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Normalise

from Normalise by Leonidas

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Normalise is Leonidas 3rd release of 2022 and talks about imposter syndrome in its entirety. Leonidas aims to "Normalise Normal Lives" by detailing a journey relating to himself and a majority of the people he's known in his community where they have had times or currently undergoing circumstances which lead the individual into a fictitious way of thinking about how they should or be expected to carry themselves in the eyes of the public and society.

lyrics

See I remember I was just like you
Tryna do anything you could to make the hood like you

Make the hood like me
See that was not likely
But now the hood likes me
Because I’m not like Lee
Leonidas as a person
Wasn’t good like me

And I was hoping that the hood might see

Cause even though I know the path I’m on
Best believe the road I took before was long

No short cuts, tall grass in the verges where I’m from
On the verge cause you can hear the hiss o serpents when it’s long
If you drifting get you bitten hear hurting in the song
Clapping with or clapping at you till it’s curtains and ya gone

Hook -

See I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

Verse 1

See I’m just tryna normalise
Normal lives
Put me in room full up of fake
You’ll hear the awkward silence
Real nigga talking
Quiet
Listen
Cause I would advise it
You don’t wanna miss my guidance
Journey through life what’s in my mind
And you can see inside it

See I remember I was just like you...

Tryna seek my validation in the hood like you
I even missed my graduation just to look like you
I Haven’t always been a hood type dude

I did a lot of fake shit to keep it real
1hunna...
And it’s peak these people ain’t my people still
But I still love ya
I know a lot o street shit
Things you told me were secret
I would never
If we fell out
Mention or repeat it
I been in the mix and mentions
Damned if I repeat it

It wasn’t road to bibles
It was
Life and broken cycles
I was going round in circles
Now it’s I and my disciples
Smaller circles I would die for
It feels like I wrote the bible
(Amen)

Hook -

See I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

Verse 2

See I’m just tryna normalise
Normal girls and guys
Working 9-5s
All I’m normally hearing is lies
Talking bout a line
That never bangs
And banging lines
Throughout the day a couple times
I only know a few that made it
Off the trap
A couple guys

You live at home with ya parents
You Deep down you wanna fall in love
You don’t wanna lose it all to drugs
You wanna hold a hug
And go sleep peacefully
Thinking
There’s no police on me

You don’t even hate em
You just know that’s how it needs to be
All I ever see is these drip niggas and bitches with lip fillers
Living their life so fictitious
Probably wishing that their parents really
Did stick with em
Or that they stuck at something as kid
That would stick with em
While blaming a shit system
A big difference
Our mindset tells us that the system hurts
To the ones that made it they would probably say the system works
They insist
That you assist em
Then dismiss you in the lurch
I just wish you heard this first

Hook -

See I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

I’m just tryna normalise
People living normal lives
Cause you ain’t gotta put any front
Or get it all precise

This shit can happen over night
Good things come in over time
Put that work in
And I promise it’ll all be right

credits

from Normalise, track released May 20, 2022
Songwriter: Lee Barrett
Produced: Bigzy
Mix & mastered: Bandicoot Studios

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