Mind Notes Pt.15 LYONS x SNOOK

These are some unreleased songs I worked on with SNOOK aka Mr.OK for an EP that we were supposed to release in early 2000's.

SNOOK is a great producer and MC with some cool flows.

The EP features SNOOK's longtime friend 'TVR' from London.

We also previously did a single called 'Stars' with our friend from Swaziland 'David Scribbles'.

All songs produced by SNOOK aka Mr.OK.

'Looking Back'

Pen pen

I'm penning verses

I never stop speaking

Until I'm dead in hearses

This world absurd

Forget bees and birds

We running around in the system

Where streets wars occur

It seems like

The truths are never heard

Instead the plot thickens

And the porridge is stirred

Which pudding do you prefer

The proof is in the words

But the money got us twisted

Now our vision is blurred

Third world

Thats's where it's gully at

No time for stunting man

No time for dummy chat

They trying to get their tummy fat

You watching on your iMac

CNN

Sky news

Twisted views

Reporting that

So check the map

I'm mapping home truths

We need a world peace treaty

World wide truce

Because the real truth

If everybody want to live

Everybody got to give

Only way to save the kids

'Hands Up'

Ride for my city
Ride for my team
Keep the loved one's close
Sidestep the scene
Mean faces get lean
The streets are far from clean
Fiends on the block
Things are not what they seem
Am I awake
Or am I really dreaming
Because it's seeming
That this world
That's spinning around
Is full of demons
Disbelieving that these heathens
Took our land and let us die
Gunpowder power rules
Money making alibis
So I stay like sellotape
Stick to my people
Keep it local
Keep on learning
Keep on thinking
Keep the peace
Through words and vocals
The universe don't make mistakes
That's why we're all here
We've got to feel grateful
Every year's a good year
Overstand that hate
Is always hand in hand with fear
So we rap it up with love
And watch it disappear
The pen becomes the sword
And knowledge is the key
The powers in the people
We can set us free!

'Look' Featuring TVR

Lift up your hands

Because this ain't no joke

Because we roll with real people

And we roll with real folks

Look Look

They say it's murder we wrote

Because we came through rolling

With the murderous flow

We wake up

And our vision is clear

Give thanks to the universe

We still right here

So we fix up

And turn the keyboard on

We got to twist another rhythm

Got to make another song

The old legends was great

So we finding inspiration

For the new dub plates

Sample the keyboard

Let the kick drums play

Put the filter on the guitar

Put the skank in the bass

Now we rolling again

We feel the brotherly love

Between the family friends

As I scribble down verses

With my KC pen

I feel the rhythm in my veins

I feel my heart pumping

I'm a young old man

Born and raised on the reggae

With the Marley fam'

Black Irishman

Born in London town

But from Kingston Jamaica

Where I'm feeling the sound

'In My City' Featuring TVR

Interstellar thought patterns

Dodging black holes

Dark matter

Light travels

E.T. phone home

Home ain't heaven

Running around roads

Skyscraper

Night vision

Grey clouds

Keep hope

Hope

Keep faith

Keep love

Never give up

Stay strong

Never stop striving

Move quick

Think fast

Get in line

With the arrow of time

Universal timing

Through the mist of abyss

It's hard to see

Now our visions are clouded

By fallacy

Because pennies make pounds

Pounds make sounds

Now money keeps talking

Currency

See it's real to me

Through my mind

And my optics

I can see

This life is slowly killing me

I'm just trying to breathe

Breathe

'Roadz'

I ain't no silly billy

Always clocking the angles

Live in the city

Like a zoo

I'm seeing hungry animals

I'm seeing hungry cannibals

They ain't counting calories here

Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Man get eaten

That's a standard here

So I twist my ear

I'm listening

To see what's really good

Trying to keep up

With the current trend

And find what's good in the hood

Because I see

A lot of love in the hood

But I see

A lot of beef in the hood

You could rise

To the highest heights

Or you could loose your life

In the hood

So we do what's good

And keep on moving

Day to day to day

They say it's ride or die

So crown me as a rider mate

Crown me a survivor mate

And make sure to save me a plate

I'm feeling hungry

Hungry appetite up inside of me

Skip the one two

Skip the four

Skip the eight

I need sixteen more

In fact scratch that

Give me a thirty two

The beat is raw

Give me a thousand bars

And I'll keep going

Until the dawn

Until my people free

It's people power through my jaws

'Stars' Featuring David Scribbles

Unleash the lions

Because I'm ready for a fight

Fight for peace and love

And you know I'm right

Because the systems see through

We all born equal

But treat some of us like animals

And others like people

Every man needs a place

He can feel at home

And every woman needs a place

She can call her own

But they leave us all alone

Hung out to dry

And they couldn't care less

If we perish and die

So we try but we cry

Because the odds are stacked

We keep getting knocked down

But we always come back

Because they can take our freedom

Can't take our spirits

You own your own skin

And your heart beats in it

Your soul has no limits

So know who you are

You are your own God

You are your own star

Universe turns

Burn bright

Kaleidoscope colours

Search for peace and love

For lost sisters and brothers 

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!