[ti:Someone I Knew (Explicit)]
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[00:00.00]Someone I Knew (Explicit) - TOBi
[00:00.82]Lyrics by：Oluwatobi Ajibolade/Alex Goose/Omar Velasco/Vicky Farewell/Daniele Luppi/Phil Ranelin/Ron Cooley
[00:01.64]Composed by：Oluwatobi Ajibolade/Alex Goose/Omar Velasco/Vicky Farewell/Daniele Luppi/Phil Ranelin/Ron Cooley
[00:02.46]Produced by：Alex Goose
[00:03.28]A young man died today
[00:05.46]What have we to show
[00:08.42]A country split in two
[00:10.46]A left wing and a joke
[00:14.11]What remains when we tear away the mask
[00:19.41]Who will be around to face the coming task
[00:23.45]Never someone I knew
[00:29.91]How much longer 'til we're through
[00:34.20]Yeah
[00:35.42]How much longer 'til we're through
[00:40.95]How much longer 'til we're through
[00:45.16]Yeah
[00:46.37]How much longer 'til we're through
[00:51.45]Hardly show up on time to the party yes we the tardiest
[00:54.21]Never good at chronology I measure time in memories
[00:56.97]Memories
[00:57.50]Where were you when the towers fell
[00:58.85]I was seven
[00:59.79]Sittin' at home Aunty bust through the door in a frenzy
[01:02.53]Face in horror shocked yelling at Mom's in the kitchen
[01:04.99]I pretend I wasn't listenin' but still paying attention
[01:08.42]Life is a gift and if God wills it live it
[01:11.01]Inshallah we don't face the world with a stigma
[01:13.28]Where were you when you first held a gun
[01:15.49]I was five
[01:16.48]Playing hide and seek in my parents' room
[01:18.61]Went under the bed the perfect spot for me to hide
[01:21.26]Dark brown mahogany handle on my hand like camouflage
[01:24.31]Where were you when Michael died
[01:25.60]I was fifteen
[01:27.10]The singer I idolized immortalized in my mind
[01:30.32]Livin' with my cousins in a foreign land
[01:32.15]Foreign land
[01:33.06]Sittin' in living rooms wishing my spin move could hang
[01:36.30]My nose used to look like his
[01:38.42]Maybe God's a magician and we look like twins
[01:40.94]Maybe one day I'm takin' off the runway
[01:43.35]And floating with the sun rays around
[01:45.01]Though my tongue weighs me down
[01:47.02]My mind roamin' 'cause I'm fly homie
[01:49.20]In and out of states
[01:50.25]I done spent way too much time zonin'
[01:52.55]I try look up to the skies with my eyes open
[01:54.94]But I'm blindfolded by the lies that they all told me goddamn
[01:58.56]It was someone I knew
[02:03.95]But he died for me and you
[02:09.42]How much longer 'til we're through
[02:14.77]How much longer 'til we're
[02:17.34]How much longer 'til we're
[02:20.09]How much longer till we're through
[02:24.62]Oh oh baby
[02:28.39]Far from religious close to his intuition
[02:33.84]Praying for forgiveness from the patron saint of sinners
[02:39.06]Left hand on the scripture right hand to the heavens
[02:44.49]This vision was God-given it's worked on in the shadows
[02:48.09]We the '04 Pistons no stars just winners
[02:53.17]No TayShauns just princes Kings 'cause legacy build bridges
[02:57.82]Tryna be the best man I can can you Taye Digg it
[03:00.98]Not a pawn in no military state prison
[03:04.19]Paid off piglets
[03:05.57]Treat men like villains that's based off pigment gotta be kidding
[03:10.45]Ah man we on war times
[03:13.46]Sometimes I ask myself
[03:15.37]"Am I an artist or an archive of hard times"
[03:20.27]Seen life long ties split apart like apartheid
[03:24.31]**** outta here got me wondering where the light
[03:27.71]Ain't no light at the ain't no light at the nah
[03:31.12]**** a light at the end of the tunnel homie I am the light
[03:34.06]Exposing tarnishin' promise you really ain't half as bright
[03:36.51]Me and homie ain't that alike no more vigils by candlelight
[03:39.25]See 'em slippin' banana-like mission splittin' banana-like
[03:42.15]They been tricking us all our life
[03:43.41]And I'm moving to get it right we're through
[03:48.92]It was someone I knew
[03:54.27]But he died for me and you
[03:59.82]How much longer 'til we're through
[04:04.92]How much longer 'til we're
[04:07.70]How much longer 'til we're
[04:10.42]How much longer till we're through
[04:18.31]Hey listen everybody this is Phil Ranelin
[04:22.32]And you're listening to TOBi
[04:26.34]And welcome to PANIC