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A Story All About How

by The Scribes

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1.
Crowd surfing on waves of depression Board made of hate from the facial expressions Shores of the wasted bathe in rejection Life boat politics save your suggestions Saviour’s a razor for terror wrist ache Spray mist from your last mistake now come play Awake in the wake of yesterdays future We die every time we sleep so used to the Cousin of death under the covers and left Now welcome to the safety blanket not net The bait that you take is your faith in a step Onto fresh terra firma that’s out of your depth So lend me your ears I’ll take your hand An organ donor and a shadow of a man Sell by date fresh faith in a can Mind body and money come get with the plan Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away Crowd surfing on waves of the same sound Out searching for fame in a name brand Found hurt in the merchants of Graceland Jerking the chain of the slaves to the main crowd Best stay down if your image ain't straight Make sure that you're up to date or go die Make haste so the limits don't break You can hide everytime you dress so why choose to just Follow the steps of those hollow at best Welcome to the cloning factory you're next You tread in fresh threads for anonymous sex But show no logo I've got a lot on my chest Show me your trends I'll jump aboard And buy my life from the front of your store Bandwagon phantasms love the applause But only consume when it comes with a cause Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away I sound the horns you get your fix No bag of tricks you’re stuck on empty Word is bond now ain't that slick We just don’t mix so save your pennies The skies have torn it’s raining bricks My greenhouse schtick is ruckus ready Crowd of thorns so many pricks Oh my days so fucking trendy Now take my hand Now take my hand Now take my hand Now take my hand Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away Come join us moving with the crowd Your fear will fade away If you ain't with the crowd you don't mean nothing to me If you ain't with the crowd you don't mean nothng to me If you ain't with the crowd you don't mean nothing to me If you ain't with the crowd you don't mean nothng to me
2.
La Mancha 04:10
Sky's the limit now there’s limited sky I diminish a million minions living a lie There’s a club mile high rubbing my right thigh But my heads left wing only reach cloud nine Boots to my square route freedom is blind Pride firm on the ground as I'm seeking the signs Now Mark B and scythe saw my cypher is primed To the power of the unknown number one must die The tears of a beast from my recent bereavement Can bear new teeth and leap at achievements And I die a little every day how indecent I might let my mind take five and achieve sense So in defence my goal's a sentence Net on a catchphrase words of repentance Top of the ladder’s a matter of two cents I shoot down dreams aim low with a vengeance Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you My countenance is woeful And so full of soul for my ghost world Where spectres see windmills and go tilt To brag that their flag's on a molehill Captain courageous acting all major with no deal Illusion so real I can feel when it touches And build my bravado to yield to it's clutches The lies I subscribe to to hide all my blushes It's more than a crutch it's the reason I love this The fuckwits can't see my adventures Too stuck up pretentious and lost in the love of their henchman I'm out slaying dragons every day pay attention Since you won't believe this it's needless to mention As my ascension slowly turns freefall And all that I've captured now feels so see through I'm back with a vengeance parting the sea shore I rule in La Mancha but will not leave you Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you Sepia stills of you and I Keep running through my mind Sepia stills of you and I Keep running through my mind I rep mild mild west not repping for the fields but You're not gonna feel like dolla dolla bills I Got a lotta skill and a little dedication I think for my pennies no menace to meditation No secrets no battle There’s bones in my closet but no death rattle I promise I won’t leave you in the shadows Si mi hermano I leave for my travels down Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you Down when La Mancha calls I swear to you this I will not leave you
3.
