Old Soul

"Feels like that I've been here before"

[Verse 1: Akala]

I don't wanna romanticize another time that's gone by

But I have to be honest and tell you that

I'm an old soul, so some Nina Simone

Is gonna put me in the zone better than some talk of Patron

Or Crystal or Pistols it's oh so tedious

I want to hear some tunes like Strange Fruit with meaning in

I want to hear the wolf howling and the waters muddy

I want it to dance, want it to make me cry but also funny

I'm feeling that inner city blues, Marvin's the town crier

Some Soul II Soul, some Aswad with Dub Fire

Some Gregory Isaacs, a little touch of Dennis Brown

I love the soul but nothing moves me like that Reggae sound

Jamaican blood, sound system upbringing

Our black American cousins are big influences on the songs we are singing

It's all Soul with Africa at it's base

So Fela and Masakela, Makeba play from the same place

[Hook: Asheber]

I remember, I remember

Do you remember?

I remember

I remember, I remember

Cause I'm just an old soul

I'm just an old soul

I'm just an old soul

Do you remember?

[Verse 2: Akala]

I'm quite sure the right chords are a cure for disease

If music is the food of love, let us feast

An open appetizer, whose songs cannot retire

The legend Stevie Wonder comes bursting out through the wire

The main course, of course, is Hendrix and Marley

James Brown will get down and start the after-party

After dark is only Pendergrass

Grab a partner and do the slow-grind wallpaper dance

There is something about the old sound on the analogue

And real musicianship that we just can't carry on

Or maybe I just am an old soul romanticizing

About the good old days when Miles Davis was a commercial artist

When singers could sing soul

And had a message

And if you saw them live they sounded better than the record

But how would I know I was not even on the globe

When most of these artists rocked

Simple, I'm an old soul

[Hook: Asheber]

[Bridge: Asheber]

Old souls, old souls

Old souls, old souls

And it feels like

And it feels like

Like I've been here before

[Verse 3: Akala]

Are you like me, are you an old soul?

Do you only like music from before you were born?

When you're listening to records

Or contemplating the questions

Do you ever get the feeling that you've been here before?

Do you find yourself talking about the kids these days

Then have to remind yourself about your actual age?

If it's only Reggae or Soul since you were five years old

A little Blues, a little Jazz

You know you're an old soul

[Hook: Asheber]