Tierney Terrace-Loyle Carner

[00:00.00]Tierney Terrace -Loyle Carner [00:09.670]Written by ：Loyle Carner [00:19.356]Uh I keep my ear to the door holding my brother close [00:22.488]He knows I love him most [00:23.797]My heart beating I can feel it from his f**king pulse [00:26.205]Seeing my mother rose froze love of something slows [00:28.700]Woes decompose muddy clothes and a runny nose [00:31.190]Flows we're shivering she mistakes it for giggling [00:33.404]Mother quivering hopping out the seat that she's sitting in [00:36.236]Living in the last few weeks keeping it diligent [00:38.650]It's calm under my arm I be popping the ritalin [00:41.228]To keep it smooth [00:42.275]Self medicating to keep me loose [00:44.85]I needed proof needed see it to believe it's true [00:46.504]I needed you but you're the one that I was grieving to [00:48.840]And now you're leaving [00:49.434]Deep in the evening that we were sleeping through [00:51.679]So what are we to do but move with the setting sun [00:54.253]Uh you know I love you like a second mum [00:56.966]Love you for better from now 'til whenever [00:58.912]Want the family together I promise you 'imma get it done [01:01.940]Trust 'cos all I wanted was a f**king man [01:04.535]To tell the f**king truth hold my f**king hand [01:07.293]Uh to guide me through the darkness when the others ran [01:09.623]Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand [01:12.159]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [01:14.567]Uh now every time that motherf**ker ran [01:17.290]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [01:21.317]Uh 'cos every afternoon after school [01:23.755]Or at 530if it was after basketball [01:26.384]They'd be waiting up at the gate with an article [01:28.478]They picked up on the way down [01:29.892]And read it to me the second we were leaving the playground [01:32.397]That grey sound never stop until we're forced to stop [01:34.720]Corner shop buying fruit and veg nah of course we're not [01:37.818]Just a couple steady snacks for the journey heading back [01:40.574]Full of the sugar so our teeth yes of course they rot [01:42.971]Sit for hours sun thunderstorm or showers [01:45.42]In that same living room watching the bloom turn to flowers [01:47.705]The night was ours [01:48.912]Superpowers and all [01:50.203]We were zapping out the window and watching the cowards fall [01:52.552]Had it all [01:53.470]Powerful making me tower tall [01:55.224]Bountiful from something so small [01:58.249]So I'd rather take the fall and brawl [02:00.165]Before I drowned in what I found so cruel [02:12.376]Sitting and sipping whiskey like my grandad did [02:15.188]Trying to like the life that my grandad lived [02:17.322]'Cos when the black man slipped into the darkness [02:19.458]And the black man dipped [02:20.534]It didn't matter had that love I left my grandad with [02:23.86]Sip brandy like my grandma do [02:25.348]Trying to like the life that my nan told true [02:27.589]'Cos if I run from you she'd hold my hands [02:29.442]Until my hands turn blue [02:30.656]So I pursue the new thinking 'bout the man they grew because [02:33.913]Trust 'cos all I wanted was a f**king man [02:36.476]To tell the f**king truth hold my f**king hand [02:39.14]Uh to guide me through the darkness when the others ran [02:41.146]Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand [02:43.962]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [02:46.773]Uh now every time that motherf**ker ran [02:49.229]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [02:52.278]Trust 'cos all I wanted was a f**king man [02:54.357]Trust 'cos all I wanted was a f**king man [02:56.946]To tell the f**king truth hold my f**king hand [02:59.490]Uh to guide me through the darkness when the others ran [03:01.865]Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand [03:04.434]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [03:07.22]Uh now every time that motherf**ker ran [03:09.580]I didn't understand stand didn't understand [03:12.139]Uh now believe me I need a f**king man