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feat. Morgan​-​Paige & Michael Go - VIBANDA

from HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING by Backxwash

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VIBANDA (05:45)—pronounced VE-VAN-DA, Nyanja to English: “Spirits”

lyrics

[INTRO: CHOIRS]

[HOOK]
I confess,
I’m a mess,
I'm a dog,
I'm a pest,
I need help,
I'm possessed,
I need sess
I need sess
I should gather all my demons,
I feel blessed, for no reason,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me

I'm a mess,
What is stress?
What is peace,
What is death,
What is love,
What is death?
Nothing left
Nothing left
I should gather all my demons,
I feel blessed for no reason,
I feel blessed lord forgive me,
I feel blessed lord forgive me

[VERSE 1]
Let it be known if there’s ever death in these poems,
I’m settling the onus on with perfect performance,
Settle the score like Lector & co
And it’s like leather to Jaw with metal & saws


Tragedy that is Hamlet,
Anxiety choosing it’s part,
The safdies with the adam,
Grab our knees in the tandem,
Aphrodisia springs,
As I vanish clean into blackness,
If Adam & Eve could imagine,
A plan to leave when it happened

As angel Gabriel holds me
And keeps me close to the heavens,
Think “This moment is perfect”,
Seek the lord for repentance,
Creeks are opening and closing
I see the form of the temptress,
Will Jehova respect this
Or clip my rosary necklace?

Peep my oxygen levels
I’m tryna reach for the clouds,
And I can’t breathe through my mouth,
And I go limp to the ground,
They said they found me choked while sound asleep on the couch,
When the, the lord is close to the brokenhearted

[HOOK]
I confess,
I’m a mess,
I'm a dog,
I'm a pest,
I need help,
I'm possessed,
I need sess
I need sess
I should gather all my demons,
I feel blessed, for no reason,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me

I'm a mess,
What is stress?
What is peace,
What is death,
What is love,
What is death?
Nothing left
Nothing left
I should gather all my demons,
I feel blessed for no reason,
I feel blessed lord forgive me,
I feel blessed lord forgive me

[VERSE 2]
To be young and so innocent,
You think love is so imminent,
Ones that you’re close,
In the end you suffer the most,
The butter the toast,
The tears from the hunger that grows,
A punch in the throat,
The second that you happened to cope.

So when my ( ) touched me
I didn't believe it,
I still keep it a secret,
Blinked as I heaved at the ceiling
Last words to my granny,
Didn't even mean it,
I sit wishing she treated me
How I need to be treated

So maybe i’ll met her in heaven
And speak of these feelings,
Though my descent will be Hellish,
Highway 6 in a chariot,
The finest steed for the hellion,
Hyperspeed as it bellows,
Fuck the need for the help
Cause it’s what I did to myself

Put the bow on the casket,
Decompose into blackness,
Figaro,
The trumpets and hymns below,
The sycamores,
All Begin to Grow in the winter snow,
They shine and glisten gold,
Osiris bring me home,
Skin and bones

[HOOK X2]
I confess,
I’m a mess,
I'm a dog,
I'm a pest,
I need help,
I'm possessed,
I need sess,
I need sess
I should gather all my demons,
I feel blessed, for no reason,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me,
I feel blessed, lord forgive me

I'm a mess,
What is stress,
What is peace,
What is death,
What is love,
What is death?
Nothing left,
Nothing left
This is part of all my demons,
I feel blessed for no reason,
I feel blessed lord forgive me,
I feel blessed lord forgive me

[OUTRO: Morgan-Paige on vocals and piano]

credits

from HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING, released October 31, 2022
Produced and Performed by Backxwash, Featuring Morgan-Paige on guest vocals and piano [outro], and Featuring Michael Go on guitar, Mixed by Will Owen Bennett, Mastered by Richard Addison / Trillium Sound Mastering, Main vocals recorded in Montreal by Chachi Revah

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