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🗓️ 22 September 2022
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Lil Silva - Still (feat. Sampha & Ghetts) from the 2022 album Yesterday Is Heavy on Nowhere Music Ltd.
It may have taken Lil Silva over a decade to finally drop his debut full-length, but he proved it was worth the wait. Since 2010, the UK producer has been winning over fans as a beatmaker who could bring emotion to the dancefloor. Eventually, Silva started to incorporate his airy vocals into his work, expanding his tapestry of sounds.
Yesterday Is Heavy is not only a tapestry of sounds but also collaborators. Lil Silva is clearly well-liked because everyone from Little Dragon, BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson, and serpentwithfeet join him on the record. Our Song of the Day, “Still,” is just one of two tracks South London singer Sampha lends his vocals to alongside some help from grime MC Ghetts.
The smooth track gently grooves until the beat kicks in and Sampha leads with anxiety-riddled lyricsm about wanting to love but knowing he’s not in the right mental place for it. Ghetts backs him on the sentiment with his compelling verse, “Just come back from my therapist /Wouldn't recommend it /I opened up too much /Book in every sentence /I don't need an analyst /To tell me I'm an anarchist.” Silva’s touch is light but his gentle coos back the boys for the intimate posse cut.
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0:00.0 | I've been here for a while still, here from the motherland still, find a heart to run off |
0:26.5 | We still, deep in my head find still, ah, still, need to come on rubber back, still, sitting on the left mind still, thinking that I've got time still |
0:40.5 | And I act how I think you think of me until I forget what you believe, do I forget what you see me |
0:48.5 | And I start acting according to me, according to me, according to me, according to me, according to me, according to me, according to me, this opera |
1:00.5 | And if you really love me, don'ts, and if you really love me, whoa, I've got some issues that ain't won't go |
1:08.5 | Love is like a precious stone, and I don't want to be comfort, but I really love you, oh, I know I just confuse you, whoa, still I really love you, don'ts |
1:20.5 | I've been here for a while still, here from the motherland still, find a heart to run off, we still, deep in my head find still, ah, still, need to come on rubber back, still, sitting on the left mind still, thinking that I've got time still |
1:40.5 | Just came back from my therapist, wouldn't recommend it, I opened up too much, book in every sentence, I don't need an analyst to tell me you're my anarchist |
1:48.5 | I just need some love, hug, anarchist, you niggas know me, you're my life, don't that awkwardly, the fame shit, change shit, I just act according to me, we was found formally used to hang normally, one day we'll all grow apart, that's ordinary |
2:00.5 | All of my niggas, I'm similar shit, villages, not many privileges, parents, immigrants, limited things, but wherever it's where the ignorance lives, but I am still a man on my community, do you need landmines, and a land of opportunity, and the other planet that was land over jewelry, I'm so clock, I'mma go hard to get standing by my grey sack, and they know the religious |
2:21.5 | Then here, for a while, still, here from the motherland, still, find the heart to run off, be still, deep in my headphones, still, I, still, need to come on rubber back, still, sitting on the left mind, still, thinking that I've got time still |
2:41.5 | Then here, for a while, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, I've been said about us, known as our derpest call to fight, places called trees, well, just a call, trees, well, just a call, things were dead on them |
3:11.5 | Then here, for a while, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about yourself, still, here from the motherland, dead about |
3:41.5 | yourself, still, here from the motherland |
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