Second Heartbeat - Urthboy/Sampa the Great.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : T.Levinson/Z.Okenyo/S.Tembo
[00:00.800] 作曲 : N.Martin/T.Levinson/K.Behr
[00:01.600]Second Heartbeat -Urthboy/Sampa the Great/Okenyo
[00:05.870]There's nothin'I'm runnin'from
[00:08.230]Tell you where I'm comin'from
[00:10.890]I know where I've been
[00:12.560]I've been with you you've been with me
[00:16.359]Leather-bound diary faded handwriting
[00:18.607]Great-granddad thought it was a war worth fighting
[00:21.587]He ended up surviving had a daughter named Dot
[00:23.916]That's my grandma fell in love and married her boss
[00:26.615]That's my grandpa had a little hairdressing shop in Lakemba
[00:30.364]First child ninth of December in the years following the war ending
[00:34.292]A baby boom set in and now we call 'em boomers hey mum
[00:37.260]You were a straight-laced girl say what
[00:39.228]Went and got hitched to chain-smoking guys say what
[00:41.948]I've got a bit of both sides no surprised say what
[00:44.588]Like you're looking my different coloured eyes say what
[00:47.297]I got blue from brown and green songs of Donald Byrd the Trumpets
[00:50.725]The came from a thirty-three and a third maybe they got me
[00:54.344]My memory is a cluster of notes
[00:55.873]Forming a familiar melody I swear that I know
[00:59.192]Stress in the mornin'stress in the evenin'
[01:01.682]Stress is what I'm feelin'it's no wonder I ain't breathin'
[01:04.331]Music is my life from before I could breath
[01:06.581]Cause my daddy sang my mommy some melodious keys
[01:09.561]Melodious G melodiously
[01:12.100]In the end it was the birth of melodious me
[01:15.189]I picked up the tune when I was in the womb
[01:17.238]And I promise I would pride 'em with the songs that I'm doing
[01:20.277]I wonder if they thought that I could change the world
[01:22.667]If I could change the world well I would change myself
[01:25.457]First-borns seem to always know better
[01:28.257]The past is in the future so I get to know better
[01:30.937]Get to breath better get to dream better
[01:33.617]You paid for my college so I get to eat better
[01:36.247]I saw you in the past working long hours daddy
[01:38.856]I saw mama give dreams so we could be happy
[01:41.414]It's deep like my African lin'age
[01:44.284]I bet you're gonna need an African Minute
[01:47.523]Ode it to the ancestors
[01:49.433]Cause they answer prayers cause they answer
[01:51.971]There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from
[01:54.941]Tell you where I'm comin'from
[01:57.571]I know where I've been
[01:59.431]I've been with you you've been with me oh baby
[02:03.70]The past beats inside of me
[02:06.660]You may not even know
[02:08.499]Things you don't know somethin'you feel
[02:11.59]Fading like photos somethin'so real
[02:13.499]It's like there's a second heartbeat
[02:17.429]A light to lead me home
[02:19.249]Things you don't know somethin'you feel
[02:21.698]Fading like photos somethin'so real
[02:24.188]Subconscious is monstrous underneath like the Loch Ness
[02:27.167]Never seen but ever present like my blackness
[02:29.737]Puffing out my fro to to check my bestness
[02:31.667]Makin'waves like the flowing song of my ancestors
[02:34.287]Dig beneath the layers
[02:36.717]Tryna see what they are saying
[02:38.596]Looks like I found a treasure worth displayin'
[02:40.506]I take it down from the shelf
[02:42.205]Shine it up like a diamond see what it's worth
[02:44.884]And I know some things they are forever
[02:48.284]Know some things they hold together
[02:50.833]I won't walk this road alone
[02:53.352]I won't walk this road alone
[02:55.892]And I know some things they are forever
[02:58.842]Know some things they hold together
[03:01.492]I won't walk this road alone
[03:03.942]I won't walk this road alone
[03:07.81]There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from
[03:09.480]Tell you where I'm comin'from
[03:12.110]I know where I've been
[03:14.80]I've been with you you've been with me
[03:17.570]The past beats inside of me
[03:21.410]You may not even know
[03:23.110]Things you don't know somethin'you feel
[03:25.670]Fading like photos somethin'so real
[03:28.220]It's like there's a second heartbeat
[03:31.939]A light to lead me home
[03:33.788]Things you don't know somethin'you feel
[03:36.268]Fading like photos somethin'so real
[03:39.78]There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from
[03:41.498]Tell you where I'm comin'from
[03:44.248]I know where I've been
[03:45.948]I've been with you you've been with me
[03:49.667]There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from
[03:52.157]Tell you where I'm comin'from
[03:54.817]I know where I've been
[03:56.507]I've been with you you've been with me