Nick Hakim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Nick Hakim premieres new music from a dark corner of his bedroom in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Bob Boilin here.
0:01.9	This concert is part of our Tiny Desk Home Concert series.
0:05.8	You can watch Nick Hakim perform these songs on npr.org
0:09.6	or the NPR Music YouTube channel.
0:12.5	Enjoy.
0:30.2	This town has really started growing.
0:36.4	My face has become one with the concrete.
0:42.4	My limbs have wrestled.
0:48.6	My voice sounds like scream and train
0:55.6	that you've been hiding.
1:00.7	Oh dear, this is where you've been hiding.
1:07.5	Come on my legs, go back home, home, home, home, home, home.
1:24.8	This town by the sea will hardly drown me.
1:30.8	Six drinks in and I start to sink.
1:36.8	And your voice is the sound that saved me.
1:43.2	God name, I wish my baby was you, because I have violence.
1:55.4	Lake a ring in silence, but you'll need my aid.
2:02.2	Come on my legs, go back home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home.
2:32.2	Thank you, yeah, a bit of everybody's doing all right, but it's safe.
3:26.2	On the street, roads wait for me.
3:38.2	To the face of this machine we feed, I will never sleep, I will never sleep.
3:53.2	Brain have never once been made to live in ice-plead.
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