Cicero 03:38
I've got a pocket full of attitude to throw at any stranger Now I'm blacker than callaloo and green don’t do me favours Incredible daggers stab at decibels of danger Now the power’s in peril I'm a rebel for the statements Lifeline orators sharp as razors Ain’t knife crime in the mind of liberators save us Blame it on our roots we’re puppets Without Brutus our troops restore republics Ignore the suffering endure injustice We draw short straws and their sure we love this The hearts we trust with catch twenty-somethings President forty four encore now what’s this? One make a difference? Look at the resistance Incidents distant and different in England Positive imprints are gone in an instant Bring it back my method of attack is thinking Ciceros can't take on Caesars Now it's all gone Now it's all gone Lesser evils are our leaders Now it's all gone Now it's all gone Oh the times oh the manners it's hopelessly broke And then forced down our throats til we choke on the hope You can go for the gold but I hope that you don't Leave me wholly alone with a vote and a rope and a quote from the dead Led by the soldiers instead of our choices it's over our heads I get sober to think things over and over and over and over again I'm already dead yo shed no tears I cried for your lies and then bled for your fears A warning to all said so clear By them forward thinking men who then led from the rear And we're blessed to be here that is clear but we drop Down to the levels of devils and gods We rest and appear to be calmly on top Til the bodies we built on are lost and forgot Ciceros can't take on Caesars Now it's all gone Now it's all gone Lesser evils are our leaders Now it's all gone Now it's all gone And I'm back again Strapped with them new acronyms Like OMG LOL we are going to hell You get locked Mementos to momentum can't stop They freed us then turned leaders it was going so well How many monsters or bosses that took on consciousness Honestly want to be sombre here A summer solstice rise of opponents All boasting quotes of those we’re supposed to fear Follow the leader swallowing what they feed us Proper propaganda mandibles of a heathen Take my taxes take us all backwards Middle finger spinning Britain on the axis Ciceros can't take on Caesars Now it's all gone Now it's all gone Lesser evils are our leaders Now it's all gone Now it's all gone
4.
She was a social butterfly fluttered by with a bitter taste Muttered why is this business so common place No place in commons nonsense she overrates General consensus says that she’s out of date Little late bloomer brunette played musical chairs With acoustical flair on open mic Only human consumed by letting her soul bare Five years who cares? She’ll drink tonight Sings ‘til the bell rings a bottle of Bells sings As she clings to her wagon thinking at least I'm not off the rails Or back in jail or affecting my record sales But my one hit broke my heart It tipped the charts but didn't want to hit the ground so hard Back in the gutter now I came so far Pain lowered the bar tired of aiming for those shooting stars She sits hoping that nobody would know They took her body and soul And swallowed it whole The camera light's on but nobody is home And know it's starting to show But still the industry grows again He was a local rapper man dapper dan held his swagger down Worked hard for his artform and mastered sound Wants fame faster after them massive crowds Mixtape hero here you go pass it round A few years late hates it no fame yet Still waiting for pay cheques and keeping it real Internal debate that rages won't make hits But fame is his aim still seeking a deal Now when the deal comes with some of the real funds And photos with real guns he's thinking At least I'm not making pop Sure it's fake hip hop and It hate it but I'm paid so what Now his big hit fails to chart And these labels are smart so he's dropped and it breaks him apart Now he's back where this tale did start With a weight on his heart A former star who knows he gave up his art She sits hoping that nobody would know They took her body and soul And swallowed it whole The camera light's on but nobody is home And know it's starting to show But still the industry grows again And all those lights that were shining so bright Look like stars man god damn Until the times when the day becomes night It gets dark man I get down Down in the dumps rebounding from the punch He's craving the escape and found it in the drugs Was so damn easy when these people knew his name From champagne and coke now it's needles in his veins Hardship so hard to walk when he once larged it In starships scarred by the talk of other artists His heart isn't art set his memory's fading Of seminal days fame's a terrible craving Pretty as a picture gritty as a scripture Tales from the crypt she sips the elixir Hard to swallow a pity to let the truth out Tale of two cities she's really filling her boots now Walk it foot in her mouth she can't talk it Awkward round of applause before she forfeits Tortured in vain for the radio fame Same game-show and it's growing again She sits hoping that nobody would know They took her body and soul And swallowed it whole The camera light's on but nobody is home And know it's starting to show But still the industry grows again She sits hoping that nobody would know They took her body and soul And swallowed it whole The camera light's on but nobody is home And know it's starting to show But still the industry grows again
5.
