Special Gift For You
I've decided to do this to say thank you to everyone who has checked out my debut single/piece, BURNIN’ FLAME and continues to support me.
It's not a new project, but a gift from me to you 🙂🤗🎄🎁📝💛✨.
Paradise (with Thomas)
MANNY:
Golden stars
Appears
In the silky midnight sky
Beaming with happiness
As they brighten up the place for us.
Let’s dance together,
Connecting like leaves blowing in the wind
Our eyes are locked
And no words are said
Time pauses and
Silence begins to takeover
Holding you close
And keeping each other warm
This feels like an exotic holiday
When our hands connect
It feels so good
Your gentle touch
Fills me with a lot of joy,
This is our
Sweet precious paradise.
Thomas:
When you hold me in your arms
light cascading across our faces
dust dancing like fairies in a spotlight.
My world is yours,
we live life through rose tinted glasses
forever holding our hearts
and saying our names.
Breathing with love at the thought of your hand resting on my chest.
Through groggy good mornings
we all crave to hear.
At the touch of our lips
this paradise is all ours.
I'm in Wonderland
I’m in a
Musical wonderland
A dazzling
Lyrical sea
All different sounds swirl
Around making me
Feel amazing with the entertainment
The beat moves in different ways
I move with it
At special times
I merge and fuse with it
We become one in
Mesmerising melodies.
The world slows down
Just a bit
We groove in our own
Special sphere
For endless moments
Wrapped in vibes
I’m
Feeling content as the
Music drowns
Out the noise that rotates around.
Gift For You
I’m sending a
Gift to you all today
This comes
With lots of hugs, love
And it’s yours to keep
I know the world has turned
Your beautiful smile into
Sadness but
Hopefully
I can chase the blues away
This lovely gift has so much meaning
Attached to it
And it’s so precious
I hope you accept my gift
As it comes from my special heart to you.
MELANINAIRE (ft. Tarlia)
MANNY:
My skin is strong
Hurt and belittled for a long time
Now it is my powerful armour
It glows and
Supports me along the whole way.
It sings to me with its
Rhythmic tune of beauty.
My skin cuddles me
Like a soft blanket,
It greets me
And reminds me who I am
I push myself along, down my lane
Despite the
Unwanted racket
And unfair systems,
I’ve learned to love and thrive
Time to
Be The Change.
Tarlia:
Black...What is that?!
To you, it seemed kinda whack...
How I’d back track over time & see how they subtracted my,
ancestors pride...
their peace of mind.
Took a piece of their mind
removed that zeal & zest
the power from the West
what they thought was best.
Took our power,
crushed a delicate flower,
experimented, harnessed & lifted the potent fragrance within us.
Like yeah,
I’d say I’m black
but you speak just like me.
But with you, you’d see I’m black but wouldn’t come close.
I stand firm in my colours &
I’m proud of what I’ve got...
Jamaica...Panama.
I come from southern greatness.
So what I do today onwards, is reclaim what they all hated.
To encourage rather than discourage;
to dream rather than to fight.
MANNY:
I’m black and proud
My skin is my logo
And I’m letting it shine.
Yes, I can achieve
I’m here,
No time to leave
Wearing my crown
Time for me to
Let my rainbow light glimmer
Around town.
To uplift people rather
than pull them down.
The colour of my skin
Lives today safely from intimidation
Though people might be horrible,
It believes that better days are ahead.
Time for me to flair
Saying MELANINAIRE
Time for you to care
Melanin
Glam up,
Glow up
Time for the level-up.
Love your beautiful melanin skin
Let it sparkle and glisten in the golden sun
I stand firm in my colours
As I feel proud of what I got
England,
Trinidad & Tobago,
Barbados and Dominica
British-Caribbean badass.
My skin roared with grace
Reminding you
It is not terrified anymore.
TAKIN’ OVER (with Kevin & Hinny)
MANNY:
When I step out on my runway
The whole place lights up
Like a blaze
Don’t forget
I only want the true ones in my lane
One life to live
So let's live it up
If people want to
Be negative
I’ll let them, while I create
Time for me to showcase
My art like Tate.
If you’re here to start trouble
You’ll have to leave
While I enjoy my life,
hold my cup up high and whine my waist.
When I found my voice and purpose
I began
Vogueing my dreams into reality
Bringin’ the sauce
Yeah,
I’m seasoning it
Hair done
Fresh fade
Guess who’s feeling good.
HINNY:
The time to dance is now
it ain’t cool or know-how
all is flow it's easy
trust it take a chance
sport boxers or in ya chenies
commando streak on fleet street
solitaire or with the scenies
vogue comme des garçons
be class clowns let ya hair down.
Fight the crazies
stand still through putdowns
still ideal no shamies
cheeks a-glow puff proud
free from the shadies
jump up get stripes shine ya crown.
They listen do they hear? pump your sound
like Joan me, myself and I
ya sound music's the friend we’ve found.
MANNY:
I’m ready to move with the beat
Bringing the energy
And the burnin’ heat
Another person down on the ground,
That needs to stop
Why can't we just come together
And enjoy the bops.
Old school dancin’ tunes
Yeah
I’m ready to do candy
Let’s make a toast
Champagne slay stylin’ it
No time to quit
My creative work is important to me
I have a lot in my tool kit.
The bass is bumping on
The floor
Causing a fun uproar
Bad vibes,
Yeah, I ignore
Feelin’ great,
Yeah,
I’m restored
Rhymes slappin’
Back to back
Yeah they’re on fire
Igniting the wire
Tryin’ to stop me
Goin’ round and
Round like a tire.
Feel the electricity
Crackle through the veins.
It ignites my bones
And opens my mind.
KEVIN:
I’m a storm
beautiful in chaos
feeling strong
heels high,
strutting my stuff.
Snatching wigs
I’m doing what
needs to be done.
I would show them that,
the world isn't in black and white,
it's in full, high-definition colour.
I can create fire,
bringing flames to my name.
I can create rain,
dancing away and feeling free.
I can create lighting,
as I shock people with my abilities.
Such confidences I feel,
to stand up and be myself.
Repelling all the curses
enduring all the negatives.
To be you
to be different
because in this chapter,
we all rule the world.