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Augustine

Release date: 27th June 2016

From Freetown Sound
Track 2
3:51
AlternativeMusicRockR&B/Soul
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About This Track

Dev Hynes opens 'Freetown Sound' with a song about family, race and historical inheritance. 'Augustine' moves over a skittering beat and sparse piano, its lyrics tracing a line from his father's arrival to his own coming of age, invoking the saint's confession of belated understanding: "Late have I loved and chose to see". The track weaves together personal memory and collective history, naming Trayvon Martin and invoking Nontetha, building toward something that feels both intimate and urgent. Hynes' voice sits high in the mix, intimate and unhurried. A Dork four-star record, 'Freetown Sound' is an album aware of its own weight, one where Hynes has committed himself entirely to saying something true about his life as a Black man moving through the world. 'Augustine' announces that ambition from the first moments, setting the terms for everything that follows.

"Augustine" is a track by Blood Orange, from the album Freetown Sound, released 27th June 2016. The track is 3:51 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 13 articles about Blood Orange.

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Blood Orange

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Lyrics

Augustine

My father was a young man
My mother off the boat
My eyes were fresh at twenty-one
Bruised but still afloat
Our heads have hit the pavement
Many times before
You stroke his face to soothe him
While knowing that there's more
Saint Augustine
Late have I loved and chose to see (what did I choose to see?)
Skin on his skin
A warmth that I can feel with him
And no one even told me
The way that you should feel
Tell me did you lose your son?
Tell me did you lose your love?
Cry and burst my deafness, while Trayvon falls asleep
The things that I can't do to you
The things that I can't do to you
Saint Augustine
Late have I loved and chose to see (what I chose to see, what I)
Skin on his skin
A warmth that I can feel with him
Nontetha (Nontetha)
We heard it all from you (we heard it all from you)
Nontetha
We waited here for you (waited here for you)
Nontetha (Nontetha)
We heard it all from you (we heard it all from you)
Nontetha
We waited here for you (waited here for you)
Nontetha
We heard it all from you (we heard it all from you)
Nontetha
We waited here for you (we weaited here for you)
Nontetha
Kushé-o aw di bodi
Nontetha

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Track details

From Freetown Sound

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Freetown Sound
Freetown Sound
Blood Orange
28th June 2016
Track number
2
Release year
2016
  1. 1By Ourselves
    2:12
  2. 2Augustine
    3:51
  3. 3Chance
    2:49
  4. 4Best to You (feat. Empress Of)
    3:46
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