That Sound 03:37
This time it's a step too far Probably gonna hate us in the next few bars I'm not really hip hop but I guess you are It's the death of my rep like oh my god I don't need it keep no secrets The meakest to preach through your speakers Defeat the elitists who reach for a new sense of purpose That soon becomes pointless come seek us And I'm sleepless plus the nights are long Which then leads us just to fight the dawn And it seems that when I write a song I've got scenesters telling me right from wrong I'll be right along Mr Hip-hop-scene It's obscene this is not me This just means I've no means to bust through Right now I'm the proud face of fuck you This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone Doc opened my mind up yes indeed Got a shock from the lock like electric keys Repressed memories with a top up fee Mentality large charge by the sweat bead Can't see through the grease then you can't catch me It's a blur absurd said the words on the beat But the words on the street like Big Bird's speech Canaries in the mine only live so deep But I can't sleep so I've gone too far Hear the thump of the drum hum on the radar Thundersome war-cry it sounds so large Done lost my mind confined to the bars Yes ya'll locked up that's a step too far I stressed blew the whistle in excess my God Drives me crazy says the baby of the tar Maybe the guitar will save me from the pain of the barrage This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone Give me the speaker I'm here to seek the sound that's underneath you Discreetly greet the crowd I'm a mild social feature A Zatoichi preacher blind faith scene stealer Yes the best no distress KRS call me the teacher Overseer of the throne take your pigeon hole home I'm Hogan with the rope just to hang your hopes on Non-stop action capture dreams with my tone Master of systems since Phantasy Zone 64 bit definition hi-tech retro New wave high grade audio Masked man free speech leap of faith Invisible ink well wisher in stereo Here we go Heroes don't prosper here Not to fear here I am That sounds so damn familiar Do you hear me now? Staring down star struck golden eye silver tongue Hi-tech retro futurist still to come This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone This feeling won't go And that sound It won't leave me alone
6.
Coming Home 03:19
Once in saddle constant travel Conscience battled nonsense babbled Church converted words like scrabble Nonsense for the merging cattle herd with a fear of change Heard something strange shoot me down now I'm on the range Home again and it looks like nothings changed Still the same old hatchet with fresh remains Welcome back I look up at the ceiling damp It's just to view where my ego sat It's not pride I lack it's just a certain push I've been off the edge I survive without tender hooks But a chorus of broken looks and empty stares Are not enough to make me care There's a world outside and he's dying to fight I'm surprised that I made it back alive I'm Gone I remember the day when we won I've never felt so alone And nothing's changed but I'm coming home again Coming home again Today's the dawn Of the whole world waging war And the walk home that makes us crawl As the nations fall And find fights as occasion calls Til the price of our freedoms are paid in full Ignore all the fatal flaws And the vacant eyes Of virtue sent away to die As the boss men feign surprise And preach free speech from a cage of lies Victory's ours And it's great just how rich we are But no gold's going to fix these scars So I'm heading home But it's not the same Thought I'm told we won I still feel somewhat lost again We all bear the cross of blame with no sorrow A win at a cost this great is so hollow So swallow our pride as our followers die With anonymous heroes that none of us like Gone I remember the day when we won I've never felt so alone And nothing's changed but I'm coming home again Coming home again soon Please believe me I didn't mean to leave you on your own Please believe me I didn't mean to leave you on your own Please believe me I didn't mean to leave you on your own Please believe me I didn't mean to leave you on your own
7.
Action Pact 04:42
Jesus Jesus I can't make sense of what preachers teach us And reach agreement Left speechless by deceitful thesis Perceived as in God's eyes we're equal creatures Except this man I know him so well We're the best of friends although no one can tell He's kind with a soul that is glowing as well But he took the wrong book Now he's going to hell Mysterious ways The call of the lost Who can't see the flaws in the cause of the cross A rapist repents and hence all is forgot While a good man burns for not calling him "God" Is that all that you've got? When the suffering souls are gathered in roves and droves Just to tug at your robes It's the first of the chores that the covenant shows But your words for the poor are all covered in gold You're not alone although you think so Burn it down I want to see some action here The gods outgrown the saints have since flown Burn it down I want to see some action here A room with a view but no mood for relaxing A funeral tomb of affirmative action Tourniquet sanctions start with a pen Only wounded a few lemme do this again I'm an interpreter words with a vision So fuck what you heard you can't murder religion Who is the victim? Faith won't kill ya War 'cause of Christians? Sounds so familiar Terrors in the west in your head in your bed boo Get a better god maybe then I'll respect you My hugs with firearms army issue A trinity of scapegoats send me your issues I've got a small few thorn in the side Like a virus of lies where millions die Believe in conception but not in protection You're reckless unless you're a god or elected You're not alone although you think so Burn it down I want to see some action here The gods outgrown the saints have since flown Burn it down I want to see some action here Your gods all died the day that you covered them in gold Your saints all tried but found that it's far too late to grow And all the ones who came to fall down at your feet Now stand outside your castle picking pennies off the street It's a feeding frenzy in the corporate dead pool So the guy in the sky's going to drown your issues These are signs of the times broken wings and red bull And home made halos arranged for mis-use The souls are let lose now somewhat abusive Elusive to trust while we're funding excuses I run with the students so idly led Like my god he wants your god dead I'm ready for reaction the camera is steady Just to capture the grace of a face on the telly A media medley dispurse of your turbans Until we know death in the west ain't for certain So close the curtains I'm out of faith Drown in my doubts today feeling out of place Til the victims of droughts are saved By the gold that surrounds your grave Heaven help us You're not alone although you think so Burn it down I want to see some action here The gods outgrown the saints have since flown Burn it down I want to see some action here
8.
