{"id":288382,"created_at":"2023-03-13 12:39:25","updated_at":"2024-05-09 02:34:07","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2023-03-13 12:39:25","original_id":null,"artist_id":22388,"title":"Devil's Work Part 2 (South African Version) by Colombus Lucas","slug":"devils-work-part-2-south-african-version-by-colombus-lucas","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"Dear Lord I know that we been here before\r\nMost South African rappers die just after 34\r\nTo bring em back I'd trade my kidney maybe scrape these floors\r\nmy tears always staying wimme whats this pain for\r\n\r\nyou gave us heroes tell me, what you scratch they names for\r\nthey went away too early---then what they came for\r\nneed you to tell me is this real or its a game lord\r\nit doesnt tally what we lost and what we gained lord \r\n\r\nSome good people die, even though they barely sick\r\nit pulls me inside like I wanna have a drink\r\nhow we supposed to be happy when you dont leave the kids\r\ncause all this pain doesnt help me, and I cant even think\r\n\r\nNo wonder, I'd make some more blunders\r\nI guess you couldnt give us rain with no thunder\r\nI wish our prayers to be fine werent blown under\r\nIf heaven got a landline we need the phone number\r\n\r\nI know these choices may be hard but I aint tryina be you\r\na conversation need to start, I aint tryina piss you\r\nand this time I need a hug it dont involve a pistol\r\ninstead of keeping doors shut, can we have a re-do\r\n\r\nTeachers dying on the job It costs a lot to teach\r\nwe tried to cross the bridge-- you taught a lot of thieves\r\nits like we lost a switch --- Im not looking away\r\nyou gave us Costa Titch --- then you took him away\r\n\r\nhe united us blacks --- whites and coloureds, (facts)\r\nput the race thing in trash --- why - did he have to collapse\r\nlord its time you confessed --- why you taking the best\r\nwhy you making them rest ---I- got a lot on my chest\r\n\r\nErase the day when AKA went Durban God\r\nlet his assissins stay away and make their grudges stop\r\nGive em peace in their hearts, make em very sober \r\n- & Give AKA a chance to see his daughter grow up \r\n\r\nand I know its never easy, how you dropped the ball\r\nlet him say he's very busy, make him drop the call\r\nfix the beef he had with Cassper make em ball whenever\r\nMaybe then theyd finally release a song together\r\n\r\nAnd give us Patrick Shai back, there is no harm\r\nTake back the words he said about Casspers mom\r\nMake him run Khuluma Ndoda for these broken men\r\nGive him a second chance lord, we both know he can\r\n\r\nBring us Killer Kau and Mpura for another track\r\nMake it so there was no show for them in Rustenburg\r\nclear their day, so that, they didnt have to drive\r\nMake a way, so they dont have to fight to survive\r\n\r\nhow are we supposed to live with death sitting at the corners?\r\n--- Could you please heal the first victims of CORONA\r\nSo that they dont spread it like they did with Ebola\r\nOnly then we could be with our Mr. Shona\r\n\r\nBring us back to the days when this life was simple\r\nMake us happy people, give us DJ Dimples\r\nIts raining death phela, We need an Umbrella\r\nApartheid is back again please give us Mandela\r\n\r\nIts an Abomination --- they say he sold the nation\r\nhe gave us freedom- that and selling out have no relation\r\nI bet the only reason we fight him is cause he black\r\nbut then again its no surprise hes never coming back\r\n\r\n--- Undo the stress- Riky Rick suffered lord\r\nhe was the best,bring him back tougher lord\r\nbring him back, and give a way no second guessing\r\nor better yet, make it so that he got no depression\r\n\r\n--- Heal the stroke from Ngubane Menzi\r\n& Charles Maja.... and make them all healthy\r\nTake us to 2011, for Jub Jub \r\nMake him stay the hell away from that Minnie Coop'\r\n\r\nI got a lot to say, take him to rehab--\r\nTake his drugs away, days before he crashed--\r\nbring cops to his place, so he wouldnt deceive--\r\narrest him fore that day, so the students can live\r\n\r\nLets take this back to Zimbabwe --- that Holy ten\r\na coward fighting for his life , thats a lonely man\r\nCause dawg he is a phoney even Police couldnt tell\r\na bitch nigger snitched he doesnt know his story well\r\n\r\na male Mona Lisa, a shoe for a mind\r\nbut then it goes deeper, Ibotso was fire\r\nWhen Winky D pitched up, Holy coulda deny\r\nWhen he got the feature, he shoulda declined\r\n\r\nk, Lets take it back to Eastern Cape, reshuffle things\r\na tarven broke a heart, those 21 teens\r\nthis how it should start, Give the place a guard\r\nand make them show some ID or tear that place apart\r\n\r\nGive that mom her child --- leave that child alone\r\nmaybe then he would be living mom would find him home\r\nmake them go to school, saw heaven too soon\r\nwuf was a full moon make em see 27 June\r\n\r\nLets take it back to state charges --- the rape charges\r\nSo if girls fake charges --- The state charges\r\nAfter this tape marches --- theyll take grudges\r\nwaste they time like fake watches --- they pain rushes\r\n\r\nTake away those sex cravings keep feet in the sand\r\nMake him pass all those ladies --- duck shit in advance\r\nI guess Brickz was tripped, Underpant in advance\r\nmake him skip the kids --- keep that dick in his pants\r\n\r\nTake Pitch Black away from Catherine, that weird punk\r\nand also choose a better husband, for SteenKamp\r\nBut its too late to ask --- I guess it'll never work\r\nI know this aint your fault its the devil's work\r\n\r\nSee sometimes we ignore when the devil talk\r\nBut when its money lord we open when the devil knock\r\nCause we are starving lord its hard to always say no\r\nThe world is evil lord its hard to even lay low\r\n\r\nLord, do we have to see our sisters in a hearse\r\ncause of abuse, or a thug who went to steal her purse\r\nso many dying it should pay enough to be a nurse\r\ntheres no denying underqualified and its a curse\r\n\r\nImagine eating then you bleeding and it doesnt stop\r\nThen theres a meeting for your children so they see your corpse\r\nLong as Im breathing Im not leaving till I see a pause\r\nI do believe in all your meaning but Im feeling lost\r\n\r\nthey took a wrong road, walking on crucifix\r\nwhat cruelty is this --- we got a lot to fix\r\nthey got a lot to give --- we'll let heaven talk\r\nbut once again its not your fault its the devils work","download_count":60,"play_count":5,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2024-05-09","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/640\/efd\/305\/thumb_932914_300_300_0_0_crop.jpg","status_reason":"published","status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}