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VHS
04:27
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Lucid as a daydream, loosies in the pastries
Y'all fuckers coulda fooled me dude, we looking for the same thing Be it pose, posture, photo, portrait or painting
Every frozen moment look like footage from the 80s
Footage from the 80s
Footage from the 80s
How it look so comfortable when memories is Hades Be it pose, posture, photo, portrait or painting
Every frozen moment look like footage from the 80s
I keep calm as I can, for all our benefits
But in practice I’m a set aside them sentiments
Half of them motherfuckers ain't been taxed but still got into shit
I watch em fall asleep, I watch em sacrifice they innocent
How much of that I been complicit in?
The fickle and the sick they both a cynical bunch
The middle a front
My back a bitch
I couldn't sit for a month
Pausing that I guess, all this bag of stress, got me acting fresh Keeping calm a sucker’s game, I’m in the paint but out of breath And couldn’t read them number straight, 888-I’m-unafraid
I called until the my fingers ached, until the ringer sounded strange Crawled into a hole and everybody said ‘don't ever change’
I took from that a fear of open skies and sunny days
There’s a cost, and it's huge
I tried to hide the truth but I got lost and confused
I was Aquaman in shoes
Tried to talk me back to earth, they wound up shouting at the moon I never mean to disappoint, although I do
That's my broken point of view
Everything I touch will turn confused
Rose a cup, broke a dutch at the what I meant to do saloon
I been accused of many things, but never heard the word confused I never mean to disappoint, although I do
Lucid as a daydream, loosies in the pastries
Lucid as a daydream, loosies in the pastries
Lucid as a daydream, loosies in the pastries
Y'all fuckers coulda fooled me dude, we looking for the same thing
Footage from the 80s
Footage from the 80s
How it look so comfortable when memories is Hades Be it pose, posture, photo, portrait or painting
Every frozen moment look like footage from the 80s
That’s what happens to main characters when they lose they main characters And something broke that they ain't know was there at first, like 1st Mariner I’ll drink to that, you'll eat your words, it's jerks vs amateurs
Oedipus to Aaron Burr, Frank can be my manager
I never woulda thought I woulda never even thought
I walk around like everybody’s here to watch me get involved
So what am I to do? Funny stuff, jokes is not inopportune
But I'm afraid this clock will never tock for you
I been thinking bout my handprints, I been thinking bout my legacy I been standing still for hours without making no new memories
I never look at photos, ain’t no mirror been no friend to me
Silence is too deafening to write, without amphetamine
Aye yo the bitches, like G-Money said to us man
I wash my, wrist of stigmata in the ocean of sand
I found a note in the freezer, I’ma leave it unread
I figure anything important he would say from my fridge
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Vic
03:35
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You don’t even know how the limpin’ legs work, I do the leg work Took some off the top for my efforts, ain’t nobody asked for
Ain't nobody move, ain't nobody gets hurt
What they don't tell you is the end ain't worth them efforts
Cats be all “Teddy, how the fuck have you been?”
I’m like “Great, my friend's dead and I'm wearing his Tims, another question?” I ain't gonna be a vic another second
So I clock me every exit, every room I ever step in
I ain't stop making music, I just stopped giving you it
Spooked by my own hubris, I de-introduced it
The thing that they don't tell you ‘bout success is
When built on top your vices, vices follow where them checks is
It's a lit symbol, I’m a cucumber in a big pickle
I throw shade until it's dark enough to think simple
One thing they don't tell you ‘bout, you blink into
And it breaks in two the everything that's in you
So I talk about it
Things that ain't nobody gonna tell you I'ma
Talk about it
They full of shit and and so am I and so is you and all around us Best we can do is talk about it
Fuck, I'ma talk about it
Talk about it
Things that ain't nobody gonna tell you I'ma
Talk about it
They full of shit and and so am I and so is you and all around us Best we can do is talk about it, I guess
I don’t know
Eyelids turnin’ see-through, capillaries blown to Mogadishu I leave a note, "Imploding my own ego"
I never met a bump I didn't wanna find a key to
Or found a fifth I didn't make a feed tube
Life is great, nobody told me differently, in large part
due to being busy with the not so great and hard parts
A younger me was wishful thinking on a star chart
And wound up worse for ‘where the hell I car park?’
