Released on August 15, 2024

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[Chorus]

They weren't supplying the region, back then when we needed peace

Nighttime creeping

Floorboards creaking

A man with the key couldn't be discrete

Grew up with a crack in the ceiling, I thought it would reach to me

Then on a hopeful season I deeped it

Now i'm a man you'd be pleased to meet

They weren't supplying the region, back then when we needed peace

Nighttime creeping

Floorboards creaking

A man with the key couldn't be discrete

Grew up with a crack in the ceiling, I thought it would reach to me

Then on a hopeful season I deeped it

Now i'm a man you'd be pleased to meet


[Verse 1]

My bro, please move reasonably

That boy's hot with a reason to be

He don't care 'bout his life

So why would he care about mine or yours

Just needs a release

He's 'bout to blow, put T in a T

Power bestowed is a mountain below

The courage it takes to kneel in the defeat

Cause from there we stand, won't need the receipt

If you going "band for band" then don't get mad if I don't buy it

'cause a man with cash in his hand

Is a man in demand who can't keep quiet

I'm in the party, sighing

I'm mad and I can't keep lying

I left my yard

I stepped too far

And I know that it weren't required

Gotta practice patience

They doctor the top

But saw man coming

Like that's so raven

Yeah, it's a bashful statement

Hogging my plate when they act so craven

But if I had to bank on man instead of myself

I'd still be waiting


[Chorus]

They say the darker the night

They say they brighter the light

I know my left from right

Just 'cause I couldn't decide

Throughout my life, I've heard ごめんなさい way too many times

If you wait on the sea instead of the tide

Then maybe you'll see why we look to the sky

They say the darker the night

They say they brighter the light

I know my left from right

Just 'cause I couldn't decide

Throughout my life, I've heard ごめんなさい way too many times

Raised up in Gotham

Gatekeep by the crime

We were born in the dark

But we needed to shine


This is the plight of the left-handed child taught they were the spawn of evil, shoutout to my primary school teacher who refused to teach me how to write in the account of that; funny how life turns out, hm?


[Verse 2]

I'm stood here on a different plane still carrying luggage

I don't pull ranked but that boy there got carried in public

Everyone's carrying something

So everyone's carrying something

Parrying punches

Please don't meet

She won't set you free, no Harriet Tubman

It's only when things get sticky

You see your groups been lacking the suction

When things get stark like Arya all we have is assumptions

Never been barrier bumping

TFL moves like a thief in the night

So I get how man gets back by giving them nothing

7 a week like a Harriers coming

But I'm changing the subject

First year here and I came on smoke

I have no vice so I'm ain't your type

'cause you pay your price when you take your toke

I'm on tea and herbs and all of the fruits and roots of the earth we grow

'cause the seeds we sow get reaped tenfold

I got let go

Now they call my phone

They say I'm clear

I'm nowhere near

Next thing you know they'll call sleet, snow

With every drop

They say don't stop

When will they clock

That I don't reload

'cause one in the chambers not gonna save you

Even if that one blows

The next not matching the high is low in the eyes of most, yeah


[Chorus]

They weren't supplying the region, back then when we needed peace

Nighttime creeping

Floorboards creaking

A man with the key couldn't be discrete

Grew up with a crack in the ceiling, I thought it would reach to me

Then on a hopeful season I deeped it

Now i'm a man you'd be pleased to meet

They say the darker the night

They say they brighter the light

I know my left from right

Just 'cause I couldn't decide

Throughout my life, I've heard ごめんなさい way too many times

If you wait on the sea instead of the tide

Then maybe you'll see why we look to the sky

They say the darker the night

They say they brighter the light

I know my left from right

Just 'cause I couldn't decide

Throughout my life, I've heard ごめんなさい way too many times

Raised up in Gotham

Gatekeep by the crime

We were born in the dark

But we needed to shine

“She won’t set you free, no Harriet Tubman”
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“Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women’s suffrage.” Wikipedia says.

“Throughout my life, I’ve heard ごめんなさい way too many times”
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/gomennasai/ means “sorry” in Japanese, therefore he has heard excuses way too many times

“Throughout my life, I’ve heard ごめんなさい way too many times”
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/gomennasai/ means “sorry” in Japanese, therefore he has heard excuses way too many times

“This is the plight of the left-handed child taught they were the spawn of evil, shoutout to my primary school teacher who refused to teach me how to write in the account of that; funny how life turns out, hm?”
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In Britain in the Middle Ages, lefties were associated with the devil and often accused of the crime of witchcraft, meaning they would get burned at the stake. Until the late ‘900s left-handed people were “corrected” forcefully to use the right hand to write when they got taught to at school.
Nembhard’s primary school teacher was probably old lol

“TFL moves like a thief in the night”
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TFL (Transport for London)

“If you going “band for band””
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Potential reference to “BAND4BAND” by Central Cee & Lil Baby

“Throughout my life, I’ve heard ごめんなさい way too many times”
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/gomennasai/ means “sorry” in Japanese, therefore he has heard excuses way too many times

“My bro, please move reasonably That boy’s hot with a reason to be”
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Brandon is giving a warning that someone has a gun, and telling the person being warned to be more careful

“I’m stood here on a different plane still carrying luggage”
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This a double entendre of “plane” meaning an aircraft and plane meaning a level of experience/skill. Brandon uses “luggage” to create the double entendre

“When things get stark like Arya all we have is assumptions”
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Arya Stark is a character from game of thrones.

“Throughout my life, I’ve heard ごめんなさい way too many times”
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/gomennasai/ means “sorry” in Japanese, therefore he has heard excuses way too many times

“Raised up in Gotham”
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Gotham is Batman’s city, famous for the very high crime rate