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Cee: I was looking for a male singer for my album, and straight up, it was the toughest shit I've ever had to do. There's fucking NONE in this country lol. So during my search, the homie Enzo put me onto Richeus, who had this cool reggae vibe but he didn't really suit the track for the LP. I really wanted to collab with dude so I threw him this beat, he came up with the hook and his verse, I wrote the bridge and my verse and bang, it came out crazy. Prolly my fave beat on the project too, MaD spazzed on this one.
lyrics
[Verse 1: Cee]
Dear life, it's been a hell of a ride,
And over 32 years, you getting iller with time,
Unpredictable but still I'm sticking with you to find,
All the truth within the beauty and to which you define,
And it is you who be inspiring, the music, the writing,
My muse in the night and, the proof we alive man,
I choose to recite and to move with the light and,
The youth needing guidance, it's true, we provide that,
I look back from the position that I'm standing in,
I see a vision of a kid who missing confidence,
It took a love of Hip Hop to really gimme that,
And then I realised that it was in me 'fore the music did,
Yeah, and yo I'm grateful for my folks though,
With two sons dipping to the north, they support,
And I'm proud to be they seed so believe that it's on though,
The dream never fading so we moving 'til we make it,
'Til we make it, at least our definition of it,
All we wanting is our passion and we living off it,
I met my soulmate so homie, we living gorgeous,
Though this the hard times, it's cool because we pushing forward,
I'm learning happiness subjective and temporary,
And never do a thing unless you caring and it's scary,
And you can change the whole world with your mind,
Yo I'm breathing and I'm loved, Merci, dear life, come on
[Bridge: Cee & Richeus]
Dear life, you know I'm indebted,
I'm just tryina see my name up on the bill like a President,
So heaven sent, oh this is it,
One chance, one life so we livin' it
Dear life, you know I'm indebted,
I'm just tryina see my name up on the bill like a President,
So heaven sent,
[Richeus] Coz me only have one life, one chance fi live and so yo me livin' it
[Cee] oh this is it, one chance, one life so I'm livin' it
[Hook: Richeus]
Dear life, my dear wife,
You give meaning to all that I write,
From beginning to the end of time,
So if you are the opportunity, the world is mine
And I'll say, what the lady say,
Got no time to count no sheep today, eh ay, eh ay,
How can I let you get away?
[Verse 2: Richeus]
Can't let you get away, single opportunity,
To get a closer to my inevitable destiny,
I told you I wanna be more than I was meant to be,
You tell me everything is a process eventually,
Eventually? You gotta be kidding me!
By the way, I'm talking to the Mother Being,
The Goddess of all Everything, Everything,
My first Mother, she's L-I-F-E,
So dear life, I'm giving you my life,
And I will treat you right, so please recieve me like,
Nourishment to feed you, the Mother Nature type,
And manifest the greatest opportunities tonight,
Opportunities to make me see the light,
I grab my confidence by the wings and take flight,
So the world stage never create no stage fright,
Raggamuffin only cravin' what success taste like
[Bridge: Cee & Richeus]
Dear life, you know I'm indebted,
I'm just tryina see my name up on the bill like a President,
So heaven sent, oh this is it,
One chance, one life so we livin' it
Dear life, you know I'm indebted,
I'm just tryina see my name up on the bill like a President,
So heaven sent,
[Richeus] Coz me only have one life, one chance fi live and so yo me livin' it
[Cee] oh this is it, one chance, one life so I'm livin' it
[Hook: Richeus]
Dear life, my dear wife,
You give meaning to all that I write,
From beginning to the end of time,
So if you are the opportunity, the world is mine
And I'll say, what the lady say,
Got no time to count no sheep today, eh ay, eh ay,
How can I let you get away?
[Outro: Richeus]
credits
from Steps To The Peak,
released September 13, 2013
Written by C. Thorn, M. Saoula and J. Richeus.
All songs were recorded by Cee at Studio de l’Ascension, Montreal, Canada, with the exception of Notion’s verse on ‘Another Day’, which was recorded by Notion at Ill-Note Studios, Toronto, Canada; Green Hypnotic’s verse on ‘Don’t You Know’, which was recorded by Prince Green at Da C.O.A.S.T. Records Studios, Montreal, Canada; and Richeus’s vocals on ‘Dear Life, which were recorded by Hugo Roberge at AC Studios, Montreal, Canada.
All tracks produced by Dr. MaD. All tracks written by Cee and Dr. MaD, except where noted. Additional keys on ‘When The Chips Are Down’ by Marlon Kroll (dannyilluminati). All tracks were mixed and mastered by Notion at Ill-Note Studios, Toronto, Canada.
Cee and Notion appear courtesy of The Movement Fam. Dr. MaD appears courtesy of ALAIZ.
