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Living in Oblivion

from A Waste Odyssey by Baraka & Downlow

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Verse 1
I’m crazy like Hannibal from Silence of the Lambs/
coz I’m sick of doing work and revising for exams/
I wish that I was somewhere hot lying in the sand/
sizzling like bacon when it’s frying in the pan/
that’s why I wanna move to San Diego/
all I need to do is sell twenty grams of yayo/
I wanna leave my humble abode/
propaganda on television’s got me under control/
this is London City blood home of the heartless/
I’m never gonna move away ‘coz home’s where the heart is/
even though it’s full of pigs that stroll through the darkness/
there’s so much shit on my mind and I don’t know what to start with/
my computer’s fucked up I’ve broken the hard disc/
and I’m only really happy when I’m smoking a large spliff/
but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel/
as long as I sober up and stop getting in trouble/

Verse 2

I’m full of self doubt can’t somebody help out?/
I was climbing up the ladder then I fell down now I’m hell bound/
I reminisce to when I was fourteen/
and all the happy memories numb the pain like morphine/
but fuck that ‘coz now I’m a raw rapper/
I used to be nerd into comics and Warhammer/
all the school bullies kicked me in my gall bladder/
till I smacked them down and made their jaw shatter like a prawn cracker/
I was into Thunder Cats and A-Team/
now I’m 24 and still doing the same thing/
got into the rave scene and rebelled like James Dean/
I’m sick of this regime I’ll never go mainstream/
but I’ve gotta get paid I crave to blaze green/
I’ve stayed in a day dream from the age of eighteen/
now I’m try’na make cream and wipe the slate clean/
but my album’s cheaper than a can of bake beans/

Verse 3
I used to have ambitions of becoming an architect/
now it seems to be chasing the girls that play hard to get/
I’m losing faith in the human race/
but try’na keep myself together as my mind hallucinates/
I don’t need love and I don’t need a girl friend/
I’ll always be alone until this fucking world ends/
and when it does I’ll have smile on my face/
‘coz when I die I’ll be a thousand million miles from this place/
back in the day I had this girl I used to fuck with/
she was intelligent, beautiful and seductive/
but double-crossed me like a copper under cover/
for another lover turns out he’s a cocky mother fucker/
but I don’t hate the player I hate the game/
I need to stake my claim before I ever make a change/
but I cant take the pain and I don’t wanna wait in vain/
it ain’t the same without her love I’m burning like a naked flame/

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from A Waste Odyssey, released August 20, 2011

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