West London in the House - Emotion (feat. Jonathan Cohen & Raena) Lyrics

Cause I'm a

Wasp in the bottle of the chamber of rap

Lost in the bottom of this deep seam of shame that I tap

Same old same, old crap, as I tussle with this future fossil of a tame old man

Is it love of life or fear of death, the need to confess

In this screed of the blessed, is it the need to be freed from the flesh

Or just a vestige of the sess

Is it the anger, is it the wrath, is it the shatarangha or the Eightfold Noble Path?

Man you don't know the half, you don't know the graft and it's cruel to ask

Cause I must've been through 40 drafts, and just when I think it's finished it all seems to fall apart

Then it seems like a faulty task, then I feel like I'm a punk and I'm sorta daft

But it's just Emotion it's just Emotion it's just Emotion

So most

Morning occasions, I sit in meditation, that's the elation, that's my devotion, that's my vocation

Honouring these waves of emotion that arise and pass away like the waves of the ocean

And it's only these strange notions, that help me stave off the moroseness

But you act as if I was a Freemason, and it's not kosher

But it's more like freebasing, cause I keep lacing this track, with what in life we all have to keep facing

Cause life doesn't unfold like the pages of a glossy brochure

So whether feelings are likeable or loathsome

I'm never complacent whether in rapture, infatuation or out of focus

I'll keep emoting until I'm doting and keep the respiration nascent and precocious

It's just Emotion

Ohh

Like a wave takes me under

Then brings me safe

To where I need

So I can breathe

Is it love or hunger

Find my clarity

It's just Emotion

Ohh

It's just Emotion

Ohh

It's just Emotion

But it's just Emotion it's just Emotion it's just Emotion

And stay

Unfazed in the mire like a lotus in mindful osmosis

And transcend death's rattle & roll with my breath control with the beat

In joyful symbiosis

And it's only when the beat hits that I know what I'm feeling

Layers of denial, delusion I'm peeling

What I've been keeping pent up, concealed, self-deceiving

It's hip-hop therapy man it's healing, it's like

Saying a prayer without the kneeling, it's like going up in the air without the glass ceiling

Man it's massively relieving, being positive & passionate, like I'm Asif & Anil-ing

And yes I concede it, when it's hungry, I've got to feed it, cause I need it

Nothing heinous, it's healthy, it's Ayurvedic

It goes all the way back to the Psalms, Suras and the Vedas

It's for the pious, the meek, the heathen; that's how I treat it

Cause it's just Emotion it's just Emotion it's just Emotion