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System by Dave

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Dave

System

Release date: 22nd July 2021

From We're All Alone In This Together
Track 6
3:02
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About This Track

'System' sits at the intersection of desire and critique. Dave moves through verses that catalogue material excess, romantic pursuit, and the friction between aspiration and systemic constraint. The production is spare and propulsive, letting the lyrics breathe. He shifts between boast and confession, between the swagger of someone who has arrived and the weariness of someone aware of the machinery that keeps him climbing. The track balances hedonism with a sharper awareness of the forces that shape it. Money and fame are the currency of the narrative, but they arrive shadowed by acknowledgment of struggle, debt, and the systems that profit from both. Dave's delivery carries the weight of that tension without resolving it, moving between celebration and something closer to resignation.

"System" is a track by Dave, from the album We're All Alone In This Together, released 22nd July 2021. The track is 3:02 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Dave.

About the Artist

Dave

Dave

Lyrics

System

Whine baby, show me that your whine on well
Yeah, show me that whine on well, yeah, yeah, yeah
I never knew about you so well
But money make her kiss and tell, yeah
Only pray for love, God and peace and love
My enemies only pray for war

Uh, If you wanna get rich, there's a million ways
Sweet chick, familiar face
Wine, I got a brilliant taste
Whine, she got a brilliant waist
Money and fame
My people know struggle and pain
My people nah gon' suffer in vain
Don't call me by my government name

My girl, she badder than Rambo, a rider
Wan-Bissaka, the Lambo' a spider
Michael Phelps, the AP a diver
Martial, my right hand, a striker
Tried to call, she blocked me, I Skype her
Damn it, I think that she got me a Lyca
Yardie lover, yard pussy me ah die for
Rack city, man, I'm comin' like, look

Whine baby, show me that your whine on well
Yeah, show me that whine on well, yeah, yeah, yeah
I never knew about you so well
But money make her kiss and tell, yeah
Only pray for love, God and peace and love
My enemies only pray for war

So I dey give them (yeah)
So I dey give them
One more time when she feelin' it (yeah)
One more time when she givin' it
One more time when she livin' it
Henny for system, yeah
One more time when she feelin' it
One more time when she givin' it
One more time and we livin' lit

I just caught one whine, now I'm feelin' like an M.V.P
I know that they're talkin' my name
But them man are old news like NBC
Tell the DJ dash 'way his MP3
Who's that girl with a leng DP?
Wait, what am I saved under?
When I change numbers, I don't send BC's
Listen, it's a big flex if you're talkin' to me

ST, God bless my haters
She wanna do SMS, not save my soul
That's, spend my savings
Waiter, can you bring more champagne in?
For the times I was livin' in stress
I wanna own all my, shh
But the system's built so we're livin' in debt
Man fi rise up 'cause we livin' in, yeah

Whine baby, show me that your whine on well
Yeah, show me that whine on well, yeah, yeah, yeah
I never knew about you so well
But money make her kiss and tell, yeah
Only pray for love, God and peace and love
My enemies only pray for war

So I dey give them (yeah)
So I dey give them
One more time when she feelin' it (yeah)
One more time when she givin' it
One more time when she livin' it
Henny for system, yeah
One more time when she feelin' it
One more time when she givin' it
One more time and we livin' lit

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Track details

From We're All Alone In This Together

3:022021
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Album
We're All Alone In This Together
We're All Alone In This Together
Dave
23rd July 2021
Track number
6
Release year
2021
  1. 1We're All Alone
    4:40
  2. 2Verdansk
    3:02
  3. 3Clash
    4:12
  4. 4In The Fire
    7:04

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    Writer
    Dave, Eight9FLY, Joe Reeves, Kyle Evans, P2J, Wizkid
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