Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Teelow
Performer
The JC4Me Collective
Performer
Too Necessary
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tolu Awojobi
Songwriter
Anike Shontan
Songwriter
Giles Ship
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Teelow
Producer
Joe Johnson
Producer
Lyrics
So tell me one time
Who can you trust in the city? Who can you trust in the city?
I’m tryna get mine
Who can you trust in the city? Who can you trust in the city?
So tell me one time
Who can you trust in the city? Who can you trust in the city?
I’m tryna get mine
Who can you trust in the city? Who can you trust in the city?
I know Lord knows I’m tryna do something
JC4Me 10 years, I’m tryna keep the truth running
But I’m looking either side at who’s coming
I don’t see another one faithful to plug, just loose cables
I’m stuck, they create fables to affirm their existence
They distort real to gain a wide interest
In time witness them flip from us to own pride
When it comes down to it, they’ll only save their own hide
To go find the kind that know life
But don’t pimp is like looking into ghost eyes
Heathcliffe looking for peace on the moors
If indeed 7000 more didn’t betray the Lord
Where they at tho? The truth is
To survive in the city you gotta be ruthless or toothless
And everyone’s tryna climb these hills
Justify all their actions like a time to kill
You wanna see a dead body?
Faded by the city the walking blind
Trading in indifferent chime
Troubles on my mind
Breathing in relational turpentine
Drowning out the voices outside
You wanna see a dead body?
Hollow selfish pride is the spice of life
Leave your inhibitions behind
Troubles on my mind
High and lofty is the self paradigm
Smoke and mirrors cloud a hive mind
Everybody's confused in the city, you can see it
Bafuka na quench
Never going to the only one they're really needing
Bafuka na quench
On the brink of revolution and you can feel it
Bafuka na quench
Just living in a dead illusion, keep dreaming
Bafuka na quench
Sin has conditioned us to selfish ambition
It's clouded our vision, wishing that our hearts weren't in prison, listen
See it's a given that our sins our forgiven
But let's stop sitting in a neutral position
The cross of Christ, see it was only the start
Come on bro, let's not be daft and just remain in the dark
Remember Noah, he was saved in the ark
But that was surface, there was a purpose, was never worthless
What use are we if now we're no longer blind
But we continue to be unkind with a selfish mind
And we begin to leave others behind?
We must unwind from this lie guys and run right
We should follow He who knows where to go
Look at the love that He shows and all the grace He bestows
But instead we're self centred, the world's our reference
Like asking the blind for directions
You wanna see a dead body?
Faded by the city the walking blind
Trading in indifferent chime
Troubles on my mind
Breathing in relational turpentine
Drowning out the voices outside
You wanna see a dead body?
Hollow selfish pride is the spice of life
Leave your inhibitions behind
Troubles on my mind
High and lofty is the self paradigm
Written by: Anike Shontan, Giles Ship, Tolu Awojobi

