Kate Tempest - Renegade lyrics

I'm a renegade Out for the truth I will shout from the rooftops You can find me Hanging about down in New Cross Or sitting it out on my stoop with my shoes off Shaking my head Because too many are too lost. But you can recognize me because I'm you, mate It's never too late to see deeper than the surface. Trust me, there's so much more to it. There's a world beyond this one That creeps in when your wits have gone soft And all your edges start shifting I mean it A world that it breathing Heaving its shoulders and weeping Bleeding through open wounds That's why I'm grieving. Down on my knees and I am feeling everything that I'm feeling. So come here Give me your hand Because I know how to hold it. I will write every single one of you a poem And then I'll set them all on fire Because I am stunned by how the light in your eyes resembles Brightening skies. Mate, I would fight for your life like it was mine But I'm writing tonight. I got a jam jar of wine I'm rolling smokes Spitting bars to myself with a swollen throat Sitting out by the river catching the holy ghost Thinking about how it feels every time you hold me close. I'm not flesh I'm all energy I care about genius I don't care about celebrity You only build them up to burn their effigies And there's more I can feel it so raw And it's calling me back to before. That's why I walk through the landscapes. That's why I grip the mics hard until my hands shake But they're more illuminated than the masons, mate I stand straight faced with the mania just inches away But I never flinch I got ink in my veins I don't care for the surface I care about the infinite I carve a niche and hide within it I lay down in the garden with the spirits Asking pardon from the elders They tell me: "Child, every minute is the minute to begin it, make it broader" But the thing that gives me strength Oh, it brings me such torture, Mate every single time the seasons change I get completely overwhelmed f** it I hold the helm Like the hilt of my sword I'm a born worker. I'm the second best MC not enough people have heard of. The first, that was con, I've got a thirst coming on I'm an old soul, but I maintain a young mind And Blake showed me Those who don't exhibit their influence Are only holding candles to the sunshine. So if you want to talk just come find me Me, I'll be on Lewisham way watching a door melt away Look,I used to spit these bars out to strangers on trains I couldn't hold it down I had a brain full of flames. I used to hang about with the alchies on the benches in the park They used to talk about their lives They told me why they walked out on their wives Mate, I used to storm the stages uninvited Far too excited, I had something to say and I couldn't hide it. But then I learnt about patience, And I learnt about stamina And every single moment stacked up And it all added to the present So now I keep cool and I consult the essence And I give thanks for every blessing But look, everything is so physical here You know the alcoholic and the offie Filling up his trolley until the world disappears I'm so hungry for something sustainable Something with truth, something unchangeable Something like you, in your room while the rain It falls and the windows are open And it's splashing on my skin like the sea breeze You can love me forever but never need me I'm f**ing sure that you can be what completes me. So this one, is for the hopeless romantics It's for the broken, the stranded, the pure the puerile, the pedantic, the fearless, the frantic, living in the belly of the beast With the rats and the rancid and the blanketed streets And we starve while they banquet and feast But Banquo will rise He's got a message for the guilty This one's for the hard living, Filthy, the gutter mouths. This one's for the city that built me that will knock me down if I don't learn right I burn bright. I'll turn might into meager in a blink of an eye. So come on, meet me at the bar, I'll raise my drink to the sky and I will show you that you're f**ing incredible. We're not flesh, we're all energy. I care about genius I don't care about celebrity. Don't give a sh** about the hype I really care about integrity. I mean you only build them up to burn their effigies, anyway. And me, I'm getting closer to my essence every day. Renegade.