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2nd Star
02:59
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I don’t see your way but your flow calls me
Back to adolescence
Misplaced passion
I read the pain behind your blank expression
I see the truth of you behind your cynic’s eyes
I feel the weight of all your rejections
How do we get this typical addiction
Said how’d we get this typical addiction
So strongly called to love someone
Knowing that won’t fix what’s going wrong
But still we tried one too many times
Lost boys call and Wendy’s warm heart can’t resist the cry
Take my hand for comfort as we stumble through the sky
Second star there on the right and fly straight on till we arrive at dawn
I project on you everything I’m feeling
All this self analysis leaves my head reeling
So I stay away from you except when I’m dreaming
It’s messed up I know you’re a person of your own
You’re not my toy… and you’re not my boy
Lost boys call and Wendy’s warm heart can’t resist the cry
Take my hand for comfort as we stumble through the sky
Second star there on the right and fly straight on till we arrive at dawn
Sticky eyes and hazy mind I do that too half of the time
The other half I dont know what is right
The fucked up thing’s when I’m lying in a bed with him
I dream of you so strong that I smell the scent of your skin
(Take my hand come and fly with me
Desire
Neverneverland feels so free)
Lost boys call and Wendy’s warm heart can’t resist the cry
Take my hand for comfort as we stumble through the sky
Second star there on the right and fly straight on till we arrive at dawn
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2. |
Don't Look Down
03:00
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Searching for appreciation
Looking endlessly for validation
Pitfalls of individual creation
But don’t look down
Don’t look down
Cos you are up there with the most high
Flames rising from your fire
The flowers of youth grow wild
And too many too early are tied
With child still child
But don’t look down
Don’t look down
And if I hold in my hand
A seed that still needs to expand
It carries the energy of what will be
Don’t let it wither on the tree
Set it free yeah….
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
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3. |
Wake Up
03:05
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There’s rooms of only men deciding women's rights
There’s a guy in the White House who only thinks white
And they blinker us to see only one side of the coin
Show the refugees coming but not our bombs destroying their homes
And we got the internet connected round the world
But all we’re doing is just checking out those instagram girls
More and more distractions to keep us locked down
Turn us each in to an island without its own power supply .. I’m not gonna lie
{We got to} Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back take back
Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back our power
Wake up wake up take back our power
I see massive lorries plastered with greenwash signs
Saying we’ve cut our emissions to ease your mind
All our eyes are permanently glued to screens
The internet's the only thing for hi definition dreams
And the people who say theres no systemic racism
Why can't you see that's just cos no one ever rubbed your face in it
We are all in this together so why don't you take a minute before you
Sit back down, put your blinkers on and settle in it
{We got to} Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back take back
Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back our power
Wake up wake up take back our power
Wake up wake up to what we know
Wake up wake up wake up before it's too late
Somehow we stud the green fields with empires of steel
Get our supermarket apples from a thousand miles away
Put our vulnerable away where we don’t behold their pain and
all our stuff is built to fall apart sooner rather than later
They care about a black Ariel more than fish in the sea,
Only when they’re gone will they realise we can’t eat money
History repeats itself time after time
Can only overcome our nature by opening our minds
{We got to} Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back take back
Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Take back take back take back our power
Wake up wake up take back our power
Wake up wake up to what we know
Wake up wake up wake up before it’s too late
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Bright Blue
03:46
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You of all others never clouded my horizons
Always kept them clear and bright
Where they would put obstacles and optical illusions
You kept it open through day and night
Sometimes the other unknown is tempting
I blamed myself without knowing why
Fins break the surface and keep on swimming
Smartest in the world don’t know wrong from right
When I left us behind to go out on my own
I felt like an animal caged too long
But soon I looked back to see through my bars
That they were never real and the key was ours
Cos you, you alone always knew
How to keep my skies bright blue
Blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Rainbow dawn knocks at my eyes
Promising gold daylight
Others promised to excite me
But never my soul delight
Well you handled me so carefully
And so freely with such joy
Jokers feed me fun and games
But I am not their toy
I wanted to taste more life
But it was always sweeter with you
You loved enough to let me fly
Another way we were so right
Cos now I’m flying home on stronger wings
With the sweetest song I know how to sing
And every other bird I meet I’m only saying hello, goodbye
Cos you, you alone always knew
How to keep my skies bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
Bright blue
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5. |
Wild Womxn
03:48
