Deva Mahal - Snakes

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KEXP

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Deva Mahal - Snakes - from the 2018 album Run Deep on Motema Music.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, yeah, whoa, oh,
0:06.1	hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey,
0:09.0	oh, oh,
0:12.1	slithers iner like a snake in the grey.
0:16.0	A wolf in sheets clothing with words made of glass.
0:22.0	Criped up on the wall.
0:28.0	Who didn't prepare me for how happy I would for and I say
0:34.3	Oo, step on the scene, don't you know what it's on me.
0:40.0	O'o, court in between, don't you know your brass sing be.
0:45.0	Ooh, girl, step on the scene, don't you know your word is on me?
0:51.0	Ooh, girl, caught in between, don't you know. The world is on me. The world is on the green.
0:54.0	Don't you know the grass ain't green.
0:57.0	Smoking mirror what the spell you have can.
1:02.0	Cruel predictions have all come to pass.
1:08.0	The earth is shaken and the sky is tumbling down.
1:14.0	Shaking my tree till my least fall to the ground.
1:19.0	And I said fall to the ground, fall to the ground.
1:22.0	Fall to the ground. Fall to the ground.
1:25.0	Fall to the, fall to the, fall to the, fall to the, fall to the ground.
1:30.0	And I said, Ooh girl, step on the scene.
1:34.0	Don't you know the word is so mean.
1:37.0	Ooh, the court in between, don't you know the brass and green.
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