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Tarnished Lyrics by Dälek

Abandoned Language

2007

[Verse 1 (Muffled)]
Adapt to daylight that breaks over roofs on horizon
Split chest to concrete to clear sinus
Letters curve like true writers
Respect due to Phase 2
Bombs grew from angst of knuckled fighters
The ones who fell in urban combat
The ones who never cared to adapt
The ones in life who always felt trapped
The ones who made a real impact
The ones who molded exactly where these thought sat
Verses amplified acoustically through wires
Makes perfect sense in mind with liquored virus
It all makes sense when mind's on liquored virus
Traveled under soil with Osiris
Birth and death of modern world on the Tigris
Why fight this?
Okt, nigga, why you even mic this?
Most the rest of world don't even like us
Ink flow from pen to raw papyrus
Twelve straight hours doing work ain't even tired
Tried and hung from sycamore
Cause I attempt to play Picasso for the poor
No one wants to hear this lion's roar
No one wants to hear a lion's roar
Attempts on life are insured
With truths I spit on tours
Bourgie motherfuckers expect us on all fours
Use brute force when I need to underscore
The perfect paragraph always hit block raw
Hits, blocks, raw

[Chorus]
Endure the everyday, remain tarnished
Truth is all tarnished
Corner stoops is all tarnished
Even when it's strength we try to harness
My mental stay tarnished
The way we act on streets is all tarnished
Even when we meek we still tarnished
All the words we speak is mad tarnished
The core of man tarnished

[Verse 2 (Muffled)]
They say at best we tamed savage
This train of thought kept collective souls all ravished
Raised a weary fist to catch my breath above the gutter
Gave away our hope and dignity as not to smother
We still suffer!
Tragedy at times results in stutter
Stability off-kilter
Resist within oppression
The struggle is our weapon
Perhaps this is the blessing
Existence as the lesson
Ink flow from pen to raw papyrus
Twelve straight hours doing work ain't even tired
Tried and hung from sycamore
Cause I attempt to play Picasso for the poor
No one wants to hear this lion's roar
No one wants to hear a lion's roar
Attempts on life are insured
With truths I spit on tours
Bourgie muthafukas expect us on all fours
No need to mention where we is or where we at
Instead I reminisce on all my peoples that we lost, black
The ones who molded exactly where these thought sat
The ones who taught me how to act
The ones who fell in urban combat
The ones who never cared to adapt
The ones in life who always felt trapped
The ones who made a real impact
The ones who had the qualities your average man lacks
Commit their memories to wax
In fact, commit their very tarnished essence to the core of this track

[Chorus]
Endure the everyday, remain tarnished
Truth is all tarnished
Corner stoops is all tarnished
Even when it's strength we try to harness
My mental stay tarnished
The way we act on streets is all tarnished
Even when we meek we still tarnished
All the words we speak is mad tarnished
The core of man tarnished
Endure the everyday, remain tarnished
Truth is all tarnished
Corner stoops is all tarnished
Even when it's strength we try to harness
My mental stay tarnished
The way we act on streets is all tarnished
Even when we meek we still tarnished
All the words we speak is mad tarnished
The core of man tarnished
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Dälek

Dälek

About “Tarnished” by Dälek

Read the complete lyrics to "Tarnished" by Dälek from the album "Abandoned Language" in 2007. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Experimental Rap, Abstract Rap, Experimental.

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"Tarnished" is credited to Dälek. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Tarnished" appears on "Abandoned Language" in 2007.

Visit the Dälek artist page at /artist/dalek for biography, popular tracks, and links to more lyric pages.

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