Fight Fire - Lyrics - Urthboy
Tim Levinson, better known by the stage name Urthboy, is an Australian hip-hop MC and producer from the Australian state of New South Wales. He is widely known for his solo music under the moniker Urthboy, as a founding member of the hip-hop group The Herd, and for co-founding and managing the Elefant Traks record label. Levinson has released four solo albums: Distant Sense of Random Menace , The Signal , Spitshine and Smokey's Haunt , as well as five studio albums with The Herd.
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(Urthboy)
Now I live by the motto where I choose my own battles
Do I look like I need the petty hassles
Sure I’m with the herd but I ain’t caught up in the politics of cattle
You can push/ but don’t think that you’ll knock me off the saddle
My job, my role, my love, is a black artform
I’m a teacup that carried the storm
My needs, my ways, my means, something outta the norm
Giving shape to what hasn’t been drawn and
That requires a little of Ali and Erik Satie
Boutros Boutros Ghali, solemn gotta party
But up from them calm waters rise tsunamis
The eyes conceal the kamikaze
That’s a devine wind, crush an uprising
You be the bouncer and I’ll be the lightning
And I’ll be the left hook that’s sinking your right wing
*** drop quicker than on an ice rink/ uh!
Make no mistake/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ we can settle it
Don’t forget that/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ you can bet on it
(Nay)
They got so much to to say but so much less to do
And I’m not hatin’ on you I’ve just heard better than you
You should go and get your mind right but you keep on playing a part
Searching for that limelight but haters get left in the dark
And they keep knocking, knock on the door of opportunity
while I’m not stopping picking the lock off this industry
Even though they say I’m more welcome in a penitentiary
Or cemetery like Doomadgee it’s hard to see the reasons
To keep up with trends and the friends that you like to follow
I’m doin’ it, I do it like the rent is due tomorrow
On this beat is right where my heart is
My Home is where my art is
You can bet on this
We gonna finish what u started
Make no mistake/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ we can settle it
Don’t forget that/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ you can bet on it
(Mantra)
It goes, eye on the prize, head in the clouds,
Ear to the ground, finger on the pulse of the town,
Skulking around, if you got an itchy digit on a trigger pull it,
Just be sure it's loaded with garlic and silver bullets,
cos aint no telling what'll land us in intensive care,
Steady rhymin' to the crack of military snares,
Guerrilla journalist mind frame, lurk in the mist,
genuine article burning in my brain, circling my veins,
unafraid of living dangerously unashamed so I readjust my aim,
fly folkloric, atom splittin' I'm spittin' acid at em my lyrics hydrochloric,
Going to show you gotta be watching the quiet ones,
small unassuming squids about to take down a giant one,
True elefant traks level a minefield,
Let em fire on us they aint ***' with strongwill
Make no mistake/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ we can settle it
Don’t forget that/ we’ll fight fire
With this fire/ you can bet on it
