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Cosmic Blues
04:20
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Galaxy it talks to me,
There’s a marking on the table
Inside my mind, echoes, reverbs collide.
No, I don’t understand the way they talk to me
Men, we’re born to die, but if only I could fly
I would live up in the sk-high!
Let me give it to you
Let me show it you
Let me bring it to you
Cosmic Blues
The Akhbar is I read palms like I read stars,
The most hated in the kingdom, I’m a queen
Findom and the difference is abysmal – cinco
That’s the quantity of symbols
I don’t mind if you tag along on my missile
I been on a tip, need more bitches on my mission
Put on your spacesuit, leave your baggage in the kitchen
Vénus or Venùs, we’re the same despite our difference
You can’t interfere with my appearance,
I adhere to the coherence of ancestral wisdom
With a theory to dissect:
We were civilised but now this modern love’s a mess
With our knees to the floor,
No more planet to exploit, so we’re out looking for more
Cause we’re poorer than before, it’s a cosmic metaphor,
To despise what we adore, we’re at peace then we’re at war,
Let me show you what I saw,
You don’t find if you don’t know, mama told me so…
Let me give it to you
Let me show it you
Let me bring it to you
Cosmic Blues
I dream of asteroids and stars,
With no way to describe my heart,
You knew it from the start (you shoulda trust your gut!)
Maybe I will lose my mind,
Trying to find you,
Honey should I waste my time,
Trying to remind you?
Let me give it to you
Let me give it you
Let me show it to you
Let me bring it to you
Cosmic Blues
Let me give it to you
Let me show it you
Let me bring it to you
Cosmic Blues
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Wild Coast
03:22
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This is the paradox, I’m tying knots
My body electric-mechanical, sip on that antidote
Cruise through the city, I don’t need your help
Ain’t nobody fucking with me, watch me do a shimmy
Then I gotta go, jiggy in the jungle
Now you cryin’ on the floor, it’s ridiculous
Everything you do is so ambiguous
Ask me where I come from, young Latino in the barrio
Level up like Super Mario, he doesn’t like them blonde
Wassup, baby? Bae, what’s wrong? Less reality, more songs
Watch me – walkin’ off shore but then you never tag along
I draw pieces like Mahjong. First, I’m here and then I’m gone
Everybody knows the code, but it’s your confidence that shows
Signs I’ve been trying to find you, in the backseat behind you
I don’t mind if you stay, I take my body
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away…
This is the paradox, I’m tying knots
My body electric-mechanical, sip on that antidote
Cruise through the city, I don’t need your help
Ain’t nobody fucking with me, watch me do a shimmy
Then I gotta go, jiggy in the jungle
Now you cryin’ on the floor, it’s ridiculous
Everything you do is so ambiguous
I got a question, but why are you flexin’ though
Let’s move to Mexico, multidirectional,
Follow the flow, we going nowhere with nowhere to go,
I gotta leave and get back on the road,
Send me a note and then come see my show
I turn into crow, I’ll do it for sure
As far as I know, I’m a dot in the universe.
It’s a universal language, boy just answer what I’m askin’
Our division is a fraction, ollie-ollie till you fracture
I’m like darkie, Blondie, rapture,
Every hint I frame I capture,
Said I’ll let you know, catch you later though,
Waves, they come and go…
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away
Away, away, away…
This is the paradox, I’m tying knots
My body electric-mechanical, sip on that antidote
Cruise through the city, I don’t need your help
Ain’t nobody fucking with me, watch me do a shimmy
Then I gotta go, jiggy in the jungle
Now you cryin’ on the floor, it’s ridiculous
Everything you do is so ambiguous
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Dirty Girls
03:37
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I could give a f*** about mascots
Superficial forget-me-nots,
Audio-visual petticoats
I’m Joshua in Jericho
My profession is clerical,
I rap plenty, numerical,
Drove to Portland, in Oregon
Fantasising on Eragon, prophylactic
Like when William’s wearing a jacket
When you wonder where I’m from
You know it’s another planet
Channelling Janet, and Lauryn
And Nina Simone, nome e cognome,
Poi non chiedermi quando né come,
Ma come fa come fa?
