{"id":26105,"date":"2016-06-01T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26105"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:43:50","slug":"check-out-samphas-soulful-and-lovelorn-track-timmys-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-06\/check-out-samphas-soulful-and-lovelorn-track-timmys-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Sampha&#8217;s Soulful and Lovelorn Track &#8220;Timmy&#8217;s Prayer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13254362_10154342602357176_915226738653021388_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve only previously sampled <a href=\"http:\/\/sampha.com\/\"><strong>Sampha<\/strong><\/a> as a part of his collabs with\u00a0<strong>SBTRKT<\/strong> and, recently, with some dudes named\u00a0<strong>Kanye<\/strong> and<strong> Drake<\/strong>. But after repeated listens to South London&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Sampha&#8217;s<\/strong> soulful and lovelorn new track <em><strong>Timmy&#8217;s Prayer<\/strong><\/em>, we are now all ears for <strong>Sampha<\/strong>-proper. Check it out below. The multifaceted lyrics (check out at bottom) of\u00a0<em><strong>Timmy&#8217;s Prayer<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0grab you by the aorta while <strong>Sampha<\/strong>\u00a0vocally combines the best from a spectrum that runs from <strong>Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)<\/strong>\u00a0to <strong>Marvin Gaye. \u00a0<\/strong>Sampha\u00a0brings the melange up to date with effervescent electronic embellishments. Superb stuff. We can&#8217;t wait for more from <strong>Sampha!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQXDVZf3akg\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Timmy&#8217;s Prayer<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If ever you&#8217;re listening<br \/>\nIf ever you&#8217;re listening<br \/>\nIf ever you&#8217;re listening<\/p>\n<p>If ever you&#8217;re listening<br \/>\nIf heaven&#8217;s a prison<br \/>\nThen I am your prisoner<br \/>\nYes, I am your prisoner<br \/>\nI messed up, ooh<br \/>\nI know now<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no room for me to play now<br \/>\nNowhere to dig my way out<\/p>\n<p>My vital organs are beating through<br \/>\nMy ribcage opened, my heart ballooned<br \/>\nI&#8230; I&#8217;ve lost another one<br \/>\nI&#8217;m on the floor trying to dress my wounds<br \/>\nAddress the fact it was mine to lose<br \/>\nI&#8230; I didn&#8217;t try enough<br \/>\nAnd when I&#8217;m left without your love<br \/>\nIt could feel like a lifetime baby<br \/>\nAnd somewhere in the start we had it alright<br \/>\nSunshine and blue skies, yes I call<br \/>\nBut now there&#8217;s a darker blue<br \/>\nI&#8217;m bleeding and you don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nThe sun sinks and you&#8217;re not there<\/p>\n<p>If ever you&#8217;re listening<br \/>\nIf heaven&#8217;s a prison<br \/>\nThen I am your prisoner<br \/>\nYes, I am your prisoner<br \/>\nI messed up, ooh<br \/>\nI know now<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no room for me to play now<br \/>\nNowhere to dig my way out<\/p>\n<p>My brother always said I&#8217;m a dreamer, dreamer<br \/>\nYou better watch out where this life will lead ya<br \/>\nAnd he always said she&#8217;s a keeper keeper<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll stay by your side when the rest will leave ya<br \/>\nWell I&#8217;m looking on my left side, I&#8217;m looking on my right<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s nowhere to be seen now when I close my eyes at night<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming, surely you can find me by the shore<br \/>\nI&#8217;m singing so blindly, can you hear me?<br \/>\nCan you find me?<br \/>\nIf you find me, wanna tell you I love you so<br \/>\nI wanna tell you that love comes and goes<br \/>\nThat it comes and goes<br \/>\nI hear the footsteps in the water and I feel the breeze<br \/>\nI open my eyes and no words, no words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I listened when I was in prison<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m just a visitor<br \/>\nI came to the gates but you turned me away<br \/>\nYou asked me what am I waiting for<br \/>\nI&#8217;m waiting cause I fucked up, ooh<br \/>\nI got thrown out<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know which way to go now<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know which way is home now<\/p>\n<p>If ever you&#8217;re listening<br \/>\nIf heaven&#8217;s a prison<br \/>\nThen I am your prisoner<br \/>\nYes, I am your prisoner<br \/>\nI messed up, oh<br \/>\nI know now<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no room for me to play now<br \/>\nNowhere to dig my way out&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve only previously sampled Sampha as a part of his collabs with\u00a0SBTRKT and, recently, with some dudes named\u00a0Kanye and Drake. But after repeated listens to South London&#8217;s\u00a0Sampha&#8217;s soulful and lovelorn new track Timmy&#8217;s Prayer, we are now all ears for Sampha-proper. Check it out below. The multifaceted lyrics (check out at bottom) of\u00a0Timmy&#8217;s Prayer\u00a0grab you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26110,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions\/26110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}