My second single, "Blow Up", portrays my "Self-Expression" through the way of shooting up into the sky musically and exploring the horizons above but realising the lack of need to blend in with those who came before me, crashing back down to Earth in a fiery third verse. It is clear on this song that I was heavily influenced by the more relaxed, and conscious hip-hop that I was listening to around the time.
lyrics
I was thinkin' bout the story of my life
All these other nights
Realise inside that I was
Caught between the dice
Reanacting savageries
Recalling all the fights
I won 'em all and now I'm taller
Than any skyscraper height
I bashed a snake and climbed a ladder
Hero without a cape, success was all that real mattered
Solved another case shoot the bad guy with a tatter
I still count it a win if my boots and rags are in tatters
I'm a warrior
Sorry I
Never really thought of being soft but now I'm furrier
You can ask the courier
Deliver lines, different times
Victorian
You connect the dots, connect the lines
Victoria
When I'm victorious I rise up
Shining like the sun I hope all of you brought your visors
And know I got the spot cause if anyone knows the wiser
A star will shine at its brightest and then eventually die out
Once I fly away there ain't no doubt about it, doubt about it
I know I'll find a way, I've got no doubts about it, hear me shout it
I'll blow up, blow up, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'll blow up, blow up, blow up, blow up
Yo, when that star comes down it'll fall from the sky
Landing in the ocean i'ma snorkel till I
Can grab ahold of something more important than life
This immortality in music that I forge on the mic, I wanna (once I fly away)
Be like Mike
Want you to be like damn
Knew him before he was hyped
When he (know I'll find a way)
Lowkey made jams
I used to live on his street
He used to jump on my tram
I see him bopping, smiling
Singing a tune
Thinking of nothing but the rhythm
While he's kickin his shoes, I mean
I remember thinking like damn
What's this kid gonna do
I only see him on gram stories
He sits in his room
That, or he's flipping his food
Normally that's what I do
But lemme slip you the truth, see
I was merely tweaking the tunes
I finished the building foundation
Watch me spit through the roof
Once I fly away there ain't no doubt about it, doubt about it
I know I'll find a way, I've got no doubts about it, hear me shout it
I'll blow up, blow up, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'll blow up, blow up, blow up, blow up
Now that I'm flying
My mind is orion
Belting at the top of my lungs
Hunting the top of the rung
See I'm trying
Listen I'm trying
Teaching me the patience
So I don't burn out entirely
Oh me oh my I need a neon kite
And a real long line so I can see those skies but oh
On second thought I've seen the orbit
Please just get me down, I'm burning now I need the water
I don't murder beats I make love to them
Heard if me well I'm one of them
A third of me can beat one of them
Compete with me and see I'm a burden then
Return and then repeat I'm a permanent and
Learn the words we speak in the tournament
Can even leave the week feeling turbulent
Yeah, predetermining the age of success with the words again
Resurfacing the shards of returning men
Purturbing evil karma I burn the pen
The boy is here returning the prophecy is true
I scream a tune as I turn the bend
The earth, the green, the blue, and the purple haze
The burn, the gleam it proves that I've come along way
And I feel amazing
Once I fly away there ain't no doubt about it, doubt about it
I know I'll find a way, I've got no doubts about it, hear me shout it
I'll blow up, blow up, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'll blow up, blow up, blow up, blow up
Once I fly away there ain't no doubt about it, doubt about it
I know I'll find a way, I've got no doubts about it, hear me shout it
I'll blow up, blow up, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'll blow up, blow up, blow up, blow up
Richard Carter is a Croydon-based producer/artist and the level of detail he puts into each and every song is clear,
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