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We love and fear her body like we love and fear the sea
All things come from and all things go back to it
It’s used to sell you things and its our origins
Whether we like it or no
Tell her its not so and she will know
Your’e lying or a fool
Cos she’s the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild woman
She’s the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild woman
So in one concept we’re the weaker sex
Doesn’t mean that I need protecting, if anything I need letting to do my own thing
I’m not your sex ting I want respecting
Aretha RIP said the same thing
R-E-S-P-E-C-T that’s the main thing
R-E-S-P-E-C-T that’s the main thing
One time a guy grabbed a handful of my ass from a bike then cycled away so fast
Left me raging on the pavement and thats everyday shit for any young lady
Cos so many men were raised with sexist behaviour
The youth of today will be our saviours
If only we can change the narrative
Raise our consciousness
Embrace each other as we awake to the mess that we made
On this planet we’re a plague mass extinctions our age
Anthropocene laid waste
Words like acid rain burn on the page but don’t rip it out in a rage move to the next stage
Dirty gold and burnished brass
Rockpool eyes and sand dune thighs
Stars in our cells flints in our nails
Skies in our smile the sea inside
Still try to push us around keep us down
Better watch out our power is rising up now
Tell us its not so and we will know
You’re lying or a fool
Cos we’re the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild woman
We’re the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild woman
We’re the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild woman
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Love + Belief
03:49
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I learned to seek refuge
Instead of dancing with the tide
I learned to take shelter
To curl up and hide
I learned to perform for you
Or anyone who might love me
I learned to hide behind a screen
Never let my light turn green
Wells of self esteem lie covered
Don’t know how to fill them
I learned to give
Up all of my time if
It meant that they might love me… yeah
But this generation we’re breaking the chain
Turning tables going against the grain
Fighting against old programming
And we will get free
With love and belief
I learned to prefer
A dream a fantasy an escape
Over my day to day
I learned to give
Up all of my time if
It meant that they might love me … yeah
But this generation we’re breaking the chain
Turning tables going against the grain
Fighting against old programming
And we will get free
With love and belief
Breaking the
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the (chain)
Breaking the chain
Breaking the chain
Breaking the chain
Breaking the chain
Breaking the chain
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Growth
03:55
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Walk in the street and what do you see
Signs signs signs screaming buy buy buy
Bloated society blinded by greed
Can’t see what we truly need
Gross money growth
Is the only thing they see
Gross money growth
It's the only thing they believe in
Gross money growth
Pretending to the people we are free
Gross money growth
So don’t believe what they say on TV
If you look up at the greatest tree
Even they don’t grow endlessly
Economic growth is only the key
To a society that worships only money
Took away the free school meals for poor kids
Couldn’t deliver a Brexit deal with forceps
Took all the support away from those who could least afford it
and then act surprised when people got nasty
Of course it’s a class thing cos certain people don’t deal with hardships
Up at the top of their towers with the puppet strings of power
Holding on tight can’t let them slip away see
How many young minds creatively wasted
Tapped into a system that would never miss them but that needs us
Needs all of our belief to keep the wheels turning on their machine
Divide and conquer see your enemies fall
And politicians world-wide do this to us all they talk
Workers and shirkers and immigration
While they’re selling off what was left of our nation
We’re losing our sight of higher things
Our solidarity
Fellow man all we can do is get along
For this planet we’ve only got one
Don’t buy into rich temptations at the cost of humanity
For that’s how the banks and the corporations now
Seize the puppet strings of power
…..power and
Gross money growth
Is the only thing they see
Gross money growth
Lining pockets with their greed
Gross money growth
Pretending to the people we are free
Gross money growth
So don’t believe
Don’t believe
Don’t believe what the rich men say
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Recognised
03:50
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When I first saw you I knew this need to be recognised
Your eyes held the same quiet challenge as mine
I couldn’t quite believe
What third eye’s second sight told me
I had only just discovered that I loved being free
When you got me the most precious scent I realised
That you could see through all my truth and my lies
Our fate followed through
Lucky you were in the same mood too
The mood to put all of your wood into this soul fire
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Burns purer than coal
Brighter than solar
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Burns purer than coal
Brighter than solar
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Purer than coal
Brighter than solar
When I first saw you I knew this need to be recognised
Your eyes held the same quiet challenge as mine
Destiny followed through
And you were in a love mood too
The mood to put all of your wood into this soul fire
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Burns purer than coal
Brighter than solar
