Lose Sleep lyrics

[Intro: Remi]

Yes-yes, today, shake-shake, hey-hey

Come on, yeah-yeah, come on

[Verse 1: Remi]

I'm just here to push limits

Shit-scared of heights

But I stay on top of the game just to say I did it

Show young black kids that you can live it

Free your mind with it, be proud of your pigment

I wasn't for a while

Too many times vilified for being a shade different

Started hating myself and all dark skin

Playing myself, Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Remember after school, train station

Busta "Break Ya Neck" blasting from iPod Mini

Thankful class finished

So I could go and play Majora's Mask with my little brother

When cops come up and start asking me

"Where you from? What you up to? Oh, from Moorabbin?

That's half an hour from here, not from 'round here

Boy, what you selling? Where's your product?"

I hadn't even touched drugs at this point, except maybe a joint

But my skin fitted the description

So 'oink oink' had to be deployed

Next day at school, told my friends

The facts of how they treated the boy

They said I'm being crazy

'Cause to them, black voice is white noise

That's the world that we're living in

[Chorus: Jordan Rakei]

We seem to forget

The dark days of history, yeah

And time will manifest

The endless possibility, yeah

Open your eyes to see

The world is darker than it seems

So we dreaming on (Dreaming on)

Enough with the crazy, crazy talk

[Verse 2: Remi]

Yeah, yeah

Dave Chappelle taught me

The worst thing to call someone is crazy

Dismissing all the pain that plagues them in one word

Just to avoid confrontation with yourself

We prefer to sit on a Chesterfield lounge, while microwaving

A meal by McCain and watching Australian Idol contestant failing

While the house that we're in is in flames

All because it's the routine (I dunno know about that, man)

So when they say, "Too deep"

I say, "Product of reality, you're too deep"

'Cause I'm just using eyes, ears and news feeds to get up to speed

Shit, only those that don't read between the lines abuse these

Therefore I don't lose sleep

'Cause I'm well aware that's the world that we're living in

[Chorus: Jordan Rakei]

We seem to forget

The dark days of history, yeah

And time will manifest

The endless possibility, yeah

Open your eyes to see

The world is darker than it seems

So we dreaming on (Dreaming on)

Enough with the crazy, crazy talk

[Outro: Jordan Rakei]

Open your eyes

Open your eyes

Open your eyes

Open your eyes