Urthboy - Natural Progression lyrics

Who'd have ever known it'd come
To this trying to
Predict your future sitch is simple as peace
Is a flick of a switch
Hitter no prizes for not guessing
That there'll be some days
Where I get most of my protein from
This paper that I write on
This same little Timmy was a sporty kid
And yeah the sun
Worked it's fryer on my pail
Skin funny thing frailty
I kept attending practice when my
Dad was having episodes
That left behind a family in tatters
And the subsequent descent under
The poverty line
Still we had a roof above our heads
And friends to grow and build with
And who'd have known of who I'd be
If I had different early cards


But whose to ask what might've been I
Exercise my right to turn a
Blind eye to the rear vision
At which point the third eye'll hopefully
Kick in and then make a
Mark or something maybe
We can all look forward to some
Added time to sleep in
And do some home improvements on
The weekend out in Eden
Or, if it's okay, don't ask me any questions
Just let the pen make a natural progression
If it's okay don't ask me any questions
Just let the pen make a natural progression

I'd have never even tried to
Guess from three to thirteen
To eighteen what's now got me
On full court press yes
In retrospect the hints were there
Timid as a billboard
A batsman, keeper, graffiti writing creature
Sort of wrote a bit
It's now embarrassing but there's love
For those nursery rhyme raps
In primary school Nug
They were bugged out but as
If we weren't I copped
A tonne of verbal abuse but
I'd say thankyou sir
I never came to cause trouble
We even wrote a rap
As peace offerings to Mr Beaumont
When he had a baby that was at 11
At 15 you could've seen them early morning
Petty crime schemes I've got a pin
Inside my foot to prove it
You'd be stupid to assume that
There were no regrets
But, it's not over yet
I wind my window down a bit
Shifting gears from fourth to fifth
Left the career back at the tollway
Generation cynic Y2K without the rollplay

Stranger things have happened
And it's not shock horror
And if you were to buy the
Bio then I wouldn't bother
It's just the way it is
Call it my live review
Yeah I remember all these things
While I'm hyping you

I had a fella tell me
Once of all his ideologies
You know the kind of
Scholarly filled chemical philosophies
Significance of numbers and your
Stars and your bloodlines
Scars from the sunshine
Tragedies and punchlines
Premature deaths occur before
The person's ready
Said the fella before gently falling
Down and passing out
Well there you go the emporer proudly put
Out all he had on show
And here's a million bucks for
Guessing what tomorrow holds
Bank vaults and catapaults a liberal
Dose of smelling salts
To snap you back to Urth and yeah
I've got present tense on lock
Known to deviate a little I guess
Solving the how'd I get here riddle and yes
There's still a bit on my chest
Was it the year I was
Completely depressed I swore I'd
Never take for granted when the skin
Disease left and still don't
Still evokes potently as turning
Points tend to do
And sometimes I reflect on this
While I'm hyping you

Stranger things have happened
And it's not shock horror
And if you were to buy the
Bio then I wouldn't bother
It's just the way it is
Call it my live review
Yeah I remember all these things
While I'm hyping you