SUBCITY, by brother portrait

SUBCITY

by brother portrait

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1.	HEAR YE! HEAR YE! 02:02	lyrics	buy track
this long been unacceptable the body move to beck and call through 36 ventricles the drift derive the city walls on every screen the spectacle the empire untenable from when we plot to run amok bring a mop poetry for the people hope for your headtop how to dispose a despot and all political dead stock clean sweep before the call came I weren't the strongest rock in the quarry myself thought I could do it myself was very mistaken
2.	TEEF 02:34	lyrics	buy track
feet touch the rising sun hours washed blue hue air little gilt on the towers my day starts here light on the unseen through the heart of the city runs a black stream fish floating mouths agape cheek to ask us how we ate I've had all sorts on my plate after the waste of the scavengers turned us hunter gathers we started dreaming about splitting their bellies jaundiced and gluttonous what had become of us this storm pitter patter on every man's roof sodden with wata and burden of proof just a pen in my fist can't fathom the use dem man bloated with belief but lacking in truth If I'm generous more time it's outright venomous giving uncouth in any shape and measurement our teeth not hesitant bite on sight chop for my betterment life thrive best in source and element on Liberaton I'm vehement give us delight all now we're elegant imagine us light
3.	LARK 02:10	lyrics	buy track
same old me bro p south side london liming paisley pattern in my army jacket lining soul all shining life is rhyming swinging the timing we're speaking the tings we seek too many years hiding parrow of shadows can't free from the pit without climbing sky high sky high wings to the dancefloor bass on levitation heart beat heavy no hesitation dial in tune in any station fly by nightly elevation wings to the dancefloor bass on levitation heart beat heavy no hesitation same old me bro p south side london liming paisley pattern in my army jacket lining soda had lime in ife is rhyming swinging the timing we're speaking the tings we seek too many years hiding parrow of shadows can't free from the pit without climbing sky high sky high leave it all on the floor with in salt and ash bone and body khalass lost in the mass dem fireside steppers smoke on the wind when i wing my feathers switch my skin when I feel that weather sing to my kin and we sway together sun in the south and it know my face this lark out of place
4.	STEP ASIDE (Limbo Land Larry's Skank) 03:53	lyrics	buy track
rhythmical is it in my spirit or spiritual I’m from limbo land where we cut through you can't limit the liminal go stew in your misery my granny been knowing now to them is epiphany they sniffing me from minstrel show to mimickry anything but the burden step aside they throw fist we word em they duck and I hide us lot been knowing where to them it's epiphany they sniffing me like I got piff on me Nah Sah step aside step aside steppers steppers rise steppers steppers rise rise out for a long night bodies cut a path under moonlight there's a blues come through and bring your best shoe here they can't find or define we arise step in step aside steppers steppers rise same face my daddy turn heads in mask off no pretending they don't love us but they love us the reaction perplexing halls stacked with our impact and we weren't even flexin step in step aside look at em jittery in the vicinity sullying the vibes step aside
5.	RAID! 02:14	lyrics	buy track
on my bloodline babylon owe me a slice been a lifetime learning the blueprint cameras corners motive movements know about enough to plot me a heist map in braids from bowel & belly this debt in bodies cant fathom a price all this mess from craven eyes I refuse I deny swag bag making benevolent moves find the night in an elegant mood dressed to settle a feud appetite rude got em looking food must be them if they modelling shoe and the footprint fit we know their tricks leave stain and claim innocent, who? Hands up don’t move RAID! bun the tower where power maintain dance on the ruin like a flickering flame how fickle the game come we take a hammer and sickle to chains heart was brittled by blame jarring me like I picked the pain so sour no this won't happen again drew my sword and whittled the shame it looked it like power RAID!
6.	THE FUGITIVE DREAMS OF HOME ft. Asmaa Jama 02:44	lyrics	buy track
couldn't sleep and started dreaming my days away was crazy in the dunya had to hold up an overlay filtering a hue of hope on visions of ... I think it til it forming open eyes and go grab my clay pound it as the tears wash my fears til they fade away paint on something optimistic pattern suit a rugged misfit purple as a natural mystic what would my lover say? ... asmaa ... I realized there was never much to you I wonder if you loved my misery when my desire is too fractional I was your lumber waiting for your return your lighthouse hoping you could reach me through scent alone I pictured you above me slick with ink my heart like a desperate moth pounding ‘gainst the sink I’m wandering the necropolis pretending I don’t miss you your mark on my skin stings like a fresh tattoo I hope someday that we’ll be legible I lost the last of my friends but once when we were golden and I still believed I imagined you’d carve my headstone out for me that you’d outlive this I made us tragic but you wanted everything my skin, sweat and my secrecy so how could I tell you how could I tell you about the night I spent scoring open an escape hatch in the sky the night I left and how I left behind our memories and took our lost love with me ... ... ... my fingers find the burnt edge of a photograph I hold it and I hear your laugh imprinted like an epigraph this flower needs to see the sun we'd hit that Body Rock and swing like a metronome you sing a moan, your touch the sweetest thing I've ever known I found a home, in your heart i pocket a billet doux missing home i trace a line of memory back to you in our single bed under cover like contraband I slid out with the shadows left a single kiss on your hand ran into the fire like our freedom is preordained on everything my flower needs to see the sun rise again
7.	SERENADE / AUBADE 02:13	lyrics	buy track
my dreams cause scandals my hope a vandal care brick windows pre a king on sight I'm tossing sandals I will throw hands this love set fires my tongue barbed wire they long since made us criminals for desire so why they watching? my truth a tyrant devotion violent my heart is pliant don't think that forgiveness means you walk my words are scissors my eyes cause shivers each promise quiver soul knows long and deep and murky rivers wet and wanting I'm running towards a future screaming fuck your it could be worse that comfort a silent killer your pillow is someone's hearse I'm sorry I ain't no different this grimace devoid of mirth I just rather fight the resistance within me than be a curse we fight it til the resistance feel victory on tender earth I'm sitting in my naivete childish honest and kind A tantrum on their deception protection for the maligned ‘fore change seed into conception its vision and then design just imagine

credits

released December 5, 2025

All songs produced by lovelyday3000
Additional production by Hector Plimmer
All songs written by brother portrait

Track 2 written by brother portrait & Lovelle
Track 6 written by brother portrait & Asmaa Jama
Additional Vox: Lovelle (2), Koan the alias (5), Asmaa Jama (5)
Mixed by lovelyday3000
Mastered by Yizzy

Artwork by Asmaa Jama