[Interlude: Loyle Carner addressing the crowd and segueing into HGU]
Yo, is it cool if I tell you a little story before I play you this next song is that alright?
This the crazy thing for me man my whole family is here tonight, my mum my beautiful mum, make some noise for my mum one time, please
This story man, it's long to explain, right, um, I have a son a beautiful son right, I found out I was gonna be a father, I was 25, yeah, I was scared you get me? I was petrified, I think, erm and I think many of my friends many of the guys in my generation, we're all fucking scared, we're all dealing with this, generational trauma, this bullshit you know thats passеd down from grandfathers grandfathers and all this shit right
Me and my fathеr, um, he called me erm out of the blue and I was like:
"yo, erm, I'm gonna be a father"
And at first he freaked out he hangs up because he was in Tescos at the till or whatever thats the story he tells me erm, and I was like:
"Motherfucker"
And about two weeks later or maybe a week or a day or whatever I can't remember what it was, but, he called me back and said:
"Yo, I'm so happy for you id love to erm spend some time with you, me and my father never spent much time together when we was young, and I was like:
"For sure, what do you wanna do?"
And he said:
"I'd love to teach you to drive"
And so, erm, I was like "OK, yeah, I need to do that"
And so he pulled up into my house in his red VW Polo right from '98 dusty red, and the seatbelt didn't really click in a bit and the hand break is kinda fuc- kinda fucked and, but it was road safe cause he's not a bad dad you get me
And we spoke in this car and at first these conversations were deep, brooding, heavy red, you get me. and i'm saying things to my dad that no father should ever have to say to his son and my dad saying shit to me that no erm, no son should have to say to his father and my father saying shit to me that no father should ever have to say to his son you get me
But at some point within these heavy driving lessons you know, I stopped talking and started listening, and when I started listening I started to hear my fathers side of the story, I, I started hearing my father for who he was and see him, truly see him you get me, and 50, 60 years ago you know, as a young black man growing up in, in south London there was no one to offer him the tools to be the father he wanted to be you get me
And I'm very lucky that my mum raised me to be a father to myself to my son and to my father basically you get me?
Hell yeah hell yeah
Yo, is it cool if I tell you a little story before I play you this next song is that alright?
This the crazy thing for me man my whole family is here tonight, my mum my beautiful mum, make some noise for my mum one time, please
This story man, it's long to explain, right, um, I have a son a beautiful son right, I found out I was gonna be a father, I was 25, yeah, I was scared you get me? I was petrified, I think, erm and I think many of my friends many of the guys in my generation, we're all fucking scared, we're all dealing with this, generational trauma, this bullshit you know thats passеd down from grandfathers grandfathers and all this shit right
Me and my fathеr, um, he called me erm out of the blue and I was like:
"yo, erm, I'm gonna be a father"
And at first he freaked out he hangs up because he was in Tescos at the till or whatever thats the story he tells me erm, and I was like:
"Motherfucker"
And about two weeks later or maybe a week or a day or whatever I can't remember what it was, but, he called me back and said:
"Yo, I'm so happy for you id love to erm spend some time with you, me and my father never spent much time together when we was young, and I was like:
"For sure, what do you wanna do?"
And he said:
"I'd love to teach you to drive"
And so, erm, I was like "OK, yeah, I need to do that"
And so he pulled up into my house in his red VW Polo right from '98 dusty red, and the seatbelt didn't really click in a bit and the hand break is kinda fuc- kinda fucked and, but it was road safe cause he's not a bad dad you get me
And we spoke in this car and at first these conversations were deep, brooding, heavy red, you get me. and i'm saying things to my dad that no father should ever have to say to his son and my dad saying shit to me that no erm, no son should have to say to his father and my father saying shit to me that no father should ever have to say to his son you get me
But at some point within these heavy driving lessons you know, I stopped talking and started listening, and when I started listening I started to hear my fathers side of the story, I, I started hearing my father for who he was and see him, truly see him you get me, and 50, 60 years ago you know, as a young black man growing up in, in south London there was no one to offer him the tools to be the father he wanted to be you get me
And I'm very lucky that my mum raised me to be a father to myself to my son and to my father basically you get me?
Hell yeah hell yeah
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