From the album "Urban Testimony" by Brooklyn rapper Justo the MC and Edinburgh hip hop producer Brelstaff, released through New Dawn Records on November 3rd 2023
lyrics
Intro:
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m lying I don’t want to be here nah
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here nah I’m lying I don’t want to be here nah
Verse 1:
Take a bite of this forbidden fruit
No
Trips to hell let’s take a separate route
No
Let’s smoke and drink 'til we ain’t feeling nothing
Yo
I’m breaking hearts she probably think I’m cuffing
That’s passion mami no escaping that
She said you never touched a blunt, yo where the cornballs at
Word
Taken aback by your ignorance
So why I feel so guilty that we don’t share your experience and
I
Hook:
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m lying I don’t want to be here nah
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here but I’m not I
Want to be here nah I’m lying I don’t want to be here nah
Verse 2:
Paying the price I wished I fucking listened
To my conscience but unconscious to my intuition
I saw the pain coming, before it reached me
But nothing could prepare me for the lesson it would teach me
Easily succumbing to these poison kisses
God made kryptonite for me in shapes of vixens
Get the vapors like Vicks rub my chest was open
What’s a heart to a soul that’s completely broken
Sober moments came far and in between
Slow motion through your thighs so far and in between
Is this a dream
Had the whole dorm jumping
If I wasn’t in your room then I was into something
My family calling
But I was under substance
Please don’t kill my high I don’t need no interruptions
Beginning of the end but I couldn’t save face
This the point of no return, this the land of no escape
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