Shunaji’s self-produced ‘Stay Silent’ nods to classic trip-hop whilst demonstrating her eye for the avant-garde as she merges the acoustic and electronic worlds to create an epic track spanning her talents as a vocalist and rapper.
lyrics
Pre-chorus
Straight out the underground, with amusement
You couldn’t say no, you wouldn’t refuse it
I’ve be quiet but let me say, they thought I couldn’t
So I didn’t anyway.
Me, the one who brings entertainment,
And so far I’ve got no complaining
I’ve got no complaints, trust pilot
Another one bites the dust and stays silent
Chorus 1
They stay silent (When they see it’s me)
They stay silent (Living fantasy)
They stay silent (Wouldn’t you agree?)
They stay silent (I was meant to be)
They stay silent (It’s my Odyssey)
They stay silent (No one else but me)
They stay silent (Wider than the sea)
They stay silent (I was meant to be)
Rap 1
It’s logical, biological metamorphoses
Got me caught in the middle like triple forces
Gains equal losses, the riddle she pauses
No liquid love in my life cause I’m solid,
Comical like Popeye’s Olive? No, I’m Morris
The rightfully active, a rapper fantastic,
Enough to distract me from falling,
I mean I’m innocent, darling, but cinematically
Panning between a fool and disarming,
Another feminist fanatic keeping men in her attic
Said The Sun and everyone who believes
Ma, the fault belongs to anyone else but me
I need to be, muted like a scream in a kid’s dream
It’s crude and reality’s been rude to me, I was nineteen when I left
And twenty-three when I ascended to become the best intended
Pun, reminding you that silence is for every single fucking one of us
And almost always never overdone, you - give it a shot
Before you start, you forgot
Chorus 1
They stay silent (When they see it’s me)
They stay silent (Living fantasy)
They stay silent (Wouldn’t you agree?)
They stay silent (I was meant to be)
They stay silent (It’s my Odyssey)
They stay silent (No one else but me)
They stay silent (Wider than the sea)
They stay silent (I was meant to be)
Rap 2
Inevitable colloquialisms, life is a prism
We in live technicolour dream in multi-vision
As seen on a meteor collision, you stay silent, I listen
To economical echos, ecological efforts
They curse us, we bless us
Today’s our manifesto, I’m manifesting
My many festering thoughts and
Manifestations - oughta be brought to me
As I’m crossing these seas, it ain’t easy
Falling out of line I lose control of all
Perception is perspective from above
The world, the words that fall the lips are pursed
And hips affixed to politics of death and birth
And hexes curse our sisters, which is mother,
Goddess under cover…
Goddess under cover…
Goddess under cover…
Chorus 2
Then they see it’s me (Then they see it’s me)
Living fantasy (Living fantasy)
Wouldn’t you agree? (Wouldn’t you agree?)
I was made to be, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
It’s my Odyssey (It’s my Odyssey)
No one else by me (No one else by me)
I’m wider than the sea (I’m wider than the sea)
Guess I was meant to be (I was meant to be)
And then they see it’s me, yeah (Then they see it’s me)
A living fantasy, yeah (A living fantasy!)
Wouldn’t you agree? (Wouldn’t you agree?!)
STAY SILENT!
Outro
Stay silent…
Stay silent, silent, silent, silent...uh...
credits
from Stay Silent,
track released November 26, 2021
Lead vocals: Shunaji
Backing vocals: Sarah Dobson, Shala Amarasuriya
Bass: John Wright
Cello: Jonah Spindel
Drums: Tash Keary
Keys: Shunaji
Viola: Isobel Doncaster
Violin: Evie Hilyer-Ziegler
Samples, synth and programming: Shunaji
Cuts by Shortee Blitz
Mixed by James Yarde
Mastered by Andrew "Hippy" Baldwin at Metropolis Studios
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