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yo we’re seein, seein, seein the better days,
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
we complain about why there gotta be so much haze
but hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
seein, seein, seein the better days,
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
we complain about why there gotta be so much haze
but hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
Learned the news of my aunt from my dad 3 days before,
So I packed up my bags and took the train to kenosha's platform,
Wore a suit and grimmest lips cause naw this was no freeform,
Instead we all look sad and mope about we transform.
Now my aunt was a good lady but she smoked like a chimney,
I used to be like her can you bum me one yeah gimme,
But then my friends taught me someone out there actually cares,
So I quit but smoke weed I guess it’s better than squares
also hella frustrated while I'm standing at the funeral,
Cause my grandma's looking sad and to me that is unusual,
Wanted to comfort her but didn't know what to say,
Especially after the deads son shows up an he's way more than blazed,
Stumbling around like he doesn't know what he's gonna do,
a mad cockatoo that’s spewing his ish in every room,
Afterwards we head to the grave and put the casket in the ground,
I remember picking it up to know that life has a turnaround,
and I used to be the class clown but right then I was feelin down,
Bring me back to the studio man I just need to write this down,
And knock my head to music's sound, but I was walking my way back,
When some guy told me gimme your money or you'll get jacked,
Wracked my brains cause I was panicked and wanted to find an exit,
But I was cornered by what I would call a modern day bandit,
I saw the flash of silver, blade so sharp it'd be easy to drill ya,
So I gave him my 20 bucks and said it's cool man I feel ya,
The point here being that you're gonna have some bad days,
But until you rob somebody you're seein the better days.
seein, seein, seein the better days,
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
complain about why there gotta be so much haze
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
seein, seein, seein the better days,
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
complain about why there gotta be so much haze
we hip hop it up and blaze when we’re see in the better days
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hybrid high bred philosophy
if I don’t wanna stay in one spot
I just wanna wander free
and wonder me
top nominee for wannabe
rapper in the world
know people like “he’s so white it makes my hair curl”
feel the surge the eruption, bring on the conduction
people so surprised it’s like an alien abduction
but while I’m in my wanderlust I trust
that my future has a fate
my own interpretation don’t wanna let that fade
but get faded to help coast from coast to coast
como te yamas bitches? I’m the bitch with the most
anger pent up, raise my glass for a toast
to the future stand up and write my raps still a ghost.
you see through me? I see straight through you.
you ain’t no homie get over yourself, get a clue
hop to it kangaroo, skippin to your leu
put this into your own context to help you
figure your own shit out while I spit it from paper
hope you all enjoy being closer to me then my neighbor
Say the things you say
tomorrow could be your last
so praise the day
then fade away
and while we are here
may as well philosophize
think about what wanders
in front of our eyes
Say the things you say
tomorrow could be your last
so praise the day
then fade away
and while we are here
maybe as well philosophize
think about what wanders
behind our eyes
traveled through europe with my grandma after high school
she’s taken me to places that made me higher than nyquil
and gave me perspective,
family vacations many times were where I felt introspective
and I wrote my deepest songs
outside I’m here but on the inside I’m gone
and looking back to when I was the kid with headphones on
sitting in the front of the class with palms up pleading
got bad grades till college gave that the unseating
and I started getting A’s, spelling out hoorays
got my gaze set on writing till the end of my days
and there’s a plethora of topics for me to converse
and add bar on top of bar for to contribute a verse
company want to know what my verse will be?
I tell em fuck the corporations handing out our information
for the nations peoples supposed security?
truly brutal thing to be completely honest
so lemme down one or two of these gin and tonics
blanket surveillance in an unnecessary evil
we’re not all terrorists most of us are just people
when you collect everything it’s like a needle in a haystack
one important text amidst a squibble squabble playback
and infringes on our freedoms set down by the men
who are on our damn money, just like God where’s he been (ben)?
frankly I can’t take another single moment
knowing my life could be under the feet of giants
five eyes look em up/ maybe call em tyrants
how’re we supposed to wander free when we fear
all but silence?