A Wake 03:07
This is just a little bit of laid back soul The hypocrite's back so I may lack soul Quite inconsiderate thinking that fast track Throw back rap chat's crap on the whole Content abundance chatter a matter of substance abuse Consonants so constant talking brass eye nonce-sense I bring gold to your ear and touch with every sentence Rhyme repentance I hail the medicine man Million Dan like Hokage plural Anime reference I trail the pitiful lands Mud on my hands come back and paint murals Urban picture perfect earth version of Worthless dirt that lurks in every person For certain more water than surface scratches Retain the flow as I return to ashes So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight I stay awake So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight Tonight I stay awake The insomniac speaks I gave up green and properly lack sleep 'cause of spaced out dreams I count sheep but found I can't sleep 'cause under damn sheets I find my mind screams Nightly come find me I wander round The underland found 'tween sleep and waking The slumber bound thundercloud all vacant Facing each day as I seek awakening The vagrant undercover agent taking each thought too far My zone is restless Pulling a late shift with no spliffs Eyes open my dream boat's a ghost ship My mind just speaks at night oh gosh It's taking me deep tonight I'm so lost Each time I want peace I find I can't see the light I'm so sleep deprived So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight I stay awake So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight Tonight I stay awake I hide under the covers of the fabric of reality That tears apart at the seams And we get lost between the land of the wake and the land of dreams Where things are never quite what they seem Really got to get a bit of rhythm Gotta hit them with a little bit of dreamscape Sleep take middle of the road like rohypnol flow on your pillow No average a maverick on task since Willow No small feat try to sleep with the minnow Mobbed by the sheep that's me out the window Cut deeper than six by the number Daisies I push keep me in a slumber So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight I stay awake So deep Can't get no sleep For me tonight Tonight I stay awake
9.
Blood donor one previous owner One tedious moment I'm teetering sober Low life with no knife leaving me colder And no lime holding a red warm Corona Wait's over raised as a cobra Blood from a stone heart's never been bolder Chips on my shoulder carve them a sculpture Vulture swoop anarchy circles in my culture Picking holes in any logic from the child of the poster You're zoned from the crops that you smoke on the sofa to cope Quotes for your quota I shirk call work just to stay of your rota Headset hero get fucked not supposed to get Balls on parade work slave De La Rocha Die for the call queue cause in my holster The suit is a noose and the money is a monster Sometimes we all have felt alone And I'm not the one who can end it No longer surprised by the blood in your eyes And it makes me feel alive Oh no man this scene should die 'Cause it just goes low when I need to fly And I've got no flows for your bleeding eyes 'Cause I just don't know what you're meaning right I'm solo The fresh air to your choke hold Flesh to your robo Cess to your homegrown Best dressed next to your hobo The next shit so left on my own Oh... And I won't go because my feeling's dead for your tears So I bleed instead and that feeds me breath that I need to live Though I've gained no halo by giving demons shit Holy moley The Scribes have dropped Though the blood from your eyes has clots So the sights are lost There's no life in the nights I rock So society I'm signing off now good bye Sometimes we all have felt alone And I'm not the one who can end it No longer surprised by the blood in your eyes And it makes me feel alive Dead and buried but deprived of a cemetery Heart's heavy only alive when I'm predatory Hereditary I've inherited curses With momentary lapses of judgement in verses Nurses redundant they won't cut chords Heart is repugnant I won't find lords First death wish is the gift of a sword Cut ties through my wrist let me slip out the door These days I weild sprays I've laid down my laser gun I write breath and sidestep your stadiums The scenes most miscellaneous space aliens Are not the face of fun that they once were I strangle sunshine in webs of entangled punchlines The somewhat disgruntled grunge type Catch me in the corner of the club looking tortured sometime It's skin deep but I love the blood in your eyes Sometimes we all have felt alone And I'm not the one who can end it No longer surprised by the blood in your eyes And it makes me feel alive
10.
