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Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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Dizzee Rascal
Tongue n’ Cheek
Bonkers

SINGLE

Bonkers

Release date: 20th September 2009

From Tongue n’ Cheek

Track 1

2:58

Hip-Hop/Rap Music Dance House

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About This Track

Dizzee Rascal and producer Armand Van Helden construct a track that sits somewhere between confession and provocation. The song builds around a heavy bass line and a cyclical vocal hook, with Rascal adopting the persona of someone caught between surface-level hedonism and deeper self-awareness. He describes a life lived in a kind of waking dream, where the pursuit of immediate gratification masks a more complicated interior state. The central tension is the title itself. Rascal insists he's simply living freely, that there's nothing genuinely unhinged about his behaviour, yet the lyrics betray a certain recklessness: sanity slipping away, shallow acts concealing deeper trouble. It's a defence and an admission at once. The production keeps pace, all propulsive rhythm and minimal melody, letting the repetition do the work. The song doesn't resolve the contradiction; it just keeps circling back to it, which is rather the point.

"Bonkers" is a single by Dizzee Rascal, from the album Tongue n’ Cheek, released 20th September 2009. The track is 2:58 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Dizzee Rascal.

About the Artist

Dizzee Rascal

Dizzee Rascal

Lyrics

Bonkers

I wake up everyday its a daydream
Everything in my life ain't what it seems
I wake up just to go back to sleep
I act real shallow but I'm in too deep
And all I care about is sex and violence
A heavy bass line is my kind of silence
Everybody says I got to get a grip
But I let sanity give me the slip

Some people think I'm bonkers
But I just think I'm free
Man I'm just living my life
There's nothing crazy about me
Some people pay for thrills
But I get mine for free
Man I'm just living my life
There's nothing crazy about me

Bonkers
I wake up everyday it's a daydream
Everything in my life ain't what it seems
I wake up just to go back to sleep
I act real shallow but I'm in too deep
And all I care about is sex and violence
A heavy bass line is my kind of silence

Everybody says I got to get a grip
But I let sanity give me the slip
(Bonkers)
Some people think I'm bonkers
But I just think I'm free
Man I'm just living my life
There's nothing crazy about me
Some people pay for thrills
But I get mine for free

Man I'm just living my life

There's nothing crazy about me
Mmmm... (Yeah! man), I'm melting in the floor now, (Floor now)
I wake up everyday its a daydream
Everything in my life isn't what it seems
I wake up just to go back to sleep
I act not shallow but I'm in too deep
And all I care about is sex and violence

A heavy bass line is my kind of silence

Everybody says I got to get a grip
But I let sanity give me the slip
Bon, bon, bon, bon, bon, bon, bon, bon
Some people think I'm bonkers
But I just think Im free
Man I'm just living my life
There's nothing crazy about me
Some people pay for thrills
But I get mine for free
Man I'm just living my life
There's nothing crazy about me

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Track details

From Tongue n’ Cheek

2:582009Single

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Album

Tongue n’ Cheek

21st September 2009

Track number

1

Release year

2009

1Bonkers
2:58
2Road Rage
3:15
3Dance Wiv Me (feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome)
3:24
4Freaky Freaky
3:42

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