Introspection

By Shell B

Released on April 28, 2015

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[Chorus: Frank Ocean]

Human beings in a mob

What's a mob to a king?

What's a king To a god?

What's a god to a non-believer?

Who don't believe in anything?

We make it out alive

Alright alright

No church in a wild


[Verse 1: Shell B]

They tryna control all the masses

Television is the same thing as the classes

They say that you're blind so you could use the glasses

They make the heat but no cure for the rashes

Damn I should proli burn them to ashes

Pour kerosine and light up ma matches

Now their pretty faces got patches

The police are the thieves in the badges

Ugh I won't invite the pain

They let it rain forget I've got ma brain

I'm not insane

I'm still the same

You better know that we're not the same ma nigga! Ugh!

That's somn' that a pastor don't preach

That's somn' that your teacher can't teach

You find me at the shore of your beach

Tryna take a quick swim that's a dog a leash

Preach!


[Chorus]


[Interlude]

[1st Speaker]:

I'm thirsty for people that annoy me I want to kill them

Why can't people just see me the way I am?

In the sense that, how will they tell you something about me

And you have been talking to me, you have been conversing with me

Let's use that word conversing

You know in and out of me and you believe what people say

And even if you believe what they say

Sorry even if you hear What they say

It's still an opinion, it's still something you can change

So I'm throwing that question

Why can't people take me the way I am?

Can you answer that?

[2nd Speaker]: Let's hear Shell B's answer

[1st Speaker]: Shell B let's hear your answer

[Shell B]: it's normal in any society such as a school setting

That requires a lot of socialization

For people to believe and jump into conclusions from what they hear

Outside of their relationship with someone that normally is very close to them

Cus they way they would have told her

It would have been in a way that...

They would have put her on the spot

[1st Speaker]: to think it's true

[Shell B]: yes!

Cus if you guys are outside school that kind of thing cannot happen

So I think it's just the realm of school


[2nd Verse: Shell B]

Everyday I say damn is this life?

Where a man could see another man as a wife

The modern day society slave the days of our lives

We all forgetting to remember that we have to strive

To get to the peak

To reach the brighter light

To make it to the heaven and then seat by his right

The righteous one on who have us all the life

Guiding us by the day and watching us by the night

It's a new picture fuck all that black and white

That Pablo Picasso flow I had to get it right

Visions of Visionario I see 'em with ma eyes

These days in the church the preachers preach a lot of lies

The laxity in sanity

The madness and the enemy

The jungle and the trees

The blood on the leaves

The good kid mad city full of bad human beings

Better wake to reality if you're still in your dreams!

That's somn' that a pastor don't preach

That's somn' that your teacher can't teach

You find me at the shore of your beach

Tryna take a quick swim that's a dog on a leash aghh!

Preach!


[Chorus]

No church in a wild [3x]