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I Can't Sleep @ Night (Featuring S​ā​sha T​ë​ko, Dina Saur, Joey Eichler)

from Super Predator by Mykele Deville

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The daylight in the dirt,
shines from the open
coffin underneath.
and somehow,
she still manages,
to get ketchup on her teeth.

lyrics

(Verse)

Weary,
and I forgot my name time twice today.
It's silly.
I think city's in the ceiling.
Spent my night trying to spot the place.
The hours oscillate.
I want to sleep,
but what if they over populate.
The floorboards creak and I could sell my soul for cereal,
no feeling in the toes
as cold as old concrete.
Eyes deepened with them dark rangs.
The shadow sprout fangs.
The ghosts grow louder,
The ghosts grow louder.
There's not a parachute for downward spirals,
worshipping dizzy idols.
Hope they exist between this mist and the melatonin.
Zoning in my waking coma,
praying that I'm no longer,
hearing them cries that become lullabies,
but the sirens alert the silence
the food rots in a bowl on the table,
today I'm just not able,
to give out any confidence,
or prominence,
or dominance,
it's bottomless,
my cognizance,
what the fuck is the opposite?

(Chorus)

Teko:

I can't sleep at night (x6)

(Verse)

Manic.
And the children wear warpaint.
I panic,
and see the daylight in the dirt,
my eyes unbound as the earth,
the static shows me what Im worth,
the television wasn't dead
I watched it sprout arms and legs
and grow a bit into it's bad posture.
It stands a little awkward.
The dog spelled backwards gave shivers for dreams.
The screen flickers from a bloody glove,
to a tranquilizer gun.
Oh, how they want a docile son.
Unprepared and unaware of the looming coffin,
a bogus peace offering
from the body staring back
eyes closed but staring back
and sleeping better than I ever did.
I guess Im envious,
I guess I'm envious.

Teko:

and the body,
the body's in my eye
the body's in my eye.
and the fingers.
and the fingers.
are at my side,

(chorus)

(outro)

credits

from Super Predator, released May 14, 2016

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Mykele Deville Chicago, Illinois

+Poet Rapper+
+Chicago +

I was born.
A pebble.
A pestilence.
The sickness
in the rock,
it formed
a skeleton.
Crystalized thoughts,
adorned,
with melanin.
The sands
in the clock,
They tick
and they tock,
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