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By Noname

On Sundial

Released on August 11, 2023

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[Intro: Noname]

Yo


[Verse 1: Noname]

When I was monumental, I was tatted up and bad as fuck

And dreamin' of scenarios where serotonin laughed at us

Psilocybin with the hybrid, baby couldn't pass it up

Coochie cutters in the concert with the lights on

And maybe I'll play the right song and tell you my secret

I used to swim in the dungeon where Moses pled her allegiance

Harriet happiness, I hibernate the masochist

Every slave in a slave town ready to bleed, God

Married a tree top for money and new crib

Your daddy just lost his, petty capitalism

Niggas broke for a livin' but pray for riches in death

Niggas under distress, niggas supposed to finesse, uh

[Chorus: Noname, Eryn Allen Kane, Noname & Eryn Allen Kane]

I'm on the moon, I cry balloons

They black and blue tonight

And if the homie in the back, then tell him to hit me back

Homie in the back then tell him to hit me back tonight

I'm on the moon, I cry balloons

They black and blue tonight

And if the homie in the back, then tell him to hit me back

Homie in the back then tell him to hit me back tonight


[Verse 2: Noname]

In the land before a lamb, monasteries and Narcan

Casual white fans, who invented the voyeur?

Fascinated with mourning, they hope the trauma destroy her

Why everybody love a good sad song, a dark album, like?

Tell me that your homie dead, your mama dead

Your brother bled along the street

The corner where the Walgreens and White Castle is

Ooh-wee, yeah, we know that you miss him

And if you sing about his sister, then we buyin' a ticket, for real

Front row, center, still gratitude, she love 'em

But she can't tell if it's genuine or just consumption

Analyze the gumption, monopolize the landscape

She's just another artist selling trauma to her fanbase

[Chorus: Noname, Eryn Allen Kane, Noname & Eryn Allen Kane]

I'm on the moon, I cry balloons

They black and blue tonight

And if the homie in the back, then tell him to hit me back

Homie in the back then tell him to hit me back tonight

[Bridge: Noname, Noname & Eryn Allen Kane, Jay Electronica]

Baby, hit me back, where you at?

We on a spaceship

We waitin' under the dark moon

Where you at and where you go?

Supernova stars gon' take us home

Baby, hit me back (Uh-huh), where you at?

We are on a spaceship (Uh-huh)

We waitin' under the dark moon

Where you at and where you go? (Bismillah hir Rahman-nir-Raheem)

Supernova stars gon' take us home


[Verse 3: Jay Electronica]

Like Lazarus, I was dead for three whole nights

Alakazam, I shook back like casino dice

Satan call me magical negro, cool, you got that

I popped on the world stage with my AK cocked back

Saw the Roth' family in half to get my clout back

In the heart of Knightsbridge, pullin' bunnies out top hats

Everywhere I step foot I leave a trail of names

Of the sons of Yakub, in a trail of flames

I'm on fire, I'm plugged in directly to Messiah

I run with the mighty 'Khan as we expose the liars

These infidels killed my mom, it's all-out war now

I swear on the Mahdi to never put my sword down

The crescent and the star with the red in the foreground

Is the flag that I bang as I'm layin' the law down

Established a beachhead behind enemy lines now

I'm Pink Floyd in Berlin, I'm tearin' the wall down

Face to face I bet nary a devil would test me

And some fuckboy eighty-fiver come run up and press me

It's all a hoax, quite simple, a joke like Zelenskyy

The imams, the rabbis, and the Pope, incidentally

Couldn't stop my boca from quotin' quotes from the senseis

If anybody asks, tell 'em Farrakhan sent me

It's the war of Armageddon and I'm beggin' the listener

If you ain't fightin', that mean you either dead or a prisoner

[Chorus: Noname, Eryn Allen Kane, Noname & Eryn Allen Kane]

I'm on the moon, I cry balloons

They black and blue tonight

And if the homie in the back, then tell him to hit me back

Homie in the back then tell him to hit me back tonight

I'm on the moon, I cry balloons

They black and blue tonight

And if the homie in the back, then tell him to hit me back

Homie in the back then tell him to hit me back