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Minds on a Thread
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Hip-Hop/Rap
Minds on a Thread was released on May 29, 2025 by Independent as a part of the album I'm Dealing with Problems.
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Release DateMay 29, 2025
LabelIndependent
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Toby From 59th
Toby From 59th
Lead Vocals
Zer0 AM
Zer0 AM
Lead Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tumelo Lesie
Tumelo Lesie
Composer, Lyrics
Oratile Aobakwe Mofokeng
Oratile Aobakwe Mofokeng
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Oratile Aobakwe Mofokeng
Oratile Aobakwe Mofokeng
Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer, Producer

Lyrics

Time and time again
I'll keep my mind on a thread
I'm over it
I'll move away
I'm scared I'll laugh til' it's gone
I don't want to be alone
Will I remain
Oh can't I stay
It's not like we were born in the 80s melanin babies
It wasn't really amusement but amusing that payed me
Any given attention, tension anti-persuasive
So we hid all of the frowns denounced in aunty abetting
Kindly obliged, obeyed but we never denied
Outside we play but were never inside
On any day because we hated our lives
Sometimes if felt like we were chased by the lights
Gave anything for just a piece of delight
Given the time, we thought that we were blind until we opened our eyes
Times it felt like we were chasing the sky
Thought ambition was a pretty disguise
They called me lazy cause I wouldn't conform, I couldn't confide
The pressures that were top of my mind
I'm stressing daily but they can't see me cry
Resilience would help me weather the storm
My brilliance was simply one of a kind
My genius was just the garment we worn
It's seeming-less because I'm losing my mind
I'm not the person that you think they adore
Sooner or later we were learning to lie
Exaggerating every piece of the lore
Before we knew it we were learning to hide
At any sign of any problem I'm gone
Couldn't decide, I'd call it a night
Or face the bull and grab it right by the horns
All l wanted was a rose and a smile
They never told me that it came with the thorns
My arrogance was simply nothing to mind
My confidence was only there to perform
My stubbornness would tell me there if I'm right
My carelessness would stop me dropping a song
Touching less cause it was gathering flies
If nothing's left I hope the music is on
I'm talking less I have a fear of replies
If nothing's left I hope you're playing this song
Nothing's left I hope you're playing the song
Yea and I
But threads break eventually, and friends stay preferably
And goal's stay Peripheral and songs stay eternities
But we don't make time to waste time but same time
You don't make time, so say time could say uhm
It's a day gone, life gone before you got a bygone
I didn't know, I begrudge myself cause why not?
I got 99 problems and I'm every single issue
I don't cry, don't need tissue
I'm alive, it's unofficial
Felt alone so long my log got disrespectful
Every time I got a call it wasn't nothing sentimental
It was when you gon' into
All the stuff your peers is into
I mean music stuff is cool but boyzen do you have credentials?
Sometimes I buy it too
More often than you'd assume
It's 2023 and it's still been labourless fruit
I love my neighbour but you?
It's unconditional
I want you to love me too
I'd give you up my days for you
I need my cousin back, she needs to see me produce
She's showing up in my dreams and waking me up for proof
You ever seen a death and thought maybe it should've been you
GOD don't make mistakes but that don't mean the same for you
Everywhere I go it's elephants in the room
Skeletons in the closet, the dresser, the cupboard too
Common denominator I guess it got to be true
The song's gon take you nowhere but 30 in daddy's room
My girlfriend almost left me cause I'm not emotional
Rather I don't show it well enough for us to know we're cool
I think I might have anxiety but I'm approachable
I think I would read more Bible if it had colloquial
Been a bit more wary of people on podiums
Appropriation is only what I find colonial
They conversate to fight and never to get a long
Other side these white dudes mad like they're not provoking you
Edison in my veins, drums inside my ear
Found medicine in my pain, and salt inside my tears
Found it hard to stay away but harder to disappear
All I want you to know is I'ma always be here
For you
Time and time again
I'll keep my mind on a thread
I'm over it
I'll move away
I'm scared I'll laugh til' it's gone
I don't want to be alone
Will I remain
Oh can't I stay
Written by: Oratile Aobakwe Mofokeng, Tumelo Lesie
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