretch and fetch and you will reach
White sand, yes I can, make a stand, draw your beach
Dream shatter, don’t worry don’t let it matter
Numbers don’t add up, don’t hurry, don’t treat the data
Little feet in my memory go pitter patter
Didn’t get it, don’t sweat it, just let it, keep your hat on
Do what you believe is true, know that you believe in you
Living like heathens do, thanks to who conceived of you
Have you even mapped out everything that you can even do
While others slept, take a step, believe it’s true
Eager will, eager do, take a peak, peak-a-boo
Don’t think, seek and do, no grim reaper ghoul
Your boat like the Titanic, take a leak or two
Won’t sink bounce back up like a kangaroo
Quit your crawling hear the calling of the butterfly
Should be gliding but you’re stalling and you wonder why
Give it your best shot, fail well never mind
Sigh when you cry but you try and you can’t deny
Don’t stop going keep sowing and you will reap
Swimming in a sewer no allure up hip deep
Sketch out the stretch and fetch and you will reach
White sand, yes I can, make a stand, draw your beach
Woke up shooting up like a skyscraper
Life sweet, need a treat so I might bake a
Flatbread, what’s said, need a life shake up
Juicy fruit, looking cute with no eye make up
Sum of one, onion with many layers
Full back, wing attack with many players
Be you a coward, or a thief or a dragon slayer
No chief, want peace so here my prayer
Bright beams bear down
Fight teams stare down
Light dreams fairground
Pipe dreams tear down
Quite clean bare ground
High steam rare sound
Lockdown wear down
Night queen wear crown
Quit your crawling hear the calling of the butterfly
Should be gliding but you’re stalling and you wonder why
Give it your best shot, fail well never mind
Sigh when you cry but you try and you can’t deny
Don’t stop going keep sowing and you will reap
Swimming in a sewer no allure up hip deep
Sketch out the stretch and fetch and you will reach
White sand, yes I can, make a stand, draw your beach
Old style can smile like a juvenile
Let it be like a senile in denial
Sharp teeth like a crocodile in the Nile
Fille me in, catch me up cos it’s been a while
It depends on your fate, if you bend or you break
Or you lend or you take, every piece of the cake
It depends on your state, are you friends with the state?
If you’re steady if you shake, if you’re ready if you’re late
It depends on your fate, if you bend or you break
Or you lend or you take, every piece of the cake
It depends on your state, are you friends with the state?
If you’re steady if you shake, if you’re ready if you’re late
credits
from Pedro Gordo,
released October 3, 2020
Music by Rael Powell (guitar, beat)
Scratch by DJ Kirsa
Making wonky hip hop since 98. Musician/Beatmaker/vocalist Rael from the UK expatriated to France where he created Ghostown.
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