Yo... I thought I really could, turns out I couldn’t, wouldn’t want it if I tried, don’t touch me! So confused, what to do? Your voodoo has got me sold, doll, hold on; don’t let the puppets start pulling on those strings, I watch you grow wings but just keep flying and I’ll keep sighing, when I find out what’s inside them, I’m trying, I’m trying, but obviously not hard enough, my trump card is up but it’s clearly not enough, turn this heart to dust, but that’s just love & it doesn’t always happen the way I think it should go, but it’s helping me to grow & one day maybe I too will
get to know, Cos I mean, what do I know.. I mean there was me at the show, Minding my own business When this magical mysterious mistress got my mind so twisted, I mean what is this? I never even wished it but still it got me feeling so lifted, up all the way to the top, brain is now in knots & going back to the cot but it doesn’t wanna rock so I kick scream & cry like a baby, It’s crazy but I’d rather push up daisies then for my mind to be this hazy, give me a sign, write another line, Cos I’m not waiting my time with “lines”, although a different kind, I think you need to find a way to give me time, Cos I don’t mind if you don’t, so ask me to join you, but you won’t, waiting for you to call me & you don’t & with this I can’t cope, or I don’t wanna so I don’t, myself is very emotional & now so has become my sun. so I try to run but these emotions won’t let me and so I let em get me, right exactly where you left me, go be with him!! cos me, I’m not pretend and I don’t wanna be your friend, just because I can’t contend, this is my continent & I’m here to save it And if you can’t comprehend, Then why get so sedated, thought you related, So just know that I’d join you, but I won’t fall into that trap, done it way to many times & now I’m so over that craft, It’s not apt, I don’t wanna adapt & I don’t need to make no pact, Cos I know what I want and now it’s time to grab at strings and start pulling instead of always thinking that I couldn’t & I can’t, Cos that is that & I can, so best believe that, cos I am, And if you can’t grasp the fact that it’s true, then maybe I was wrong and maybe I don’t want you, guess that all depends on you, So, what you gonna do? C’mon lady show me just a little that you’re true I dare you.... So much sadness & I have no idea why, all day I cry, at least have tears in my eyes and they won’t dry, no matter how I try, to survive; I must, Cos there’s way to much love to crush though my whole world feels crushed, stay strong I must, stop being so fussed, I have to try to trust, cos this is the dust, that left me feeling powerless, as it emptied from the hour glass & showered past my overcast, half flag at half mast, cloudy grey weather, but it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, doesn’t really matter at all. Oh, so it doesn’t matter, huh?
credits
from Sentiments to Cinders,
released October 10, 2013
Instrumental by Kamikaze Picnic
Written, produced, arranged by ThiNXx
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