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Sometimes by Akala

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Akala

Sometimes

Release date: 30th March 2015

From Knowledge Is Power II (Mixtape)
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About This Track

"Sometimes" is a track by Akala, from the album Knowledge Is Power II (Mixtape), released 30th March 2015. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Akala

Akala

Lyrics

Sometimes

[Verse 1]

When I feel like,"Fuck it I've had enough"

Might as well bury my head in the sand and run from the world

No music or politics, I'm done with all of it, I just can't take no more

It's easy to let the world get you down, look around

It seems that every towns got the mindness of profound

The haves, the have not's, lives we admire

Rags to rags lot that never climb higher

We're on a ladder of life, the ladder of success

The ladder of fucking over other people the best

It's a game of chess, where the pawns get sacrificed

They got limited movement and they're on the frontline

Yeah, the game's rigged from the start, this we know in our heart

Yet we pick up the dice and play a part

But would it be better to act like a spoilt little brat?

Kick over the whole game with no shame

"I ain't playin' if I can't win", prayin' if I can't sin

What is a wife saying to a daft king?

Not much, power's fucked

I know it runs the world, sometimes it's too much

[Chorus]

Like, "Fuck it I've had enough"

Might as well bury my head in the sand and run from the world

No music or politics, I'm done with all of it, I just can't take no more

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

In the end I'm like "Shut up you coward, just suck it all up"

[Verse 2]

Can't sleep, my mind's runnin'

On a path of it's own and I ain't sure that I'm even comin'

All night I been tryna get a wink

The sun comes up now and I ain't had a blink

I think too bloody much

All the voices go around in my mind and I can't shut 'em up

They say "ignorance is bliss"

I ain't sayin' it is

On those nights when I can't shut off, I get pissed

For me, this is most nights of the week

If we look at the world then how could we sleep?

See in my deeper moments

I can only keep the onus on what is wrong with the world and we can't even solve it

Like we ain't involved with anything promoted than to focus on our own little selves

The rest can go to Hell

How do I know it so well? It's me

Specially at those times I wanna flee from reality

[Chorus]

Like "fuck it I've had enough"

Might as well bury my head in the sand and run from the world

No music or politics, I'm done with all of it, I just can't take no more

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like, "Fuck it I've had enough"

In the end I'm like "Shut up you coward, just suck it all up"

[Verse 3]

The road to depression I'm guessin' is oiled by a choked expression

And of course naked oppression

The lessons we're supposed to learn, is not possible

'Cause you are not a fool and the teacher's horrible

So what choice left is there for sensitive souls?

Fight the power or let it swallow us whole?

And it's easily done, look what we've become

If we could, I'm sure we'd find a way to put out the Sun

Sometimes when I feel like collapsin'

Or giving in to the times that I'm trapped in

I contemplate all the others overcoming their fears

Fighting battles far harder so that I could be here

Then I feel like the silly little boy that I am

Count my blessings in the moment and get back to the plan

Inspiration is the strangest thing

How it travels one spirit to another, transforms how we think

I know spirit is a dirty word

In this world obsessed with what we have and what do we earn

But its the only way to explain the voices inside of you

Only satisfied when you are inspired to

It's the reason when we feel we've had enough

Always in the end we manage to get back up

[Chorus]

Like "fuck it I've had enough"

Might as well bury my head in the sand and run from the world

No music or politics, I'm done with all of it, I just can't take no more

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

When I feel like "fuck it I've had enough"

In the end I'm like "Shut up you coward, just suck it all up"

[Outro]

Life is hard, life is beautiful

Life is strange and life is unusual

If life's a stage, then who wrote the musical? (Who wrote the musical?)

Life is hard, life is beautiful

Life is strange and life is unusual

If life's a stage, then who wrote the musical? (Who wrote the musical?)

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Track details

From Knowledge Is Power II (Mixtape)

2015
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Album
Knowledge Is Power II (Mixtape)
Knowledge Is Power II (Mixtape)
Akala
Release year
2015
  1. —Freedom
  2. —Dark Corners
  3. —Don't Piss Me Off
  4. —Bang With Us?
  5. —Murder Runs the Globe
  6. —Mr. Fire in the Booth
  7. —Riddle of Life
  8. —Sometimes
  9. —My Mind's Changed
  10. —The Fall
  11. —The Journey
  12. —Sun Tzu
  13. —Sovereign Master
  14. —Urge To Kill
  15. —Time To Relax

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