Second Heartbeat

Second Heartbeat -Urthboy/Sampa the Great/Okenyo

There's nothin'I'm runnin'from

Tell you where I'm comin'from

I know where I've been

I've been with you you've been with me

Leather-bound diary faded handwriting

Great-granddad thought it was a war worth fighting

He ended up surviving had a daughter named Dot

That's my grandma fell in love and married her boss

That's my grandpa had a little hairdressing shop in Lakemba

First child ninth of December in the years following the war ending

A baby boom set in and now we call 'em boomers hey mum

You were a straight-laced girl say what

Went and got hitched to chain-smoking guys say what

I've got a bit of both sides no surprised say what

Like you're looking my different coloured eyes say what

I got blue from brown and green songs of Donald Byrd the Trumpets

The came from a thirty-three and a third maybe they got me

My memory is a cluster of notes

Forming a familiar melody I swear that I know

Stress in the mornin'stress in the evenin'

Stress is what I'm feelin'it's no wonder I ain't breathin'

Music is my life from before I could breath

Cause my daddy sang my mommy some melodious keys

Melodious G melodiously

In the end it was the birth of melodious me

I picked up the tune when I was in the womb

And I promise I would pride 'em with the songs that I'm doing

I wonder if they thought that I could change the world

If I could change the world well I would change myself

First-borns seem to always know better

The past is in the future so I get to know better

Get to breath better get to dream better

You paid for my college so I get to eat better

I saw you in the past working long hours daddy

I saw mama give dreams so we could be happy

It's deep like my African lin'age

I bet you're gonna need an African Minute

Ode it to the ancestors

Cause they answer prayers cause they answer

There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from

Tell you where I'm comin'from

I know where I've been

I've been with you you've been with me oh baby

The past beats inside of me

You may not even know

Things you don't know somethin'you feel

Fading like photos somethin'so real

It's like there's a second heartbeat

A light to lead me home

Things you don't know somethin'you feel

Fading like photos somethin'so real

Subconscious is monstrous underneath like the Loch Ness

Never seen but ever present like my blackness

Puffing out my fro to to check my bestness

Makin'waves like the flowing song of my ancestors

Dig beneath the layers

Tryna see what they are saying

Looks like I found a treasure worth displayin'

I take it down from the shelf

Shine it up like a diamond see what it's worth

And I know some things they are forever

Know some things they hold together

I won't walk this road alone

I won't walk this road alone

And I know some things they are forever

Know some things they hold together

I won't walk this road alone

I won't walk this road alone

There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from

Tell you where I'm comin'from

I know where I've been

I've been with you you've been with me

The past beats inside of me

You may not even know

Things you don't know somethin'you feel

Fading like photos somethin'so real

It's like there's a second heartbeat

A light to lead me home

Things you don't know somethin'you feel

Fading like photos somethin'so real

There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from

Tell you where I'm comin'from

I know where I've been

I've been with you you've been with me

There's just nothin'I'm runnin'from

Tell you where I'm comin'from

I know where I've been

I've been with you you've been with me