Tight Knit (feat. Birthmark, ELDON & Withdrawn)

Trust, I know exactly where my demons reside,

Keep em locked in the corner of my mind

but I still feel the pull like the moon on the tide,

should I let em out from time to time?

well, that’s something that I’m still trying to decide

cause if I do I’ve gotta ask myself,

Am I in the drivers seat or am I just along for the ride?

real talk, cause what I’m talking bout is real life,

yeah I’ll describe some of the events that shaped me,

sure

but I’ll leave the details implied,

Can’t have my thoughts and my actions clanging,

Nah, fuck that, gotta keep them rhythms in time,

just the utterings of another raver,

with a hunger for another serotonin incline,

Havana Club exaggerating my behaviour,

Swing the ice round the glass like a wind chime.

Ask no questions the answer gonna remain the same

Silence said it all and nah I ain’t the type for saying names

Middle of the night when the day came

Nine tenths possession but no one wanna lay claim

It’s like the whole city vacate

Yeh we were soaring through like orphan birds

Talk was more like awkward words

Lines were getting awful blurred

Man it’s whiskey over incense

Light through the cracks was getting intense

All them rules were dead bent

Sip Guinness to cement what we said meant

Toasting ghosts with quotables

You see misguidance made the best path

Head to toe in all black

Trying to balance out a coloured past

The block was like a monolith,

I broke a couple bones but I always kept my promises

Focus on my breathing now shelter ain’t the place we hide

Scars were for the keeping, still ain’t sleeping but the dreams alive.

Dunno why I find the moon so captivating

But I swear there’s something inside me it’s activating,

Distracted from my current situation,

Only for a minute, I’ve got other arrangements,

One step at a time my body drifts across the pavement,

Cautious, cause when you’re at the races never back the favourite,

If you really want it then you gotta chase it,

I met one of my demons, destroyed and replaced it,

But if I had a quid for every time I felt like this,

I probably wouldn’t hold the bottle with such a tight grip,

Walked in them shoes there, they didn’t quite fit,

Now everyone I’m walking with is tight knit,

White knitted shirt, black denim jacket,

They tried to hit me where it hurt, but it didn’t work,

Too busy searching for sounds I aint ever heard,

And that’s what I’m gonna do from now until I’m in the dirt.

Yeh

I’ll be grinding till I’m dead and buried

When they weigh my heart I hope that feather heavy

Know the toll but can you pay the levy

The glass was neither full nor empty

It’s just a question of perspective

How many miles that soul stepped in

Lost count of the shadows that I crept in

Liquor went quicker than the ice could freeze

Bags under

Eyes wide, kisses bitter like valerian root

No rest for the wicked, man I know that’s the truth

Shadow theatre storylines

Reflecting a restless mind

Check the measures in these desperate times

Yeh I was looking kinda faded out

Armed with the blade measure wrist

Stick or twist

Man it’s your turn you’ll learn one day

Eyes burning in the worst way

Best cut the wordplay

Body on a knife edge and not for the first time

No one oversaw the punchline.

Burning incense to welcome the gods arrival

Operate not with a fear of reprisal, the spoils were sizeable

Your beats were kinda cool but i couldn’t reconcile those lies at all

Speak the word of iyalawo and make your spinal crawl

He ain’t even hit his final form

A wah di bumba?

Preparing ital, she simmer a vegan gumbo

I caught the spirit and started speaking mumbo jumbo,

Jes grew-isms

You give me words i might just curse you with ‘em

- he’s different

Master with the light touch

Skip on parchments of phantoms

My pen harbour silk like Sri Lankans

The top ranking give you a spanking

I’m hankering

Terraform the patterning, eradicate the lackeys

Emancipate the alpha beta’s chassis, assassinating languages

Hard dough bread sandwiches and pattys

With that bullshit you spit you’re snitching on yourself like Sammy

We came up out the cranny

This style’s got no daddy like Annie

- black uni posca in the hour of chaos

Eating arepa de huevo with mi parceros

Slinging arrows like eros

Shit

Shit