DarkArc002
Wicked in every sense of the word
Y’CATCH ON T’ME
Slow and sinister, this track is full of wicked rhymes and a rolling thunder of a story
Amarah at her challenging best, playing a crime siren calling for partners in crime, her voice is once snarling rage, then hard-forks to soulful crooning as she seduces the driver to drive them across Jamaica in a reign of terror. The Beatles’ Baby You Can Drive My Car It Ain’t..
“Like me, The Tapes love all that slow dark Stepper sound from 60s and that” says Amarh, “But also like me they want new sounds to move it more modern, so we not making some artefact, from like, history. We love ON-U Sound and things they made with New Age Steppers, you can feel the influence, but it is new, alive. This is with every thing they make they try to do, we suit each other very well.”
“It was tough to finish the track, we had many different mixes, more acoustic, big band, more stepper. In the end we made the origal the one. More hard, more acid, it suit the lyrics the most.”
“I know I will take some heat for the story, but it is not a glamorisation of crime, it is just a story, there are lives like this, I am just a reporter.”
“Every one love a crime story, and so this is that. I don’t have violence in my life, but it doesn’t mean I don’t think it makes for a good way to hook you in”
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They condemn me for the tongue of witches—
The sweet seduction of the roadworn bitches—
But they can’t comprehend what I is:
Nor the siren swoon of my sunshine kisses.
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If you all got some soul and you want to be free,
Shake off your chains and catch on to me.
I am the shaker of the faker,
the real money maker.
I know lady fortune lives, and where to take her.
She lives to deceive so don’t mistake her;
You can treat her tough and never break her.
If you all for some fun,
Come run, run, run,
Like paint on a canvas boiled by a midday sun.
I'm looking for a shotgun rider to help come find her—
Are you the one?
Will you come?
My crimes need a partner, So they tremble at what we've done.
If you all got some soul and you want to be free,
Shake off your chains and catch on to me.
Come start up my engine for the road ahead.
Pack up your pistol, pack up your lead.
If them catch our trail, we shall both be dead,
So let’s full scare them with a heart full of dread.
I curse all that follow with full Jah said;
They can follow us from our trail of the dead.
For we do all the deeds that the goat god said, Leaving behind a road full of red.
So you all got some soul and you feel to be free,
Cast off them chains and catch on to me.
Yes, yes, they condemn me for the tongue of witches—
The sweet seduction of the roadworn bitches—
But they can’t comprehend what I is:
The siren swoon of my sunshine kisses.
Come follow the road on which I slips,
Snake cross the scene like a viper’s hips.
Like sweet honey, my poison drips;
Come feel it as I lick your lips.
So you all got some soul and you feel to be free,
Cast off them chains and catch on to me.
Run with me and we can come take our fun,
Like a dumdum bullet from a gun, gun, gun.
From before us, they will run, run, run. Now I set this before you, tell me... Are you the one?
So if I ask you, will you run and hide?
If I say Bonnie, will you say Clyde?
Come close next to me, will you slide?
Or say your freedom will have dried?
Come run, I’m sure you are the one
To partner all my crime till we are undone,
Till all our desire, until our end become In tangled metal, the bullet of the gun.
Yes, you shall; my spell is took and done.
I know that look—’tis the look, the look for fun.
Here’s the key, pretty chosen one:
Start that engine and let’s run...
So you do got some soul, and now you're free,
’Cos you bust from them chains to come catch me.
Now we gonna roll, roll, on the road to be free.
Rev up them engines and pay your toll to me.
Lock one in the chamber, and we shall see what we see—
On this road ahead, who can we set free?
Baby, flat that pedal as you sit next to me,
And we’ll see who else in the world will catch on to me.
Baby, flat that pedal as you sit next to me. We'll see who else in this world...
Will catch on to me.
