Name: Heart Of A Lion by V.I.
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Description: The second single off my Fresh Music Friday series, Heart of A Lion!

Floating ft. Tyler on Demand (prod. V.I.)

3AM on Glenwood (Remix)

Lyrics:

[Courtney Nord]
Against the odds they said I could not survive
Promised myself one day I’d make it out alive
Boss behavior I put it on the table
Work till I’m stable 
Like yeah yeah yeah
Can’t settle for less
Settle for less
Settle for less
No no no
Settle for less
Settle for less
Settle for less
No no no
Can’t settle for less no
Can’t settle can’t settle for less no
Can’t settle can’t settle unless I know

[DM]
It goes blade then ear then full grain
The same growth is near down in the dirt overcome that fear 
Frustrated: one job will suffice
I want to write rhymes to maintain a family life

I go some needs 
A man work, don’t eat
I was on a certain job
My soul hurtin, why God?
So much effort for a heart
There’s no light there 
I feel left in the dark Cut that out 
I did my part 


[Goodrow]
No, I’m not settling for less than good
Have I given up more than I should?
Like the little engine that knew it could
I see a lot of growth from where I stood

Can't Settle For Less Ft Courtney Nord & Goodrow

Grounded Lyrics:
I’ll be ok someday
If not today then one day

Hit the ground then start marching
I was in L.A. 
My brother and I spent years parting ways
Alone on the streets
Gotta make it back to the A so I can compete
The language is a trigger for my childhood trauma 
I can do without the mud gotta sort out drama
I gotta woman trying to send me back to my mama
Not much like Ye no billions here
Just a lot of fears
I cried tears for every time I saw another year
I know God is near but I keep shedding tears

Hook [Angela Grace]
I can fly away but I’m stuck on hard ground (hard ground)
I’ll dream that away hope will take me northbound (northbound)
I can’t fight it feeling hopeless because life is hard but I’ll keep pressing on
 I can’t fight it feeling restless because life is making me wait all too long

[Verse 2]
I should be praying more
I should be slaying more
I should be paid more
I gave my life to God
Now I just want to quit
Heart something like Redd Foxx
The music yield results 
Replaying hard talks in my mind, dawg
Parents disconnect take shape in me
I found the source of uncertainty 
The Bible is true but this life is hurting me
When will Jesus come back?
Please come back for me
Death ain’t the only way
Enoch took a staircase
Ye said he’d fly away (man)
Until then I ImaginATE
I’m grounded again

[Angela Grace]
Ohhhhh
I can fly away but I’m stuck on hard ground (hard ground)
I’ll dream that away hope will take me northbound (northbound)
I can’t fight it feeling hopeless because life is hard but I’ll keep pressing on
 I can’t fight it feeling restless because life is making me wait all too long

Grounded Ft Angela Grace

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Intro:

“Because I’m so hot. I’m so cool. I’m gonna teach you to go to school”

Verse:
“I always kept the flag up
I always had a question 
Need the right answer
Need reassurance 

Mama looking through the glass
She knew I was using
Every excuse to lose progress and newness

Uh, I really wanted progression
Didn’t trust myself
So I chose bad attention 

I couldn’t love myself 
Made me fail all the steps and..
The back of the book, was just a misconception 

Life, always kept me guessin
The past was just a way for me
To understand the lesson

Burnt out, cause I always had to be right.
Straight forward, in the sun,
But couldn’t shine, from the light 

Chorus:
Uh, now it’s happening again
I need to know the end, for my goals and plans.
Reverse engineer from this pain of fear.

If I don’t write the vision
Then the vision won’t be clear

Uh, can’t let it happen again
I won’t skip the pages
And pass all the stages 

All these letters have a chapter.
So God, help me find your answers

[DM]
Quit a job off a word with a friend
Took a flight to the A now I gotta start again 
Thinking “I gotta get a job hmm… I should carry letters.”
Outside with the message all day, man, it couldn’t get any better
It’s like a Gospel parable, I love that!
On top of that I get cheddar 
If a man don’t work no food
I got a plan execute like old school 
I needed God then 
His word gotta be true 
Without Gerizim wouldn’t know what to do 
Carry mail through the snow so I walk through the rain
Tribe brought clouds 
Why they water pain?
No grace for my life so I gotta walk away 
Back in south, Sun rays said “you safe!”

In 2019 I quit my job and moved to Georgia 
I wanted to be a mail man…
I’m 2020 I moved back to Michigan then got a job as a mailman 
However my life wasn’t where it needed to be and I walked away from a job I really wanted 


Chorus:
Uh, now it’s happening again
I need to know the end, for my goals and plans.
Reverse engineer from this pain of fear.

