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02 Clean Cut Rapper

from Acoustic Overtures by Dougal Irvine

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Written and Performed by Dougal Irvine

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Now I'm not your stereotypical mother-humpin' lyrical gangsta
You can tell I'm not cool, in fact at school I was in the top of the class
Though I'm not very street there's this beat that repeats in my brain
And I'm on an insane train
If I don't relate to this rhythm
This is what I've been given
Though I loath it or love it I can't help but succumb to it.

I take my plastic and I put it in the recycling
I grow herbs in a pot but I use them making bolognaise
Though I listen to Stevie, you've gotta believe me
I ain't got soul but I got a whole lotta good sense
To dispense if you can take the pretence
That I am only what I appear to be
And that's a

Clean cut middle class white rapper
With a melody
And I'm comin' atcha fresher than a day in spring
That's right a nice guy middle class white rapper
With a remedy
'Cause I tried all kinds of living
But it's love that keeps me winning
'Cause love's the sweetest thing
Ain't love the sweetest thing

Now rap was born in the Bronx around the nineteen seventies
If you were feeling oppressed at the time you had a lot to say
Though it was full of aggression, I can't help but mention
It was just a bunch of kids having fun
That begun a new craze to create new waves in the ocean
That would stop discrimination for a future generation

Now I'm not oppressed and if I'm tetchy it's because I'm hungover
I only live in a slum when I haven't gone and made the bed
Though I'm far from the bottom it's still a long way to the top
And it seems the rich up there don't care
Because their drive to succeed
Is keeping them hungrier than those who are desperate and in need

So over to the clean cut middle class white rapper with a melody
And I'm comin' atcha' fresher than a day in spring
That's right an idealistic middle class white rapper with a remedy
Cause the world's so full of voices
And we have so many choices
But love's the sweetest thing
Ain't love the sweetest thing

'Cause love is kind
Love's considerate
Love makes all others your brothers innit
The wonderful thing of the power of love
Is it knows when you have got enough

So I'm a clean cut middle class white rapper with a melody
And it fills me with the joys of a day in spring
You could be a clean cut middle class white rapper with this remedy
'Cause hidden deep inside us
Is a serenity that binds us
It's called love
And its the sweetest thing
It's the sweetest thing
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba etc..

OUTRO (I'm hardcore, I know the score, I'll hiphop till my hips get sore. I know the score - it's about 4-3)

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from Acoustic Overtures, released July 12, 2016

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