Second Heartbeat-Urthboy/Sampa the Great/Okenyo

[ti:Second Heartbeat] [ar:Urthboy/Sampa the Great/Okenyo] [al:The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Second Heartbeat - Urthboy/Sampa the Great/Okenyo [00:05.87]There's nothin' I'm runnin' from [00:07.58] [00:08.23]Tell you where I'm comin' from [00:10.27] [00:10.89]I know where I've been [00:12.56]I've been with you you've been with me [00:15.16] [00:16.35]Leather-bound diary faded handwriting [00:18.60]Great-granddad thought it was a war worth fighting [00:21.07] [00:21.58]He ended up surviving had a daughter named Dot [00:23.91]That's my grandma fell in love and married her boss [00:26.61]That's my grandpa had a little hairdressing shop in Lakemba [00:30.36]First child ninth of December in the years following the war ending [00:34.29]A baby boom set in and now we call 'em boomers hey mum [00:37.26]You were a straight-laced girl say what [00:39.22]Went and got hitched to chain-smoking guys say what [00:41.94]I've got a bit of both sides no surprised say what [00:44.58]Like you're looking my different coloured eyes say what [00:47.29]I got blue from brown and green songs of Donald Byrd the Trumpets [00:50.72]The came from a thirty-three and a third maybe they got me [00:53.77] [00:54.34]My memory is a cluster of notes [00:55.87]Forming a familiar melody I swear that I know [00:58.46] [00:59.19]Stress in the mornin' stress in the evenin' [01:01.68]Stress is what I'm feelin' it's no wonder I ain't breathin' [01:04.33]Music is my life from before I could breath [01:06.58]Cause my daddy sang my mommy some melodious keys [01:08.95] [01:09.56]Melodious G melodiously [01:12.10]In the end it was the birth of melodious me [01:14.47] [01:15.18]I picked up the tune when I was in the womb [01:17.23]And I promise I would pride 'em with the songs that I'm doing [01:20.27]I wonder if they thought that I could change the world [01:22.66]If I could change the world well I would change myself [01:25.45]First-borns seem to always know better [01:27.74] [01:28.25]The past is in the future so I get to know better [01:30.41] [01:30.93]Get to breath better get to dream better [01:33.61]You paid for my college so I get to eat better [01:36.24]I saw you in the past working long hours daddy [01:38.85]I saw mama give dreams so we could be happy [01:41.41]It's deep like my African lin'age [01:44.28]I bet you're gonna need an African Minute [01:46.67] [01:47.52]Ode it to the ancestors [01:49.43]Cause they answer prayers cause they answer [01:51.31] [01:51.97]There's just nothin' I'm runnin' from [01:54.40] [01:54.94]Tell you where I'm comin' from [01:56.96] [01:57.57]I know where I've been [01:59.43]I've been with you you've been with me oh baby [02:03.07]The past beats inside of me [02:05.11] [02:06.66]You may not even know [02:08.49]Things you don't know somethin' you feel [02:10.46] [02:11.05]Fading like photos somethin' so real [02:13.49]It's like there's a second heartbeat [02:16.19] [02:17.42]A light to lead me home [02:19.24]Things you don't know somethin' you feel [02:21.08] [02:21.69]Fading like photos somethin' so real [02:24.18]Subconscious is monstrous underneath like the Loch Ness [02:27.16]Never seen but ever present like my blackness [02:29.73]Puffing out my fro to to check my bestness [02:31.66]Makin' waves like the flowing song of my ancestors [02:34.28]Dig beneath the layers [02:35.86] [02:36.71]Tryna see what they are saying [02:38.59]Looks like I found a treasure worth displayin' [02:40.50]I take it down from the shelf [02:42.20]Shine it up like a diamond see what it's worth [02:44.88]And I know some things they are forever [02:48.28]Know some things they hold together [02:50.83]I won't walk this road alone [02:53.35]I won't walk this road alone [02:55.89]And I know some things they are forever [02:58.84]Know some things they hold together [03:01.49]I won't walk this road alone [03:03.94]I won't walk this road alone [03:06.38] [03:07.08]There's just nothin' I'm runnin' from [03:08.94] [03:09.48]Tell you where I'm comin' from [03:12.11]I know where I've been [03:14.08]I've been with you you've been with me [03:16.13] [03:17.57]The past beats inside of me [03:19.77] [03:21.41]You may not even know [03:23.11]Things you don't know somethin' you feel [03:25.05] [03:25.67]Fading like photos somethin' so real [03:28.22]It's like there's a second heartbeat [03:30.84] [03:31.93]A light to lead me home [03:33.78]Things you don't know somethin' you feel [03:36.26]Fading like photos somethin' so real [03:38.44] [03:39.07]There's just nothin' I'm runnin' from [03:41.49]Tell you where I'm comin' from [03:43.65] [03:44.24]I know where I've been [03:45.94]I've been with you you've been with me [03:48.46] [03:49.66]There's just nothin' I'm runnin' from [03:51.57] [03:52.15]Tell you where I'm comin' from [03:54.24] [03:54.81]I know where I've been [03:56.50]I've been with you you've been with me