Blanket-Urban Species

[00:00.59]Emotionless the city lies [00:07.63]Cruel it is, it clouds my eyes [00:14.20]The dull, the dark shades on my day [00:18.89]I live inside this place [00:27.02]Locked up inside my metal cage [00:34.21]Always tense and filled with rage [00:40.58]Above the concrete fields below [00:45.45]With you I wanna go, wanna go [00:50.19]Music is my sanctuary [00:51.45]Music is my blanket [00:53.18]I see only what I wanna see [01:00.46]I'll be only what I wanna be [01:11.69]My blanket covers me yeah [01:15.34] [01:16.85]Yeah, check it [01:19.48]Now as a yout man I was body poppin breakin on the lino [01:23.12]Traded in my lino for a pad and a biro [01:26.41]Used to stand in line just so as I could sign my giro [01:29.84]But now my ends meet in the best way that I know [01:33.04](Hat, snare, kick) and the beats that go boom [01:36.43]See the music I consume to escape the doom and gloom [01:39.42]All the beats and melodies keep realities at bay [01:42.81]But what happens when the records done and starts to fade away [01:45.89]Fade away [01:46.84]Alone within myself again [01:52.08]I try to veil away my pain [02:00.12]The dirty grey surrounding me 'round [02:05.07]And now I hear no sound... [02:08.57] [02:13.17]I feel like Melle Mel from way back in the days [02:15.85]As I wonder how I keep from going under [02:18.28]I got trouble on my mind like my name is Chuck D [02:22.44]And like Marvin Gaye it makes me want to holler [02:25.54]When the music hits me I feel no pain [02:28.87]That's why I got to put you on again and again [02:32.21]I take the needle off the technics and put it in my vein [02:35.76]All my troubles get crushed as the rush hits my brain [02:39.15]And away goes trouble down the drain. I see only what I wanna see [02:47.02]I be only who I wanna be [02:57.93] [02:58.34]My blanket covers me [03:02.99]Music is my sanctuary [03:04.21]Music is my blanket [03:06.43]I see only what I wanna see [03:13.31]I be only who I wanna be [03:24.63]My blanket covers me [03:29.49]Music is my sanctuary [03:30.60]Music is my blanket [04:00.19]You are my living world [04:06.52]You are my living world [04:13.14]You are you are you are my [04:16.88]My only living world