Sunshine 03:36
Here comes the unstoppable force now in motion No passive emotion that's classed as corrosion The passion exploding from souls oh so focussed Noticeably broken homes that seek these potions Go faster go harder rather than the stigmata Don't barter by bearing the cross of your father The mastered original bastard material Sins of the digital criminal here we go Really want to get up on that path crossroads whatever I got to get a better plan real fast tougher than leather I piece it together and bottle the sun I feast on remains where the clouds could have won Where crowds could have gone they hide from the lightning The fear of the thunderclap rah so exciting Keep fighting the gunpowder sparks from the tongue My speaker-box rocks until dawn and I'm done He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes He's caught up in waves of thought drowning in silence While all of his mates just surround him in violence He buries his feelings turn demons inside him And slowly turns grave in the tomb of surviving Gets harder thinks larger can't shake the stigmata Gets marginalised and rejected a martyr He's classed as a miscreant grasps and then slips again Lastly gets so god damn dissident militant Got to get a better life real fast options aren't open Forgot about the better side he had soft mens get broken He's tired of hoping and fired with rage The animal choking gets freed from the cage The street's now his pate he feeds with his knife And takes what he needs like a thief in the night He tries not to think in the days what he's done Just sinks in the downpour and waits for the sun He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes He feels so illogical after each obstacle Lost in more visions of mission impossible Had nothing lost it all known to the constables But still he feels he's not really responsible This is not the road he chose The hate inside alone it grows He bears the weather pulls the gun But swears he never saw the sun I think he's inside again yeah that leviathan Hiding in tear ducts and puffing on nitrogen Flow running cold raining so I just show my grin Crying's for losers I'll use this hallucinogen Carpe diem unbearable Eyes of the carnival head of a Ferris wheel I guess I'll hide until light there's a spark I melee every day I'm afraid of the dark He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes He's nothing to say And nothing to lose Just waits for the sunshine That never comes
11.
Ob(Li)vious 03:54
I'm a reporter performing amongst the crowds I live the minstrel show and overthrow the frowns Turned upside for these media moguls While inner city kids are busy doing the bogle And I've got these vocals I'm not earning a pound And then you get someone approach you and they turn it around Tabbard or a gown you hear that jingling sound I've got no money for your honey-pot I'm thinking aloud How come you never drown in the sorrows your selling me Centrepiece of the town and now you've found a new enemy It's energy wasted could've been more productive Plight in the face of the countries we're fucking Advertising space is what we grew up in And urban isn't ghetto enough for the headlines Everybody kill until they care for our suffering Or get a celebrity to open a phone line Lift me up I'm struggling to breathe Your reasons for being here are not at all obvious Lift me up I'm stuck in debris Your bleeding heart sympathies oh god it's so obvious Hey kids I'm a no show socialist my devotion is emotionless And focussed totally on self promotion no one notices I made soft focus promos of some helpless homeless kids That cut to close ups of my famous face the spotlight focusses I fake ferociousness with campaign troops who Play on your heart strings with champagne flutes I tailor quotes to the popular propaganda And piss at forest fires just to get my cock on camera I throw banquets for the starving matchsticks at a tidal wave I'm drastic and alarming til my pictures on the title page Always ready to weigh in I'm watching my waist line Feeding victims afflicted with famine for face time I will support and fund causes if it pays to But only if they make news my CD's on the way soon These dying kids are way cute I'll keep one if you stay tuned This world's fucked but oh what luck celebrities will save you Lift me up I'm struggling to breathe Your reasons for being here are not at all obvious Lift me up I'm stuck in debris Your bleeding heart sympathies oh god it's so obvious Soon enough we'll all be dead So though I hate the talking heads on charity drives Who save the walking dead I'm still happy with the results though it might be cynical And somewhat unlikely to provide a miracle Still every little helps I guess that's the point When celebrities with wealth give hugs to little boys Who can't afford to eat Your publicity pretends to be philanthropy I guess the means justify the ends I used to work for charity haggling for your gift aid Racking up crap salaries that'll be where the fair trade Defies gravity in the weight of all your arguments Parliament's expenses are arduous at the heart of this Targeting harvested funds it makes it our business Bear witness to the piggy banks thankful for forgiveness It starts at home but the four walls you'll forfeit Awkwardly raising roofs at the small price of a guilt trip Lift me up I'm struggling to breathe Your reasons for being here are not at all obvious Lift me up I'm stuck in debris Your bleeding heart sympathies oh god it's so obvious
12.