Kick if yes, twice if no, those scary echoes
Welcome to the next episode, it's very special
Everything is all in fun
Carlton done got a gun, but put it down
Now all is well, cheers, another awesome run
Mr He Who Not the World Revolve Around
Mr Find My Palm Some Walk Around
in my coffer now, best just cough it out
Shed me off a couple pounds
Face be looking like I'm pushing something like a hundred now I run the tab, and walk it out
I look around, scoff out loud, exhale a breath and dip
And signed, "Some days it's like I don't even exist", plus tip
I'm either talking to myself or I been trying pen these bars
The older that I get the finer them distinctions are
I roll up in the spot, I ask, “Who here is tending bar?”
And then we share a life together till we aren't
I roll up in the spot, I ask, “Who here is tending bar?”
and then we share a life together till we aren't
So I talk about it
Things that ain't nobody gonna tell you I'ma
Talk about it
They're full of shit and and so am I and so is you and all around us Best we can do is talk about it
Fuck, I'ma talk about it
Talk about it
Things that ain't nobody gonna tell you I'ma
Talk about it
They're full of shit and and so am I and so is you and all around us Best we can do is talk about it, I guess
I don’t know
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Let that simmer, let that sink
I urinated in your sink
I met your neighbors in the street I told them that you pee in sinks
Don't get that twist though
You wish you never brought her to this show, hey where’d your chick go I don't think she even came with you
She probably got sick of showing up with someone as lame as you
And then ending every day with you
She wants a getaway with you?
Nah dog, she wants to get away from you
And put some spaces in between the place of you
She been hanging out with friends more, showing up late
Crawling into bed she smell like cigarettes and open mistakes
That’s cuz I told her you’s the hoe of the day
Told her wait, before you go, let's crack a couple jokes on his face
She asked from me a glass of wine, she got a glass of bug juice
I told her I don't love her but I love that she don't love you
Then she said it back
Hm... I told her that don't make no sense with that syntax
Asked her to work that out, bring it back
Come with something better next
Our love is so unspecial yet
She sacrificing y'all's for reasons I couldn't even pretend to get
Let that simmer, let that sink
I urinated in your sink
I met your neighbors in the street
I told them that you pee in sinks
Ain’t you listening?
When you go off to work I’m in your business I’m picking up the landline
I’m leaving dirty dishes
I'll most likely be attending all the holiday dinners
I called your mother and we talked it through, she thinks I'm a winner
All in all, that’s not my call
Got an issue, call your mom
But I think I speak for all involved, when I ask for you to keep things calm The last thing you wanna do is ruin your kid's Christmas
So maybe don't bring up the whole, “I'm fucking your bitch” shit
So maybe don't bring up the whole, “I'm friends with your parents”
For some strange reason that has yet to become apparent
But yo we had a family meeting and you weren't at the family meeting
Now your kids think you don't love them and your wife thinks that you’re cheating
Plus... you know... the whole ‘your wife fucking me’ thing It's a mess homie, you did your best homie
But you need jet homie
Whatever's next homie
We wish you best homie
That’s from me, the wife, your kids, and the ‘rents homie
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I love cigarettes, I love cigarette breaks
I like smoking after eating, after drinking, every cigarette's great
About cigarettes, I got nothing but good shit to say
“Ain't they kill your mom, my dude?” Okay, okay, super touché
That's a very good point
She liked em so much her last words were, “Lord, take care of my boys.”
And she ain't mean her boys
She loved cigarettes so much, once, the hospital called
They said your mother's smoking in the cancer ward with oxygen on
I said, “My mom's the motherfucking bomb, your mother's a whore,
I ain't calling you with breaking news when all them dicks is at her door.
She did today the same as she did before, she'd do it again
Do you not comprehend how fucking awesome cigarettes is?”
You wouldn't know, a cigarette ain't just tobacco my man
Without a smoke, I wouldn't know what else to do with my hands
It's an awkward conversation exit all the time plan
An ice breaker, life changer, in that it shortens it’s span
I love smoking, doing cigarette things
Going outside every hour in the freezing cold and thickest of rains
Tobacco fingers, cigarette stained
All my friends that stopped smoking, bunch of losers, we don't kick it the same Friends and fam’ll ask if I'd considered kicking the stuff
But that's out the window like my cigarette butts
Or getting a birthday card from my mother from ages 20 and up
Big things happen for small reasons and learning that one sucks
And so I step into my everyday with cigarettes and scary face
I never wave cause it was never to me anyways
But anyways, my everyday is cigarettes yo, where is they?
