[00:00.00]Know Yourself - Kae Tempest
[00:01.59]Lyrics by：Fraser T. Smith/Tom Rowlands/Kae Tempest
[00:05.17]Composed by：Fraser T. Smith/Tom Rowlands/Kae Tempest
[00:08.75]Produced by：Fraser T. Smith/Tom Rowlands
[00:11.53]If you saw the younger you what would you say to 'em?
[00:14.40]I would say thanks
[00:15.63]I would say peace
[00:16.87]I'd tell them
[00:17.42]Soon child you are gonna find release
[00:24.18]Long time coming to right now pipe down
[00:26.46]Lifetime looking for things I thought I'd found already
[00:29.54]Falling to the floor like I'm alright I'm steady
[00:31.81]I send myself back so I can tell me
[00:33.78]Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats
[00:35.73]And I'm still so far from finding peace
[00:38.27]Every line is a ladder I can climb through timе
[00:40.56]And I walk straight faced through these winding streets
[00:43.21]I eat the bread of rhythm I drink the milk of rhyme
[00:45.42]I've been carrying a bag of shame that's bigger than me
[00:48.04]Dragging it behind me up an endless staircase
[00:50.46]Until the day I realised
[00:51.94]This doesn't mean what I think it does
[00:53.48]I don't need to carry this forever
[00:55.24]I left it in the clearing by the fire pit and ran
[00:57.77]Back to the child I was looking for an elder
[00:59.95]I saw myself there I took myself by the hand
[01:02.22]When I was young I sought help from my older self
[01:04.58]I came into my head I told me know yourself
[01:06.93]When I was young I sought help from my older self
[01:09.26]I came into my head I told me know yourself
[01:16.64]I was seventeen heaven seemed close enough to touch
[01:19.01]I had never been happier chest against the barrier
[01:21.73]Watching Wu-Tang
[01:22.66]My own character starting to bloom
[01:24.42]I was learning how to capture a room in two phrases
[01:27.16]Twenty years deep in the rhymes and beats
[01:29.30]Close my eyes and speak down the wires of time
[01:31.55]I go back to the child I was
[01:33.67]When I put myself on the line
[01:35.68]I had to beg for the mic I had to deal with the ignorance
[01:38.48]Had to get better I wanted bigger things
[01:41.28]These days those days they are far away
[01:43.69]Try and catch them in my sights but they start to fade
[01:46.01]Now I sit amongst crate loads of rhyme books
[01:48.40]And I think about the days that the time took
[01:50.38]I thank the little me that put the work in
[01:52.15]Like could you picture me when you were spitting sixteens?
[01:54.65]Surfing the top deck penning them bars
[01:57.47]Underaged in the clubs taking charge of the mic
[02:00.03]Precautious little nothing with the world in his sights
[02:02.77]I am on it now I will work harder
[02:05.24]This is peace to the kid I came after
[02:09.75]The words of the bridge between the present and the past
[02:12.51]I know myself at last
[02:14.17]When I was young I sought help from my older self
[02:16.48]I came into my head I told me know yourself
[02:18.93]When I was young I sought help from my older self
[02:21.33]I came into my head I told me know yourself
[02:27.85]Know yourself
[02:32.70]Know yourself
[02:34.33]Soon child you are gonna find release