Low Tension

from Pedro Gordo by Ghostown

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Kind of the B side to YAK as it uses the same lyrics, but it's a totally different universe
I think I actually wrote the lyrics to this track first
It's quite an unusual mix of jazz and electro sounds with a Waitsy type feel to the vocals

lyrics

No vision no outlook
An outback an old crook
Outfought and out-cooked
No clarity the doubt stood
Misheard misunderstood
Underground underwood
Unknown in the neighbourhood
One clown slay they should
Over-mark overbearing
Lost my mark lost my bearing
A missed dart stop your staring
Filled with fear no more daring
A Bank clerk stamped reject
A loan shark might accept
A lone spark start the fire
Undercover on the wire
Under blubber abstract
Who discover odds stacked
Here’s Johnny, Bob’s back
No idea brains racked
Rack your brain no idea
Staying sane stem the fear
Friends close your enemies near
Not knowing how to steer

A drop in the ocean
Stopped in motion
Locked in commotion
Got no notion
Between a rock and a hard place
Rotten, a car case
Caught in a car chase
Brought in the dark days
This guy is confessing
The sky is oppressing
So high and depressing
So why are you messing
Fess up you arsed up
Youssef the last sup
Trumped by the daft duck
Who gave the last fuck
Low class the cast stuck
Bar fight the glass cut
Trapped in a fast buck
Upper mid the grass cut
Stop the bus last stop
Looking like a ras cloth
Mass stock a mascot
Cash out the cash stopped

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from Pedro Gordo, released October 3, 2020
Music by Pedro Gordo and Rael Powell
Vocals by Rael Powell

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Ghostown Morecambe, UK

Making wonky hip hop since 98. Musician/Beatmaker/vocalist Rael from the UK expatriated to France where he created Ghostown. Bringing elements of tsigane folk music, electro, dub and trip hop to an unconventional uncompromising alternative hip hop festival which can't be pinned down or categorised. ... more

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