I put them right there yesterday, I'm looking there now, that ain't they
And those that never knew, they don't know
There's a silver lining lining every fresh pack of smokes
Even if I is the last, my cigarettes turn into ash
Excuse myself at dinners, if there's drinks than y’all can triple that
Mr. Be Right Back will be right back, it ain't no mystery
Awesome conversations had with strangers y’all won't get to meet Philosophers and poets that only talk that real
Like, “Yo, you got a light?”...”Yeah I got a light, hold up... here.”
So if you looking for the source of where I'm at, you can know for sure
I’m on the porch, smoking Ports, like I'm boats at at war
I used to take a break and ask a cat to pass me down his short, and maybe see me over if he sure, but if he ain't then I ain't trippin
Now I cant sleep if the box got only just 3 in it
What if there's an asteroid or some big shit that hits us?
What if the economy suffers?
What if all the lighters talk the matches into drowning each other? That's too many variables, I'm buying a pack
Cuz with various pulls, then I can relax
Catch me out the cold front, stoge or a fog
Boge or a jac, seen every short a bus down had
That’s why I’m out here spending money
Catch me hands funky, looking older than my years and then something Then something
Listen to the air in my lungs, see the nightmare in my lungs
Then try to crawl back to the place that it's from
I started cracking Phillies down the middle
Lecturing my homies like, “Them cigarettes will kill you”
And if irony is dead then I been living in its coffin
Hypocrisy alive and coughing, I’m never getting off em
I’ma smoke until I can't no more
As long as I can use my hands they’ll be opening a pack of Ports Regardless of the taxes for
Caught up in the mix between my mother's death and this
I'm not a shrink but I meet issues where they is
I got abandonment issues that I deal with by me abandoning issues And if I'm handling flames ain't nobody’s handing me tissues
I tried to keep it under 4, it's like, embarrassing
Came in here for Newport shorts, but I would leave with anything
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5. |
Meddlin' Kids
05:03
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I view myself as quite the
Sorry, save it, shit be getting lit and darken everything Found a subroutine and submarined the very air he drink Walking up a scary thing
To go to sleep’s a coal mine and canary thing
The in between at best has been embarrassing
My ‘later dog’ it lists to the left and it lacks conviction
If I said this ain't goodbye I wouldn't buy it a minute
I been had I recognized our past, it means as much to me as you, my dude But there's been yous before and there will be more after too
With the exception of a very few
I throw the deuce
I'm out before you even you knew my hand had moved
Texts returned, broke in two
Leave a message? I delete the message, don't even check it
It's almost impressive how much I ain't invested
So, my knowledge to go, don't watch it alone
But if you alone, watch it, shit gets outta control
I brought a big smile, and the plans for to be ironing folds But I'm a wind chime
In a sandstorm
In a pile of clothes
I’m less thorough than all over the map, but trying get over that And trying get over without you knowing that
I ain't been sober through much of most of that
Seen me around? Appear in a cloud
That's gone before you figured me out
Up rock, get billy bitched, and the dew drops, and that’s beta shit And if it wasn't for y'all meddling kids, I woulda gotten away with it Woulda gotten away with it
I mighta gotten away with it
... I probably wouldn't have ever gotten away with it
I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock... I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock... I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock...
I've kicked more people in the head than I have made a friend I never learned to make amends or known a fence to mend Or even heard a rumour ‘bout one maybe that had did
Some point soon I'll have to wonder if them shits even exist My been here before said not one's impressed
My kick in the door it said hold in your breath
Before I double tap dance across a pocket check and then pepper your step Or pour salt in the wounds
Or take a head off a neck
I don't take tests, I break a pencil and jet
I'd rather leave em scratching heads than at all unimpressed
I’d love to lose the rep, but I ain't never knew no undue stress
Take a step, fuck a rest, I feel on top under duress
Maybe that there’s something that we should sat and talked about
Woulda told you everything I did was well outside the out of bounds
But I’m ‘bout it now, and nose is clean, if just a tad powdered down
I spell recovery with covered the entire sound
I tried to tell the world I needed help by
Doing things alone that kept myself high
And practicing the way I say I felt fine
Take a truth, add a past tense,
and make a something that was out of a something that is
Now ain't, nothing that's up, that's why I'm off in the wind You me what's up, you ain't asking me shit
Catch the same palm I threw at you then
My bag got packed, I ain't thought of you since
Heard your name, heard me say he a bitch
Up rock, get billy bitched, and the dew drops, and that’s beta shit And if it wasn't for y'all meddling kids, I woulda gotten away with it Woulda gotten away with it
I mighta gotten away with it
... I probably wouldn't have ever gotten away with it
I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock... I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock... I built a
House made for sticks and stopped by it a rock...
