Lyrics Autonomic - Funky DL

Autonomic

VERSE ONE
I’m sat thinking of an opening line, best way to start this album,
ascending like a falcon bringing the courage of Malcolm,
the dream of Martin, the grace of Mandela,
the greatness of Muhammad Ali looking back in the mirror,
who am I?
A man waiting for the world tell me?
like a bitch fucking another guy waiting for her to bell me?
nah', maybe when I was twenty, but never be in my thirties,
this world has been trying to hurt me from early, doing the dirty,
Governments and Tycoons,
Corporations and World Leaders setting my rules,
the fuck is up wit' that?
board meetings over, now they look for where the puppets at,
you and me black and white, pin stripe or truckers hat,
thinking we the suckers that forever sleepwalking,
Soldiers do all the shootin', Politicians do the talking,
Soldiers do all the dying, Politicians say their eulogy,
sippin' Scotch on a podium, their wives flaunt their jewellery,
I’m saying you ain’t fooling me, homie your world ain’t new to me,
I’m autonomous, taking this opportunity
to govern my life, govern my lifestyle,
so you can take away my reason to smile, but not the smile.
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Autonomy (scratching)
VERSE TWO
Self-determination, I decide who I wanna be,
as long as I’m alive and I breathe then I won’t believe
these universal lies that I’m only an accessory,
just a commodity to another man’s necessity,
see my life as a recipe and choosing the ingredients,
it don’t include obedience or full time lenience,
that lifestyle’s tedious,
but to figure out that I cannot be owned,
man it doesn’t take a genius,
everybody see you as a label,
religion or ageism, class, sexuality or racial,
just so they can keep you in a box because they hate you,
lock you in and blame you when it’s time for them to shame you,
they will, they ill, they feel they control your destiny,
cos 99 percent is not enough, they want the rest of me,
but never the get the best of me,
cos God didn’t make me just so I could be a servant to your legacy,
watching you with jealously, afraid to live rebelliously,
suppressing all my truth so it’s something that you never see,
I want everyone to follow me,
as we put our middle fingers up and step with autonomy,
fuck that!
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VERSE THREE
There are times when I sit thinking bout' man’s origination,
tell me does it match his destination,
if the situation is a nation shitting on a nation,
people wanna have control, they murdering, a celebration,
cos it’s all about the cash and the power,
building sky scrapers and towers and making money by the hour,
coercion and duress expands like a Durex,
one eye’s watching who’s now, the other looking who’s next,
everyone’s a victim, imagine the masses distracted
by what the TV says is attractive,
so you can look at me like just another black kid,
who holds the microphone because my education’s lacking,
there’s nothing wrong about you being wrong when it’s about me,
but rightfully I show you that you wrong and you just doubt me,
I’m out G, cos nothing you can do defines me,
so I don’t have to see me how you see me cos it blinds me
to my own life, my self worth, my existence,
my ideas, my thoughts, my truth, my persistence,
my right to govern myself, my own laws,
my autonomy determines my life cause;
pause.
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VOICEMAIL MESSAGE
Sent yesterday at 5:34pm
«Hey D, what’s going on man?
It’s Pyrelli bruv,
look, it’s just a quick call bruv,
bruv I just wanted to let you know
I think you’re a fucking genius you know bruv,
I’m bumping this 4th Quarter shit, this Lei-an shit,
bruv the shit is fucking immense bruv,
the whole… them shit’s is incredible blood,
I just thought I should just phone you and just say that bruv,
strictly because I can bruv,
I hope you’re having a wonderful day bruv,
because I am getting the vibes from them 2 albums right there,
right about now blood,
keep doing what it is that the fuck you do bruv,
I’mma see you soon bruv,
peace, much love…»
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