Light of Day
Al The Native
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Yeah, da, da
One two
Da, yo what
Okay
Da-dey, da-da-de-da-da-da
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lights, lights
Camera, action
Yeah
Yo
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yo
I'm out here tryna paint stuff
Art everyday, it's all straight love
Dark in the face plus (What?)
Suttin' man wanna tar me with the same brush (How?)
Lightin' the place up
It's all good if you wanna make claims up
But I won't be marginalised when I
Wrote every line on that paper (Yeah)
Nurture my talent, raise my spirit level, keep balance
My inner rebel needs challenges (What?)
Slip through the gates of the palace
Looking that guard in the face
One hand on my ball sack, laugh and awake us
Ain't nothin' changed 'bout monarchy
Straight up colony, lot of our past ain't great
But I like having women on bank notes (Yeah)
Nothin' is beating the strength of a mother
Takes two to tango
And I've danced round the truth for that dollar
Been in the squalor, been in a bit of the horror
Givin' me reason to holla
Try if you wanna, never will I ever collar
I take the lead, don't bother (Oh yeah)
Find me in a room full of thinkers, socially smokin'
Antisocially drinkin'
Grabbin' life by the pincers
Shit's all good to a person of interest
But some things in my life have really got me thinkin'
I'm thinkin' maybe in a second I should roll
So I walk like Hawkeye, surgeon
Blade for a brain in a city that's dirt grey
See a Kentucky chicken eat person (Uh)
See a kiddy eat grease for her birthday (Yum)
See a mum with a pram struggle up steps
Ten men walk past, no helping
Bumped baby becoming upset
Mum with the anger well held in
Look, big pimp daddy vapes on the corner
Big pimp drinks strawberry Evian
Big pimp daddy misses his daughter
Big pimp has a Porsche called Kelly-Anne
And the city does twist and belly dance (What?)
City does steal grief with a steady gaze
You standin' it tall and elegant
You make light from it all anyways
Make light when the dawn comes grizzly (Yeah)
One pound for a bowl of banana (Yeah)
Two eyes but we don't see diddly (Nah)
Self love is the ultimate answer
For the dark comes thicker fast, dun it
Love comes with a dickie heart, dun it
One pound, one gram, one punnet of plums
It don't matter, you're a fabulous fuckwit
Whether Mazda, Peugeot or Vauxhall
Flat cap, fur coat or mothball
Tora, Quran or gospel
We are not bad, all of us oddballs
And it's all to play for, sonny
Not one of us here has a bloody clue
You go make your money
Just make sure the light don't fall out of love with you
It's all in my head now
Life playin' with my sense now
Just waitin' for the light of day
Waitin' for the light of day
I spent my whole life lookin' for the types of ways
To get my whole mind searchin' for the light of day
But it fills my brain, it throws me away
It fills my brain, light of day
Broken bottles and ashtrays
Think my demons coming of age
I was not privy to the preview
But I think this livin' is staged
I still read the news and their dailies
Still they carry bags for old ladies
But I went bananas and lost my manners
Way back in the eighties
Hope is a drug, lovers and thugs
Takin' a dose in the veins
Light at the end of the tunnel
Oh abeg, I hope e no be train
Charle I dey for my corner
Sellin' my two cents for a quarter
Tryna feng shui my life in order
Get a new visa, cross the border
Hello to the big Ben
Immigrant dreams, ambition on ten
Naira, cedis, pounds and yen
'Cause charle broke, ain't got no friends
Take out purses in churches
You know, salvation for purchase
Screamin', "Hosanna, hallelujah"
Ching, ching, ching, ching as we sing, sing (Hey)
I'm a survivalist, seen the ghost with the bloody lips
In the basement recordin' this
Hope you caught the gist
Just tryin' to make an art of this
Just tryin' to be an alchemist
And I think we can
Even though it might be sinkin' sand
Still find me a pot to piss
But it's suffocatin'
Sometimes throwin' tantrums and fits
I peep the future through a peep hole
My cynicism really is needless
But I'm an artist, I'm sensitive with my shit
Still wear my heart on my sleeveless
It's all in my head now
Life playin' with my sense now
Just waitin' for the light of day
Waitin' for the light of day
I spent my whole life lookin' for the types of ways
To get my whole mind searchin' for the light of day
But it fills my brain, it throws me away
It fills my brain, light of day