So I'm back up on my solo shit
Don't never pay my bills on time just so I get the notices
To feel like someone notices
In mirror world I don't exist
I rowed a boat in piss and docked that shit where they don't like the looks of out of towner jibs Trying get up out of your feelings when your feelings is odd
Is like trying get up out the bathroom when you're in the garage
Inside a good spirit, but appear as a slob
And keep whiskey in the closet like the pastor it’s pops
I just sit down, write words, and there be the bop
Apparently it's poppin, it's apparent you not
Yo my dude, don't get it skewed it, ‘fore your carriage get stopped
My arrogance carried me everywhere, your air’ll get popped
It’s an over eager smile on top the realest ever screw face
A chairlift in the summer in the realest ever footrace
You ain't on my level, and my level ain't that great
So how's it feel to be the guy behind in last place?
I'm a liar built of fire, if you lie in that shade, you gon' burn before you find it's that way
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6. |
A Very Normal Interlude
01:18
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7. |
Panic With A Panic Buddy
03:12
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... I keeps my goals unsteady
That don't affect nothing in the low light setting, all alone
But if I light this bowl that might get me in the zone
And if I split this pill like the 2nd episode
... You’re such a low life Teddy
I keep a shook still but a stoge light steady
In the cold, been known to light a stove pipe petty
There’s not enough room for my own typesetting
Let alone, distracted in a way you couldn’t track if in the snow
On another plane, afraid all my landing gear’s broke Man appear cold like can of beer
Overhead got underway, no chandelier
My get up and go done got up and went
They bloodied my nose, i'm proud as a bitch
10/10, woke up in bed, I’d do it again
I keep a bottle in the freezer and a boot in the fridge
Rap Ebinezer Scrooge, I used to be a decent dude
Life gave me lemons, I made people move
I couldn’t tell though, used to walk along a haunted hallway on my elbows I stood her up, strung her along and called her cello
What the deal, could you tell that wasn’t real
I showed him to his room, fed that elephant a meal
I grew up in a dark mood, I know the way it feels
You know, the devil that you know
I know scared
I guess i'm lucky I ain't never had a neighbor
Bought my own sugar, recorded louder later
Occam's razor, Plato caver, major paydirt
Pop off, i'm in your face like nay-ner nay-ner
I be the same sarcastic asshole from the blackest black hole And in fact I act overly crass
I crack open a flask and slash colon a past
I don't remember right until I’m four deep in the glass
And yo, it seems so
Trying to get my sit down self to heave ho
And that's tougher than it looks, but look, it could be tougher In the end we're all churned butter
Fuck your grandmother
Cool, the fever don't stop
Lock that fucker in his room until he leak his own plot
I spent the summer in a tomb, I’ll spend the winter in a box Every loser gets a view, every winner get mop
All my friends steady, ‘Aye teddy, yo should chill
You keep your face looking that way you gon get killed’
I’m that lame in the back lane with that front row feel
I’m sorry if I fuck up again, you know I will
I’m pretty smart dude, this whole thing’s phoney
I won the war by staying home clothes folding
And twiddling thumbs, Mr Stick In The Mud
Gave all his shits out and buried his fucks
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Paper Plates and Sodas
03:04
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I’m tired of this fucking beat, but I guess I gotta get this wrote
Mr Noose When Given Just An Inch Of Rope
They acting like they didn’t know, I’m acting like I never learned a thing I never bothered much with that, I couldn’t breathe
Neat
We ain't keep in touch although it all ain’t what it seems
Drunkest me, your uncle T, I’m clawing at the seams
Crawling through the window. got a broad I brought with me
I’m here to drink and reference older memes
Okay
Caught between a tale of redemption, and abandon my friendships I moved away to think up a ending
The coolest dude to ever depression
I bring the illness, cats be like, “That’s ill shit and very impressive”
I know it
My sole opponent, my own emotions
In a moment, all insults are true and compliments are bogus
Put to vote, you bring the garbage bars and hauled in halitosis
I brought this here:
paper plates and sodas
Better make your quota
Paper plates and sodas
You can’t be disappointing if you ain’t been being noticed
Watch my left hand while my right is busy writing something bogus I over promise nothing and bring paper plates and sodas
Got upset, got involved
The goal this year to think of something nice to say or not at all And maybe hit the gym
Eighty six the fifth, hades fit to spin
Spun the leaf, spun off benzedrex, you never get the spins
You sommamabitches, I’m getting bent with some of my bitches I’m superstitious, throwing salt on ladders and kittens
Back in the district, out in the open, walk like Addikt and incense Cool and calm I handle business, like Atticus Finch is
It’s not about the follow through
When every question’s met with, “Who you talking to?”
