1. |
Tu-Lu-Ri
03:33
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I may not sing
As good as you
But I can sing
Tu-lu-ri oo
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri oo
Yeah I can sing
Tu-lu-ri
You may not sing
As well as me
But you can sing
Tu-lu-ri ee
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri ee
Come on let's sing
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri aa
Tu-lu-ri aa
We'll never be
Royalty
But we can sing
Tu-lu-ri ee
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri ee
Yeah we can sing
Tu-lu-ri
I haven't lived
Through '82
But I can sing
Tu-lu-ri oo
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri oo
Yeah I can sing
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri aa
Tu-lu-ri aa
Tu-lu-ri aa
Tu-lu-ri aa
I may not sing
As good as you
But I can sing
Tu-lu-ri
Come on England
Come on Eastleigh
Come on Matthew
Come on Eileen
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri oo
Come on let's sing
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri ee
Come on let's sing
Tu-lu-ri
I won't just be one more Gen Z kid
Flushing dreams into the sea
I've sung like 3 dozen times for you
But this my final turrah (loora lu)
This Brave New Year I'm resolute
Alt-rap against tech for the yoots
But one last rhyme I'll sing for you
Go back in time when England knew
Got the words, got the tune?
Let's toora loora lu!
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri oo
Come on let's sing
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri
Tu-lu-ri ee
Come on let's sing
Tu-lu-ri aa
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2. |
facelook
03:09
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This is what my face looks like
Yeah this what my face look like
But this ain't what facebook like
And this ain't for the facebook likes
For the money
This is what my face look like
Now it's the one they dislike
I sued them $400
For breaching what my face look like
Yeah I made a case $400
And we got it like for Benjy's
We blasted them 1M times
Making Illy noise in the Chi
Now this is what my face look like
This what my face look like
This ain't what facebook like
Yeah this ain't what facebook like
Facebook like:
This is what that guy look like
Strong cheeks, bluish eyes
Little acne otherwise hella white
99% it's Laurence Warner
Tag that guy?
Rewind: Illinois '08/09
Democratic foresight
Banned biometrics on sight
Could've sued em for Bills
But we settled $400
Why #SmalltownDreamer in the Chi?
Mastered data sci 'cos I'm
Fully bright, graduated now it
Fully time 4 day week
Time Ferris let Python the grind
But profits rise if they generalise
"Like the style of a small town guy"
Come Eastleigh if you wanna train line
But instead they scraped Beastly lyrics
They were under copyright
So I think we should, yeah
I think we should, eh
I think we should sue AI
Writers we should sue AI
This is what my face look like
Serious, let's sue AI
Suits - it's coming for you too alright
Google soon to pitch AI
Bard passed the Bar, so let's put it behind
Can one of you suit up?
We'll get our Manchester Prize
United against AI
This ain't Chat like GPT
I'm GP breed, gotta heal the breach
Open AI - Butterick, Getty out the gutter quick
Told you
This ain't what The 'bookie like
Spitting like a llama
Like a LLaMa - Meta at it too my guy
Let's sue 'em too, eh eh?
Let's sue 'em too, eh eh?
I think we should sue AI
Yeah I think we should sue eh
Sue eh, sue eh
I think we should sue AI
Britain we should sue AI
And when we have sued AI
This is what my face look like
Yeah, yeah
This is what my face looks like
This what my face look like
But this ain't what Thefacebook like
And this ain't for the facebook likes
For the money eh
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3. |
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(Another another)
Another year
Another year
Another year gone by in the blink of an eye
Now it's time to say goodbye to
Another year
Yeah
Imagine your first track
Puts your hometown on the map
Going old school showing them how to rap
You're going "Swan Centre (tahh tahh)
Got a Swan Centre" you got that? Ta
Now you're playing the fool, bright mentally
Master's degree, doing comedy
No wonder I felt a little schizophrenia
You're not yourself on social media
Identity is infinity, repeat after me:
I got a psychoanalytical multisensory
Concept double-album with fractal symmetry
You get that? (Nahh)
You press that? (Nahh)
I guess that I'm not a star
I'm a failure (ahh awhhh)
I'm a, I'm a failure
Another year
I'm still here
Singing and rapping with different names
I'm thinking that there's a better way
I dunno who I am, I dunno who I am
I dunno who I am, but I know what I do:
I sing a song, I write a rap
Singer-songwriter-rapper
#SingerSongwriterRapper
2023: more #SavvyIndie
12 tracks released monthly
An alternative to monotony
I'll be pop and rap alternately
So follow me, isn't that the game
"But who do we follow?"
