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Smino

Amphetamine

Release date: 14th March 2017

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About This Track

The longest track on Smino's debut album 'blkswn', 'Amphetamine' runs just short of eight minutes and serves as the record's outro. The first half features Smino alone over production from Monte Booker, whilst the second half opens into a posse cut. The title drug becomes a metaphor for obsessive thought patterns, the kind that marinate and refuse to let go. Smino moves between stream-of-consciousness reflection and grief, the verses touching on the loss of someone close and the mechanisms, distraction, substances, a grounding relationship, that keep catastrophic introspection at bay. The production allows space for the lyric's recursive quality, cycles on cycles, the moonlight disrupting the day. There is a fragile optimism threaded through: the belief that making it through the night might be enough.

"Amphetamine" is a track by Smino, from the album blkswn, released 14th March 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Smino

Smino

Lyrics

Amphetamine

[Part I: Amphetamine]

[Chorus]

Moonlight disrupt the day

Been like this every night

Walking in stumbling

Fucked up some bread today

Though I said no no not this time

Cycles on cycles

It's like an amphetamine

How it marinate on my mind

Stuck on me, yah

Got no doubt I'll be alright

If I just make it through the night

[Verse]

Pass me the amphetamine

Right now can't focus on anything

Why they take lil' bro instead of me?

I hurt when you hurt, we was siamese

Niggas was seventeen, when I found out what that cheddar mean

Rats'll bite holes through the wall to get close

Watch for their trail, man they always be close

I'm a Back-a-wood roller, really a smoker

This louder than when you drive on the shoulder

Stomp on the gas 'til I'm blowin' the motor

Can't 'ford to sit with my thoughts or it's over

Really but luckily, I got a real one, she fuck wit me

Shawty, she yellow, yeah keep me on my toes, stay mellow

She deserve a fucking ring

[Bridge]

I'm off the sedatives

Amphetamine

I don't know where I'm headed

Don't know where I'm headed

Sedatives

Amphetamine

Sedatives

I don't know where I'm headed

Don't know where I'm headed

[Chorus]

Moonlight disrupt the day

Been like this every night

Walking in stumbling

Fucked up some bread today

Though I said no no not this time

Cycles on cycles

It's like an amphetamine

How it marinate on my mind

Stuck on me, yah

Got no doubt I'll be alright

If I just make it through the night

Moonlight disrupt the day

Been like this every night

Walking in stumbling

Fucked up some bread today

Though I said no no not this time

Cycles on cycles

It's like an amphetamine

How it marinate on my mind

Stuck on me, yah

Got no doubt I'll be alright

If I just make it through the night

[Bridge]

I'm off the sedatives

Amphetamine

I don't know where I'm headed

Don't know where I'm headed

Sedatives

Amphetamine

Sedatives

I don't know where I'm headed

Don't know where I'm headed

No

[Part II: Krash Kourse]

[Intro]

God damn, Phoe'

Swn, swn, swn, swn, swn

[Verse 1: Smino]

Ay, krash kourse into the world, this insular world

The culture vultures flock in every sense of the word

My nose can sniff the shit out but I'm never deterred

Never be scurred, scored through the downs, first and third

Grandaddy spittin, ain't nothing new bout the system

'Cause how they do me they did him

Appropriating the fellas, sucking the fruit from my elders

Don't give a Chuck bout no Berry, they rather listen to Elvis

Woah, mama, and these kids know better, uh

I'm grand like abuela, uh, more hands than Coachella, uh

Lil hoe it's whatever, uh

Shawty cold as December, I still fold her, no Manila

B-b-b-bear wit me, baby, I hibernate, smoke the lettuce

No niggas jammed off the reggie

Free all my dogs, fuck Cruella

Nigga need cream, vanilla, ele-vate

Coconut Beamer, oiled up, switching lanes

Chocolate interior, that's a bellyache

[Chorus: Bari]

I done went Murda Mike, on the may-a-ooo, uh

She on the payroll, he on the payroll

I want the queso, I want the caseload

She do what I say so, now

She fucked up, yeah, she might do the Fabo

Send that RIP, out yeah, and that shit for Shawty Lo

Back when I was broke I had to pour that Bacardi slow

Now I'm on the board, niggas salty like margaritas, ooh

I used to dream about the coupe, baby

Now I'm thinking bout when it was me and you, baby

Yeah, used to dream about the coupe, baby

Now I think of me and you

[Verse 2: Jean Deaux]

I don't know what's better, I won't say what's worse

Pen is like a needle when I bleed these words

I could make a blessing if I spit this verse

That's why I be retching 'til I rid my curse

Black it be the sweetest, secrecy up in the frequencies

That's why you feel the need to look at me like I'm a deity

Duality is key, you see, that I'm seein' you seein' me

So now we seeing equally, and that don't happen easily

Needlessly to say, I hate that we're meeting this way

Feel like I packed up to go 'bout a week ago, I don't know

If I switch up my flow I might tap into the pinnacles

I'm sellin' syllables, I'm losing principles

Lurkin', searching for miracles, hurtin' workmen, curtain closed

Earn a million dollars just to owe it to some imbeciles

If they tell me no, I be dumb, all I hear is go

Crossfire coming but I'm pigeon-toed, winter froze

[Chorus: Bari]

I done went Murda Mike, on the may-a-ooo, uh

She on the payroll, he on the payroll

I want the queso, I want the caseload

She do what I say so, now

She fucked up, yeah, she might do the Fabo

Send that RIP out yeah, and that shit for Shawty Lo

Back when I was broke I had to pour that Bacardi slow

Now I'm on the board, niggas salty like margaritas, ooh

I used to dream about the coupe, baby

Now I'm thinking bout when it was me and you, baby

Yeah, used to dream about the coupe, baby

Now I think of me and you

[Bridge: Smino]

Cunning linguistics, punishing puns

Pumping the petrol, gas in my lungs

Loving the low times, higher than a mug

Up in the cabinet

Imagine a baby reaching his hands up to grab it

A pipe done busted in heaven

And got to leaking out blessings

Reaching my hands up to grab it

Re'in my bands up, uh, uh

[Verse 3: Noname]

Sunny metropolis, overzealous as telefone

Telefone a new continent, maybe rode me a rocketship

Copper all on my dash, and he ticket that lady optimist

Said I'm moving too fast, slow down, slow down

Opened up for Lauryn Hill, woah now, woah now, woah now

Everything is everything and the object steady mystified

My allegories underneath the rock will only fear resides

I bet I'm gon' find it, I know I'm gon' find it

Happiness, bank account, white accountant, I found the fountain

I was born in all black, how could God denounce this?

I told Him, 'Give me my money, I need my money now'

Thank you Jesus, whoever you are

I know you gifted me the gift of gab and simile

And simpleness, the solitude is loneliness, been good to me

I told them, 'Give me my happy, I need my holy now'

Thank you Jesus, whoever you are

Thank you Jesus, whoever you are

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Track details

From blkswn

2017
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14th March 2017
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2017
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  10. —Innamission
  11. —Spitshine
  12. —Netflix & Dusse
  13. —Wild Irish Roses
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  15. —Amphetamine
  16. —blkswn
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