hindsight (ft. aledo)

By Samouk

Released on July 12, 2024

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Aledo:

I wish that I could be in class as boys one more time

Talk about the future and always checking the time

Instead of eating up a steak or a glass of wine

Whilst I reminisce over a life that barely feels like mine

I keep waiting for that golden opportunity

Maybe it just hasn't got through to me

I need help father see what you can do for me please

I'm begging and praying on both of my knees

If there's potential in me help me release

Don't keep me in the pen like police

Cuz i've been dying a little more every week

I feel my soul is starting to leak

You can see the loss of life in my cheeks

Remember when i lived my life with a smile on my face

Will there ever be a better place

A community where you are equal no matter your colour or race

No I ain't talking about Glover and Chase

But a world full of happiness, forgiveness and grace

That you could never find no evil in not even a trace

But that could never be more than a dream believe me

I've been searching for this place where the air can relieve me

Where the devil ain't around the corner tryna deceive me

But where God is calling out my name and tryna retrieve me

Yeah, why I keep ignoring your messages brother

It's criminal

Life's message is subliminal

Conscience is minimal

I hit the roach I'm at the pinnacle

My mind is cynical

Tripping now I think i've seen it all

I know my morals but i've got my darkness within

But my mother put a path down for me to live in

So explain to me why in life i'm drawn to my sins

Where the lust is taking over and the demons kick in

Chorus:

La la la la la la

All we wanna do is break the chains off

(chains off)

All we wanna do is break the chains off

(chains off)

All we wanna do is be free

(be free)

All we wanna do is be free

(be free)

All we wanna do is break the chains off

(chains off)

(all we wanna do is be free)

(let's get our chains off)

Samo:

Yo, if ash is our purest form then bury me

If I crash within this storm then just remember me

When we tap out of our physical form we leave memories

And even if they heavenly they become dead in me

So stop meddling with melodies of the past

The remedies and the medicine can't fix a time cast

So leave behind ghasts

And re-align fast

Cuz the train of regret it leaves sharp

It don't care about the farcical numbers on a chart in which we praise

Or the abstract ways in which we mask our own face

I'm sure you've seen it in your own reflection

But i'm unsure you've ever seen it in your best friend

You get re-taught then you no longer accept them

But when you're reborn does the cycle still affect them

Why re-slaughter on the same animal?

You're circling your enemies with vengeance like Hannibal

Social media got me thinking you're a cannibal

Just to do it for the crowd like a bull and a matador

For the-

Inhale in hell in heaven

My dreams fail so I inhale the words of the reverend

I roll it up with a bible passage

And light it up with the lord's passion

How's that for holy smokes?

Sometimes I think i've seen a ghost within my thoughts

He asked if I was ready in retort

Said I could follow spirits or drink spirits I had a choice

Because the grave weighs heavy with remorse

Chorus:

La la la la la la

All we wanna do is break the chains off

All we wanna do is break the chains off

All we wanna do is be free

All we wanna do is be free

All we wanna do is break the chains off