Yeah I need a name:
Florence & Fauna? (Too machine)
Torrents of Water? (Too piracy)
I dunno who I am, let's ask mum & dad:
"Laurence Warner"
No other names
No other's name
I used to rap as Beastly and sing as Cerulean
Now Laurence Warner is the name I'm gonna be
For Another year
Another year
I came here for the evening, I came here for the day
But now I'm feeling like I wanna stay for
Another year
(Black lives matter)
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4. |
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Your Bitcoin
Made in Astana
From energy
Made in Astana
Your NFT
Made in Astana
Capital Astana, real Kazakhstaner
Your crypto
Made in Astana
Lit from coal
Made in Astana
But the Earth getting hot like a sauna
Made in the UK
But your carbon's
Made in Astana
You're a ledge in the LEZ
Whipping Tes off your Bitcoin plunder
Even E. knew Watts needed to fund a
Block on the chain: miner Made in China
Til Xi banned it, Kazakh stan'd it
They hardcore so we're screwed
Earth going to the moon
Like the dry Kazakh dune
Oil Baron take the mick
But you lot assume ""is nice"" there
But hear the truth
Net zero
Not
Made in Astana
Targets to
Not
Made in Astana
Borat 2
Not
Made in Astana
But your loot
Made in Astana
Sleazy deeds
Made in Astana
Bank man freed
Made in Astana
Richie MPs
Made in Astana
Ban BTC 'cos the carbon
Made in Astana
You're whale big
Putting that carb on credits
But you'll pay for it later like Klarna
End Times tryna buy water
With the cause of the degradation, devastation
Thames dried up, you're to blame then
I'll s-squash you for your
Big foot print
And your gang
Just for your lil' NFT gang
Blood, you'll send us all to the crypt
Crypt
#CryptoGratiaCrypt, crypto gratia
Crypto made in Astana
Crypto gratia crypto, just for the hell of it dough
Made in Astana
PoW a prison, ties us up to emissions
Made in Astana
So ban Bitcoin quick, cos the footprint big
Made in Astana
No more music if we send this planet to the crypt
Go tell your grandma
#NoMusicOnADeadPlanet
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5. |
Honest
03:12
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It ain't easy
To be honest
To be honest
It ain't easy
To be
To be honest
And when you wake up
The truth
Comes freely
So breathe easy
Be honest
Be. Breathe deeply
Believe me
Be
Honest
Believe me
Be honest
It was too easy, to be honest
Schoolbag down in the empty house
Intel Inside, one hand on the mouse
The guilt on the other hand didn't help
But their firewall did, and the therapy
Adult: I see less
Reality screams and weans, she helps me get clean
Kicking booze is hardest, acting out others' darkness
Cross-town train to play Hamlet, nearly stepped too soon
Director's asking "what's up"
I'm Failed, for plagiarism
This is just between us
And now I'm saying it on a song
Be honest, we've all done some things wrong
It ain't easy
To be honest
It ain't easy
It ain't easy
To be
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6. |
John the Con
01:40
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My name’s Mr John McDonagh
I'll tell you I'm an Honest John
I'll tell you I'll pay you later on
But it’s a trick!
