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(introlude)
00:26
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2. |
SIDELINES
04:44
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Gotta loosen my grip on the world
Squeeze too tight fingers are curled
Want more than I may deserve
Dreams of subliminal words
Lady Luck don’t pin it on her
Yeah I’m uptight expect nothing more
One foot outside of the door
Always plotting and my rhymes rocking
And I smile but I’m flipping the bird
Faking joy has got me concerned
Used to have it, but what happened now?
Motivation blurry, feel self pity
Tappin’ my phone feel like sleeping til 10AM
Double espresso and sit my arse down
Raise the bar, plough, now it’s half twelve
To the park now, with a dumbell
Rest, blue sky, sit for a while
Gotta make it right, change my life
Bought a Bible, try to meditate
Cos my brainpowers going renegade
Gotta loosen my grip on the world
Why aren’t they returning my calls
Hypertext transfer protocol
Messaging passively never meet physically
Sick and tired of the shit in the world
Irritating and keeping me down
Popped a pill, yeah, what happens now?
Numbing for hours and superpowers
But I don’t wanna fuck up and build a dependency
Not like the others, I see a path out
Top players don’t dope games out
On the bench now, pour my heart out
Been on the sidelines, from the sidelines
From on the sidelines, from the sidelines
Sit on the sidelines, on the sidelines
Til I know I’m right
Daybreak I tap the phone
Thirty unread, time has flown
Gotta get back in the zone
Last night seems overblown
Take a shower, Boss, new cologne
Take a drink, Voss, chug it down
Won’t stop me now
All the trouble won’t stop me now
Take a tablet of D and B
1,2,3 shot caffeine
Bullet time, no stopping me
Hit a shot of G&T
And the pain of life disappears
There’s a day without any fears
I reign a smile in the mirror knowing that my
Real problem’s between my ears
Then one night, turning upside down
My life aching heart
I wait a minute cos I thought I had it
Under my control but now I got admit I’m asking
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Why you spill blood, why you take lives
Why’d you build me, up just to paralyze
Cos you heal pain, then you amplify it
Every hill pales to the mountainside...
Asking
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Oooh whyyy
Is it all in my head? Are you there in my life?
Give me a sign, are you here in disguise?
Here on the sidelines, on the sidelines
On the sidelines, on the sidelines
Hands on my head and the sides of my heart
Bargain with God and my wording is smart
On the sidelines, from the sidelines
Sit on the sidelines, from the side-
Cutting me down and destroying my pride
Where are you now are you hearing my lines?
There on the sidelines, on the sidelines
On the sidelines, on the sidelines
Maybe you know when I’m telling a lie
Maybe you’ll open a hole in the sky
Give a high sign from the sidelines
Sit on the sidelines
Talking to heaven take me to the sky
Lightin the way and I’m lightin a fire
Never to give up on the ride
Never to know if I qualify
Maybe there’s hope of redeeming my soul
Heavens’ll open and swallow me whole
Still on the sidelines, on the sidelines
On the sidelines, on the sidelines
Hand on my head and the sides of my heart
Bargain with God and my wording is smart
Never hear back
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Was the time right?
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Ooh, lord, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
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3. |
BREAK IT DOWN
03:22
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Tell me everything you want
Tell me everything you like
I'll believe anything you say
I mean it more than ever now
We should've got together before this
Let the night keep going
On and on and on and on
She wanna rise up high
Be the bomb, be the boss
Be the queen of her people in it
Now she raise her glass
Take a pour, pour a gin
Campari in the middle of it
So tell me everything you want
Tell me everything you like
Let the night keep going
On and on and on
Break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down
Break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down
Tell me everything you want
Tell me everything you like
I'll believe anything you say
I mean it more than ever now
We should've got together before this
Let the night keep going
On and on and on and on
Gunna show me her smile
As she lean in close to my ear
Put a secret in it
She wants a four bed house
With a picket fence little feet
Running thru the middle of it
So tell me everything you want
Tell me everything you like
Let the night keep going
On and on and on
Break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down
Break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna break it down
Gonna break it down, eh
We're gonna, gonna break it down
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4. |
DREAMS
03:51
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The light is fading like an ember
Like a yellow amber summer day
Something's got my third eye blind
This semi-charmed kinda life
I'm hanging on what I barely remember
My future's just a memory
Something's got me paralysed
This semi-charmed kinda life
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a getaway
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a-
I got everything I had ever wanted
But I end up only wanting more
Somethings got my third eye blind
This semi charmed kinda life
I'm drifting and I'll take you with me
Take your hand in the night, I know where it is
Darling won't you be my wife
In a summertime kinda life
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a getaway
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a-
I move away from the darkness
I move towards the light
Dreams often follow you
As you float
I move away from the darkness
I move towards the light
Dreams often follow you
As you float
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a getaway
Locked down in the middle of the night
Locked down in the middle of the night
Let's dream up a getaway
Let's dream up a getaway
I move away from the darkness
I move towards the light
Dreams often follow you
As you float
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5. |
I KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU
03:59
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As I win over,
Everyone, everyone is off filling lies
It's not like I know I’m god
Talking to me like they’re not allowed
They’re talking bout you, you, you, you,
While they talk about me, me, me, me,
I know all about you, you, you, you,
When it’s all about me, me, me, me
And it’s all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money
It's all mine
As I win over
It's all mine
Everyone everyone got me feeling pride
It's all ours
It's not my conscience on trial
It's all ours
The centre of their attention
They write about
Did he do it, did he not
Did he say it, did he stop
Does he mean it does he not
Is she leaving, second thoughts
Are they fighting, are they not
Were they spotted, parking lot
Now they kissing, beauty spot
Just a little, now a lot
Getting warmer, getting hot
Now they're setting up the shot
Sell the picture, Shutterstock
Sell the story, make some Benjamins
They always wanna see us
And they'd sell their soul to be us
And they're acting like they know what's real
While everybody's
Talking bout you, you, you, you,
While they talk about me, me, me, me,
I know all about you, you, you, you,
When it’s all about me, me, me, me
And it’s all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money
They're talking bout you, you, you, you,
While they talk about me, me, me, me,
I know all about you, you, you, you,
When it’s all about me, me, me, me
And it’s all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money,
All money
All money
All money
And it's all money
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6. |
BLACKBODY
05:18
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I can never say it back
Like, it honestly burns
I've got no answers
Absorb the light from you
Emitting radio waves
Radiation too
Maybe I'm terminal
Maybe I'll take you
Something's following us down
Something's following us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
oh -ing us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
-ing us down
In our snaps, I seem blank
A blackbody and you
You're near an infrared drain
Absorbing light from you
Maybe I'm Vantablack
Maybe I'm Stygian Blue
I've got an innocent brain
But all the while
There's a ball and chain
Weighing us
Something's following us down
Something's following us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
oh -ing us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
-ing us down
Something's following us down
Something's following us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
oh -ing us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
-ing us down
Something's following us down
Something's following us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
oh -ing us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
-ing us down
Something's following us down
Something's following us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
oh -ing us down
-ing us down
-ing us down, ooh
-ing us down
You light me up
You light me up
Just to bring me down
You light me up
Something's following us down
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BACKLIGHT
03:30
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Backlight
My screen still saves her
Midnight
She's gone and yeah I know it
Trust is a delicate rite
She couldn't leave the day right
I know it pains
Forget that smile and walk away
Gaslight
Her flame will burn you
Catlike
That body's almost worth it
Surely you can relate right
I made mistakes
Each time I bid her good night
She lives inside my backlight
My backlight
My backlight
She lives inside my backlight
My backlight
Ooh
Before you came into my life
I realise
I didn't need those eyes
Was solo and I owned it
I grabbed the night and smoked it
Had a good thing and you choked it
I know it pains
Don't call
Don't text
Don't snap your little face
Don't gram my phone
Or call on my little place
It's time I delete you, right?
Your flame only burns me, right
Just for tonight
She still lives inside my backlight
She lives inside my backlight
My backlight
My backlight
She lives inside my backlight
My backlight
Ooh
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8. |
ANOTHER YOU
04:24
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I declare you the winner
You're my longest reigning queen
But the sun sets on our time
There'll be no diamond jubilee
I'm no saint I'm a sinner
And your record's hardly clean
There's a balance to set right
And girl you know it
Cos lately I've been thinking bout the
birds eye view
I never told a lie about you
I know that I deserve that too
Yeah lately, baby, thinking bout the birds eye view
I never told a lie about you
I guess I'm just the one that
Had a good time but I gotta go
Yeah it's bittersweet but you gotta grow
So I'll tell you now what I'm going to do
Gonna spend my life with another you
You had good credit but you're going bust
Just like Mayer imma a sing about trust
So I'll tell you now what I'm going to do
Gunna spend my life with another you
Say bye bye, bye bye, to you
Say bye bye, bye bye, to you
Say bye bye, bye bye, to you
Say bye bye, bye bye, to you
Tell your fam that I love em long time
Til the end I will love u all time
Not gunna hide it'll hurt a long time
But its gunna take time to heal
So don't tell me all the lies that you're gonna tell
Don't try to make it better down at my hotel,
I don't doubt it baby, yeah you knew me well
But you now a stranger to me
Summertimes at Sunshine Beach
Late night drinks and a stairwell kiss
Bought a ticket overseas two weeks
No one ever made me feel like this
All the times that you said it to me
Nowhere else that you'd rather be
Wild nights when it seemed so real
Now it's so hard to know
Cos lately I've been thinking bout the
birds eye view
I never told a lie about you
I know that I deserve that too
Yeah lately baby thinking bout the
birds eye view
I never told a lie bout you
I know that I deserved that too
I declare you the winner
You're my longest reigning queen
But the sun sets on our time
There'll be no diamond jubilee
I'm no saint I'm a sinner
And your record's hardly clean
There's a balance to set right
And yeah you know it
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