The anger of four generations of Caribbean and Black British and their hopeful parents, bruised, used and then rejected by their ‘mother country’ for their strength, speed and style. My uncle was driven into depression and an early death by Babylondon, so two generations later I return to the city as the famed Caribbean pirate “Captain Blood” to make mas’ on the streets of London and avenge him and his mother with sound. Funkelectronica with a Caribbean accent.
lyrics
CAPTAIN BLOOD
Written by Twylight Seven- Chanzo Osei Greenidge (SOCAN/COTT)
(for Helen Victoria Greenidge and Joyce Greenidge)
Key: C# Minor
Title: Captain Blood
Time: 1969-2009
Verse 1: Running Tings [Flooding the Bridge]
Blood
I will flood your streets,
Take 'em over and give [repeat this section four times to represent four generations]
you the sweet Lick
that you need now,
How, I am…
laughing at your antics
Drinking in the Chelsea bridges and bloody ridges
The french fried waiters, the art critics
From London, England, United, Kingdom
The many trips to worship chips and
CommonWorthless shit:
the stakes, the fish,
the debts,
The bets, the breaks,
The readings, the weddings, the beatings
And then the seductive promisings
Even from "'ntings"," innit?", "sure love" and "sweet-tart",
I run my odd light straight through your bloody heart
Chorus [Flooding the Bridge]:
G#m…Ohhh…I’m lovin’ (F#m) Blood
I’m lickin’ London and lovin’ (G#m) it
Lovin’ (F#m7) blood
I’m lickin’ Lon-(G#m)don
And lovin’ (F#m7) blood,
I’m lickin’ London and lovin’ (F#m7…)it
Verse 2: Goals
As I think, you blink and wink
At my sex, but soul sleeps
In my math, and statecraft’s too steep for your flat
Lines, Demi-god of the vanishing smile
The paper slanders as Invaders conquer the time-tamer
The Manor told Zephaniah ban the dodgy child
He refused while the manner of sweat and swine piles
While the track changes and self-defeat run deep in your streets
While the boys sit at attention, so constant, so complete
Abbreviated Chorus:
I’m lickin’ London and lovin’ blood
I’m lickin’ London and lovin’ it
(Optional) Verse 2: Shots
I recover, score, give you a world tour
To increase my karma pleats
Then lick you with more pics
More goals, more gold, more stores, more stories
More bars, more silver, more fronts and more stars
[1 bar of Silence]
Chorus
Verse 3: El Dorado West One
So choke it down Babylon
(Eat,) you sweet-biscuit whore
I love you so taste my carniva(l),
You know my curry is bananas
But don’t open your jaws
To suck my grandma's festival.
Feed your poor no more
On another woman's womb
‘cause now all day, night, I’m crossing
over their Lightning Tombs (x2).
Refrain: Resurrection
I’m lickin’ London (yeah)
Lickin’ London (yeah)
I’m lickin’ London (yeah)
Lickin’ London…..
credits
from Manila Sunrise - Part 1: Digable Planets,
track released November 20, 2013
4) Captain Blood
Lead Vocals; Berimbau; Pipes; Backing Vocals: Twylight Seven
Backing Vocals: Rochelle Dalrymple; Kendel Haynes
Synthesizer; Keyboards: Candace Moore
Beatbox: Kendel Haynes
Drum Programming: Lamar 'Beebo' Pollard
All Songs Written, Composed and Arranged by: Twylight Seven
All Songs Produced, Engineered and Mixed by: Lamar “Beebo” Pollard
Recording, Production and Mixing: Lion’s Den Studios, Mt. Lambert, Trinidad and Tobago
Mastering: Phillip Klum Mastering, New York City, USA
Publishing: 50 Stories Publishing
These sweet, sad indie pop tunes accompany Ian Coss's podcast of the same name, in which he interviews his family about their divorces. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 17, 2021
