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about

Took a while for this to take shape and is one of the heaviest uses of Steve Ling's guitar and bass along with keys added by myself on the album. Such a sick little bit of "scatting" (that is the term, don't be weird about it) by Ella Fitzgerald. I personally enjoy listening to a good jazz scat, in a lot of ways the syncopation and rhythm is similar to the syllable and flow style of rapping - it just doesn't have words. But when people don't listen to the fucking words in the first place what does it matter?! I had this beat kicking around for a bit and was on holiday with Ange and for some reason it played through in my mind and I started piecing words together to it. I have no idea how it will be received. You might hate it.

lyrics

CHORUS x4
Whenever I say that I can't I won't I shan’t I don't I mustn’t I (do)/
Whenever life's getting me down and I feel like I don't know what to (do)//

Waddya (do) is a question most commonly used/
What they mean is, "how d'ya pay for your food?"/
Well I (do), a bit of this and I (do) a bit of that/
But no I don't make any money from rap/
But I (do) try my best to invest my time/
So there's less spent working and more working on rhyme/
(Do) not believe in proper jobs and rent/
My commodity is hours I decide how their spent/
But I (do) understand it's not as easy as that/
And believe me I graft, run an LTD and that/
Need cash, there's bills still to pay/
Bin rapping about money from then till today/
But (do) you care, nobody does/
Got their own problems to deal with, and opening up/
With my emotional stuff/
I hope is enough/
To get me through what I (do) when life's hopeless and tough//

CHORUS x2
Whenever I say that I can't I won't I shan't I don't I mustn’t I (do)
Whenever life's getting me down and I feel like I don't know what to (do)

...Need to get better at making drums/
It's cheating to use a good break but fun/
Ella Fitzgerald remains the one/
I bin sampling her since the day I begun/
And I (do) stick to what I know/
Fruit Loops, Cool Edit Pro/
Just got Cubase on the go/
Same Brauner type mic since 08/
Used it to record everything to date/
Same studio - renovated it gradually/
Now I can stand sitting in it in January/
Monday nights I'm usually sat till 3/
Writing bars or trying my hand at beats/
Can't explain why I (do) what I (do)/
I just know I (do) what I (do) in order to get through/
If I say that I can't I won't give it a go/
If that's how I live my life then I guess I'll never know...so//

CHORUS x2
Whenever I say that I can't I won't I shan't I don't I mustn’t I (do)/
Whenever life's getting me down and I feel like I don't know what to (do)//

I could stop making music for sure/
Doesn't seem likely I'll ever sell out a tour/
I could (do) nothing and just let my life pass/
Get depressed ‘bout it and feel like crap/
Or I could (do) a load of drugs, try and shorten the odds/
Of making 40 without being a corpse on a block/
(Do) not know where I could score any rock/
To be fair I could have it and not be sure what I've got/
(Do) you know I'm white middle class and privileged/
Tiny violins if I say life is still a bitch/
People struggle more than me day to day/
Tracks about getting old are my favourite made/
And I (do) gravitate to the relatable/
Cos it's safe and it's warm and escapable/
And I'm capable, of being able to evade the bull/
When I create in my safe bubble - buhbyeee//

credits

from Fully Fledged Fraud (better price on ExP​.​uk), released July 1, 2019
Contains samples from:
"Smooth Sailing" by Ella Fitzgerald - 1951

Guitar/Bass by Steve Ling
Additional vocals by Angela Goodwin

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