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Verse one
Big fish, big fried snapper
This aint just bars, this aint just a beach
This is how we harvest; this is how we eat
The race aint for the swift, but those who can endure
And generally speaking, the powers in the poor
From pineal to the floor, the blossom to the soil
The earth to the oil no wonder they call us crude so,
Let the spring showers wash away your doubts
We are made for the earth like words are made for the mouth
Like keys are made for the house, like keys made from the ounce
Like keys making the sound, we kiki then we bounce
We easy with it, all the gold we’re gonna leave with it
Let them easy with it, only the real illuminate
So let the lunar moon in June fully illuminate the place
Not even a reason to question what we’re serving on the plate

Chorus
Big fish, wow wow wo
We are big fish, yea yea yea
We are big fish, oh no
We won’t fit inside your cage



Verse two
Ring alarm, I think I got a plan
I got some roast pork spun in the back of the bully van
Ting a ling a ling, school bell a ring
Come use your knife and fork and fight for this ting
I got a call from the spirits homie
I hear the greatest love ain’t crack Whitney
Loving yourself is the one true act homie
I said God damn, I better get the app homie
But it come in like the devil love my back homie
They said that’s menalin, you got a lot of black homie
Let it tweak through the spinal tap in your back homie
I said who is this, they said this is Tupac homie, you hear me
To who much is given much is tested, I had sacrifice my lack of pride and broken spirit
Take back my power from the parasites and pillages
Go where the people is and let us feast amongst the fish with all the villagers, big fish

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from tantil before i breathe, released March 17, 2017
Produced by Wayne Lotek, co-produced by Speech Debelle
Contains a sample from the movie Babylon 1980 ©
Written by C.Elliott and W.Bennet

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Corynne Elliot, AKA Speech Debelle, kicked in the music industry’s backdoor in 2009, waving her sensitive, introspective Mercury Prize ‘British Album of the Year’ and debut album ‘Speech Therapy’, beating the likes of Florence and the Machine, Kasabian and La Roux. Her 2012 Kwes-produced sophomore album ‘Freedom Of Speech’ and her 3rd album in 2017 "Tantil Before I Breathe" ... more

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