{"id":90423,"created_at":"2019-08-10 09:47:10","updated_at":"2021-04-23 13:47:34","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2019-08-10 09:47:10","original_id":null,"artist_id":12962,"title":"Fees Made Me Fall","slug":"fees-made-me-fall","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"Fees Made Me Fall\r\n\r\nLesson: This is appreciation for girlfriends who support their boyfriends in their pursuit of education or any dream and do not leave when it goes wrong. This honouring the mother whose son is trying to achieve just for her. My story is of dropping out of school and I also believe \u201cfees must fall\u201d. It is acknowledgement that they are there for us men during dark days.\r\n\r\n(verse 1)\r\nThe winds of change blow my mind it\u2019s strange\r\nHow I maintain my brain without going insane\r\nSince I came into this world I\u2019ve been trying to do right, play the game\r\nOf life without with practice now I\u2019m losing it to pain\r\nBorn an intelligent kid\r\nThat\u2019s no irrelevant fib\r\nI hope you sense that this sentiment is\r\nAn introduction to the story of my school career\r\nAnd how I felt I\u2019d be a failure like my childhood peers\r\nMy real name Brian\r\nEnds with the iron\r\nI had inside of me to make it when the times were trying\r\nAnd trust I\u2019m not lying\r\nWhen I say I stopped crying\r\nFive years ago \u2018til recently because the pain was giant\r\nLike a little baby in my girlfriend\u2019s arms\r\nThank God for she made the whirlwinds calm\r\nThe family that handed me school fees in grade 8\r\nAbandoned me because I wouldn\u2019t clean their house and be a slave \r\nMa had a debt on short notice but we made it\r\nAll they sent her was a bill she couldn\u2019t and she never paid it\r\nNow they\u2019re repossessing furniture in my house\r\nAnd it\u2019s really hard to think about\r\nBut I think I\u2019m gonna drop out.\r\n\r\n(Chorus) \r\nFees made me fall\r\nSchool fees need to fall\r\nFrom walking I crawled\r\nOn my knees I still fall (x2)\r\n\r\n(verse 2)\r\nMy mind\u2019s blank like in meditation\r\nIf I had a trigger I would pull without hesitation\r\nSmoking weed for levitation\r\nGoing like a Boeing to a higher level\r\nBut I feel closer to the devil\r\nLike my soul was embezzled\r\nPraying to God for a miracle\r\nI need school fees I'm hysterical\r\nEvery time they make roll call I get nervous\r\nSo motivated, what's the purpose?\r\nThose who deserve it\r\nIn life either make it the hard way or never surface\r\nFrom the depths of poverty I'm financially curs-ed\r\nThe service\r\nI give to Ma of good grades isn't worth it\r\nAnymore if I'm gonna drop out and desert it\r\nI applied for Financial Aid in my application\r\nThough the waiting list was long I didn\u2019t need patience\r\nGot rejected as a student at the varsity\r\n\u2018Cause I needed 4 point 5 G\u2019s as a starting fee\r\nThe SRC told me attend and register\r\nLater when you raise the amount et cetera\r\nTo write the exam I got special permission \r\nOn condition\r\nThey wouldn\u2019t mark it \u2018til I paid my tuition\r\nI did raise the bucks up\r\nAdministration messed up\r\nTook too long to mark it\r\nMy loan was discarded\r\nTo everyone who tried to help me here\u2019s a shout out\r\nThank you for your efforts but I think I\u2019m gonna drop out\r\nI\u2019m sorry \r\n\r\n(Chorus) \r\nFees made me fall\r\nSchool fees need to fall\r\nFrom walking I crawled\r\nOn my knees I still fall (x2)\r\n\r\nTitle: Fees Made Me Fall\r\nLyrics: Brian dot Khoza (2000)\r\nComposition: Louie Van Wolf (2018)\r\nRecording, Mixing and Mastering: Louie Van Wolf (2018)","download_count":111,"play_count":0,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2021-04-23","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/5d4\/e75\/ce4\/thumb_266074_300_300_0_0_crop.png","status_reason":null,"status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}