Scarlett Lining by Maeko Lyrics
(Intro)
(Verse 1)
This Life could never addd up
It can never be what it looks like
Nostalgia got a hold on me
I can barely breathe on the inside
7 in the morning, the hooks right
7 in the evening, reflecting on it
I just wanna be what I look like
Seasonal disorders effective
I trip outside, I need fresh air
Be damned if the universe plays fair
I just watched a friend lose a brother with a 6 week baby and I'm doubting whether god cares
And I don't wanna take it where it's that dark
But tell me if you got a better logic?
Some days I'm seeing shade so much that I'm only really getting by based on my nostalgia
I'm thinking of the loss and oppression and depression
We need water falls of light
We need streams
We need ultra light beams
We need peace
We need more than it seems
We need everything we've seen wiped clean, if it don't serve the dream
We need books for the kids
We need jobs for the teens
We need companies staying out our pockets with a scheme
We need water when it's clean
We need leaders that can lead
We need love for the world that we walk on, you see?
We need institutions gutted out torn up at the seams, then replaced with officials in that want us to be free
We should read
We don't needa feel separate cause of creed
We need scenes
We need activism pouring in the streets
We need teams
We need real rap in the mainstream
We need less dead at the age of 18
More living till they're hitting 93
Less drugs running through the blood stream
Less lean, more extreme with the thesis
Less mean
Mean it more
More kind
Less queens, less kings
More singing about more good things
More gleam
Less me
Gotta have more keys
Less fees
Less trees cause of greed
And less bees than we need
Less ease
Man we really need to breathe
Woke up and I really hadda freeze
And we really gotta free
And we really gotta ease
And we really gotta be
And we really gotta make less stings
(Verse 1)
This Life could never addd up
It can never be what it looks like
Nostalgia got a hold on me
I can barely breathe on the inside
7 in the morning, the hooks right
7 in the evening, reflecting on it
I just wanna be what I look like
Seasonal disorders effective
I trip outside, I need fresh air
Be damned if the universe plays fair
I just watched a friend lose a brother with a 6 week baby and I'm doubting whether god cares
And I don't wanna take it where it's that dark
But tell me if you got a better logic?
Some days I'm seeing shade so much that I'm only really getting by based on my nostalgia
I'm thinking of the loss and oppression and depression
We need water falls of light
We need streams
We need ultra light beams
We need peace
We need more than it seems
We need everything we've seen wiped clean, if it don't serve the dream
We need books for the kids
We need jobs for the teens
We need companies staying out our pockets with a scheme
We need water when it's clean
We need leaders that can lead
We need love for the world that we walk on, you see?
We need institutions gutted out torn up at the seams, then replaced with officials in that want us to be free
We should read
We don't needa feel separate cause of creed
We need scenes
We need activism pouring in the streets
We need teams
We need real rap in the mainstream
We need less dead at the age of 18
More living till they're hitting 93
Less drugs running through the blood stream
Less lean, more extreme with the thesis
Less mean
Mean it more
More kind
Less queens, less kings
More singing about more good things
More gleam
Less me
Gotta have more keys
Less fees
Less trees cause of greed
And less bees than we need
Less ease
Man we really need to breathe
Woke up and I really hadda freeze
And we really gotta free
And we really gotta ease
And we really gotta be
And we really gotta make less stings