A live recording of Sam Turpin's "Sahara Flow" from the POST POST Digital Concert 2022, produced by Tshepang Ramoba through POST POST Entertainment and brought to you by Music In Africa.
lyrics
Modim anachnu lach
She-ata hu
Anachnu lach
Modim anachnu lach
She-ata hu
(Check it out uh)
Anachnu lach
What you think happens to - dreams deferred?
My sunken self, sitting back, thinking bout the world
Reconciling all my dreams, how my people really seem
My friends turned their backs - chameleons! Anthropocene!
It's really mean to accept reality - I isn't keen
I lean in the scene to the beat that I seen
In my dreams when I write this,
I swear I'll fight business like a shark tank - snakes!
Said I can't man! My morals interact with the way you need to act
Step on all these toes and thrive to get these shows and dive
But I can't run a mile on a track that isn't mine so I'll cry, yes it's fine -
Beat my chest in my own time, on my grind!
Barely getting by cause the snakes in this world always tryna get a bite!
Modim anachnu lach
She-ata hu
Anachnu lach
Modim anachnu lach
She-ata hu
Anachnu lach
(Yeah)
Is that all we really are? Biologic animals!
Rape, murder, war, peace - stay consistent, latter least!
Heading east, play a show with my fam in Tokyo
Honest bro I'm living yo! I made my choices though,
I leaped to the deep end! Brave heart, I been bled!
It's no secret, I've seen death!
Can't be scared, I've been there!
Peep here!
I'm your favourite parnassian -
Riding on these flows like a poetic equestrian
It's definite! I did it all independent!
Your fave has a lot of help, me I did it all by myself!
Did what you ask? These shows, vids and beats!
It's blood, sweat and tears so the perks are just a treat
And they all will comprise - the highs and the lows!
The yin-yang of life, it all comes and it goes
So I'm never ever phased, not scared of future days!
Can only show my love to fam that's had my back since day one!
Big up to my fans, I won't forget your face!
The music and the art, it is the human trace of our place in the universe!
Interference? But of course!
Storms and grey skies - are but a part of life!
Free your being from resisting and the blessings be all night!
Said I'ma be alright, I'll never need to fight like
Riding through the beat, so sick, so sick with it
Moving through the streets as I speak through my spit, lyrics
Talk about the message, look up at the sky!
Going through this pain then I ask the lord why
Kungani, boss? I never ever get it!
I been chewing these L's - think it's time that I win it, uh!
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