Scratches by Dj Dablyo
Lyrics written and performed by Lou Piensa, Kamau and Waahli
lyrics
Writer’s Block Party
I'm staring at a blank page
Wanted to write a verse but my mind's in a damn cage
Trying to survive a rampage, I can't shake it
I wanted to put the words, the syllables together
Just wondering if the planet I live on will ever pull together
Been asking myself why I'm masking myself
Maybe a virus called ignorance is still harassing my health
I tried to put the pen to the paper
But the ink won't flow, the blood spill is still greater
Same actors, same narrator
I tried to zone out and get down to the rhyme writing
But got distracted when I saw the upper level crime rising
I'm talking about suits rounding up troops in military boots
Crew cuts, suit up democracy's abuse
Info wars got you all confused
Don't expect me to trust fake news about fake news
The crowds diffuse, watch your social distance when you spit your truth
Now let me get to this verse so I can hit the booth
«Caneta direta, no bloco de notas»
«I’m writing to show you what I’m fighting for»
«sometimes I might catch a sever case of writer’s block»
«writing for freedom, fighting for freedom»
Writer's Block Party, reserva meu camarote
Uns tão tomando coragem, outros tão tomando corote
Tomo vergonha na cara (sem gelo), Boto a cara no mic
Sessão de descarrego, drenando a carga da bic
Rec naquele pique, O black e a barba gigante
Tipo eremita mesmo, sem click do meu semblante
Lá fora desacreditam e o inimigo de tocaia
Invisível, Quem não tá no meu nível quer que eu caia
Não tô falando de flow, deixo que meu flow diga
As cigarras na carreata querendo explorar as formigas
Aí que cê vê quem é que faz a grana girar
Se essa canoa virar (hmmm) saber nadar, bacana?
O mundo tá tão doente e o remédio não tá em análise
A cura nos corações, não no veneno do cálice
O dólar e o sangue sobem, no beco descem o sarrafo
Quando eu consigo, escrevo, quando não, psicógrafo
«Caneta direta, no bloco de notas»
«I’m writing to show you what I’m fighting for»
«Sometimes I might catch a sever case of writer’s block»
«Writing for freedom, fighting for freedom»
Chak fwa m'gon ide m' pa ka jwen krayon
Mande'm ki kote li pati, jodi Im' kind of lazy
procrastinating maybe, I’m at a lost
with words, verbs and pronouns
feeling ca m'pa ka nomenn, ki jen m'fe tombe bliye
on lot papye map dechiré, gen le cervo fo'l recycler
e si son reve fo'm reveye, m'bezoin
on moun pou vim pince'm, zin zin fo'm jwen on flow
po'm ka fini verse sa, mchita la problem sa
the pressure is on, Lou did his with ease
16 bars, no pause and 15 minutes later
well I’m a line closer or at least its what I thought
and now I’m starting over ...daaaamn!
my mind is like the traffic at 6, and I’m running out of tricks
and I’m looking for a fix'
I don’t get high on likes
Turn off my phone I might, since my mind is on strike
I might go out for a hike, peace!
«The questions are really almost unanswerable
Or when you try to answer them, you find yourself
involved in another question
That’s part of the trouble of being a writer
it’s part of the trouble of being a human being
That’s part of the trouble of being a society
Because society believes in answers and doesn’t like questions»
«Caneta direta, no bloco de notas»
«I’m writing to show you what I’m fighting for»
«Sometimes I might catch a sever case of writer’s block»
30 tunes from the Tru Thoughts crew (incl. Quantic, Alice, Seshen, etc.) for less than the cost of a bag of fish-n-chips. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2015
