Lion in Zion - Skin (Official Music Video) - Modern Roots

Lion in Zion - Skin (Official Music Video) Red dirt still on my hands, and no matter how far Kingston pulls me, something in the blood keeps finding its way back. This is what it means to carry a place inside you, not as memory alone, but as posture, as breath, as the way you walk a city street with your head up and your back straight because someone on a hillside taught you that long before you knew you were learning it. 🎶 Listen to my music on Spotify! Skin Red dirt still on my hands from the last time I was home, can't roll, stretching past the fence, where my grandpa used to roll. Kingston got me working, got me moving, got me tired, but something in this small room keeps the old fire. I hear the steel pan through the wall, some neighbor playing louder down the hall, and just like that, I'm back on the dock, salt on my skin, watching the clock tick past. All this noise, it ain't about forgetting where I came from, no, it's about carrying it right, letting the old ways show. St. Jude's Island's somewhere I left behind, it moves when I move, lies right in tight island soil. Don't watch how I'm freezing, red dirt in the blood, runs deep and steady, from the cane field to the city, my roots keep finding me, yeah, my roots keep finding me. Coffee on the hillside, great-grandma's hands kicking slow, everything she built in that mountain, I still know. I walk these Kingston streets, like she walked in rows, head up, back straight, that's how the story goes. Blue mountain peaks, a world away from here, but the way she moved, I feel it every year, anxious memory dance, bone and breathing blood, generations deep in the mud. It ain't about forgetting where I came from, no, it's about carrying it right, letting the old ways show. St. Jude's Island's somewhere I left behind, it moves when I move, lies right in tight island soil. Don't watch how I'm freezing, red dirt in the blood, runs deep and steady, from the cane field to the city, my roots keep finding me, yeah, my roots keep finding me. She never left the island, not once in 80 years, didn't need to, everything she loved was here, but she packed it into me before I ever knew. Everywhere I stand, everything I move through, some nice Kingston swallows me whole, too loud, too fast, no room to breathe, I just close my eyes and feel the red dirt pull me back up to the concrete underneath. Island soil, don't watch how I'm freezing, red dirt in the blood, runs deep and steady, from the cane field to the city, my roots keep finding me, yeah, my roots keep finding me. St. Jude's Island, red dirt strong, oh, wherever I go, oh, that's where I belong, oh, wherever I go, that's where I belong. #ModernRoots #ReggaeMusic #RootsReggae #SlowRoots #MelodicReggae #ConsciousMusic #GoldenHourFilm #RootsAndCulture #LionInZion #Jamaica