Ren & Sam Tompkins - Blind Eyed (Live Performance)

Ren & Sam Tompkins - Blind Eyed (Live Performance)

Blind Eyed Live is out now

Something for your rainy thursday!

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Official video:

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(Also I feel like I should say this. There are some of you who will have been following my story for a few years, and will know that my health was absolutely destroyed, leaving me disabled for years. It was only after a stem cell transplant that I started on the road to regaining my health. Before people ask me why I'm smoking after going through so much, I thought I’d just explain...

I’ve had to live like an absolute saint for so many years, missing out on the years where people are normally experimenting with every substance under the sun, watching what I eat, how much energy I use, putting everything under the microscope… I decided to have a week where I said fuck it, and did what I wanted. And you know what, It felt fuuucking great. I’ve since quit again (so you don’t have to worry mum and dad!) and gone back to seriously looking after my body and taking it easy, but it felt nice, and actually strangely quite cathartic to do something so obviously bad for me for a while. Don’t smoke or do drugs kiddies! Your body is a temple )

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[codynewberg]

Dude smoking a cig an hitting that high note is the craziest shit

[striveimpact]

"I learned so many lessons from depression but in essence Im just wishin that these bad thoughts were gone." That resonated loudly.

[gisselletomas]

a moment of silence for the people who couldn’t find this song.

[odysseus]

when he said "headphones only work on the left side" that hit differently

[joe-gjcx]

imagine actually being there and being able to witness this magic

[YOLO-tlvx]

No one can rap and play the guitar at the same time

Ren: hold my talent

[danielinviya]

this cameraman is killing it i hope he gets payed

[jssoepen]

sam being the best hype man for rens whole verse

[Lastofthefreenames]

I love the older people in the crowd, especially that one man in the black coat. There is something so wholesome to me when something can be shared by people of different generations.

[shanepote]

I know Ren is big now but I hope I can still view a live busking session one day

[RenMakesMusic]

[Verse 1]



This Lighter don’t work, no

No flame to spark my goal

My nike’es laced in dirt, oh

I feel like i’m treading on my own soul

My headphones only working on the left side

But I try to live the right life

My eyes wide, and I strive

To stop my demons gripping, gripping from the inside



This road is dark and I can’t find the batteries for my flash light

I’m blind eyed and I’m tried



[verses 2]



These drugs don’t work

The pain it takes control

A blood stained shirt

I feel like I’m always being chased by the devil



I tried to talk but I can’t seem to get my spoken words right

And I t..t..t..t..t..t..try to keep my stutter light

And this life it can be ish right Cut you like a flick knife

Twist and make you sick right

An I think, (maybe I’ll be better off alone)

So I redirect the calls from my phone

I learnt so many lessons from depression

But in essence I’m just wishing the these bad thoughts were gone





[Verse 3] Sometimes I get these times when it’s like time is against me

In my mind I kind of mind yeah that my mind can torture me

But I rhyme ‘cause when I rhyme it’s like my rhymes they set me free

And I shine so bright, I shine those times these rhymes come out of me

Sometimes I bleed, sometimes I crawl, sometimes I slip, sometimes I fall

Sometimes times my back is up against the wall so hard that whole building could fall

Sometimes I bruise sometimes I break

Sometimes I’m true, sometimes I’m fake

Sometimes I’m hoping for a moment when the floor would just start opening and swallow me for goodness sake

I think I’m gonna break cause I ache and it’s bait I’m awake in a world full of pain superman no cape

And I’m pressing the breaks but the breaks they break and I’m driving my universe into a lake

And the weight, the weight of the world don’t wait

We make mistakes when it’s all at stake

We cook out cake we eat our cake

Sometimes no time for double takes but (That’s just the way life goes sometimes)

But I don’t want to end up in the gutter being battered by my troubles face down in puddle where the sun don’t shine So I’m coming and giving it back, upon the track and attacking ‘em

Stacking up beats like I did with this one I pack it in

And I’m praying, oh lord take this pain away

[fannynlp]

Ren looks like a Peaky Blinders
you two are so talented!

[catalinnnnnnna]

The kids dancing in the back like nothing matters, that's how in tryna be

[victsn]

When you're so far into Ren's rabbithole 🐇 that you're starting to recognize Sam's voice before you even see him, but you still only just now tripped over this

[baileyk]

“I learn so many lessons from depression, but in essence I’m just wishin’ that these bad thoughts were gone” aaahhh that line hits way too hard :’(

[nickhamon]

You two need to write more music together, This TUNE is banging....good luck with all future successes.

[FruitNinja]

Nah, i rate this so much more than the actual song. Please release a studio version of this

[billybarlow]

I've probably listened to this like 10 times in 3 days my new song

[Thefatfoodiemcr]

Cant believe i am only just finding this musical superstar .i must of been living under a rock

[Innerbloom]

I appreciate the people who got no sense of rhythm, yet they're the ones freely embracing this amazing performance. ❤