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This is a naughty naughty blatant sample and probably the
most basic bit of theft on the album (also see 9). “Runnin’ Away”
by Sly and the Family Stone is a bloody classic but I just love
that happy little bit they keep returning to and hadn’t heard any
use of it in hip-hop, so thought it was too good an opportunity
to pass up, especially with the summer vibes it gives. Definitely
one of the more recent additions to the album lineup, around
November 2016, I had a good few goes at the differing choruses
as I couldn’t come up with enough good ideas to it, but got
there in the end. Steve basically copied the original bassline to
bring it out a bit, it’s been tricky to make this track not sound
like it’s being played through the radio with the frequency of
the sample.
There’s a lot to be said for the line “this is where I reel most
of my secrets off”. Also, me and Ange watch “It’s A Wonderful
Life” every Christmas and she pointed the injustice of the
whole thing out to me originally, and I can’t watch it the
same now, though I do believe that’s the point of it - it’s more
like life then, because the bad guys don’t always get their
comeuppance, you just have to find your happiness.
lyrics
Hey! It’s a marvellous day/
And I wish I could always wake up and start it this way/
Harder to make the best of life when you hardly create/
And sit in a rut, doing stuff, that partly you hate/
You might starve if you take time away from that grind/
Every penny I make, it ain’t even mine/
Put patience sometimes leads to the best/
Sometimes it dunt/
Maybe wait and see what’s ahead/
Maybe just get to the front/
My advice is irrelevant and fairly unhelpful/
But an album with me just talking to myself is well dull/
So I have to lie like I’m talking to you/
It’s awkward and true, rap is just a guy performing this to/
A flippin’ mirror/
Is this filler? Or real conscious rap?/
They won’t listen they just nod and that/
But you do, so thanks for listening it means a lot/
This is where I reel most my secrets off…
And what?//
CHORUS
Looked for my bad mood (I don’t know where it is)/
The frown I had tattooed (I don’t know where it is)/
I haven’t got a damn clue (I don’t know where it is)/
I have to ask you (I don’t know where it is)/
Heaven’s a place on earth (I don’t know where it is)/
It sits within a universe (I don’t know where it is)/
Which sits within a multiverse (I don’t know where it is)/
Scientists are conducting research (They don’t know where it is)//
We don’t know anything/
Still there’s people who say they’re summat big and we’re crediting ‘em/
People who say they’re geniuses, but they’ve never bin/
Still they benefit, the editors of newspapers are editing and getting us
unsettled making us hate each other and everything/
The clever thing is how they operate/
Make us concentrate on what they say we wanna hate/
If we got together and fought it, they’d definitely forfeit/
Instead they extend credit to corporates and get us to fork it/
Out, from our debt ridden lives/
Uplifting track to this - yeah, big surprise/
It’s important to have perspective, but your head fits/
Only so much depressed bits, before it gets sick/
Change the world for the good, not cos it’s bad/
Wanna be happy cos I’m happy not cos it’s opposite sad/
Rather keep the sentiment from the top of the track/
But also don’t wanna avoid every problem and task//
CHORUS
I had a to do list (I don’t know where it is)/
But the honest truth is (I don’t know where it is)/
Think I had a clue, shit (I don’t know where it is)/
But I can’t compute it (I don’t know where it is)/
Where did the time go? (I don’t know where it is)/
Summat I’m trying to find though (I don’t know where it is)/
If I knew where then I’d go (I don’t know where it is)/
If the answer’s not on my phone (I don’t know where it is)//
Heyy! It’s a wonderful life/
Even George Bailey’s happy end was just kind of alright/
No justice for the bad guy and the victory/
Was George successfully seeing inwardly/
The trick for me/
Was being too busy to ever notice my negativity/
But history.../
Is always repeating and I’m stalked by my demons/
The reasons, I ignore my achievements/
And focus on the evil voice/
Telling me I’m not the people’s choice/
I’m barely even their ceiling foist/
A stain on life’s roof/
But that ain’t the right truth/
My brain can fight too/
Just train and buy fruit/
Regain your mind’s youth/
When they’d say, “you might lose”/
You’d say, “yeah right dude”/
And make ‘em bite through/
That humble pie, because fuck them guys/
No-one can tell you who you are it’s your chuffin’ life...!//
