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[00:10.60]I was a nigga in my younger days
[00:12.30]I even went through the phase as an angry ass black man
[00:15.51]I played the pan-african for a week
[00:17.52]Until I rocked up in Seattle when that racist shit ceased
[00:20.34]I met some sisters out in Mozambique, who asked me
[00:23.43]What part of Africa was my fam tree
[00:25.18]It would have to be Réunion. An Island on the coast
[00:27.84]That was conquered by the French a long time ago
[00:30.40]A true foe like I'm Francois cam shot
[00:32.60]I gotta stand by my blood like blood
[00:34.58]Though I am not them
[00:35.89]I pretend to be me, every now and then
[00:38.21]Even though some days I wasn't proud of kin
[00:40.77]I was childish then, found a style again
[00:42.81]Lost myself trying to follow men
[00:44.64]Reading books to fill this hollow skin
[00:46.10]Couldn't swim till they found me on the shallow end
[00:48.50]Used to win back when I didn't know how to win
[00:51.14]And now I spend money, trying to get my smile grinning
[00:53.81]Grim living foul feeling thinner than I am now
[00:56.18]And that's a sin, but religion isn't in me anymore
[00:58.56]So the Lord doesn't care if I'm sore
[01:01.28]Cause I'm bored
[01:02.11]Sick of thinking what I'm here for
[01:03.50]I'm not sure?
[01:04.41]I'm trying to be content with that, but fuck that
[01:06.69]I want my love back, my lust, my trust back
[01:08.98]And keep this freedom I don't wanna rap
[01:11.05]I'm trying to be...
[01:11.75]
[01:12.01]Alive again
[01:12.59]Wanna feel like I can fly again
[01:14.10]They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high
[01:17.00]I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive
[01:19.46]I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)
[01:21.94]I wanna see me in your eyes again
[01:23.82]Put this love between your thighs wanna give another life
[01:26.85]I don't want to have to die, (be)fore I get to feel alive
[01:29.12]I just wanna live my life. (To the, to the)
[01:32.02]
[01:32.57]I am only one, one, one, one
[01:38.37]We are always one, one, one
[01:42.55]Look up to the sun, sun, sun, sun
[01:48.06]See that we are always one, one, one
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[01:52.97]I was a painter in my last lifetime
[01:54.23]Now I write rhymes like I fight crime, living life blind
[01:57.52]Trying to find peace...
[01:58.67]With this girl on my mind that can't find me
[02:01.26]Watching Amelie hoping I'mma be the one that she finds
[02:04.63]Can't keep living life in rewind
[02:06.30]I used to fast on the hog, now I eat swine
[02:09.04]And can't stop smoking (blunts), though I keep trying
[02:11.63]In these times when the peace of mind is not a goal
[02:14.34]It's a grave
[02:15.31]I be racing to it holding hope. Rejecting change
[02:17.71]Cause the pain feels realer than the pleasure
[02:19.91]Rocking sweaters when the weather's sunny
[02:21.53]Funny fellow from the yellow
[02:22.78]But I watch so many foreign films, I feel foreign
[02:25.34]Every morning cooking full course meals, like I'm starving
[02:28.00]Hardly say grace or say "thanks for another day"
[02:30.49]Even though I'm grateful I try to show it in other ways
[02:32.94]I used to give bums change, till I changed
[02:35.63]Kind of strange cause when I'm richer than I was when I gave
[02:38.24]Got a gang of friends that I don't call or hang with
[02:40.91]Even though I know they on that same shit... aimless
[02:43.57]Shit, I must seem like I don't dream at all
[02:45.87]My mom says that I should draw again
[02:47.62]But I don't want a pen
[02:49.01]I just want to live, have kids, buy a crib like the old days
[02:52.19]Whatever happened to those days
[02:54.08]
[02:54.36]Alive again
[02:54.78]Wanna feel like I can fly again
[02:56.01]They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high
[02:59.22]I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive
[03:01.65]I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)
[03:03.77]I wanna see me in your eyes again
[03:05.78]Put this love between your thighs wanna give another life
[03:08.63]I don't want to have to die, (be)fore I get to feel alive
[03:11.19]I just wanna live my life. (To the, to the)