Lying a Dream Notes and lyrics by Oscar CharliEE

Lying a Dream

This is one of my favourite songs that I wrote, produced and recorded. The simple sonic landscape allowed me to write some of my most natural lyrics, dealing with a social issue that has and continues to affect so many of our youth growing up in today's confused world. The goal of this was to make the listener ask themselves the question: "Will you make a difference in this world today?"

This young kid had plans of fulfilling his dream / reached those crucial adolescent years of being a teen / passing fiends outside school became a daily routine. /His mum used to ask how his day had been, / ‘a promising mathematician’ that is what the teachers said, / ‘Life of the classroom who had craving of being feed.’ / Getting A's to C's. He'd recite what he had read. / But as months passed by that Colgate smile turned to a frown, / those positive replies turned to murmurs. / His daily routine got stifled from all those at the school gate dramas. / The street fiends got to him by supplying an abundance of green. / As years went on he only applied math to weights. Now at 16 he's smoking skunk, shotting the H. / He left the school system with a couple of Ds & Es /V.I.Ls. /

THC mixed with nicotine stops a young teen reaching his potential /

and that can be detrimental like kryptonite. / One boy’s buckie means another boy’s a bite. / His childhood ceased to exist because he loved the hype. /His mum would cry every day / there was nothing she would say / that could sway him to see the light of day. / These days he spells academic with a K / Bathing in luxuries but speaking at a snail’s pace, / the mind's a terrible thing to waste.

Chorus:

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

From my place to your place wherever you are

It takes all of us so let's raise the bar

Things are going good now. / He's walking in 200 pound boogs now. / Collecting queens from the many lost souls / who have no control until they're next fix. / He's smiling he's benefiting from it. / Rolling in a Benz b, / he's only just reached 18, can't put his money in the bank though, it would be too easy for ‘The Man’ to track his dough /

So he's caught in a loop / living for the now, / spend, spend, spend all those Gs. / Why oh, why, didn't he watch his back? / The police got his name from a local cat. / The printout for his NI shows PAYE as MIA, / he hasn't worked a day in his life. / Now out goes harmony and in comes strife. / Boydem are looking to lock him up, / and mandem are want to eat him up. / He starts feeling down on his luck with two choices. / One telling him to ‘stop what he’s doing’, / the other whispering ‘get the four fifth or 38, / don’t let these punks try to stop your papes.’ / He walked out his gates to escape the ends. / Looked, there was a dirty scratch on his benz, /

with no-one in sight, / could this be the start of his plight?

Hook:

Our parent’s are crying because our youths are dying

Our parents are crying because our youths are dying

More parents are crying as more youths are dying

Chorus:

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

From my place to your place wherever you are

It takes all of us so let's raise the bar

Society was who this kid would blame, / society like it had a name. / He moved out of his parent’s home with no aim. / Resting from room to room / but now he’s on to a new game. / Looking to hurt mans who gets in his way. / First day he decided to walk out strapped, the Uncovers came and clapped him. / Now he’s in a 4 by 6 with a cup of tea. / It’s elementary; / they were scoping him out since he was 15. / Now he’s of a legal age to arrest. / In interview room C, / the constable read a long list of his criminal activities. / From selling skunk to heroin, / and now carrying illegal firearms. /

He couldn’t bring himself to pickup the phone to call his mums, / how would he explain what drove him to roll with a gun. / The judge gave him 5 to 8. And he was lucky. / It could have been 14 if he hadn’t pleaded guilty. / You know how this goes my friends / they aren’t growing drugs but somehow they’re getting it. / They aren’t making firearms but somehow they’re using those Guns. / This message is for our daughters and sons, ‘stop thinking it’s all about the ones’. / Strive for perfection and manifest your true potential.

Hook:

Our parent’s are crying because our youths are dying

Our parents are crying because our youths are dying

More parents are crying as more youths are dying

That’s why I’m trying.

Chorus:

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

From my place to your place wherever you are

It takes all of us so let's raise the bar

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

I stay at peace like the sun, moon and stars

We need to move forwards to heal those scars

We don’t need to hold on to those slavery bars

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