Non-Prophets - The Cure

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Joe Beats, Sage Francis - The cure from "Hope".

Don't deny that sick feeling in your stomach you can't run from it
let it guide you into high view and move beyond the summit
from peeks to valleys speed through alleys if it's done quick
you'll have time to find the caves where the days are never sunlit

find the scriptures made by a society of blind men
who suggest the best direction's where you most likely will find them..
dead set on checkmates embracing a chess set
when bedspreads get wet they're left with the scent of death threats

in 7 seconds I'll become undone, I'm breaking through
if you're around by the time I reach number one I'm taking you
You're not the traveling type? Then hide your baggage better
before you die a normal death and write the average letter

about your internal furnace
and how life's a sexually transmitted disease that you contracted from her kiss
when a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words if
a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive

I'm searching for the cure
this is a sickness
can you hear me, love?

I kick dirt for what it's worth listening to the birds chirp
the same cryptic speech that the breeze speaks and sea repeats
recognizing the cycles with every passing day
writing full demands in the sand with my toe til crashing waves washed it away

I watch what I say now but I hate it
trying to make my mark, afraid of the dark nature of vague statements
that plague vacant parking lots where shopping carts go uncollected
that sick feeling in my stomach start to leave my heart and soul infected

I won't accept it. I do my best to reject patterns til it hurts
every second making bad turns for the worse
she's getting further away I can feel it in the way my bones ache
The ocean sealed it's lips, now the waves won't break

The secrets it won't say has got us trying to break codes in churches
and lately I've been hating its soul purpose
when a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words if
a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive

I'm searching for the cure
this is a sickness
can you hear me, love?

Now I look for air pockets to pick, walk with a stick, start picking locks with it
opening up heart-shaped lockets with little arguments
the tawdry trinkets start to split and contradict
those who say one thing but think the opposite

I bit the dust tongue kissing documents in a smoke stack
faith is harder to swallow than pride it, turns our throats black
I want my home back. I know that's not an available option
it's the way that I'm walking in between a cradle and coffin

that makes me pace myself. if half the battle is done right
the other half won't take my health while jacking my shadow's sunlight
to crack it open and find the space between my breaths are desolate
life is just a lie with an "f" in it and death is definite

But after I scratched the surface
I never saw the calm before the storm act so nervous
when a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words if
a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive

I'm searching for her
Can you hear me, love?

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[SomaLFM]

Seriously one of the best written songs of all time of any genre

[OmgItsHoeezayy]

Li[f]e

[Guyrollaz]

@concerto404 and @ramafia09,

Thanks both of you for your answers, i'm still a little bit confused about this quote but you've really helped me. Sage writes great lyrics and it would be shameful not trying to understand it. Thanks again, and i'm sorry if i made english mistakes. :)

[concerto404]

@Guyrollaz

I think Sage is referring to his experience of break-up, which led to loss of self control. His wreckless way in which he interpreted his break-up that leads to a downward spiral of re-thinking his idea of faith ( "harder to swallow than pride"). All this while she gracefully signed off and left.

[mycribapple]

i have L"I" FE tattood on my neck and a huge escape artist back piece , love this song , cant wait till he comes back to london

[27ozone26]

@psychicvibrations No Sage.

Sole, Slug, Dose, and Alias.

[o0debs]

@Haqq360 i got that tattooed on my bottom lip :]

[biggzmil414]

The cursive/sloppy refers to the sterotypical male female roles of the subtitle females and abdravise blunt males

[ramafia09]

@Guyrollaz i could be completely wrong but my interpretation of it is primarily a play on words. writing off the world implies that said person is giving up what they live for (or what the world is forcing them to live for), but since he uses the word "write" that opens up the possibility to treat it as an actual physical thing that they are doing. They are literally *writing* off the world. the whole sloppy/cursive thing im really unsure about, but im assuming its a commentary on gender roles.

[psychicvibrations]

sage francis is absolutely amazing. if you guys dig this you shoulkd check out deep puddle dynamics if you haven't already HUGE colab album with Sage, Slug, Dose One and someone else whos name i cant recall. Also check out Saul Williams!!!

[Guyrollaz]

Hi everyone, I'm french and I really love this song but I need your help to understand the meaning of that quote :

"when a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if

a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive."

You can explain it in english of course :) Thanks.

[Weezydropsthebomb]

@stopmotiondoctorwho1 Yeah, I know Atmosphere very well, and Aesop too.. Damage is a good song, but after looking I thought the whole album was good pretty much. "Any Port" "Damage" "Xaul Zan's Heart" and "Tolerance Level" all are really good imo.