
Yard Act
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Rod Wave examines the precarity of young life in the streets over production from Tago and Mark Bankhead. The track moves between the rush to accumulate money and the constant proximity of death, a tension that runs through the entire piece. Wave's narrator is caught between ambition and survival, never certain whether he is moving forward or simply passing time. The verses catalogue the specific hazards of the environment: violence, disease, incarceration, addiction. Wave names cancer alongside gang retaliation, treating all threats with the same matter-of-fact dread. He recalls a friend's overdose and expresses a simple, urgent hope to reach adulthood alive and free. The chorus refrain "I've been roaming" captures the aimlessness beneath the surface activity, a life spent in motion without direction or rest.
"Roaming" is a track by Rod Wave, from the album Pray 4 Love, released 3rd April 2020. Full lyrics are available below.
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