I'm John the Con
I’m John the Con
Yeah John the Con
I’ll con your dad and I’ll con your mum
Wanna hustle like me? Follow along
Here’s a day in the life of John the Con:
I wake up
Tell the wifey: put on her make-up
Tell my daughters: get in the car
We’re going to the Shopping Centre (yay!)
Right after the Services (awwhh!)
Daddy’s gotta hustle some normie squibs
This Skoda-driver looks gormless:
Hey mate, I’m from Belgium
“What’s up my European brethren?”
Tryna get my family across the Irish Sea
It’s liquidity I need, there’s a cash-machine
Could you spot me a C, MC Beastly?
You’ll have it by minuit
Honestly, trust me
Trust me, I'm a Christian
(Cross my heart and hope to die)
Trust me, I'm a Christian
(Upon this cross, I swear on my life)
Trust me, I'm a Christian
Trust me, I’m a
I’m a trick!
I’m John the Con
Yeah John the Con
I’m a hustler
Yeah the con is on
I’ll even say that I’m from Belgium
If it means that you’ll part with your mons
I’m a Bad Boy, come see my Crew
Chilling in the back of my BMW
Don’t them females look vulnerable?
Make you lend money, yeah that’s my fuel!
“Can we get a selfie?”
OK cool
See I’m the don
I’m John McDonnagh
But don’t Google me cos I’m a con
Wait he just documented my face
(VO11 YKY) and my untaxed plates
Whatever, I’m driving off his hundred quid
To the next Services and the next eejit
Oh no wait what’s this?
(07833876229) ooh I gave him my real digits
He says I “won’t cop a crime”
So instead he’s “gonna rhyme” about me
So share this til he gets 100K streams
Then he’ll get his money back, guaranteed
Trust me
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7. |
WHOIS
02:22
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Who is the one you see?
And who I am to me?
Who is the one you see?
And who am I, am I to me?
Who’s the one you see
When you're looking at me
Is it the one who’s wild and free
Haters come at me!
Or is it the one who's down
Playing the clown
Rather be wearing the crown
Or at least watching it
Or am I the little boy
Crying on the ward
Let's get him nursed before
He becomes a vegetable
Or else he can't perform
Or code a signup form
A live connection not perfection
What the internet for
Who is the one you see?
And who am I to me?
Who is the one?
WHOIS WHOIS WHOIS WHOIS
Who is the one, the one
The one I see?
Are you still the one I knew
Back when we was little homies
‘Cos I think I could be the one
Once you get to know me
You like your followers but they really phoney
Only fans girl, ain't it lonely
You need a lover, you know where to find me
LaurenceWarner.com I ain’t hiding
Like them Bitcoin trolls bro who I ain’t minding
‘Cos if I can’t see who or what you is
I ain’t replying
Who is the one I see?
And who are you to me?
Who is the one?
WHOIS WHOIS WHOIS WHOIS
Who is the one, the one
WHOIS ME
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(I know my lingo)
Ben, he knows his lingo
Ben knows his lingo
Yeah we didn't hit the jackpot like bingo
But Ben knows his lingo
Ben: "I know my lingo
I know my lingo"
Yeah didn't hit the jackpot like bingo
But Ben knows his
Lingo
Do you speak the lingo?
Do you know your lingo?
Have you got the lingo?
Listen, watch my lingo:
We’ll show showbiz that new flow
That made Swan Centre (tahh) blow
Beastly Boys, Warner bros
Making noise on a TV show
But not too long ago
The only ones you got to know
Received Pronounciation classes
In a London studio
But what about Scotty, Yorkie, Beastly
And 1 in 6 with disability
On the Last Leg, they lose rent
In paid work: only 5%
But Ben’s got Hart, he's work in progress
It's been hard, a lot to digest
Sun you'll flower, like a Rose bloom
Jones / Ayling-Ellis, Ben Warner too
He knows his lingo
Ben knows his lingo
Didn't hit the jackpot like bingo
But Ben knows his lingo
Ben: “I know my lingo
I know my lingo"
He didn't hit the jackpot
But the kid grow
To a man who knows his lingo
"I know my lingo"
Ben knows
It takes two to tango
Me and Ben like Rambo
Smalltown dream in Media City
Shots in the can and back home
There's a lot a citizen can't do
"Stay out of the edit room!"
