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Brutalist

from Life's A Beach by Dekay

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I’ve got the type of eyes to see beauty in straight lines

Of power walks and rigamortis solid tower blocks that rise

Above the well converted mortgaged types

That’s not where I’d rather reside

No surprise

I’ve been different all my life/

I breathe the city’s fumes into my mind,

Walk this architecture blind skyscraper leave those gritty tombs behind

The low houses in identical rows with numbered signs

Give me some concrete under my toes I’ll run and climb/

Give me graffitied walls and bling that shines,

Tacky and glittering goals

Keep your clean cuts and bring that grime,

A sudden shock of an impression but I think that’s fine,

Rapping till listeners fold all their hearts around this thing that’s mine/

Never well polished, I like the faded the jaded my empathy is with those who ain’t made it

Who’ve been played and betrayed and lost greatness along the way shit

I feel your pain, now live again resuscitated/



(Hook)



We stand strong as they’re pressing for change

Get rearranged but the essence remains

It’s beautiful unusual I’m used to this

Unmovable like a block that’s brutalist




Smoke outside the cafe with snacks ordered

Pie and mash bought it

I need a hand to foot the bill no tipping that’s awkward

Chatting to my mates about another track sorted

Looking in your business like it was a tax audit/

Not gossip just events on the pavement

We know the dealers on the benches and their parents that raised them

Feeling lucky to be renting in this central location

But they want London for the rich and so I’m meant to be saving/

Working hard so fuck the people saying end immigration

We’re all mixed into a culture that’s cemented this nation

We don’t even see your colour just the ends you was placed in

Do the mental equations before you’re sent to the station/

The government ain’t there to give you any representation

Take a look at their expenditures expensive occasions

As they raise the taxes we should be presenting a statement

To prevent legislation that leads to gentrification/



Hook



They’re taking, what’s mine

We’re changing, in time,

They’ll take it, it’s fine

But they’ll never get inside my way of life

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from Life's A Beach, released August 6, 2021
Written by Dekay

Produced by Dean Garon

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Dekay is an underground rapper from London, England, who has been writing, battling and freestyling for the last twenty years.

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