Calypso Gene (feat. Silka & Cleo Reed)

(We get when we really ask for it)

Dip me in the water

(We get when we really ask for it)

Dip me in the water

I used to hustle with your grandmother

Used to party 'fore you was even thumbsuckin'

She lived out the sticks where you could get 'em by the dozens

Get 'em off like nothin'

Used to let me hold the door keys

I usually kept a lil' somethin' like, "What you need?"

Might crack you a piece like, "Hold that"

That's that old-old foot-stompin', hand clap

That dip me in the water (dip me in the water)

Wash me clean, the water black (black)

Dip me in the water

Run between from corner to sink

Every wrinkle seen, rinsed and steamed

Starched and pressed crease, cut clean

Say it with my chest, 99 steps

Too late to tell, none for the one-time

Wide be gates of hell, burnin' gas, standing still

There's a way to crash, sleepwalkin' where the blade splits

Razor's edge against leather grain

Tan strap, silly gon' shave, mister (mister)

It's the (it's the)

Stride like Moko Jumbie, come see

High as the tide rise, we used to be a country

Wash me clean, too much I can't unsee

Hungry, wild kipper by the fistful

Beetroot for the ticker

Might have to kill what I wish for

No place, no place here for me

Before I go under (under)

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water (I would like to bring up to the attention of the-)

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Get me in the water

Dip me in the water (hell, yeah)

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

The river is the border, but border is the river

Snipers watch me swim, 2.7 pounds of pressure on that trigger

Gaugin' the wind through narrow eyes

Three sisters over the cauldron

Ode to autumn in a old notebook I'm leafin' through like Nas

Didn't recognize my own hand at first

Half surprises, still leaves on the trees

I got half a mind to slide in the water, let it carry me out to sea

The water gentle, the water deep

Nobody speaks, certain things you just know in a dream

The hum of the engine, the thrum of the seat

Father lift me out the car, half-dead

Carry me in to sleep

That's still what love feel like to me

Tryna hold it together, the picture can't keep

Mosquito net had a small hole

The moon floatin', the water so cold

The sun rise and set 'til it don't

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water (I would like to bring up to the attention of the-)

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water

Dip me in the water (hell, yeah)