CONvictions 04:38
You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down Young rebel tongue on that awkward appliance Devilish lungs and a mouthful of science Mind full of guidance rock with the tyrants Crack rap foundations subsidence Kevlar hoodie feign eyes full of violence Rain on parades with a fistful of pirates Flag of a hybrid bag full of flyers Drop propaganda banners on fire Two step march with a fist to the future Hand on the heart that'll beat with the Sutra Computer based faith change in your ways 'Til the blue screen of death bring the end to your praise So the music you rage to is government traced The keyboard error brings the terror to your place Forever in the wake 'til the bullshit expires Drop propaganda banners on fire Your revolutions died in a wave of fear While my convictions are standing firm Your revolutions have never been worth the tears While my convictions have passion to burn I wrote a revolution from the text book that left shook the next man Who calls kettles black and looks dead pan But Che lives on In cool corporate logos and awkward bohos Who don't know quite what to rebel against Like what have you got? A pocket full of plaudits a rocket ship hope and a book full of causes A locket full of dreams that it seems lack all purpose And underground schemes that cannot crack the surface Back to the wall free fall specialist Effortless makeshift martyr to my minions I am the manifesto manifested in a man Strapped with reactionary opinions I am new beginnings The face of the future with a black beret and a laser bazooka To break the walls while glass ceilings shake and fall Disregard shards that aren't part of my greater cause Your revolutions died in a wave of fear While my convictions are standing firm Your revolutions have never been worth the tears While my convictions have passion to burn You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down You're not the one to tear me down Well look who came to save you bringing an urban manifesto Savouring the day you play your part and use your dress code Want to save the world can't afford to travel You hopped upon the gravy train and think you know the battle Now and again I guide my pen to meaningless rebellion You try to intervene my thirst for power like I'm Kenyan Point the finger like I'm UKIP it's time to stick 'em up Money is the colour of change and you don't have enough I am new Che come gather around me They have control but I have an army That all has guns we have a mission They have funds but I have a vision We have a choice they've an agreement I am your voice you'll listen to reason I am equal rights until I read Nietzsche Duci novo similis duci seneci Your revolutions died in a wave of fear While my convictions are standing firm Your revolutions have never been worth the tears While my convictions have passion to burn Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss Same as the old boss Same as the old Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss Same as the old boss Same as the old
13.
Pain Relief 04:15
I rap to move the sands of time the asinine can stand aside Standardised rhyme schemes can plan to die And much love to those who aren't really fans of mine Stick to your beliefs it's just they're not really facts of mine I smash the mic to make me think the greatest sink from weight of bling Greater things bring pain but take me in And much love to those who buy in to paper thin And lock me out I'm much stronger on account of breaking in The game begins I turn away your murder sprays get heard for days Purple hazed play back by urban slaves And much love to those who want me to burn today It's easy now to laugh at my defeat with a certain grace I learnt the way the portals move the tortured points of awkward view Who all confused true lies with slaughtered truths And much love to those who buy in of course you do It makes it fine not to waste more of my time on thoughts of you I walked a million miles for pain relief And now I'm here it feels so strange All these buildings seem so grey to me Clouds will clear but will I change Make shift seraphim duct tape wingspan Six figure silhouette seventh heaven flight plan Cardboard crucifix fairy bottle big bang Paper plate halo Blue Peter pin badge Super cannoned Neil Buchanan religion with art of war Fathoming the martyrdom this one will finger-paint the floor Paint the walls find one that will save us all Save a pretty penny for so many who just can’t afford Cut and paste faith far too safe for the sacred Emergency pray kits are free for the vacant Home grown escape made to strip the soul naked Your full blown half hearted quarter bag spaceships Are half assed pick and choose commandments that are tailored To new class fads and pilgrimage playlists Worlds on rotation games with the same stick Blind faith with new generations to play with I walked a million miles for pain relief And now I'm here it feels so strange All these buildings seem so grey to me Clouds will clear but will I change I‘ll walk those miles do it with a