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Burns purer than coal
Brighter than solar
Your love is the fuel to my soul
Purer than coal
Brighter than so—— la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Do do do do
Brighter than solar
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9. |
Surfaces
04:03
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My ancestors oppressed people all around the world
Tortured killed enslaved them for their lifestyle and colour,
An angry little island with a sprawling empire
Run by greedy white men who were drunk on power
I carry their shame of centuries written in my skin
Although to modern me all people equal kin
And I’m happy to see that empire crumble down
What can I do but add my voice to shout -
Things have to be different now
I hate this bullshit imperialistic make Great Britain great again
They wanna make America All White again
And when people wanna talk about us and them
Do you not understand what that does to men women and children
Make me ashamed of this skin, ashamed of its association
a race that thought it was the greatest so it could roam around the world
Imposing colonisation via obliteration
I know we all came from the same place out of Ethiopia
First steps in this human race
And I say fuck all of this nation waving
We’re all just souls passing through it’s the same thing in a different skin
In another life they’d have burned me alive for being a woman that writes
Screaming Witch! This bitch ain't right
While I’m there speaking in tongues like four or five
Cos I subscribe to an idea that speaks so clear that says
Everybody’s got the same right to be here on this planet that we’re on blessed by this yellow sun
That burns so bright the air keeps us alive
Thats why I wanna stop hate crime and police violence
All our rights should be the same whether we’re black brown or white
The surfaces were all we learned to see
Why do we care so much about the outer skin
The surfaces were all we learned to see
Why do we still care so much about the outer skin
Cos we are one race one people One Love nine billion souls
And I alone cannot make up for atrocities of old
And people need to break away from images we’re sold
Save our souls
Well I am human and so I dare to dream
That one day we all learn to see the other differently
Not just them on race religion sexuality or size
But see straight through the windows of their eyes
Cos the surfaces were all we learned to see
Why do we care so much about the outer skin
The surfaces were all we learned to see
Why do we care so much about the outer skin
Cos the surfaces were all we learned to see
Why do we still care so much about the outer skin
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10. |
Wavelengths
04:37
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Sunshine, early morning
Blinding, day is dawning
Boring two dazzling wormholes in my brain
Spotless horizon stretching
Forward, white fluffy clouds
Sailing, obeying a fresh wind we can’t see
Written in stardust
Blown by stellar winds
We’re all echoes in the endless
And wavelengths of intent
Wavelengths of intent
If our life and love and foolish journeys
Just a running track for souls
And our twists and turns and agonising crossroads
Somehow already known
Written in stardust
Blown by stellar winds
We’re all echoes in the endless
And wavelengths of intent
Wavelengths of intent
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It's coming to me pre-bucked like a former show horse
All I got to do is make sure you won’t see no stalks and
Of course I never thought I'd be back for the fourth time and
Yeah I wanted to make something more in my life
But I had to make that dollar to bring the music to life cos that's life
Own the means of production Marx was right
And the tides gonna rise when the people unite
And seize our fire with both hands and hold on tight
What you think I'm a butterfly how'd you think I fund my life
I make it look exciting cos I do what I like
Still bust my ass working all day & late nights
Drop the nugs into the bucket one at a time quick fire
There's no rest for the wicked or the peaceful do I lie
Gotta make that money to keep me free
Never thought I’d want it like that but now I see
Gotta get that dollar for liberty
Run to California you’re always calling me .. calling me
I did not take an ascetic path to get here
I’ve felt fearful many times then I learnt how channeled fear fuels a rhyme
I surround myself with creative dreamers
Believers opportunity seizers that's who I'm here with and
We were there when each other didn't have shit but
A couple ideas and a few pairs of scissors
Everyone's out here tryna get rich fast
Tryna turn the raw trees into trimmed ones
All I know is when there’s no sound music fills my ears
Symphonies play themselves to me play me to sleep
Dubplates bounce around me when I’m in the shower dousing
Tho I think I don’t have the skills to make them I still take them down
Receive them straight through the crown
I’m burning the candle at both ends now
My close friends know how I’m working to extend my soul
And when words are flowing through me like lava on Big Island
Can’t bottle this stuff up can’t stop it from rising
The goddess is waving me on on the horizon
My ego is driving and I’m trying to keep it from consuming me
Don’t know if I can make it into the industry or if it even wants me
But I’m under no illusions bout the state that I’m in
CA all the way if they’ll keep letting me in
Got to make that money to keep me free
Never thought I’d want it like that but now I see .. now I see
Got to get that dollar for liberty
Run to California you’re always calling me .. calling me
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12. |
Wild Womxn (Radio Edit)
03:49
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13. |
Surfaces (Radio Edit)
04:03
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