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If You Say So

from A Story All About How by The Scribes

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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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from A Story All About How, released January 29, 2015
Written and performed by Ill Literate and Jonny Steele.

Recorded and produced by Shaun Amos at The Dojo.

Mixed and mastered by Shaun Amos.

All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, lending, hiring, reproduction, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.

Copyright 2015 The Scribes.

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