If I don’t write the vision
Then the vision won’t be clear

Uh, can’t let it happen again
I won’t skip the pages
And pass all the stages 

All these letters have a chapter.
So God, help me find your answers

Verse 3
Hold on my nook
Paid for the book
I judge by the book
See my face is in a book
I got faith in a book
Post: Facebook

Man, I guess that just makes me religious 
I guess I rather be that than superstitious 
I guess I just rather be right 
Destruction will never get us 
Knowledge will have to get up 
Candlelight dinner alone 
Man, bro 
I kinda miss her 😭

By The Letter Ft R-SharpNote#

Learning
[DM]
I woke up
Used the bathroom
Prayed
Made my bed
I listed my goals for the day:
I need to check my budget
Grocery shop
Hear the bros out-I need wisdom today


{Hook}
That’s something I had to learn

[Yashon David]
Learn! Yahson David.
I had to learn the hard way. Listen! 
Out of my 34 years of living 
I had to realize that life wasn't promised 
It’s not a given man it’s all fiction
When I was younger I wanted attention 
Chill with the wrong people
Got in fights and I forgot to mention
That I was trippin 
Cuz now I’m older and I see the vision
That I wished that I could’ve saw when I was just a youngin
But now that I’m older lived through that and now I have the wisdom
That I can pass down to my son so he can start living
A life better than what I did 
Started his training from a kid
So he wouldn’t end up having to struggle from the crib
Having a child won’t prepared
Didn’t have a father that could share
What it was like being a dad
Having a child in your care
So…
[Rod Burch]
Yeah me too
Hahaha
Unh
Let me talk to’em DM
Look!
I learned you just gotta let some folks go
I had to learn to change my ways yup for me to grow
You know like put away all those things that’s childish
I ain’t fighting with yall I’m catching flights to islands
Still in the Spirit but I learned to fly Delta
He’s not only my rock but I learned He’s my shelter 
Boy I tell you there’s no gimmicks no magic tricks 
A lot of lessons learned the harder way now it makes sense 
No penny His grace I got plenty I learned you can die in that hood #Kenny
But the Lord is my shepherd He’s the One defends me (WOOO!)
And they won’t give me an Emmy 
So I aint never with the acting bro
It’s no flexing unless it’s faith mixed with action though 
I done pulled a Michael Jackson yo
I hit the moonwalk I backslid a crazy transgression yo
A yo but I’m forever learning dawg from those choices
Moved the voices come back home yup
Heaven be rejoicing see
I learned we all human 
There’s no perfect people
I had to learn to seek that peace and do away with evil
Yeah cuz that’s something I had to learn

Learning Ft Rod Burch & Yahson David

Chop It Up
Ay, bro, it would be cool if we made a song
You know it’d uh rhyme and stuff but it’uh just be like a conversation 
We just go back and forth and chop it up like we do 

[Marty]
Glory be God you know what it is 
We choppin it up choppin it up
The whole squad sharpening up
Come swing and get sharpened with us 

[DM]
I need prophetic insight come unpack Gospel
It’s hard to see life apart from what I gotta do
All the lessons that I never learned all the virtue that I gotta prove 
I gotta make it through 
13-29 what did Jesus do
Every artist gotta learn to use shapes and hues 
The bridge to those Hebrews 
Blood shed of the one that made the holy veil move
Joe was a carpenter Jesus was a carpenter 
I have come to learned that these losses come to sharpen ya
I have come to learn from the things that Marty does 
I focus all my effort on a book about Love 

[Marty]
Glory be God you know what it is 
We choppin it up choppin it up
The whole squad sharpening up
Come swing and get sharpened with us 

(Verse)
Ay, what up doe bro
I just left Pastor Des small group it was smooth we was in Ephesians 2
You know the tools we use to get the truth: hermeneutics, so cold
When you finally understand the text its a wrap you move into that God-body type flex
Workmanship of the King of kings as the team been redeemed 

[DM]
Prayer time in the chapel, no pressure
Just a talk with the King
Ample, no pressure 
Refreshing like an apple
Palm to face like a Snapple 
Life change so easy
I just had to start
It’s plenty to eat in the kingdom I don’t have to starve 
Time with the One who showed me who I am can show you who you are
You don’t have to starve
You should follow God He can tell you who you are

Chop It Up Ft Marty

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Stronger (D'Remix) Sade Ft. Victoria Monét

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3 MARCH 2024

Soulection Radio Show #628

The second single off my Fresh Music Friday series, Heart of A Lion!

Heart Of A Lion

Stay true to yourself, always. 
Exeter based musician, producer, and mixing engineer.
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Heart Of A Lion

V.I.

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