Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Second Heartbeat, artist - UrthboyDate of issue: 03.03.2016
Song language: English
Second Heartbeat |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |