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reinvention
04:16
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got a choice for you
hardline red or the boys in blue
cut toys in two
suck the snakebite, get the poison through
and we're phasing out
ain't no phase what we rage about
we should stage a count
cuz the numbers ain't right; these are strange amounts
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
this is outer space
organized, nothing out of place
nightlife is a crowded waste
i'm a drum track crying and a pouting bass
nothin right or wrong
manilow the way i write the songs
up late til the light is gone
flashlight battery staying mighty strong
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like that
walls move forward and the floor move back
people just stop and the room goes flat (it's magic)
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like that
walls move forward and the floor move back
people just stop and the room goes flat (it's magic)
buy in; one stack to play
scrape for a dollar, throw that away
and i godzilla, i'm a monster, hey
i'm a dark grey cloud on your awesome day
and i make it rain or hail
everybody trying to get inside my brain'll fail
shocked like you grazed the rail
and this is no short story, this an major tale
paid by the word
yeah it's still me, same guy you heard
and i'ma blow up like a firebird
phoenix got you feeling like its high alert
rise from the ash
swoop into your game, kid, stumble fast
look into my eyes -- it's dumb to ask
it's the future, loopin back from the past
keeping it real went way wrong
i'm a fraud when i play strong
to the folks with their hearts on their sleeves
and the tears in your eyes, motherfuckers, this is their song
and i'm a man with doubts
who i am, who i was, what i'm all about
gave hardcore a solid bout
but to my sad-brain people, yeah, i'm callin' out
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
my old shit's well-done but i'd rather get rare
here i am, pretense stripped bare
keep it honest, just play fair
persona's played out like that old grey mare
i'ma reinvent myself
from a lone wolf to leanin' on my friends for help
ease up, extend the belt
for the sake of my music and my mental health
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like this
everybody move when the bass just twist
everybody stop when the beat persist (it's magic)
this is outer space
organized, nothing out of place
nightlife is a crowded waste
i'm a drum track crying and a pouting bass
nothin right or wrong
manilow the way i write the songs
up late til the light is gone
flashlight battery staying mighty strong
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like that
walls move forward and the floor move back
people just stop and the room goes flat (it's magic)
everybody everybody wanna know how how i make it sound like that
walls move forward and the floor move back
people just stop and the room goes flat (it's magic)
buy in; one stack to play
scrape for a dollar, throw that away
and i godzilla, i'm a monster, hey
i'm a dark grey cloud on your awesome day
and i make it rain or hail
everybody trying to get inside my brain'll fail
shocked like you grazed the rail
and this is no short story, this an major tale
paid by the word
yeah it's still me, same guy you heard
and i'ma blow up like a firebird
phoenix got you feeling like its high alert
rise from the ash
swoop into your game, kid, stumble fast
look into my eyes -- it's dumb to ask
it's the future, loopin back from the past
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2. |
techbro
03:21
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move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, let him bleed til he bleeds out
back to the parking lot, back to your cars, to your homes
all you people with your phones and your keys out
move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, keep your hearts and your minds true
show's over folks, everybody get back where you came
we're the all-seeing eye and we'll find you
this is providence speaking
eye on the pyramid always open and seeking
that data trickle in, but the flywheel leaking
come along way from the payphone phreaking
just the same old file with some new docs
now the whole damn word is a blue box
capital is a clue, and it's you
you're the new breed - the new blood - the new stocks
and i'm complicit too
trying to push what i make til it gets to you
and it don't matter how the pistol shot
if you talk about ethics than you missed the plot
cuz we're feeding from the bottom sow
can't tell what they sell? you're the product now
the hell that we built somehow
where a few smart people keep the world dumbed down
move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, let him bleed til he bleeds out
back to the parking lot, back to your cars, to your homes
all you people with your phones and your keys out
move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, keep your hearts and your minds true
show's over folks, everybody get back where you came
we're the all-seeing eye and we'll find you
the convenience caste
locked ourselves in, they didn't need to ask
and they got the tightest grasp
on our hope for the future once they write the past
you opt in to the movement
hand over what makes you a human
and you know they'll traingulate
leverage all your loves and your fears and hate
this manufactured fate
got a slick new crowd-sourced surveillance state
email your resistance? great!
write your senator, embody a collection plate
things hectic, right?
tent cities bulldozed by electric bikes
that you rent with a chip or a swipe
and let five more companies on into your life
move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, let him bleed til he bleeds out
back to the parking lot, back to your cars, to your homes
all you people with your phones and your keys out
move along folks, push 'em back there, show's over
move along folks, keep your hearts and your minds true
show's over folks, everybody get back where you came
we're the all-seeing eye and we'll find you
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read my wikipedia
delete my wikipedia
the elephant in the room
when we try to stay relevant (boom)
alphabet blocks spill, spelling out letters of doom
picking up the pieces, i'll be getting that broom
cuz we're malevolent in a way
when we try to stay relevant (hey)
and make the authentic and benevolent play
but gotta be like "fuck that, hell what they say"
look at me and you look at you
all the things that you think i exist to do
but my heart was missing too
sounding just like the people that i listened to
and you could fill a book in
with all the cadences and styles i took in
man, it had me shook
been to New York twice but I rapped like Brooklyn
y'all never cared a bit
long as i wore the mask spit some grimy shit
but i got embarrassed, y'all
i use a whole different voice when my parents call
that fake accent was hella lame
and you could see right through me like i'm cellophane
i try to understand, but failed
but you bought it and at least i got my bandcamp sales
the elephant in the room
when we try to stay relevant (boom)
alphabet blocks spill, spelling out letters of doom
picking up the pieces, i'll be getting that broom
cuz we're malevolent in a way
when we try to stay relevant (hey)
and make the authentic and benevolent play
but gotta be like "fuck that, hell what they say"
* jesse dangerously *
i ain't perfect but I am quite good.
where's my medal? where's my knighthood?
where is my order of canada? Where is my fresh start?
at least I got my verified check mark
it’s oddly not fair
they shut it all down since the nazis got theirs
now when I wanna staunch my bloody nose
i print a list of all my blocked irony bros
write your own cheque, mine’s blue, what is this?
i am what I am, like a brand or business
can’t get a AmEx for the concert seats; they don’t
do it like my clicks, I’m a sponsored tweet, YEUCH
favstar numbs my behaviour
top ten times I was unkind to strangers
unwind my anger; If it makes you happy
oh! screen shotted and blocked, don’t @ me
the elephant in the room
when we try to stay relevant (boom)
alphabet blocks spill, spelling out letters of doom
picking up the pieces, i'll be getting that broom
cuz we're malevolent in a way
when we try to stay relevant (hey)
and make the authentic and benevolent play
but gotta be like "fuck that, hell what they say"
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4. |
codependence
03:43
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another locked in weekend
where the calm and the peace end
but the company i'm keepin' all sowing what they're reaping
and they leap into the deep end
who? what? when to be?
no struggle when my only real friend is me
in the dark here endlessly
i'll pay later, but for now i'll pretend it's free
face the news
i'm never really happy when i'm making moves
i'd rather stay making tunes
and just waiting for an earthquake to shake the room
just gotta reach out more
but first i gotta reach that door
and it feels like a mile away
but you fake it til you make it -- big smile today (hey)
this is my happy face
i can feel my jaw slipping, put it back in place
running ten laps at pace
but i gotta stay working, making rapping tapes
cuz this is my posi song
no eeyore in the joint, get my fozzy on
my psyche a falling bomb
hope my self-criticism all probably wrong
my own worst critic
my own worst influence
burnt so many bridges
that i gotta mix metaphors and mend the fence
this is codependent
yeah, i can't defend it
one day i woke up all alone
and forgot what the normal way to make a friend is
i don't think i'm what you think of me, dude
making tracks just an excuse to start drinking at noon
dirty plates and a tarnished spoon
but that world would collapse into carnage soon
cuz it's what happens when you lose yourself
and invest your whole life into someone else (and then)
then you're left with an empty shelf
when they're gone but you're too strong to beg for help
(i'm like) a sadsack fixing a poem
i'm getting better at existing alone
like i do my own dishes and the kitchen is clean
keep the blinds up, sunlight enriching my scene
no more staining old clothes with some new tears
rolled back from a twelve pack to two beers
got a rack of new worries and some new fears
but i'm crawlin' out the dark past few years
this is my happy face
i can feel my jaw slipping, put it back in place
running ten laps at pace
but i gotta stay working, making rapping tapes
cuz this is my posi song
no eeyore in the joint, get my fozzy on
my psyche a falling bomb
hope my self-criticism all probably wrong
my own worst critic
my own worst influence
burnt so many bridges
that i gotta mix metaphors and mend the fence
this is codependent
yeah, i can't defend it
one day i woke up all alone
and forgot what the normal way to make a friend is
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5. |
danielewski
04:03
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just a child's voice
numbers on a radio
shortwave transmission
cumbersome codes tell you the way to go
critical condition
maybe yes maybe no
but when you stop codeswitchin
everything's debatable
it's a grasping hand
reaching out of your speakers now
it's the corner of your block after dark
that you never even dare just to peek around
and the water's off
tap won't stop with the leaking sound
ant-lion claws
just below a patch of the weakened ground
a one-time pad
decipher what i rap about
call the best and the brightest minds in the world
all to come and try to map it out
it's enigma shift
two-fifteen counts of threes
it's the flames of warfare
burnin down all your house of leaves
i speak in cipher
crypto, not the rhyming kind
try not to lay back
don't wanna be a cat with a reclining mind
this is codetalk steppin
this a hard rock weapon
this if fifteen counts of threes
in a turn just burning down your house of leaves
count backwards now
block of eighteen digits
got you on alert
and the caller says "B" while your "A" team figets
we're real austere
no time for piss and rage
but what's happening here
is a playbook left with a missing page
i will x your o's
i will dot your t's
i will cross your i's off the list
as we go, got a lot of these
binary backwards
writ in steam on a mirror
when you work it out, though
you'll dream awful clear
a one-time pad
decipher what i rap about
call the best and the brightest minds in the world
all to come and try to map it out
it's enigma shift
two-fifteen counts of threes
it's the flames of warfare
burnin down all your house of leaves
i speak in cipher
crypto, not the rhyming kind
try not to lay back
don't wanna be a cat with a reclining mind
this is codetalk steppin
this a hard rock weapon
this if fifteen counts of threes
in a turn just burning down your house of leaves
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6. |
requiem
02:03
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i keep my inventory froze in back
i could be the fuse that blows the stack
this is the song where i'm supposed to rap the best
and do some boastin bout my style
cuz i chose it as the closing track
but i'ma take a different attitude
and express my fucking gratitude
this old cowboy's rarely in the saddle
now i barely ever battle
speak my piece and maybe that'll do
ain't on a mission trying to save rap
i'm on a mission trying to change me
just to shed all the pretention and ambition
and just basically be living like i'm cage free
just a glimpse cuz i'm looking fast
a reflection in some crooked glass
this is the first, but it could be last
this is the present but it could be past
who knows where it goes from here?
but for now you go something that you chose to hear
i'm exposing my weakness, my hopes and fears
but i got no ambitions
this is no career
(repeat ad nauseam)
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