Someone I Knew - TOBi.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Oluwatobi Ajibolade/Alex Goose/Omar Velasco/Vicky Farewell/Daniele Luppi/Phil Ranelin/Ron Cooley
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Oluwatobi Ajibolade/Alex Goose/Omar Velasco/Vicky Farewell/Daniele Luppi/Phil Ranelin/Ron Cooley
[00:02.081][Intro: UPC All Stars]
[00:03.360]A young man died today
[00:05.551]What have we to show?
[00:08.699]A country split in two
[00:10.663]A left wing and a joke
[00:13.736]What remains when we tear away the mask?
[00:19.282]Who will be around to face the coming task?
[00:23.625]Never someone I knew
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[00:28.153][Refrain]
[00:28.824]How much longer 'til we're through? (Yeah)
[00:35.155]How much longer 'til we're through?
[00:40.620]How much longer 'til we're through? (Yeah)
[00:46.219]How much longer 'til we're through?
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[00:51.124][Verse 1: TOBi]
[00:51.599]Hardly show up on time to the party, yes, we the tardiest
[00:53.995]Never good at chronology, I measure timе in memories (Memoriеs)
[00:56.876]Where were you when the towers fell? I was seven
[00:59.701]Sitting at home, Aunty bust through the door in a frenzy
[01:02.320]Face in horror shocked, yelling at Mom's in the kitchen
[01:04.947]I pretend I wasn't listening but still paying attention
[01:07.695]Life is a gift and if God wills it, live it
[01:10.498]Inshallah, we don't face the world with a stigma
[01:13.374]Where were you when you first held a gun? I was five
[01:16.085]Playing hide and seek in my parents' room
[01:18.537]Went under the bed, the perfect spot for me to hide
[01:20.881]Dark brown mahogany handle on my hand like camouflage
[01:24.518]Where were you when Michael died? I was fifteen
[01:26.934]The singer I idolized, immortalized in my mind
[01:29.896]Living with my cousins in a foreign land (Foreign land)
[01:32.580]Sitting in living rooms, wishing my spin move could hang
[01:36.216]My nose used to look like his
[01:38.377]Maybe God's a magician and we'd look like twins
[01:41.123]Maybe one day, I'm taking off the run way
[01:43.441]And floating with the Sun rays around
[01:44.655]Though my tongue weighs me down
[01:46.412]My mind roaming 'cause I'm fly, homie
[01:48.902]In and out of states, I done spent way too much time zoning
[01:52.222]I try look up to skies with my eyes open
[01:54.952]But I'm blindfolded by the lies that they all told me, goddamn
[01:57.380][Refrain]
[01:57.928]It was someone I knew
[02:02.830]But he died for me and you
[02:08.303]How much longer 'til we're through?
[02:14.786]How much longer 'til we're—
[02:17.446]How much longer 'til we're—
[02:19.825]How much longer till we're through?
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[02:24.958][Verse 2: TOBi]
[02:25.468]Far from religious, close to his intuition
[02:30.587]Praying for forgiveness from the patron saint of sinners
[02:36.490]Left hand on the scripture, right hand to the heavens
[02:43.910]This vision was God-given, it's worked on in the shadows
[02:48.150]We the '04 Pistons, no stars, just winners
[02:53.185]No TayShaun's, just princes, Kings 'cause legacy build bridges
[02:57.878]Tryna be the best man I can can you Taye Digg it?
[03:00.704]Not a pawn in no military state prison
[03:03.509]Paid off piglets
[03:05.563]Treat men like villains that's based off pigment, tsss, gotta be kidding
[03:09.537]Aw, man, we on war times, sometimes I ask myself
[03:14.987]"Am I an artist or an archive of hard times?"
[03:18.138]Seen life long ties, split apart like apartheid
[03:24.372]**** outta here, got me wondering where the light
[03:27.384]Ain't no light at the—, ain't no light at the—, nah
[03:31.303]**** a light at the end of the tunnel, homie, I am the light
[03:33.929]Exposing tarnishing, promise you really ain't half as bright
[03:36.609]Me and homie ain't that alike, no more vigils by candlelight
[03:39.278]See 'em slippin' banana-like, mission splittin' banana-like
[03:42.117]They been tricking us all our life and I'm moving to get it right, we're through
[03:44.770][Refrain]
[03:45.186]It was someone I knew
[03:53.717]But he died for me and you
[03:59.567]How much longer 'til we're through?
[04:04.861]How much longer 'til we're—
[04:07.673]How much longer 'til we're—
[04:10.284]How much longer till we're through?
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[04:14.825][Outro]
[04:15.208]Hey, listen, everybody, this Phil Ranelin
[04:22.138]And you're listening to TOBi
[04:24.461]And welcome to Panic