K'naan Voices In My Head Lyrics

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Chorus
Poison in my veins, inside I'm torturing my brains
And still I try, ai ai ai
Voices in my head, am I alive or am I dead
Alone I cry, ai ai ai

Verse 1
Consider, configure the s___ that I'm in
And the pain, I'm literally going insane
I'm frightened, my heart and my head I've been fighting
I'm certain, it's hurting the rest of my body
Them voices as loud as Manhattan come from chatting
They say, Anderson let us in
You know you better than all a these
Replicates screaming they represent
Come on man, come on
And the people, inside me saying, they wanna see me go tragically
And it's evil, cuz I'm only twenty something
Working for some crumbs and some bread or nothing

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Verse 2
The harder the struggle, the deeper the trouble
Come out of the bubble, I'll teach you to cuddle
With demons inside me, what demon is not me
These demons inside me, they got me, they stop me from sleeping
And eatin and keepin it even
And even my reason for breathin this season
Slee in a danger, my nose when I'm readin
It's bleedin on paper, it's bleedin on paper
And I'm tired of this violence, so tortured inside
Any awkward, I'm overtly open inside
Have I already died?
Has mom already cried?
And why do I feel like I'm over this life
I'm not hateful, I'm grateful
My girlfriend is tasteful
I'm living it up, and I might even blow
Like a leak in a truck, wit a torch and a clutch
And explosion that leaves the corpses in the dust
And the people, inside me saying, they wanna see me go tragically
And it's evil, cuz I'm only twenty something
Working for some crumbs and some bread or nothing

Chorus

Verse 2
I'm still awake, and its quarter to six
I'm trying to write and I ain't thought of no shhh
I live with guilt like I slaughtered the sick
I live with shame, like my daughter a b____
I don't make living but I still persist
I could sell out but I still resist
So don't tell me about no pain and s___
I was born and raised in poverty b____
And I smile all the while and don't complain
I'm something like Jill scott heroine
Do you know what it feels like to lose a friend
Again and again and again, again
The bitterness in the killer the poet
The river of blood within the mess flowin
I'm the bitterness in the killer, the poet
The river, the blood will keep on flowin
People inside me say, the wanna see me go on tragically
And it's evil, it's evil, cuz im only twenty something years old
Working for a crumb or some bread or nothing

Repeat Chorus till fade