What you really want is the security of knowing where you belong
And isn't that what alignment, resource, energy always gives
Now in this operation, we stealing where we staying
We stealing where we staying
Now in this operation, we stealing where we staying
We stealing where we staying
I use darkness for the liberation
Fuck it, if I need it, I'ma take it
I use darkness for the liberation
Fuck it, if I need it, I'ma take it
I'd take every star in the sky
Never get caught, which is why this taught me to lie
New spot we would find
Mom had a story for the land lot landlord
Lots on their mind
Time came to pay, and we had to slide
Think like thieves in the night
Sneak out, no call back, let them stay on the line
Nothing in sight, but the agreement she never signed
Grade 10 is the time.Welfare? Man
Only if the government was giving my mother money
We wouldn't have to do this shit
But there was paperwork involved, and when you a straight shooter it's, it's hard to focus and calm
So hopeless, we'd bomb
On anyone who would let us move in their home
Stay for a month, maybe even longer
Got it out the park, you can call that a homer
We ain't squatting
Now in this operation, we stealing where we staying
We stealing where we staying
Now in this operation, we stealing where we staying
We stealing where we staying
I use darkness for the liberation
Fuck it, if I need it, I'ma take it
I use darkness for the liberation
Fuck it, if I need it, I'ma take it
Now if you do it too long at the same place
They gon' show up where you live, dawg
Cause they know where you live, dawg
Matter of fact, yeah, they own where you live, dawg
Eight months late on the rent, that's a bailiff
I left for school, mom yelling all crazy
Get back upstairs, ain't no time to explain it
Grab whatever you can get, cause if not, they gonna take it
Ya that's the sheriff's office, neighbour's staring at us
I knew that they were broke, man, I'm glad they getting booted
Two big cops dropped boxes off
Gave us 20 minutes to get socks and stuff
This is so awkward, we're not enough
Called two bros over to help pack us up
And it's a school night any day of the week
And me and mom just casually on the street
Between the two of us, we barely got enough to eat
But if we ever needed a reason to believe
I asked my dad for lunch money for the next day
That was 10 bucks a head on an internet cafe
Got us a place to stay
72 hours, you could pay ahead of time and lay there
Tuck your bags up underneath the chair
No one will fuck with you and you can hang there
I was not render not valuable through this
I was given the opportunity to find my truest value that I've ever found
You see
And once you find that, and once that's what you are radiating
Not defensively, in a reflex way, reacting or responding to
Now you've found your center and that's what you're emanating
That's who you are
You're more stable than you've ever been
That's just sort of the way things are being banged out out here in this manifested edge
In the physical form, so often you think that what you're looking for is stability that's provided for another
rather than the stability that's provided when you're in alignment with all the resources from which you have come
credits
from SECONDARY SCHOOL,
released September 7, 2023
Produced by Ellevan
Mixed, Written, Recorded and Performed by Ellevan
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