Say the things you say
tomorrow could be your last
so praise the day
then fade away
and while we are here
may as well philosophize
think about what wanders
in front of our eyes
Say the things you say
tomorrow could be your last
so praise the day
then fade away
and while we are here
maybe as well philosophize
think about what wanders
behind our eyes
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46 (Prod. Tru Man)
02:48
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Scribble scabble randomness onto paper like your mentor
But the more you think about it
the more you think of what it’s meant for
cantankerous endeavors, the scaling of a tower
where each letter is a brick laid down by a scour
archers on high drawing bows, but will they shoot?
Probably, but they’ll miss though, and you’ll keep gripping
emphatically, radically, you alter words bureaucratically
decode the news around you that’s sporadically spewing vanity
lucidity to me needs a new definition
one that’s written at the hands of moral deposition
recognize though that not a damn thing changes
every single day they hits all ages for ages
trapped in mental cages, created through hiatus of
trickery from staying informed, hope it’s not contagious
a dunce cap adorned, to late though you’re stormed
by the arrows, the moment before so special that you felt like a pharaoh.
You’re hit and fall/ sometimes we die/
but those of us who live’ll/ feel that to the marrow
not for lack of brains, I’m calling up the scarecrow
ask him how many times did you feel dumb,
before you finally got it right and then you forced a thrum
that shatters paradigms, he could walk and stuff himself
not get stuffed by a man who’d crippled mental health
it’s still 24/7, nearly thirteen damn years after 9/11
we wonder “why is there hell in our only real heaven?”
answer: 24 hour tele-news infection
rise in inflection
here it in their voice it’s like a helium injection
cut life into sections
note each piece but stay wary of objections
followed by reflections
things you read before are a matter of inspection
of the inner self
what do you care about what can you do to help
see morality isn’t a thing that’s tossed amongst the struggle
it’s a constant judging of your actions in this world
and when you’re being fed poor or wrong information
your compass is broken got no way of navigation
floating stories up above the ones that really matter
justin beiber’s more important than finding out the answers?
to why there are wars, murder, things worthy of attention
see a company went down and my grandpa lost his pent ion
why the held’d that happen got need for investigation?
promises broken leaving us a broken nation
US is ranked 46th in press freedom
so you can either stay quiet or cry out and join a legion.
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I heard the first girl from my high school passed away
the other day even though I despised that school
it hit me in the heart like a perfect ballet
didn’t know her well but it had forced a well to swell
up inside of my eyes and spill over the sides
cause another life was extinguished
by a useless massacre of veins
too many people out there layin in a daze for days
revisualize the pain they felt, dealt
a bad hand and now they try to curb the belt
bring me keplar cause when dead we’ll all ride comets
hell we’ll be them as well as everything else, no need for garments
this is what I imagine as I close my eyes at night
hope you live it when you’re gone even though it’s out of site
at the moment but there is a curtain on life
and there is something else there
whether we’re just data in computers or organic it’s fair to
have your own opinions
it’s what will make us strong
but never let your guard that is on yourself down
we can all lose control and feel the pressure or the weight
and once you’re at that point no more self magistration
maybe even dealing with a little legislation
life is difficult but in the end we pull through
be the needle to the cloth that keeps together you
don’t give in to the days in any way and keep your cool.
been asked a lot about my thoughts on a so called afterlife
I’m like why you worried man you’re on this right now focus rite
same time I rap about death so much I should be crucified
but these days we do that to ourselves then call it suicide
mental health still stigmatized so much in these united states
how are we united when opposites what we demonstrate
I walk down the street with a smile to no returns
and everyone is ice cold so why do I feel burned
up inside everyone is afraid to look at you
or make eye contact, all because of some anxiety
we stare ahead we’re super glued what happened to propriety?
miss the days I could play and when I bought my parents lies to me
but grew up to realize lies are a thing that had hardened me
funny man just killed himself robin was a star to me
movies part of growing up contributing to who many are
so many that you could probably call it a repertoire
art is part of what a society needs to blossom
honey bees to the flower we sometimes tend to squash em
we can also squish ourselves in the process of becoming great
doesn’t matter what it’s in cause life is a chess game
and if you go down the wrong path you experience checkmate
hit so hard we hear a moan when it finally cracks the breastplate
but you can go down the right road and still hit a dead weight
it’s at that point many turn to other ways to placate
so we’ve got two people here
the first one she died too young
the second lived a good chunk of his days
and then finally decided that he wanted to be done
and I don’t wanna go either way
give me every single breath
that my body can take in before inevitable death
where we go none of us know
no control in that respect
but while here I try to take it all in with no neglect
nobody is perfect, but just try not to deflect
things in this life that matter; music, people, intellect.
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A man with his head gravitated toward the stars
seminars to discern from their spacial reservoirs
and he looked through that scope every night taking notes
so anecdotal eventually there came some men in overcoats
what have you been hiding, where is the alien
we’ll tear this whole place apart including your cranium
you may as well tell us, huh, huh, no then come with us
and then scientist left with no scuffle, no fuss
kicking out the vent the alien crawled to her feet
leapt toward the toward and yelled something out, into the air of empty
going back inside frantic she drew up some plans
you could see the panting miming in her shaking little hands
anything though for the man she had pledged colonization
bring humanity into the galactic era of civilization
no easy task now, this whole place destroyed
even running they were on track for another decade more
with no choice though she must start it all now
phase one of operation immersion like a canal
typing commands into the computer
the house began to shake
a missle silo in new york city
it’s honestly what it looked like
but no explosion from it but a riptide of blue light
lightsaber of earth that only stopped at a satellite
that wasn’t human still their laws are all the same as newtons
every species that evolves is gonna have it’s own ruins
own duality noose that loosens from all of it’s uses
own muses, own way to find it’s solutions
that only ever rise from contusions
so beam me up scotty, even if it means seclusion
desolation on mars for most of us is a beautiful illusion
(alien voice)
we’re sending the ships,
we’ll coordinate ourselves around the hostile planet
and attempt to communicate with them
though many may still not understand for many eons to come
for they are a young species
if they remain hostile however, I’m sorry, they’ll have to be put down
scientist being led swiftly into a government building
looking on with longing a calling that almost left his mouth frothing
when seeing orbs connect, with a hue from given silos
gyroscopic, myopic, his consciousness did a backflip
walking into the cold hallway painted a crude dark blue
it made him shrink into himself and appear quite shrewd
now scared the doctor begins to spew to the men at his arms
who were also actually at arms with me and you
black suits, black shades, black shoes, clean shaven too
tells those who have kept him captive that the beacon is active
and as the ships like planet breaks defend on atmosphere
every city in the world scatters just like roaches do in fear
cause the lightbulb is on, they could no longer hide things
internet age is raging reason it’s called an information highway
only logic for people was scatter, they were kept in the dark
fuckers new, decided to take out every single possible nark
to the public so instead of the truth we sat, got muddles statement
and armed ourselves to blow all of the aliens to vapors
the internet came, but the infection was set in
for all of us in this not so alternate future dimension
I command your attention to this story of tension
politics, drama, and a certain amount of ascension.
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I was having a hard time believing that anybody could love me matter of factly/
it was scary had my self in a rut of self deprecating stuffing couldn’t see clearly
and nothing was right hated my reflection my own sight it made me sick
but with some might you can pull yourself out of any situation that you have to kick
though the fight is never alone but a lot of times that might be how it feels
many clutching for steering and simply hoping against those hydroplaning wheels
life feels like a cascade but apparently it really makes it that much better
sharing it with someone else wish it a familiar feeling but no/ so here’s an open letter
dear humanity, I love you all, and I hope one day that we can all get along
that’s just me sounding less like a rapper more like a miss universe con-test-aunt
“I just want world peace,” she many times sputters into the microphone
girl keep on preaching I think most of us want for the whole world to feel like a home
in a universal sense I guess that everything is, unfamiliar bits, but all is one
and one is all so pick up and smell the flowers and gently put down the gun
we’re all sick of being scared/ and all of earth is driving forward together
signed myself and those who agree with the words that’ve been put down on this paper.
I said I was having a hard time believing that anybody could love me matter of factly
so i just rode with the beat met you all on the other side and now I know love exactly.
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capital conditions under invincible scales
what a market boasts conditions like the wind on some sails
but when the line starts to shake everybody yells sell
and the boat goes down along with the clientele
legal gambling on floors next to federal buildings
investing and hoping that you’re about to make a million
if you’re smart and know those ins and outs
you’re bound to make money till that market bottoms out
but that could leave you cashed
like weed combined with fire makes some rez and some ash
you gotta pull a donald trump and comes back like a phoenix
and I hope that you at least choose a better looking hairpiece
funny how the large can fall and they always fall harder
ad a name to the list of self declared martyrs
Joseph versus goliath we all can quote the bible
hip hop or religion turns versus to paper vital
for survival, yes I’m talking about the dollars
word so evil it should be synonymous with bombers
to get rich sometimes you gotta do some shady shit
n’ not all out there are a hundred percent legit
whether it’s by authority or something more moral
morality’s is subjective unlike government extortion
of it’s people which can bring that craving to gamble
when things is looking down gotta find and grip a handle
letting the good times roll/ living the bad times longin
for the good times to come back round and live a moment
money comes and money goes / ain’t that the truth
funny, when we’re broke we always call it down in the blues
green / the color of ambition, greed, and mean
snorted coke, fucked a hooker, called yourself charlie sheen
but when the money runs out, the fun it all stops
wolf of wall-street / even wolves succumb to the stocks
windfall / great until empires crumble over
hope there ain’t no bridges burnt / homie go and find a shoulder…
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(Crym's lyrics)
on the street they call it,
desperate measures to fill their wallets
in a field of flowers all day
bucolic but they don’t frolic
they picking the crop softer than cotton
life sentence stuffed inside the pocket for the profit
gotta sell the stock before it’s rotten
daily deposit are not an option when you try to cop it, rock it
keep some fly shit in the closet
supplying the demand and never stop it
I’m harley marley
only promote the dope when I’m at parties trying to hold havarty (cheese)
rotate the car keys, evade the dose smarty
I do business in english spanish and farce
passable manderin, actually handling the management
shit I got some vandals in the vatican
vacuum sealed wax and flat plastic packaging
this one goes out to all my africans bagging it
shouts to my jamacians putting weight in
shouts to my islanders supplying it in the balmy climates
who really makes it out the highest when it’s all divided? (me)
mad defiant, ain’t nothing to cause a riot, the trees are tall as giants
real g’s ballin silence, servin all my clients
coverge the art and science, turbulence hard to fly in
the block is hotter than a crucible
those who can afford it on the usual using the pharmaceuticals (drugs)
and to the have nots a dollar sign is beautiful
working mans hands down to the cuticles.
(Roberts lyrics)
on the street they call it,
desperate just to fill they wallets
in a field of flowers all day bucolic but they don’t frolic
they picking the crop softer than cotton
life sentence stuffed inside they pocket for the profit
gotta sell the stock before it’s rotten
daily deposits not an option when you tryna cop it
rock it, keep some fly shit in the closet
supplying the demand and never stop it
business is business so don’t get in my way
I’m the man that moves product more than Feng shui
and none of you are aware of what I do behind the scenes
behind the curtain corporations use to polish off the smears
so here I am now will you please lend me your ear
so that i can let you know the set of rules n make em clear (woo!)
don’t tread on my turf and don’t walk the way you’re walking
or I’ll use my lawyers like bullets and kill you through subpoena conflict (so hardcore)
tarnish your reputation through the private justice system
those judges work for me cause my friends have lobby wisdom (douchebag)
symptom of corruption includes some petty dogmatism
but I don’t give a fuck I got my bling like a bishop.
I’m gonna keep doing what I’m doing destroying your world
I can afford to live elsewhere/ the lavish life of gold and pearls (I bet ya can hub)
I don’t give a shit your in the slums I’m pretty sure that I’ll laugh
and point my looney gun in the air as you suffer eating succotash. (sufferin succotash)
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Pizza (prod. Tru Man)
02:42
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Been grinding 40 hours plus a little over a year
out of school but staying busy, loans are really dreadful
half a paycheck and living out of my room
that I’d grew up in/ under my parents roof
can’t even get out debt if you go bankrupt
the whole country’s in denial, can we stop and back up?
the youth can’t get a jump on the rest of the world
if it can’t afford to live like the rest of the will
take a minute off the clock just so that you can breathe
hard to do that though when people die and people grieve
young and restless generations for a brief second
as the seconds tick off we’re always getting older
till we ain’t, even legends like homer, (the odyssey!)
an oddity, psychopathy, heros journey mentality
constantly under pressure
but I’m grooving I’m never better
always trying to keep it clever
that’s how I trick the debt collector
students hoodwinked by the oppressor
school endeavor/ a money possessor
boys and girls it’s been a pleasure
I hope you rock this song forever
I’ll bite right into my soul in dover
cross the channel into Ireland so I can find my clover.
bring me a bit of luck or maybe more time
I could use a millions years and never see a dime
from the music that I’m making and the things that I say
but if I’ve effected one life I guess I’ll be ok.
though this shit is just ridiculous
If I hadn’t found a job I woulda had to live with it
instead of getting rid of it
reverse digging it and/ filling up the hole
that school can put you in/ if you so choose to enroll
though never choose to lose control/ only get what it’s doled
and to me this microphone was connected to my soul
make my own capital/ to pay the devil what I owe
blast off once I go my voice’ll clip your audio
kiss you like mistletoe, if you can only embrace
and hear a real fucking voice amidst the radio taste.
constantly under pressure
but I’m grooving I’m never better
always trying to keep it clever
that’s how I trick the debt collector
students hoodwinked by the oppressor
school endeavor/ a money possessor
boys and girls it’s been a pleasure
I hope you rock this song forever
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I’m sick of turning on the news / seeing things I can do nothing about
my money only goes so far / can’t afford to fly me out
to every place to fix the world I got an american mentality
say we wanna help / can make things worse / the ultimate reality
cops be on our dicks cause moneys speech pork’s in our capital
what happened to doing things because they were hard/ a lateral
is what we’ve thrown maybe we’ve gotta backtrack to move forward?
I dunno but this fucked up that’s why I’m singing like a songbird
paid a lawyer, court costs, and made a trip to Tennessee
charged with 2 misdemeanors and a possible felony
for drugs I could have gone to jail / for a while
money’s what it’s all about this country’s morphed into a bile
war on drugs ruins lives while we bomb till bombs’re out of style
hands rest on bars, collateral damage finally hits the pile
public presses forward keeping on muttering “we’re managing.”
America, place to live in / great / until it’s maddening.
I’m hoping for the better in the next 20 years
the political landscape will shift gears
to something more suitable to a younger crowd
technological revolution was only the start
maybe we need to try something besides 2 party bipartisanship
rid ourselves of parties everyone should be independent
identify by own beliefs not of self proclaimed intrinsics
all I see when people tell me that is piles for miles of mimics
where nothings ever truly planned out
you wanna have a country that works?
we have to have a system first
one the people themselves have nursed
one we all believe in
we’re so obviously segregated / surprised most out there aren’t seething,
nashing teeth at houses gated
kick the lobbyists out
your interests shouldn’t be with them
instead direct it towards what the people want who voted you in
you really wanna know why I didn’t vote in this last election?
it’s because none of those who run ever seem to get this message
I’m hoping for the better in the next 20 years
the political landscape will shift gears
to something more suitable to a younger crowd
technological revolution was only the start
and I know that we can change
remember there is always a way out
of running around in circles
but we have to exit the ride!
and it may have been the meek that inherited the earth
but know that is always the strong who will take it back.
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I once new this guy,
Never ever wore a tie,
Had a sty in his eye,
From all the drugs that he’d buy,
My my he got a really raw deal,
Luck so bad that he’d slips on them banana peels,
That he would steal, from the shack by the creak,
Just so he could keep makin ends meet,
couldn’t get no job, and he was livin on the street,
No chance to ever meet great, settled for defeat,
Got no cash, transactions, or receipts,
The seats he would take with a bowl in his hands,
Inhale on the couch before doin keg stands,
Then he comes to on the road, visions blurred in a trance,
94 wheeler hits him harder than legend of bagger vance,
Does a dance, falls on his ass, at least its something more than crass,
From the laced grass that sits in his lungs,
Passed out, woke up n’ now he’s speaking in tongues,
Couldn’t take that shit, he found gun on the ground,
And popped a cap off now he’s ready to astound,
The things’e coulda done would been profound,
Instead he rests easy, his brains all gone,
Along with his brawn, like a limp dick arm and leg movements krypton,
N’ It’s the dawn of his fawn, 5 years ago his girl had, had a baby named ron,
N’ ron’s star of this song, without him none of this shit could be drawn,
told me he was next to his dad when he fell, but we all truly have our own story to tell,
so ding goes the bell, n’ now it’s itty bitty Ronalds first day at school, but kids can be so cruel,
hey look there’s only one rule, n’ that’s to bash lil Ronalds head in with a stool,
5 years pass teachers never stopped it what fools,
those kids pelted Ronald with a lunch box full of sand,
like life didn’t suck already now he’s startin to understand,
that the next few years’re gonna be real tough, the opposite of grand,
but in the end he’d hold a position of higher stand- ing,
cause to be a success don’t gotta go round wearin bling,
yeah just gotta go sing, that’s what Ronald did, he lived his dream,
and got courage from losin someone that he’d never got ta ping,
hard upbring, probably makes for better songs than would a king,
but that’s what he’s become unlike his dad who’d been a cracked out bum
and gotten hit by a trucker and wrung through it’s system.
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Through life we walk/ to try and find out passion
Guess this is where I’ve settled with this music and rappin
And I know it’s not for everyone but wipe sweat from your brow
With every line that’s written poetry bug has bitten
Scribblin with a fever as if my mind is a desert
same’ll happen to you when your head gets off that stretcher
Never better/ when you concentrate on that problem
Delve into catacombs and like math you be roundin
Out details while/ you sit at that desk
Homie never be afraid to make the jump and just guess
Cause every great discovery started off as a theory
You think Einstein never felt at all down or all dreary?
Wander throught like a nomad and you could be great
Or sit and be scared/ either way you decay
Too many people are afraid in this day and age
Ask yourself if you wanna live with regret for your wage
or you can explode out a cannon ball
and tear a giant hole right through your enemies hull
sink and destroy her now you own this completely
do what you love everyday don’t do it discreetly.
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I crushed a leaf today
underneath my foot and had thought it a/ mere distraction
from a fractile world in which I’d failed to take action
connection, affection, perfection, dissection.
All took place before the landscape broke
till I figured out the relationship it was only a joke
anecdotal to my brain but my mouth wasn’t vocal
a total freeze up or you could call it immobile.
But the leaf that crunched, it set me free
with the fresh set dust that blew in the breeze
it was the sound, to the temp, to the touch
contact from the ground, to the skin that was much
of / what was needed,
nature sandwiched that got that hate receded
rage depleted, it was so simple;
sometimes we need to forget, just to solve that riddle.
Reflect on the age you are and when you were born
a world at finger tips is/ how we perform
when the world is on a stage but consumed by a storm
dissipate/ and you can ad your thoughts at the dawn
Crush your own leaf, let it blow away in the wind
like I did right after the speech done by John Lennon
take a breath and a look at the world and yourself
both inside and out ya’ll I hope this’ll help.
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sit at the overpass
cars cruising/ I-95
if I played frogger now
probly wouldn’t be alive
thought so many times
what’s it like to pass away?
a lot like before I lived
is what I’d have to say.
I sit at the overpass
cars cruising/ I-95
if I played frogger now
probly wouldn’t be alive
thought so many times
what’s it like to pass away?
a lot like before I lived
is what I’d have to say.
brother and I’d gone rafting down some white water with my step mother
a waterfall bounced us out plunged smaller ones into the river
I broke my finger / can remember my brother screaming it still makes me shiver
Us so close together both could’ve vanish faster than burning pictures.
went back to unknowingly rescue him/ thought he was joking, he’d slipped
sucked near falls where there were battering molecules there to wrestle with
and when he finally breached the water could hear his gripping rattly gaspings
a soul fighting for his life/ I can never forget that/ it’s lasting
never passing / I never let it escape my mind
til these words flowed on paper like the water we nearly died in
an oar breached surface tension and we were able to grasp it
they pulled us back into the boat and man we’d just had it.
life had been handed to us on a platter nearly gone
now I attempt to live with love/ hope to show it through this song.
I sit at the overpass
cars cruising/ I-95
if I played frogger now
probly wouldn’t be alive
thought so many times
what’s it like to pass away?
a lot like before I lived
is what I’d have to say.
I sit at the overpass
cars cruising/ I-95
if I played frogger now
probly wouldn’t be alive
thought so many times
what’s it like to pass away?
a lot like before I lived
is what I’d have to say.
If one or both of us had died that day where would we be now?
would there be clouds abound? Or simply nothing?
scatter my atoms/ maybe one day some of them will host an organism
one that even has a higher found wisdom/ than man
one that has an all grand unified plan/ a god
maybe there’s many, but there could be one or none
walking corpses still stuck under the ball they call the sun
believe what we want, or for some it’s how they’re taught
hope there is an afterlife where I can embrace those I’d known
but just like when I sleep it’s like thoughts afterglow
to the day or the many that we live in this life
and as time goes on darkness creeps in the night
until you’re covered by it’s ooze and you become nothing
but it’s ok cause you were never comfortable as something.
Days seem to get shorter as you age I’m 24
already can feel it mentally, ha, I do deplore
but don’t think of death as the all be it end
think of it as a rejoining with what’s always been within.
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i leave you with a lullaby to put you to sleep
in our dreams is where we really think and think deep
member one time I dreamt I was a solitary pop tart
just layin on a counter sittin no eyes and no smirk
I was a stream of consciousness with everyone around me
going bout routines and getting ready for their mornings
and I could only think “my I’m so tasty”
turns out the others would’ve agreed with that statement
cause they put me in the toaster and i started to scream
and woke up in a sweat from head to toe to beam
from my eyes to meet the light of the sunrise
realize I woke up but now I have to summarize
I’d walked into my kitchen to get something to eat
saw crumbs of my past on the counter a receipt
so hush little baby, you don’t say a word
otherwise the dreams’ll mesh your little mockingbird
with the world and come reality for their world to conquer
ours ain’t imagination, we just add it to stay calmer
than we were when we still had to hunt and gather
now we all still do it but the moneys all that matters
torn to tatters / the barrier between actual and serene
theres actually no obstacle except for falling asleep
but for those out there that never can or never will
deprivation leads to dreams in a world that is real.
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Robert Haggarty Chicago, Illinois
Robert is a rapper and producer who attended Columbia College Chicago. He started rapping after being introduced to underground hip hop by a friend back in 2008, and taking a few years while at school to hone his craft, writing lyrics, poetry, and prose he is now in the midst of working on his first album and collaborating with other artists. ... more
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