Basement-Bastille/F. Strokes/F-U-G-Z

[ti:Basement] [ar:Bastille/F. Strokes/F-U-G-Z] [al:Other People's Heartache Pt.2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Basement - Bastille/F. Strokes/F-U-G-Z [00:10.86]Greyhound Megabus clothes in a plastic bag [00:13.72]From shelter to shelter [00:14.97]Six kids with no dad [00:16.48]She left the city for a better life [00:18.62]Ran to a small town where the population was mostly white [00:21.86]Racial undertones trying to get back home [00:24.21]With barely enough to keep shirts on my backbone [00:27.07]Now ain't this real life [00:28.19]Numb to what pain feel like [00:29.80]Demons knocking like the sound of steel pipes [00:31.92]Same lady who gave birth [00:33.70]Never left my hometown [00:35.24]But she the reason I travelled the earth [00:37.80]Locked the door my uncle's going through her purse [00:40.07]Wake your brother up they're giving free meals at church [00:42.57]And I can't justify [00:44.31]How my day could black your eye [00:46.25]Now my sister can't trust a guy [00:48.33]We never had much [00:49.70]But we had us [00:50.74]And my brother found home in a pair of handcuffs [00:55.93]How am I gonna get myself back home [01:00.24]Ayyyyy ayyyyy I [01:06.71]The sound of bullets bounce as I write raps in the kitchen [01:09.35]Daddy in a cell trying to hold his ambition [01:11.93]Witness the transition from a boy to a martyr [01:14.72]Sell d**e but go to school to be a barber [01:17.40]The ghetto's like a prison [01:18.99]You locked but you still living [01:20.79]Barely breathing up until if you're leaving [01:23.21]But home is where the hate is [01:24.83]And my cousin ain't thirty yet [01:26.34]But she's got eight kids [01:28.21]Half look up to me [01:29.34]But the other half [01:30.35]Rarely f**k with me [01:31.37]'Cause apparently [01:32.54]They think I see myself as better [01:34.36]I see my songs as simply therapy [01:36.31]Now let's go back to that whole Greyhound bus bit [01:38.82]Mama worked there for old white folks wiping up sh*t [01:41.73]Tryna save ships [01:43.00]Now close your eyes and envision [01:45.34]How she turned a bus ride [01:48.30]Into a spaceship [01:49.29]How am I gonna get myself back home [01:53.62]Ayyyyyy ayyyyy I [01:59.33]Oh [02:00.00]How am I gonna get myself back home [02:04.26]Ayyyyyy ayyyyy I [02:11.36]My home is comprised of many elements [02:13.96]Grandaddy was a junkie and [02:15.32]Found home in a needle filled with daily medicine [02:18.83]Home is far less based on physicality [02:21.83]But embracing the mentality [02:23.02]That you can turn even the harshest [02:24.75]Conditions into an optimistic galaxy [02:28.41]Come home daddy [02:29.88]It's okay now [02:31.52]All the tears are dried up mama's in a better place now [02:35.06]No guns unless they're video games [02:37.83]And if you don't deside [02:38.88]To sex rock and roll and c*****e [02:41.49]Come home [03:01.43]Ahhhhhyyyyyy ohh [03:04.03]How am I gonna get myself back home [03:08.55]Ayyyyy ayyyyyy I [03:14.63]How am I gonna get myself back home [03:18.98]Ayyyyy ayyyyy I [03:26.00]From the basement [03:28.69]To the ceiling [03:30.69]Going back home [03:32.72]To replace this feeling [03:36.69]From the basement [03:39.36]To the ceiling [03:41.34]Going back home [03:43.32]To replace this feeling