From the album "Urban Testimony" by Brooklyn rapper Justo the MC and Edinburgh producer Brelstaff, released through New Dawn Records on November 3rd 2023
lyrics
Intro :
Just!
Wake up, Wake up!
Verse 1: Justo the MC
Oh shit I can’t move
You ever had the feeling you up but you still snooze
My body fighting demons, I’m never trying to lose
But today I’m confused
I take a page from Confucius
Have my virtues be truest
I was living like truants
Nothing guiding my movements
I reside with the foolish
Lost all my blueprints
See things tend to shatter when you stuck in elusions, I got
INTERVENTION : DVNA
I got last night’s trauma in my membrane
Bad karma looking in my face
Got so many things I’m trying to think through
But these wild thoughts getting in the way
Verse continues : Justo the MC
My momma told me keep faith
We’ll pray
It’ll be ok
Just get your shit together balance out each day
That’s tough love I needed just a kick to the ass
Slowly losing my mind
Shit I’m late for class
Hook: DVNA
Guess this be the thing that happens, when shit hits the fan
Do you believe in God or do you trust in man
Ain’t much to choose
Much to choose
With much to lose
Much to lose
In the dark room
In the dark room
In the dark room
Verse 2: Justo the MC
Nothing more telling than quiet
When you forced in a room of nothing but pure silence
Taking cold showers to shake off the riots
Going on in my head, I said it won’t leave me alone
I ain’t know I left so many broken
Hearts
Pain sharp like when niggas broke in my dorm room, wasn’t home, Stole my laptop
Every single fucking track I own now not for not
Shouldn’t have brought ’em in my space trying to sell beats
But I needed money, probably plotted for weeks
But I was tweaked wasn’t getting no sleep
Fighting with shorty on the phone, knew she started to creep
But yo
That’s karma, I ain’t even gon’ stress it
Just trying to get my mind right think I got the message
Guilt round my neck like a necklace
I solemnly swear to never venture off course or move reckless
Guess this
Hook: DVNA
Guess this be the thing that happens, when shit hits the fan
Do you believe in God or do you trust in man
Ain’t much to choose
Much to choose
With much to lose
Much to lose
In the dark room
In the dark room
In the dark room
Outro : Justo the MC
This still haunts me
No doubt
I’m a victim of a battle inside
Maybe I’ll fight it
Maybe I’ll fight it
But the pain lingers round
Pain lingers round
I was lost now I’m found
Lost now I’m found
I was sinking but never drowned
Never drowned
Still around
Still here baby
credits
from Justo the MC & Brelstaff "Urban Testimony",
released November 3, 2023
Lyrics written and performed by Justo the MC
Additional lyrics written and performed by DVNA
Produced by Brelstaff
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