We'll see what they let through
But I guarantee Ben got 4-letter words like F
U C if you Tweet nastily 'bout his speech
If you wanna take shots, send for me K
GCSE said that I was A*
Ben was a G, I’m the one who got parred!
On Wordle round, just like the last
It’s the library (shhh) "I gotta put in some hours"
Not sat in the pub on my bottle and glass
Like Scotty would say: it’s a game of two halves
(It's a wrap)
Game of two halves
Life's a game of two halves
You're only as good as your last
Game of two halves
(It's a rap)
Game of two halves
You're only as good as your last
That's how the thing go when
(It's a rap)
You're only as good as your lingo
"I know my lingo"
(Ben) "I know my lingo"
He knows his lingo
Ben knows his lingo
("I know my lingo”)
We didn't hit the jackpot like bingo
But Ben knows his lingo
(It’s a wrap)
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9. |
Pretty (Windy City)
02:27
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I left Chicago
Driving the van I was your man
But you had your mind set
On Chicago til the end
Now the breeze blows me back
To old friends, a new tune
But it's a little less pretty
This windy city
Without you
I'm up in the sky bar
The model guys are
Mixing me a drink
Clay gives mine a swirl
He says "hey, where's the girl?"
As he hands it to me with a wink
It tastes amazing
The sky is blazing
Violet, red and pink
What a pity, I think
And I feel blue
'Cos it's true
This windy city
It looks a little less pretty
Without you
When I left Chicago
I found myself under the rain
Now I'm flying higher
Summer breeze, another plane
Today looks amazing
From the window in the skies
But the Windy City
Seems a little less pretty
Without your eyes
It's six in the morning
The winter's thawing
Down on Oak Street beach
I look to the East
The sky's this feast of light
It's like a scene
Where two lovers kiss
In a Bob Zemeckis flick
Except it's missing a female lead
This city's more pretty with you I mean
Yeah it's true
This windy city
It looks a little less pretty
Without you
What a pity
We broke up on
Zoom
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10. |
Call the Midwife
02:22
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Don’t call me tonight, watching Call the Midwife
Sorry not tonight, watching Call the Midwife
Family time, Call the Midwife
Can’t come out tonight, watching Call the Midwife
(Sorry baby)
Having some family time with my Granny it’s nice watching Call the Midwife
Gramp asleep, so I take his seat and we press rewind
We’re going back all the way when my parents were born in 1959
Entering Britain no social position, no wonder they cry
Start’s slow, but better than what our grandparents knowed
Teachers, preachers, Bevin Boys mine
Camberwell boy with a Cockney rhyme
Plenty of trouble and strife
Thank the Lord they could call the midwife
If it wasn’t for the other Bevan
I’d probably not be alive
Thank god someone cried “call the Midwife”
I’m so glad I’m alive cos they call the Midwife
For the 4th time: call the Midwife
I’m so glad that they tried to call the Midwife
They were called Karens & Keirs & Katie’s & Kraig’s
Now you call ‘em Boomers
I get it they screwing us Zoomers
But we gotta vote or else we’ll be the losers
The Houses are owned by the 50s and over
They’re Lording it over the Common young people
We are the 1st generation to live in this nation
Whose prospects are worse than our folks
And they call us woke, it’s a joke
Broke
Maybe in midlife, we can call the Midwife
I'll make her my wife, we'll try call the Midwife
Family time: call the Midwife
But right now I'm aitt, watching Call the Midwife
Why not come round mine
(Miss you Angel, miss you two Granddad)
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Baby I want to know you
Baby I want to know you
Usually I like to keep my mind
Free from other people's vibes
Like a plane that's flying in the sky
I ain't got time to keep up with their lives
But with you I'm feeling differently
I ain't expecting it to be pretty
But it's time I'm ready
So tell me baby won't you let me
Baby I want to know you
Baby I want to know you
I don't need to know what's going on
Inside the talking heads of everyone
It's why I keep my headphones on
But with you I'm feeling differently
Begging you:
Be my Baby (be my little babyyy)
I wanna hear see smell you touch & breathe
I want to know you, just like you're me
Baby I want to know you
Baby I want to know you
'Cos I want you
I want you
I need you
To show me what to do
Baby I want to know you
Baby I want to know you
Baby I've got to see this through
Baby I just want to know you
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(ЙЕП, Laurence Warner
Death music, let’s go)
I was nearly 6 foot under
Before I made my teens
So I'm living my life purposefully
Daniil?
