So Low-Sound of Rum

[ti:So Low] [ar:Sound of Rum] [al:Balance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]So Low - Sound of Rum [00:28.52]Obsessed with the carnivalesque and the grotesque [00:30.47]Then I stand on stage and talk the truth like I know best [00:32.69]It's hopeless [00:32.98]I try and take slow breaths [00:34.33]Some nights I get so wrecked [00:35.47]I'm destroying what I'm supposed to be employing [00:37.65]I know it ain't right but I keep on doing it [00:39.82]Is it pursuing me or is it me that is pursuing it [00:42.25]Move with the fluidity or momentary stupidity [00:44.58]The slow and steady was killing me [00:46.04]World was too slow [00:46.92]Now it's too rapid like the bits in the films [00:49.18]When the canoe turns the corner and you see through the hills [00:51.48]Falling water [00:52.05]Have our heroes been killed [00:53.25]We ride to our home-grown slaughter on the boats that we built [00:55.96]Some folks are hoping we will [00:57.19]Be lying broken and still [00:58.34]At the foot of them peaks we dared scaling [01:00.27]I'm scared but look [01:00.82]Failing's not an option [01:01.97]That's what sets me apart [01:03.10]My inner city is foul [01:04.07]But in the slum is a heart [01:05.40]That wants more [01:06.53]Those that strive for light [01:07.72]Are often those most attracted to the dark of the night [01:09.98]Sometimes all I wanna do is just start up a fight [01:12.47]But I don't [01:13.04]I drink wine by the pint and go home [01:14.83]With a conscience that bites and cold bones [01:16.81]Head keeps thumping [01:17.63]Saying punch me kiss me [01:19.02]Make me feel something [01:19.94]Cos tonight [01:20.65]I feel like I don't feel nothing [01:22.23]And the way that I am living is disgusting [01:24.45]Fortitude humility stability self-control [01:26.63]These are the qualities I want from my soul [01:28.96]How come I keep sinking so low [01:30.83]Given all the things that I know [01:32.45]You reap what you sow [01:33.61]Temperence humility stability self-control [01:36.06]These are the qualities I want from my soul [01:38.17]How come I keep sinking so low [01:40.16]I'm like the dregs in the bottle [01:41.55]The city's drinking me slow [01:43.18] [01:57.01]And the city the city the city [01:58.48] [02:01.19]I'm from a city where bodies get hacked up and hidden in suitcases [02:04.31]Where tramps lick grease off of the newspapers [02:06.30]That used to hold chips [02:07.28]And I'm sure that beauty exists [02:08.49]But I look around and I see concrete raising our kids [02:10.69]I'm from a city where sex sells and bodies sell sex [02:13.01]Drunks slump in stairwells and retch [02:15.32]And yes everybody's sheltering a hidden complex [02:17.63]No rest for the wicked cos the wicked don't rest [02:20.08]We're just vessels though [02:20.97]Carrying a very precious cargo [02:22.29]You need to keep watertight [02:23.28] [02:23.87]Weather the storms [02:24.63]Make sure we're moving on a relevant course [02:26.96]Make sure you're shipshape and that you're keeping what's stored [02:29.29]Safe and sound [02:30.00]It ain't mine [02:30.70]It was given me [02:31.72]All I'm trying to do is deliver the goods [02:33.41]And reach that final destination I am sailing towards [02:36.24]I only unload my cargo in the safest of ports [02:38.75]In the city it's hard though [02:40.03]Everything is so surface [02:41.02]So superficial so fake so belittling [02:43.31]Try and have the confidence to learn to do a different thing [02:45.91]Gets to me bad [02:46.84]That's why I leave the stage hit the drinks [02:48.34]We purge to pollute [02:49.24]Purify to make filthy [02:50.31]I know that I'm good cos when I'm bad I feel guilty [02:52.91]Outside the pub with a mouthful of blood [02:55.06]Thinking all I really need is someone to love [02:57.27]To look forward to [02:58.39]Temperance discipline self-control [02:59.78]These are the qualities I want from my soul [03:02.02]How come I keep sinking so low [03:04.02]Given all the things that I know [03:05.55]You reap what you sow [03:06.76]Temperence humility stability self-control [03:09.29]These are the qualities I want from my soul [03:11.41]How come I keep sinking so low [03:13.46]I'm like the dregs in the bottle [03:14.79]The city's drinking me slow [03:16.45]Outside the pub [03:17.53]Mouthful of blood [03:18.47]Thinking all I really need is someone to love [03:20.68]Outside the pub [03:21.65]Mouthful of blood [03:23.05]Thinking all I really need [03:25.75]Fortitude stability humility self-control [03:28.01]These are the qualities I want from my soul [03:30.02]How come I keep sinking so low [03:31.99]Given all the things that I know [03:33.57]You reap what you sow [03:34.67]Temperence honesty stability self-control [03:37.32]These are the qualities I want from my soul [03:39.36]How come I keep sinking so low [03:41.41]I'm like the dregs in the bottle [03:42.57]The dregs [03:43.02]The dregs in the bottle [03:43.72]The dregs