swagger And I’ll hop turnstiles doesn't really matter But I’d rather have a friend Ready to do it all again you bet I am I pent up on momentum and adrenaline This is your inheritance a present from everyone When the bucket kicks you back the rust will keep you genuine Need a lady luck in a stack not my heroin Hooked on my medicine I don’t want to see hell again I'm just as emphatic as riots in Attica Solitary sadness the sins of a traveller Grace of a battler face of a harlequin The taste of your blood in the mind of a charlatan End of the start again friends of my enemies Pretence of love the rush of your energies The loss of a centrepiece cost of your freedoms The look of a martyr with a cross made of demons And I'm screaming I walked a million miles for pain relief And now I'm here it feels so strange All these buildings seem so grey to me Clouds will clear but will I change
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Flunk Out 03:20
Welcome to my personal hell my acquaintance Look at where my confidence fell hello Satan We dance every once in a while he’s so patient With the high horse but hooves are so blatant White ones I chase them stables so fragrant That I'm incapable to make statements I get up to get beat down through punk placement Never mind the bollocks of those who’re so wasted Friends tend to smoke to save faces Under masks like Jason just trends and crazes Stay in deep ends I won’t bend for phases Shallow solitude is crude in all cases All I want to do is get mended painless Make ends meet and not leech off strangers So I think I’ll drink myself brainless Away from my thoughts ‘cause boredom’s so dangerous Go out get down Let's drink again I don't know even if I can Stay in flunk out And lose your friends I don't know even if I care Everybody's out again I am Mr Molehill taking out mountain men I never really found a friend Swim in my solitude lose and then drown again I bleed through fountain pens and found friends turn invisible And don't want to visit you when life gets critical Maybe I'm jaded and cynical or maybe just lately I'm sick of all this Not out on the piss so they doubt I exist And won't mount an assist now I found the abyss Out on the town and you're bouncing a bit I drown in a frown and get down with a twist Pounding my fist full of listless energies Bored of your textbook chemistry Fuse with my reveries and induce new enemies Who cruise on the booze til they lose all their memories Go out get down Let's drink again I don't know even if I can Stay in flunk out And lose your friends I don't know even if I care A toast everyone drink up and get down I'll meet you at the bar in fact it's my round Pass the Jaeger-bombs and we can get a little lairy now I get carried away but never get kicked out like My Mrs thinks I'm bonkers mate I think she's off her head We can start and little bit merry or go all out and get totally wrecked But I ain't looking on a fight tonight Just out for the craic fulfil my boozy appetite Lines don't help put a slur on my rhymes Your man's doing my head in yo but you're alright A little sparkle watch the moon turn bright I'll take two more and a Morgan Spice Make it one more for Jonny Mayhem Don't remember too much but we'll do it again Go out get down Let's drink again I don't know even if I can Stay in flunk out And lose your friends I don't know even if I care
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I siphon ciphers through my pen and then I tried to sign my life away I tried to cash it in but then it bounced now there’s a price to pay Played a game with cards of fate and I stayed poker face I played it straight I could have strayed but in the wake I found an ace Of course if you’re bored of metaphors I call upon the bass You herbivores have heard it all before but let me demonstrate My ability was affinity for the ninety three ‘til infinity Rhymes were killing me tried it lyrically Died inside but no one’s feeling me My vicinity wasn’t slum or African ghetto But they would rob your Pogs dear God or better yet your Tazos no The Stapleton Road medication bestowed on the brain Smirking with my Rovers shirt I lurked the Bristol plain Stayed away from the grade travelled hazardous terrain Lost upon the Gloucester road like moths amongst the flame The inner city masses need to be entertained But the journey through the madness is the reason that you came I left my heart all over the stage show Ripped apart and sold off my halo Kiss the dark the light's only day glow Bless your heart it's hot if you say so I left my heart all over the page so This is not the music I came from Kissed the dark and sold off my halo It's cool if you say so Cool if you say so My coolness is so flawless it's all just gonna fade away So cautious of your causes they're born just for the day today My orchestra of awkwardness tortured and then labelled fake By gimmick laden label slaves who say that image makes us great Talking shit and it's a shame the shameless pain of dung flingers Who put their stress on how you dress and thus obsessed