Sunshine Always Throws Shade

Name: Sunshine Always Throws Shade
Duration: 307 s
Description: Sunshine Always Throws Shade by mBaileyz. From the artist’s lyric sheet: “And the brighter that it shine, the longer that the shadow stretch behind.”

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Sunshine Always Throws Shade lyrics

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Intro

Top down. The Palmetto stay bright. Funny how the cleanest sun cut the meanest slice of night.

Verse 1

Palm tree postcard, but the corner tell the truth, mango on the sidewalk turnin' sweet up on the roof. Liberty City sweatin' through a Sunday-best suit, Overtown shade where the old heads split the fruit. Tourist see the water, I see the bus run late, ninety-five don't move, eight-two-six the same fate. Cafe con leche steamin' off a paper cup, city smile for the camera while the rent keep goin' up.

Pre-chorus

And the brighter that it shine, the longer that the shadow stretch behind.

Chorus

Sunshine always throws shade, top down, but the rent still paid. Palm tree leanin' where the slick boys paid, postcard smile on the worst of days. Gold on the grin, gray on the back, SunPass beep every time I relax. Ninety in the shade and I'm cold like that, sunshine always throws shade.

Verse 2

Direct deposit hit and the whole block know, four-forty-one, top down, watch the fake love grow. Pretty thing smilin', but she clockin' what I owe, SunPass tap, that's a toll on every road I go. Phone cracked, screen lit, twelve texts when I'm up, up, silent in the inbox soon as the card decline at the shop. Friends multiply quick when the sun on your name, the shade come right behind 'em, that's the South Florida game.

Pre-chorus

And the brighter that it shine, the longer that the shadow stretch behind.

Chorus

Verse 3

Hold up. Let me check my reflection in the chrome. Half the shade is mine, I been cold in my own home. Counted every dollar, never counted who I owe, told my mama"later" while the later turned to no. The sun ain't the liar, it's the story that I sold, brightest face I posted hid the quietest cold.

Verse 4

So I quit performin' for a camera that don't care, turned the brightness all the way down, breathed the heavy air. Opa-Locka sunrise, I'm awake before the glare, Hialeah cafe cup, that's a workin' man's prayer. Watch the fake ones melt like ice in a Publix bag, day ones still standin', no receipt and no tag. No SunPass on the love that a real one gon' give, the shade can't tax the genuine, that's the way I live.

Pre-chorus

And the brighter that it shine, the longer that the shadow stretch behind.

Chorus

Bridge

They said paradise, ain't mention what it cost, but the shade keep you cool when the noon get too tall. So I stopped runnin' from it, built a chair in the gray, sunshine always throws shade, and I'm good either way.

Verse 5

Lil cousin, hear me, let the postcard people stare, build a porch in your own shade, learn to rest right there. Sun gon' do the sun thing, loud and unaware, let it throw whatever, keep your good name in repair. Sunshine kept on throwin', so I taught him how to stand, gave him the whole ledger, put the future in his hand.

Outro

Top down. The Palmetto go quiet. Cleanest sun, meanest shade. I made peace with the riot.

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