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Shake Things Up
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VERSE 1
Now its time shake things up
Moving your body earthquakes erupt
Coming unstuck we're all in need of something
My props I'm definitely gunning for
Velour smooth stunning form applause
Do the right thing like Spike Lee I ching style
A man on the street time spinning like mechanical heat
INTERLUDE
One day you’ll wake up
and there wont be any time to do the things
You’ve always wanted
Do them now Paulo Coelho the Zahir
VERSE 2
Down the rabbit hole it goes I’m told
The zone I know explodes the soul
To show unfold the brightest gold
Write my initials in the flow
Carnivorous I’m told magnificent and cold
It was written in a poem they don’t know
The feeling it’s so old remembered that I came a long time ago
The mind will throw you back to a time
When they cried for souls or died alone
With no one to show though
And we don’t give a fuck on a solo
Hoping on a truck like its yolo
Too late to double back like polo
This whole load I got on my chest
As one of best to flex like Elliot Ness
My brilliantness to bring down all of the best
It’s chess the steps to show the whole game what’s next
I’m the Untouchable the unfuckwithable
They fail to express and sound pitiful
Not baring your heart should get rid of you
This art is the pinnacle I start they finish I hit critical
The elephant sticking with you barely visible
Stomping round the place earthquakes
The ground split in two
INTERLUDE 2
The art of the city is the heart of the city
The art of the city is the heart of the city
VERSE 3
The old world's looking back while the new ones going off track
In the present moment I will never hold that
Won’t slack for my peeps flip another soul track for the streets
Used to tap dance with my feet in the kitchen for my marjays
she could see
There was something buried so deep
Got a little scarier in my teens
Feeling hysteria in my genes
The beast that lurked all around like a blood hound with the sharp teeth wanting fresh meat
Thug moving like a young priest it was deep never ever comfy
Self hatred like a vaccine as they pack heat when they blaspheme Trying to stack p’s many smashed dreams
That’s why brothers catch sleep trying hard to never act weak Casualties, so it challenged me held hope like a fantasy, 'til it turned reality
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BRIDGE
Whatever you do alone it gives height,
Whatever you do together it gives depths
The truths in mankind that man can’t accept
That we’re all here as one and we share one breath represent
VERSE 1
Twist the mind like a Rubik's dark as Anubis
We're divine rulers deeper than stab wounds from drug users
Thug shooters like the ones who love and care are losers
Sweating like Tamascal threads that’s flushed fissure
Self hatred that was strong enough to crush Luther
Like astronomers plotting stars beyond the illest future
Packaging pain for the consumer while city living shamans at work Inner wealth like Mansa Musa plans to move to Cuba
God's hands could take me sooner
I stand like obelisks in the face of all confusion
I talk with ghetto slang watch the way that I walk
Graffiti sprayed on the walls are hieroglyphs in my thoughts
Burn the bush sacrilegiously as history taught
Pissy floors spiral stair case up to my dorm
I’m politicking with street physicians I can endorse
The kind of system that rather leave you stiff like a corpse
Behind prison don’t wanna see my face in the source
I got conviction but not the thing they give you in court
CHORUS
It’s that dark rainbow light that comes from the soul
Thug angels rise with wings made of gold
As I hail my flight for God to take hold
I pray you bless me twice we all gotta go
VERSE 2
Divine calligraphy they wanna dress me in robes of infamy
Souls that enter me are purified not an end to me cold for centuries Stones and cemeteries for late greats like Ghadafi with Gold
To put an end to territories one Africa continent with just liberty
I twist the herb in his memories cuz how he left is deep
A motif to blow the mind out in your sheets
Going deeper than Shamballa inner sun is my heat
Rather I’ve seen many things you’ll only see in your dreams
Everything full circle spin it back and repeat
Breathe in Breathe out
As I balance my chi
Malachi raised me on the sacred square now I’m at peace
A messenger from heavens as I’m stepping I breathe
Wielding fire in my right hand and ice in my reach
It wasn’t me it was God decided I speak
Dark rainbow light shining from my heart to the streets
CHORUS
It’s that dark rainbow light that comes from the soul
Thug angels rise with wings made of gold
As I hail my flight for God to take hold
I pray you bless me twice we all gotta go
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Phoenix da Icefire London, UK
London rapper, presenter on The Floor and owner of Sovereign Comics working with local and national community projects to
promote social change and provide greater opportunities for those from minority and deprived backgrounds.
Solo artist and member of the group Triple Darkness.
Nominated in the category "Best Independent Album" at the AIM Awards 2020 for 'Panacea'.
Creativity is everything
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