Offkey (Explicit)

You love how it feels in your soul

When you know that it's real

CHORUS

Cos sometimes, you gotta sing offkey to be heard

to be heard the words must come from the scars of the earth

they hate how you heel but you love when it feels this real

and though these lips are sealed hoping that, it bends your will

Break it wreck it rough it run it back, voice in the mix, what’s cracking? (L-FRESH The LION)

you love how it feels in your soul when you know that its real

VERSE

That’s me offkey in the choir

Outta nowhere Snoop in the Wire

Lydia Thorpe walked through the fire

She’s right he’s “not my king either”

That’s proud independence and defiance

Jack in the corner of the flag is violence

Empire’s heartbeat like Al Qaeda’s

Whole canon written in the key of liars

All facts were redacted again good lord

Greta got you on the backfoot again panicking

Popcorn for the reaction of men

To a brain built to match the collapsing of them (you don’t need a gun)

Strike a match with a pen yeh Banksy and Jean Michel Basquait and them

Til they threaten you they’ll put you in a jacket again

Stand out it’ll put you on the map in the end

CHORUS

Cos sometimes, you gotta sing offkey to be heard

to be heard the words must come from the scars of the earth

they hate how you heel but you love when it feels this real

and though these lips are sealed hoping that, it bends your will

Break it wreck it rough it run it back voice in the mix what’s cracking? (Grace Chia)

you love how it feels in your soul when you know that its real

VERSE 2

Truth sings / offkey / on and off beat like, untreated or not at all / outlawed / outscored

None of it give a shit if you didn’t want it that raw cos

Beauty don’t take root when you’re pruning your life just to put it in a vase

Shine a light on your brain while you’re hiding your pain

That’s one between the head and the heart

You’re a shadow of / you’re a cameo, folded yourself up into a resume / ay

Can adapt til you suffocate, blank slate a machine you can animate

Edit out everything not pretty not aesthetic til you dream in chatgpt

Make your heartbeat sync to whatever groupthink

Til you shrink out of view cos

CHORUS

Cos sometimes, you gotta sing offkey to be heard

to be heard the words must come from the scars of the earth

they hate how you heel but you love when it feels this real

and though these lips are sealed hoping that, it bends your will

Break it wreck it rough it run it back voice in the mix what’s cracking? (DEM MOB)

you love how it feels in your soul when you know that its real