[ti:Basement]
[ar:Bastille/F. Strokes/F-U-G-Z]
[al:Other People's Heartache Pt.2]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Basement - Bastille/F. Strokes/F-U-G-Z
[00:10.86]Greyhound Megabus clothes in a plastic bag
[00:13.72]From shelter to shelter
[00:14.97]Six kids with no dad
[00:16.48]She left the city for a better life
[00:18.62]Ran to a small town where the population was mostly white
[00:21.86]Racial undertones trying to get back home
[00:24.21]With barely enough to keep shirts on my backbone
[00:27.07]Now ain't this real life
[00:28.19]Numb to what pain feel like
[00:29.80]Demons knocking like the sound of steel pipes
[00:31.92]Same lady who gave birth
[00:33.70]Never left my hometown
[00:35.24]But she the reason I travelled the earth
[00:37.80]Locked the door my uncle's going through her purse
[00:40.07]Wake your brother up they're giving free meals at church
[00:42.57]And I can't justify
[00:44.31]How my day could black your eye
[00:46.25]Now my sister can't trust a guy
[00:48.33]We never had much
[00:49.70]But we had us
[00:50.74]And my brother found home in a pair of handcuffs
[00:55.93]How am I gonna get myself back home
[01:00.24]Ayyyyy ayyyyy I
[01:06.71]The sound of bullets bounce as I write raps in the kitchen
[01:09.35]Daddy in a cell trying to hold his ambition
[01:11.93]Witness the transition from a boy to a martyr
[01:14.72]Sell d**e but go to school to be a barber
[01:17.40]The ghetto's like a prison
[01:18.99]You locked but you still living
[01:20.79]Barely breathing up until if you're leaving
[01:23.21]But home is where the hate is
[01:24.83]And my cousin ain't thirty yet
[01:26.34]But she's got eight kids
[01:28.21]Half look up to me
[01:29.34]But the other half
[01:30.35]Rarely f**k with me
[01:31.37]'Cause apparently
[01:32.54]They think I see myself as better
[01:34.36]I see my songs as simply therapy
[01:36.31]Now let's go back to that whole Greyhound bus bit
[01:38.82]Mama worked there for old white folks wiping up sh*t
[01:41.73]Tryna save ships
[01:43.00]Now close your eyes and envision
[01:45.34]How she turned a bus ride
[01:48.30]Into a spaceship
[01:49.29]How am I gonna get myself back home
[01:53.62]Ayyyyyy ayyyyy I
[01:59.33]Oh
[02:00.00]How am I gonna get myself back home
[02:04.26]Ayyyyyy ayyyyy I
[02:11.36]My home is comprised of many elements
[02:13.96]Grandaddy was a junkie and
[02:15.32]Found home in a needle filled with daily medicine
[02:18.83]Home is far less based on physicality
[02:21.83]But embracing the mentality
[02:23.02]That you can turn even the harshest
[02:24.75]Conditions into an optimistic galaxy
[02:28.41]Come home daddy
[02:29.88]It's okay now
[02:31.52]All the tears are dried up mama's in a better place now
[02:35.06]No guns unless they're video games
[02:37.83]And if you don't deside
[02:38.88]To sex rock and roll and c*****e
[02:41.49]Come home
[03:01.43]Ahhhhhyyyyyy ohh
[03:04.03]How am I gonna get myself back home
[03:08.55]Ayyyyy ayyyyyy I
[03:14.63]How am I gonna get myself back home
[03:18.98]Ayyyyy ayyyyy I
[03:26.00]From the basement
[03:28.69]To the ceiling
[03:30.69]Going back home
[03:32.72]To replace this feeling
[03:36.69]From the basement
[03:39.36]To the ceiling
[03:41.34]Going back home
[03:43.32]To replace this feeling