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Saba

CALLIGRAPHY

Release date: 5th April 2018

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'Calligraphy' frames writing as both refuge and reckoning. Saba uses the metaphor of putting pen to paper to process grief, loss, and the weight of staying alive when those around him have not. The track moves between defiance and exhaustion: he does not write for sympathy or performance, but to move through what cannot be buried. Over sparse piano, he admits to struggling to get out of bed, to the presence of his best friend's obituary on his wall, to the difficulty of mourning on a schedule that demands productivity. The chorus pivots the image. Writing becomes a way of writing things away, of converting the people leaving and the pain accumulating into something he can control. It is less catharsis than endurance, less healing than the act of bearing witness to his own life on the page. The repetition of "write it away" suggests both the compulsion and the futility of the gesture, a loop he cannot quite break.

"CALLIGRAPHY" is a track by Saba, from the album CARE FOR ME, released 5th April 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

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Saba

Saba

Lyrics

CALLIGRAPHY

[Verse 1: Saba]

I don't tell the truth so y'all will feel sorry for me

I don't write this shit so y'all will feel God coming

I don't get down like that

Wrote the amount of raps just on a mission to find something

Calligraphy

Needed to feel, move to the beat of my drum

I don't mean kick and the snare

We cannot bury all of the fucked-up shit that we been through

While God keeping us here

We be aware, but only timing will tell

When you will find all your letters

Calligraphy

[Chorus: Saba]

Write it away, write it away

I just got tired of running away, running away

Everyone leaving, I write 'em away, write 'em away

Calligraphy

Write it away, write it away

I just got tired of running away, running away

Everyone leaving, I write 'em away, write 'em away

Calligraphy

[Verse 2: Saba]

I'm not mad at God, I just can't get out of bed

My best friend obituary really hang on my wall, by the dresser

I'm tryna see it a life lesson

No time for mourning on my schedule, I seem to write less

Calligraphy, yeah

Reading the signs like I'm a highway driver, I just hit blasé-blase

Hieroglyphic, I see the wall that they writing

I build a wall up in my head

Autopilot, what it felt like I was on, I sent the word out, flying

Calligraphy

[Chorus: Saba]

Ugh, write it away, write it away

I just got tired of running away, running away

Everyone leaving, I write 'em away, write 'em away

Calligraphy

Write it away, write it away

I just got tired of running away, running away

Everyone leaving, I write 'em away, write 'em away

Calligraphy

[Bridge: Saba, daedaePIVOT, & Daoud]

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run (Yeah)

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running (Run!)

Running, running, running, running (Run!)

Running, running, running, running (Run!)

[Outro: Saba]

I can't get out of bed

I'm not mad at God

But I can't get out of bed

Calligraphy

Write it away, running away

I just got tired of running away, running away

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    daedaePIVOT, Daoud, Saba
    Producer
    daedaePIVOT, Daoud, Saba
    Bass Guitar
    Cheflee
    Lead Vocals
    Saba
    Mixing Engineer
    Papi Beatz
    Trumpet
    HerbieOne
    Violin
    Satya Jimenez
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