My attitude is horrible, it’s terrible
It’s practically unbearable, but the parables I tell is incomparable Big fish eat little fish, rattlesnakes, fiddlesticks
Knees are bad, couldn’t make the pilgrimage
Bigger age but little bitch
Bitter pill to take, I called her sugar tits
I’m logged in on her boyfriend Hulu as I sit and kill this shit
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Mike Brown:
My nurse treatin 'rona
But I'm dangerous, I'm still gonna bone her
I put my faith in it, the greatest dick will never get older Gotta spend it while you got it, catch me at the Cottage
Geekin on some, "Hey bro who got it"
I gotta weigh all my options, I ain't a player or prophet
I put it down but they ain't ever got it
I been around, used to playin' the hobbit
I been around like a slug in a glock
I been around like how you huggin the block
Like your girl's mouth sucking a ...
You could watch, I put the shit down holy
Genes infallible the wine on my Lees
Shit is Christ like da vine on her knees
A 45 like a vinyl CD, was never violent, what you trying to be? You could find out with me
You got the hive mind, you dying to bee
Something I could do with trying the least
Teddy:
As I’m writing these bars, a cop's running my name
He asked me why I'm out here walking around, it's so late I told him that I'm out for a walk because I'm out for a walk How many reasons could I have for a walk
And so with no 29 on the number 2 male
I told him, “Hoe there's plenty time we can shoot if it's fair”
Furthermore that I haven't even scrapped in over a year
And that the last time I did I wound up clear sleep on my rear
And frankly you look like that you could take me
I'm fairly outta shape, I assume that you been training
30 cigarettes a day, I been drinking since the 80s
I'm belligerent at best, you’d probably beat me like a baby
So how bout we throw them hands yo, I don't care if lose
I just hate a fucking police asking why I been rude
I give you all the attitude that I can conjure and more
Cause I was walking down the street and you asked me what for
Well I'm a drug dealing car thief wanted for war
Big fish from a big ocean, I just just washed up ashore
I'm Pablo-esco-unibomb-Osama dejour
And you detective sharpest knife in the drawer
So pin a badge on Holmes here, he solving the case
Of the man guilty of taking him a stroll at a leisurely pace
They gon' hang your photo up in frame, throw parades
All your colleagues will slow clap, an increase in your pay
A Columbo that ain't actually smart
One more thing’s are followed by a, “Nevermind, I forgot where I parked” So, like I told you I ain't got ID
It’s spelled F as in Frank a-L-I-E
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With where we’ve all been at of late
I think it's safe to say we all could use an extra nap today Panic kinda creeping in
So everybody’s sleeping in
We can reconvene tomorrow afternoon and by the weekend, We’ll be straight
I've always been a fan of sleeping late
I've always been the man at being great
I've always been a canopy of pain
Not understanding that my only job’s the rain Some things are only built to file complaints So I'm walking with my homie,
I said, “Gus, these assholes think they know me...” Know what he then told me?
Nothing, he’s a dog, but I was thinking about it closely Realizing all a mess has been my whole stee
So it’s just another Saturday
Couple stores open, keep your dads away
Our president got half a brain
He shits his pants, comes on out for accolades
And half my graduating class claps away
Sometimes I wish I wasn't here on this earth
Sometimes my dog tries to play with deer and his feelings get hurt That’s all the same gear
No matter what I do I'll still be fighting how I feel
And Gus will always scare away the deer
What the hell is up now, I'm stuck now?
Ain't had a cigarette since uptown, I shoulda took the bus down
I try to be discreet but my whole shit is no composure
See me coughing in the street, I'm just smoking, it's not the ‘rona
We decided the whole world’s going home, I been at home, son
Call me when the last of the drink stores’s doors shut
I’ve been around a block or two, just never seen so many empty Usually there's broads that's like, “Oh hey, it's Teddy”
Usually there's bars and people sit inside them
Usually it's hard to do, but people trying
Back when masks were metaphors for hide behind-in
So holler at your boy, but keep it stealth
CDC says keep it six feet in-between us, I say twelve
Clean your room and try to cook up something something for yourself I learned to turn the oven on today myself, I'm feeling swell
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