[00:00.59]Emotionless the city lies[00:07.63]Cruel it is, it clouds my eyes[00:14.20]The dull, the dark shades on my day[00:18.89]I live inside this place[00:27.02]Locked up inside my metal cage[00:34.21]Always tense and filled with rage[00:40.58]Above the concrete fields below[00:45.45]With you I wanna go, wanna go[00:50.19]Music is my sanctuary[00:51.45]Music is my blanket[00:53.18]I see only what I wanna see[01:00.46]I'll be only what I wanna be[01:11.69]My blanket covers me yeah[01:15.34][01:16.85]Yeah, check it[01:19.48]Now as a yout man I was body poppin breakin on the lino[01:23.12]Traded in my lino for a pad and a biro[01:26.41]Used to stand in line just so as I could sign my giro[01:29.84]But now my ends meet in the best way that I know[01:33.04](Hat, snare, kick) and the beats that go boom[01:36.43]See the music I consume to escape the doom and gloom[01:39.42]All the beats and melodies keep realities at bay[01:42.81]But what happens when the records done and starts to fade away[01:45.89]Fade away[01:46.84]Alone within myself again[01:52.08]I try to veil away my pain[02:00.12]The dirty grey surrounding me 'round[02:05.07]And now I hear no sound...[02:08.57][02:13.17]I feel like Melle Mel from way back in the days[02:15.85]As I wonder how I keep from going under[02:18.28]I got trouble on my mind like my name is Chuck D[02:22.44]And like Marvin Gaye it makes me want to holler[02:25.54]When the music hits me I feel no pain[02:28.87]That's why I got to put you on again and again[02:32.21]I take the needle off the technics and put it in my vein[02:35.76]All my troubles get crushed as the rush hits my brain[02:39.15]And away goes trouble down the drain. I see only what I wanna see[02:47.02]I be only who I wanna be[02:57.93][02:58.34]My blanket covers me[03:02.99]Music is my sanctuary[03:04.21]Music is my blanket[03:06.43]I see only what I wanna see[03:13.31]I be only who I wanna be[03:24.63]My blanket covers me[03:29.49]Music is my sanctuary[03:30.60]Music is my blanket[04:00.19]You are my living world[04:06.52]You are my living world[04:13.14]You are you are you are my[04:16.88]My only living world