Whatever happened to the wishes
That I’d wish on a star?
Since I’m never looking back
I’m gonna get very far,
When he reads between the lines
We’re gonna kiss through the bars
Riding with boys in their cars
You know that I’m –
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty though
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty
This is the warning, you’ve been warned
It’s early morning and we set sail
Before the storm, it entails
Letting go of your baggage and roles
And the socks with the holes, now deck the halls
With boughs of holly, “Who’s calling?”
I’m Hollyhock Horseman and the story just shocked me
My brother’s a creep, boy’s always horny
I don’t know my mum but then my fathers adore me
Now tell me where to go so I can pick up my trophy?
I can’t speak on the topic
It’s very, very, very, very, very, very, very dystopic
Suffice it to say, I wanna house in the tropics
Reparations are logical, so shook that it worries me
What if we buried MTV? More like reality
TV mental insanity, fundamentally Hannity should just die
Don’t cut it there cause I’ve gotta hide controversial diatribes
I be the raven with the eyes, you know that I…
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty though
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty
I am louder than a mountain
I can’t speak before I think
Holding onto happy
And the joy that lives within
My name you can’t say S-H-U-N-A-J-
I and I’m I and I thrive every day
The pattern is so cyclical
A story that is biblical
Your influence is minimal
We never stay the same
The game plan I change
I breathe with the rain
My importance is proportional
To all the lives I saved with soul
That erases every pain
And the difference of the moon
Or the distance that remains
If the chains are unchained
I am free of constraints
Let your man ascertain
That I have no complaints
I don’t hear and I don’t see
Without fear, I can’t be weak
See my face through the trees
And the blood on the leaves
If you listen to the stories
That the wiser people speak
I know you, you know me,
You do you and I’m free
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty though
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty though
I’m like those girls you call dirty
Dirty, dirty, dirty
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Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find (find, find)
(You know you're always on my mind, yeah?)
Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find (find, find)
You know you're always on my mind (always on my mind)
Walking in circles like I’m looking at a photo you ain’t in
You’re always on my mind but I don’t know where to begin
My brain is freezing, they say we all need something to believe
And that’s the reason I keep breathing in, I need another fix
Worst case scenario, I’ll be using my best tricks
My quinceañera pearls and all my dolls with sticky pins
Cause once upon a time I been a queen without a prince
The devil was a price tag I’ve been breaking ever since
And I’ve been living on a spaceship; did you know that I exist?
Computers don’t connect to me, I hope that I’m not missed
Sincerely to the man I left there laying in a ditch
I swear I’m not a ___ but guaranteed I am that b*tch
The drama’s been dismissed - I’m approaching Mercury’s
My favourite planet, but damn sometimes I’m easily distracted
The rhymes I always smash ‘em, turn B sides into classics
I’ll take you to the stars like it’s your first time dropping acid
That’s a promise...
Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find
See you all around me, you’re always on my mind
Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find
I see you all around me, you’re always on my mind yeah
You know you’re always on my mind, yeah...
You were on my mind
I ran into you hun for the second time
Never been aligned till the sunset finds,
Uncovers all the lies while our souls on fire
Our minds go higher, yeah
Everything bless, less stress
Never been blessed like this
I was on Mars - this ship
Never been far - like Wiz
I was on deck - why him?
Now I’m out here fighting
Never been blessed like this
Everything bless (everything is everything)
You’ve been on my mind
Now I fell in love for the second time
But something feels deeper
When I wrote the line,
Expressed my kindness,
She was so fine, it was like a mine
With the…
Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find
See you all around me, you’re always on my mind
Walking in a maze and I don’t know what I will find
I see you all around me, you’re always on my mind yeah
You know you’re always on my mind, yeah...
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