(No Ratings Yet)The track (whose lyrics are below) comes from his “The Calm Before The Storm Mixtape”, – a gem which I found a few years back – the first solo work I ever found from Jack Flash. He employs a versatile style across the mixtape, but…
VERSE 1:
JACK FLASH
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Turn left,
- This is the story of a young kid,
- Could have been rich or famous,
- For playing on the drum kit,
- Academically he was skilled in Maths and Chemistry,
- So popular and handsome that he had no enemies,
- But at 12 years old, life changed,
- Catapulted into adulthood by pain,
- ‘Cos his sister picked up AIDS by a stranger,
- And she died as a frail teenager,
- He turned pain into anger,
- And that was destructive,
- ‘Cos that was his path to the drug trips,
- He never laughed when he smoked,
- So he dabbled in coke,
- And even breathed crack in his throat,
- In school his grades slipped,
- And the friends he was raised with,
- Erased him from the crew that he had created,
- He skipped classes for spliffs,
- And sniffed gases for kicks,
- And started slashing his wrists,
- ‘Cos he was sad he existed,
- And he was mad at his sister,
- For the fact that he missed her,
- He wished he could have her to kiss her,
- And hold her, and tell her that he’s weak and hurt,
- And the drugs don’t replace her, and no they don’t work.
- Then one dark night, he’s sat with the lights off,
- Thinking he can whitewash his life ‘cos,
- If he goes deep enough and opens his veins,
- He knows that the pain will never control him again.
CHORUS:
JACK FLASH
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
VERSE 2:
JACK FLASH
- Turn right,
- This is the tale of a young female,
- Good girl, raised right, knows she’ll never see jail,
- Never be arrested but she’s seeking all the pleasures and experiences she can get her hands on in her adolescence,
- Friday night: house party, pressure from herpeers,
- But she’s really thinking “Fuck it” ? from her beers,
- Passing shots of vodka, “What the hell I got into?”
- She’s thinking as she’s kissing on some guy she feels she’s got to screw,
- Then she extends an invitation to a bed,
- And he’s been patient, he ain’t hesitating to accept,
- She guides his hand up a flight to tease him,
- And says she’ll race him to the bedroom,
- Where she bets that she beat a man,
- As she’s undressing, she asks him a question,
- “You know I ain’t doing shit unless you have contraception?”
- He says “Fuck that!” “Forget about it baby!”
- She laughs and says, “Maybe you’re mistaking me for crazy!”
- ‘Cos bottom line, this body of mine is a temple,
- And if you’ve got a disease, I will not be the one it spreads to,
- And as the story goes, little did they know,
- That the AIDS virus in his body was killing him slow,
- So no they never had sex that night,
- ‘Cos she had self-respect and protected her life,
- But it could have been different and ended in death,
- Now she lives with her 12-year-old brother instead.
CHORUS
OUTRO- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
- Do you ever think about all your mistakes?
- Is destiny real? Can you alter your fate?
- These crossroads represent life or death,
- So will you turn right or left?
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