Upside Down

Now let me tell a story that's all about how
I keep letting everything turn upside down
Knocked back like that but I come back round
And I'd like to take a minute just to kick it right now
It's just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my life
Yeah yeah, just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my life

I don't know what I'm expecting
Getting on this train to ride away to somewhere next and
Out my comfort, zone although I'll do it for my bro
You better know I learnt my lesson
Soaking up the sunny day, a catalyst for runaway
Thoughts, and it's unfortunate for sure cuz I didn't know where I was heading, look
I had to let it sit, it's like my second trip
Should be calm I guess
Fuck me, should've second guessed my guess a bit
Who'd a thunk it? Weird vibes and to the point that I was drinking
But my body wasn't drunk yet
Went there for my day one, on day one
Re-eavaluating where I sit upon this table, where I came from?
Yeah sentences from a pair of classic white feminists
I cannot say for definite but felt like an affront towards my melanin
Should tell em then I got a couple books that I would recommend

Now let me tell a story that's all about how
I keep letting everything turn upside down
Knocked back like that but I come back round
And I'd like to take a minute just to kick it right now
It's just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my life
Yeah yeah, just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my life

Shout to Ruby Hamad
Put me onto white women doing up scars
Weaponising every tear through gratuitous chants
And I really hate to say it, but the truth man it's harsh
Wonder why I'd ever leave the London life again
For these bubbles full of trouble and succumb to fire, brim
Stone, I'm going home where it's been known the world exists
Beyond the culture that's involved with all the ones with whiter skin
Tone, I know I've said this shit befo' but lo' behold
It's been a well enlightened trip
You won't find me there again
And if you do then realise that I've decided I'll no longer bite my tongue
When you decide to speak the lies that do reside upon your lips
And to be real, I've been sizing up my friends
Who act performative as fuck, but do not get
The type of life that I would live
And how their words and what they do would have a sizeable effect
Got no time for any of that type of shit

Now let me tell a story that's all about how
I keep letting everything turn upside down
Knocked back like that but I come back round
And I'd like to take a minute just to kick it right now
It's just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my life
Yeah yeah, just a couple minutes of your time
For me it's nearly every single second of my...

Life...

Funny how when I get back to my ends
I feel like me I'm attractive again
They lied to our faces made us feel like we're not like them and we ain't
Had us trapped in our lack of faith and upset
Don't believe that shit
Nah brother don't need that shit
It's not that deep 'til they realise that we had to live and breathe and bleed that shit
When it's "Here we go again" they can keep that shit
Cuz the route we took, can't see that shit
Yeah, there's no act or pretend
Part of a league of immaculate men
Who had to attack, no one backing them
No one's backing us, with their backs to us
Never cut no slack, always acting sus
So we ride out different
Living life now different
We're a vibe now, different
That word don't like it, victim
Too much power to the white man, pick then
What you gonna do instead?
Me, I went in the booth instead
Could've wallowed and cried like I did back then
But I built my looks, took care of myself
And I went in pursuit of the truth instead
Peaceful? Nah, what I choose instead
Went to the club got drunk with a bottle of Bub like Fif
Set fire to the roof instead

Yeah, best believe I'm on smoke
Fuck your feelings I really do hope
You hear this shit all day, everyday in the back of your brain
In the club, when the car go past, everybody's like ayyy
Your voice drowned out by the beat and the baassss
A fraction, yeah, hope you like that...

Taste...(yeah...)

Best believe I'm on smoke
Fuck your feelings I really do hope
You hear this shit all day, everyday in the back of your brain
In the club, when the car go past, everybody's like ay
Voice drowned out by the beat and the bass
A fraction, yeah, hope you like that fucking...

Taste.

Dickhead...