6 футів
Вітер доторкається до скроні
6 футів 6 футів
YEP, six foot under
Are you feeling me?
Or does moving imagery need to be seen
Up on a 66 foot screen
6 футів
Вітер доторкається до скроні
6 футів 6 футів
As I stand 6’3”
I may as well be the man I was meant to be and lead
Before they fill me with lead, I'm gonna make bread
Leave it to my fam when I'm dead - I will
Don't come from wealth, so I can't chill
Taxman knocking, I gotta make bills
Two things in life are guaranteed
Death and taxes right Daniil?
Це було давно, відчуття неначе у кіно
Панельні коробки стоять у ряд - це сіре доміно
Мама з татом, черга, дефіцит, нічого не придбати
Трошечки не встиг тоді точно підеш голодним спати
Underdressed and state-educated like Kryshev I waited
In line, I waited, but now it's my time to make it
A Pandit & Warner Picture
Cold War I'll depict ya in a quarter of an hour
Collab's our only power
I played with Shrey, Rachanee, left Egos at the door
The next day that insane little Ruski declared war
Gon' for a Mo, back in L.A. to open Closure Cafe
On the anniversary of that invasion of Ukraine
In case we're six foot under
Before hitting our thirties
6 футів
Не втрачаю жодної нагоди
Six foot under
Like the innocents in Kyiv
6 футів 6 футів
'Cos of that five foot dunderhead of the regime
6 футів
Не втрачаю жодної нагоди
6 футів
Вітер доторкається до скроні
6 футів
We'll all be six foot under
Let's delay it at least
Yeah I'll be playing the beast
Up on your theatre screen
While you're eating up M&Ms
"May I have your attention please?"
I'd rather avoid the 'ha ha ha' drama classes
Talking Greek out their arses about white privilege
They're classist, us smalltown boys had it hard
But who knows who's life's the hardest
We all can feel the same pain, just ask them out in Ukraine
It's a shame we need martyrs to care about looking after
Those who are outside our borders
They ain't just 'Boats' in the water, YEP
«У Союзі було краще!»
Лиш якщо ти мертвий
Українці хочуть собі пам'ять про усе це стерти
Заборона слова, заборона мови
заборона думати інакше, ніхто не готовий
2023 весь світ захлинувся від війни
Отруйним подихом росія зруйнувала всі мости
Ми не підемо нікуди ми будем на своїй землі
Якщо не виборем свободу, так і ляжемо в ній
You could be six foot under
Listen to Ukraine’s
6 футів
Не втрачаю жодної нагоди
Six foot under
From that poison in your veins
6 футів 6 футів
Моя труна на
6 футів
Кожен день борюся за свободу
6 футів
Не втрачаю жодної нагоди
6 foot under
Unless this war gets over
We're gonna keep turning back
Until we find some Closure
Can we please
(It’s a rap)
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Laurence Warner Eastleigh, UK
*Singer-Songwriter-Rapper*
Often live on Bandcamp Friday - pls fund my
annual concept album + other Cerulean Sounds Productions!
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