[Verse 1: Durban gqom female MC, hard and sharp over the broken gqom kick and heavy toms] Eish, my speaker's gone, it was sittin' on the stoop Ten minutes in the kitchen and the whole thing flew the coop So I walked out on the corner, and I didn't need a clue Saw Lwazi on the wall, and I said sho, it was you Told the taxi rank at seven, told the tuck shop by eight Told the aunties at the tap, and I told 'em it was straight Told the boys out on the field, and I told 'em on the bus Told the whole street it was him, and I didn't make a fuss Then his mother come and found me with a ticket in her hand Lwazi's been at gran's in Pinetown, do you understand Seven days in Pinetown, with the bus stub in her fist And the whole street turned and looked at me, and I'm the one who missed [Hook: Gqom MC, chanted hard, heavy toms on every line] Eish, I said it was you, and I said it with my chest Told the whole street, told the corner, told the rest Wrong one time, so watch me take it all the way back That's my bad, but you ain't ever seen my bad [Verse 2: Gqom MC, faster, the broken kick pushing her] So I said sorry how I said it, and I said it twice as loud Stood up on a crate at the taxi rank and told the crowd Lwazi didn't do it, I was wrong, and that's a fact Told the tuck shop and the tap, and told the aunties in the back Borrowed the microphone at the school fair on the Sunday Sorry Lwazi, sorry, that was me, and that was one day Sho, I wrote it on the wall where I had wrote his name before Bought his mother bread and amasi, left it at her door Every corner heard it, every window, every yard The apology was louder than the speaker, and that's hard And the whole street's sayin' Thandi, ain't you done, ain't it enough And I'm sayin' not yet, my speaker's still out there in the rough [Verse 3: Gqom MC, kick straightens to four on the floor the bar she names him, colder] Friday at the tuck shop, I'm apologizin' still To the auntie at the counter, by the airtime and the till And a boy behind me buyin' bread says don't be sorry, sis That speaker had a crack in it, it wasn't worth all this Eish, I turned around so slow, 'cause I never told a soul That my speaker had a crack in it, right across the bowl Only one who knew that crack's the one who had it on his knee So I looked at him and said it, Sipho, sho, you robbed from me And the whole shop heard it, 'cause they heard me all week long Every corner knows my voice now, every corner knows the song Lwazi got his sorry, and the auntie got her bread Sipho got my bad, and that's the other thing I said [Final Hook: Gqom MC, all the way up, four on the floor to the end] Eish, I said it was you, and I said it with my chest Told the whole street, told the corner, told the rest Wrong one time, so watch me take it all the way back That's my bad, but you ain't ever seen my bad [Outro: Gqom MC, last bar] Sho [End]
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