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Ascension

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[Intro: Vince Staples]
You are now tuned into the tomb of Jehova
Play my tunes loud enough to shake the room, what's the hold up?
Heard the world is ending soon I assumed that they told ya
They tryna dinosaur us
So now it's time to go up

[Chorus: Vince Staples]
The sky's falling, baby
Drop that ass 'fore it crash (higher)
The sky's falling, baby
Drop that ass 'fore it crash (higher)
The sky's falling, baby
Drop that ass 'fore it crash (higher)
The sky's falling, baby
Drop that ass 'fore it crash (higher)

[Verse 1: Vince Staples]
The roof is on fire
She wet like Barbra Streisand
Police everywhere
It's like a nigga killed a white man
I just wanna find a baby mama 'fore the night end
So don't be coming 'round Vince
On that batter ram shit
On that 911 shit
Need a misses brown as Missy
I can have some fun with
Them slave bones make Grace Jones
Don't stop, bitch, stay focused
They hated on us since days of Moses
Let my people go crazy
Them stars falling, don't chase 'em

[Verse 2: 2D]
Attack on Iraq
It's on a line
Typing it fast
Then it's slipping my mind
Oh, when I'm drunk
I'm spirited back
I fall in a fire then I save myself
Then I get advantage
'Cause the feeling's so raw
In these times of sedition
Well, nothing is dull
And I'm moving into stillness
And recalling it all
And I’m a lover, just a lover, just a lover, just a lover, just a-

[Verse 3: Vince Staples]
All these liberated women sitting in my lap
I'm finna catch a body like I got a gun and badge
I'm finna turn Obama to my patna 'fore he dash
Pull up to his pad, wipe my ass with the flag
I'm just playing, baby, this the land of the free
Where you can get a Glock and a gram for the cheap
Where you can live your dreams long as you don't look like me
Be a puppet on a string, hanging from a fucking tree
(Aghh!)

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mellow_harsher On Mar 31, 2017

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by 4689110971

7y ago

I am only 15 but I believe the song is about how the singer is trying to find love during the end of the world and war. We see that when he refers himself to being "Just a lover", he also refers to the stars falling and to not follow them (Dont follow your dreams now). There is obvious references to the war in Iraq and how we should make love instead of war. The reference to the brutality of police killing coloured and black people and when he (the singer) maybe rapes woman or is a "ladies man" ("Finna catch a body like I got a gun and badge"). There is also the biggest reference with the puppet which means you can follow the system and let yourself be control by the stronger force holding the string, it is also referenced that the puppet is hanging from a tree (Suicide) possibly showing death and demonstrating how the fear of death controls us. Another reference is the Glock and the gram (cocaine most possiblu) that can be bought for cheap. Summary is that this shows how corrupted the current system and people should be having love and not fighting.

May not be right but this is the closest thing I have.

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by MrMoonshine 3y ago

@4689110971 \r\nI like your comments.\r\nIt seems to me that the last line about being a puppet on a string, hanging from a fucking tree is about how black people have been lynched in \'murica. \r\nThanks for your comments. I like \'em.