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Bones (feat. Marc Nammour)

from Louverture by Sorg & Napoleon Maddox

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lyrics

Might fail you
Who gone tell you
Pause and help you
All the gems you ought to (2x)
(Chorus)
Bones buried in the earth might fail you
If you don’t know then who got tell you?
Not the work of the merchants to pause and help you nor dig up for self all the gems you ought to
(2x)
(Verse 1)
You Wanting bread or grain
Or land or strain
Where you can invest now
And later on exchange
They saying service made
for the sovereign nation
Like stacking their bank is our preoccupation While we losing patience
With the crew we came Jewels we lose is us
And they quick to take it Quick to strip us naked
Like back to the slave ship Back to chains and whips And it’s a shame to see that we still trip over shit,
like chains and whips Envision if
We could delay gratification And stack our bricks
And build our nation
Ignore the risk of prison facing
For the opening move toward liberation
Louverture Toussaint our Saint and patron
On the chess board of life with the moves we making
Bones buried in the earth might fail you
If you don’t know then who got tell you
Not the work of the merchants to pause and help you nor dig up for self all the gems you ought to (2x) Might fail you
Who gone tell you
Pause and help you
All the gems you ought to
(2x)
(Verse 2 - Marc Nammour)
L’élite se méfie du fruit de mon introspection
Pour elle faut surtout pas que j’me pose trop d’question
Ne rester qu’en surface empêche la progression
Ce n’est qu’au fond des choses que s’envisage la projection
J’ai du sonder mes larmes pour y trouver d’la poésie J’ai du creuser les heures pour déjouer la prophétie Ausculter l’âme humaine pour démasquer sa comédie Quand le mensonge étouffe la vérité de nos récits
Apprendre à puiser la lumière dans les abîmes Devoir plonger dans le noir pour faire briller la rime Explorer ses recoins que mon cerveau se réanime Ici la face cachée de notre histoire est unanime
C’est en sous sol que s’est construit la répartie
Deux platines un micro et l’horizon s’est élargit
Des bataillons de 16 mesures pour seule thérapie Cette musique de sauvageon m’a sauvé de la léthargie
J’ai passé l’âge de m’demander c’est quoi les bails
Me faire mener par le bout du nez comme du foutu bétail J’ai passé l’âge de m’embourber dans des petits détails J’ai ce besoin de cohérence pour colmater mes failles
Poum poum c’est l’impulsion des battements de mon coeur La seule cadence valable à respecter sur la longueur
Si j’évolue dans l’ombre quand la plupart en ont peur
C’est parce que pour m’élever j’dois descendre en profondeur
Might fail you
Who gone tell you
Pause and help you
All the gems you ought to
(Chorus)
Might fail you
Who gone tell you
Pause and help you
All the gems you ought to (4x)

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from Louverture, released November 18, 2022

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Sorg & Napoleon Maddox Besançon, France

The France-American Hip-hop duo is back with a new album "LOUVERTURE", a black history salute to the great revolutionary Haitian general Toussaint Louverture. The texts of Napoleon Maddox are engaged as always, giving voice to the disenfranchised to match the well-crafted, imaginative soundscapes of Sorg, the French beatmaker. ... more

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