Lyrics Islands - Shad

Yes
Ah, Islands
Yeah

You can't do all things
Don't dream big
Til you handle small things
A wise tree understands it's falling (falling)
Plant seeds in the rubble (plant seed)
For belief, for relief in the struggle

Peace is knowing
You're a piece of the puzzle
Not the whole thing
You don't control things
Don't point fingers
If the fingers got gold rings
It's out of your hands
Focus on what you're holding (yeah)

Those that do keep the world sane
Putting hope to work, they spur change
Staying close to the earth, they turn pain
Into purpose
Searching for light
They burn flames

Now you can build or destroy
Spread healing or poison
To fill in the void
Human nature, is to fill it with noise
So we just do the labour
And then chill and enjoy, listen

Islands, land and water, yeah (land and water)
Raise it up (yeah, bag's)
Uplift this body (body)
Sand and soil (sand and soil)
Gold and oil (rich bad)
Nothing can stop us (islands)
Nothing can stop us
Nothing can stop us

Islands, land and water (relax)
Raise it up (raise it up)
Uplift this body, uplift this body
Sand and soil (sand and soil)
Gold and oil (rich, Islands, islands)
Nothing, nothing can stop us
Nothing

Look, what is life
If just a few can afford a roof?
Just a landlord or two
With their mortgage due
If the schools are too poor to support the youth
No art, no sports do just portables

If journalists aren't brave
So they distort the truth
When they report the news
If entertainers
Perform with tuned vocals over
Vocals and recorded loops

If we all got disordered moods
No Black, White, Brown now
Everybody sort of blue
If few vote, politicians are ignoring you
If I'm buying this imported fruit
That gets processed and sold back
To those that export the food

For more
If it seems the only moral rule
Is I get mine and you
Get some more for you
Maybe we need something new (something new)
Things only seen in dreams
To look forward to (we're building that)

Islands, land and water (islands)
Raise it up (raise it up) yeah
Uplift this body (uplift this body)
Sand and soil (sand and soil)
Gold and oil (rich, rich, Islands)
Nothing, nothing can stop us
Nothing can stop us

Land and water
Raise it up (raise up) it us
Uplift this body (uplift this body)
Sand and soil (sand and soil)
Golden and oil (rich)
Nothing can stop us

Hmm, islands