won't run with us The hum drum of the ninety-nine within a hundred I'm finished Swinging in the scene flinging fuck yous like gun slingers Hum dinger rap bringing it back to times when rhymes and flows and beats Were all that mattered now rappers stay silent so their clothes can speak So damn dapper manufacture actors that control the streets And culture captured rebels throwing pebbles man he's so unique I have a soul this is the place where it's shared And if I've anything to air it's over bass kicks and snares Though I'm choking for my breath the rest of me just doesn't cate 'Cause if there's something on my chest it's what I feel not what I wear I left my heart all over the stage show Ripped apart and sold off my halo Kiss the dark the light's only day glow Bless your heart it's hot if you say so I left my heart all over the page so This is not the music I came from Kissed the dark and sold off my halo It's cool if you say so Cool if you say so Everyone's so cool if you say so Except me please accept me Everyone's so cool if you say so Except me please accept me Everyone's so cool if you say so Except me please accept me Everyone's so cool if you say so Except me please accept me Now you may see me in the evening eating even being quiet I'm a riot catch me after hours at the Golden Lion he's a liar Vagabond chat upon nonsense Content unimportant I just pay pence ‘Til drinks expire like BNP fire Cockroach like you stick your *gasp* in ripped flyers My thoughts are for hire but work stands adjacent And frankly when I'm drinking I'm too cool to make a statement I left my heart all over the stage show Ripped apart and sold off my halo Kiss the dark the light's only day glow Bless your heart it's hot if you say so I left my heart all over the page so This is not the music I came from Kissed the dark and sold off my halo It's cool if you say so Cool if you say so
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Hazy 03:06
The pain to my brain really ain't hardcore The sediments are sentiments of old folklore No Jersey devil a rebel of new spawn No Robin in a hood I was good top form With my head war torn and my face forlorn Eighty four dropped the ball here I come he's born Twenty eight years later spinning out of place Coming down with a case of the Space Invaders This boy should have been digging in the crates He’s got a little faith but I hate Jamaicans Beer can fuck you my head ain't right In a job where they tell me my future’s bright I might go psycho hyped on adrenaline Hi to my little friends ladies and gentlemen Mental attention’s mentioned when I'm meddling Ill intentions do you want to be my medicine It's not enough to save me now It picks me up and tones me down It's not your love that let me down It's just I'm so damn hazy Enter epicentres that incense dance floors My sentences are centrifugal force sandstorms No follower of fashion my passion is sans cool So I'm not playing thug in your club bad form My shirt half torn and my hair trash porn 84 drop a boy here I come he's born 25 years after stomping on your town Coming down with a case of the drowning laughter This man could have been thinking with the greats Sinking in the weight of your expectations So so fuck you this music's mine And I do not care if I move your spine I rhyme so side show life in the cemetery Rise of the neverbeens feed of the energy Scenes full of henchmen'll bleed for attention From an enemy as I pine for my reveries It's not enough to save me now It picks me up and tones me down It's not your love that let me down It's just I'm so damn hazy My life story well it's all a little hazy Little brown baby raised up in Blaby Childhood shit won't you run come save me The beatings and the racism mate didn't phase me A part of who I am yo a part of what made me Not documented like Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee School disco dirty dancer black Pat Swayze Moved to the city fell in love with my first lady Hit the rave scene the high life did amaze me Ten pound a pop but the come down's crazy Wonder why I did it for the headaches that it gave me Some say I'm laid back some say I'm lazy Thirty years later memories do escape me Not sure really what I've been doing lately Life's like a movie Tracey Morgan should play me That's just a slice of my times on the break beat It's not enough to save me now It picks me up and tones me down It's not your love that let me down It's just I'm so damn hazy
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All songs written and performed by Ill Literate, Jonny Steele and Lacey.

All tracks recorded and produced by Shaun Amos at The Dojo.

Beats, guitars, synths and keys by Shaun Amos.

Additional bass guitar by Jake Galvin.

Additional guitars by Jack Joyce.

Additional keys by Jamie Rowland.

All tracks mixed and mastered by Shaun Amos.

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Copyright 2015 The Scribes.

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released January 29, 2015

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