Shabaka ‘Eyes Lowered’
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Today’s Top Tune: Shabaka ‘Eyes Lowered’
Shabaka shares “Eyes Lowered,” from his solo album Of The Earth. Blending meditative melodies with subtle electronic textures, the track expands his boundary-pushing sonic world while introducing a new dimension: Shabaka’s first recorded use of rap as an extension of breath and rhythm.
(Shabaka Records)
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| 0:00.0 | And they wonder how we find us just a cope in the system God is locked at the |
| 0:24.1 | stroke fade away till the times. Spirit was so mindless, life becomes a dream as we struggle |
| 0:29.0 | to be closer to the world using waves to be heard, dedicated to being seen as we journey |
| 0:33.4 | through the land of the herd with delusions of the singular. |
| 0:43.3 | You don't have to cry for help. Things aren't always what they seem. They define your wealth underplay relatively unseen. |
| 0:45.3 | Perspective seldom understood the wonder the one that horse and dreams while we lose us tremor |
| 0:49.3 | a subject to the mind. |
| 0:50.3 | It's the sign of the times when we pray for the blindness. |
| 0:53.3 | To get a litter, a wrist bite for the time spent scrolling through the city in the sign of the times when we pray for the blindness to get a little |
| 0:54.5 | respite for the time spent scrolling through the city in the depths of one mind seeing visions |
| 0:59.0 | of the spirit that the beast are designed God help you tell me where is the temptation |
| 1:04.0 | station pass within the earths lose the courage to conform in the dreams with reality |
| 1:08.6 | the image the form the myth the, the triumph, the magic, |
| 1:11.6 | whole for logic, the world through fibre optic, like the web society holds you through. |
| 1:16.6 | Pass on the chance to speak, when you think is true. Silence holds the key, |
| 1:20.6 | Whitten sees you true. |
| 1:22.6 | So many doors, so many flowers to consume, let the cold wind blow that the leaves may reveal |
| 1:27.5 | who's the sturdiest into space quantum metaphysical options connected to the source to the |
| 1:32.9 | root let the dark power guide your way eat of the fruit I am the black I am the heart |
| 1:38.0 | trouble your soul stock in mind the eyes lowered arms out so your prayers pay the top |
| 1:42.1 | you call on the sun look at the battles with one. |
| 1:46.0 | You call on the earth, the heaven knows your worth, nobody believes your sentiment. |
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