I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
[Verse 1]
Look, I just moved outta London cah' things were really sticky
Grey gates, Range Rovers, sittin' pretty
You know I loved my G-SHOCKs if you were really with me
Before I reach a milli', I'ma buy a Richard Milli'
Dinner with red wine, her drink is fizzy
Can't take the city out the girl, just the girl out the city
Only once I've to ask a chick, "You really with me?"
The way I'm livin' silly, I need her to live it with me
I do Seafood Saturdays when I see your girl
Only oysters she's ever had were on TFL
She wanna BBL but trust me, I'ma treat her well
At least one of us makin' sure she eatin' well
Orecchiette pasta, I'm in Casa Cruz
I should have brought the young Gs 'cause they do bangin' food
Cream blazer, white Nike, call me Harvey Dent
Bruce Wayne, the timepiece, I brought Batman too
Now what we got in common with a game of pool?
Havin' eight balls and startin' with a cue
I got a crazy life, girl crazy too
I got a baby and my baby wanna baby too
I wasn't made to be a gangster, I'm takin' a rest
That's a home truth that I'll take on the chest
You can't be a middleman inside this game of chess
If he's taking offense, then I'm takin' a fence
I could have been in the bando when they were flyin' buj
And feds raided Surbiton but what a right I took
15 minutes, wonder how life would look
I got an autobiography, I ain't write a book
You as strong as the weakest person that's in your team
I used to be happy with a million streams
Independent, I don't bother sittin' in a meet'
I just warn a label, two million clean
Superleggera I'm in the DBS
Five-litre V12 sound like DMX
When you in love, that's the sweetest sex
Passion in the beat, it's like
[Verse 2]
Look, so many man gotta sit in jail
Don't get a visit, mail, man don't even wish 'em well
Road's fucked opportunities are thin as well
People don't understand, it's a different world
I'm so hood but I'm well-spoken
She'll pay the bill when Hell frozen
Necrophilia, I'm in AP
The skeletons I like, they don't sell skulls with
Elements of Picasso with just a touch of Disney
I was eight hours ahead before I went to Sydney
Leonardo DiCaprio meets Leo DaVinci
I make peace and make friends after I make history
I'm the type to spend five after I make fifty
I'm the type to spend fifty after I make five
I take mine, a G was taken through the grapevine
But the fruits of my labour brought me a great wine
Made dua my enemies they get to see a way
Ironically they're all people that I would see as prey
The man I grow up with into trappin' and movin'
Gettin' re' in like I tried to play a prank on Brewster
Whole family full of talent, we're the Adenugas
Bag of shooters, adolescence with attitude
When hard work, opportunity, proper tunin'
Meet talent, nigga, do we happen
Turnin' your dreams to reality, that's what act is for
Makin' reality a dream, that's what rap is for
I used to be Ra'Nell, I never had a score
We're the show, tell me what we need a channel for?
And of course, I hope Jasmine knows she different and her talent raw
I share today with the stars of tomorrow
I tell my kids I knew Michael before he had awards, huh
And if this isn't the proof
Let's have it right, Letitia she's the truth
I'm feelin' like Kamale, with a scorcher in the coupe
How am I a yute and still inspirin' the youths?
Let's go to war, I'm hirin' the troops
I know my enemies, they conspirin' for a truce
But let a man diss me in his Fire in the Booth
And he can shout my name out while he's flyin' off a roof
Look, I just moved outta London cah' things were really sticky
Grey gates, Range Rovers, sittin' pretty
You know I loved my G-SHOCKs if you were really with me
Before I reach a milli', I'ma buy a Richard Milli'
Dinner with red wine, her drink is fizzy
Can't take the city out the girl, just the girl out the city
Only once I've to ask a chick, "You really with me?"
The way I'm livin' silly, I need her to live it with me
I do Seafood Saturdays when I see your girl
Only oysters she's ever had were on TFL
She wanna BBL but trust me, I'ma treat her well
At least one of us makin' sure she eatin' well
Orecchiette pasta, I'm in Casa Cruz
I should have brought the young Gs 'cause they do bangin' food
Cream blazer, white Nike, call me Harvey Dent
Bruce Wayne, the timepiece, I brought Batman too
Now what we got in common with a game of pool?
Havin' eight balls and startin' with a cue
I got a crazy life, girl crazy too
I got a baby and my baby wanna baby too
I wasn't made to be a gangster, I'm takin' a rest
That's a home truth that I'll take on the chest
You can't be a middleman inside this game of chess
If he's taking offense, then I'm takin' a fence
I could have been in the bando when they were flyin' buj
And feds raided Surbiton but what a right I took
15 minutes, wonder how life would look
I got an autobiography, I ain't write a book
You as strong as the weakest person that's in your team
I used to be happy with a million streams
Independent, I don't bother sittin' in a meet'
I just warn a label, two million clean
Superleggera I'm in the DBS
Five-litre V12 sound like DMX
When you in love, that's the sweetest sex
Passion in the beat, it's like
[Verse 2]
Look, so many man gotta sit in jail
Don't get a visit, mail, man don't even wish 'em well
Road's fucked opportunities are thin as well
People don't understand, it's a different world
I'm so hood but I'm well-spoken
She'll pay the bill when Hell frozen
Necrophilia, I'm in AP
The skeletons I like, they don't sell skulls with
Elements of Picasso with just a touch of Disney
I was eight hours ahead before I went to Sydney
Leonardo DiCaprio meets Leo DaVinci
I make peace and make friends after I make history
I'm the type to spend five after I make fifty
I'm the type to spend fifty after I make five
I take mine, a G was taken through the grapevine
But the fruits of my labour brought me a great wine
Made dua my enemies they get to see a way
Ironically they're all people that I would see as prey
The man I grow up with into trappin' and movin'
Gettin' re' in like I tried to play a prank on Brewster
Whole family full of talent, we're the Adenugas
Bag of shooters, adolescence with attitude
When hard work, opportunity, proper tunin'
Meet talent, nigga, do we happen
Turnin' your dreams to reality, that's what act is for
Makin' reality a dream, that's what rap is for
I used to be Ra'Nell, I never had a score
We're the show, tell me what we need a channel for?
And of course, I hope Jasmine knows she different and her talent raw
I share today with the stars of tomorrow
I tell my kids I knew Michael before he had awards, huh
And if this isn't the proof
Let's have it right, Letitia she's the truth
I'm feelin' like Kamale, with a scorcher in the coupe
How am I a yute and still inspirin' the youths?
Let's go to war, I'm hirin' the troops
I know my enemies, they conspirin' for a truce
But let a man diss me in his Fire in the Booth
And he can shout my name out while he's flyin' off a roof
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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