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I don't know who I am anymore
And maybe that's a good thing
Speaking in goddamn metaphor
Floored by all the ways that I've swung
Strung along for a ride that
At any moment will bury me alive
But it's a hell of a time
Placing your hand underneath a dancing knife
Welcome to the new poor, where we
Were gonna get our dream jobs, but the
Loans owed plus the lone wolf goals
Made us into a fuckin mob, but we
All still stand apart, like we
Being thrown by someone bad at darts, that's why
I'm here, to bring us all together
Birds of a feather, now and forever you fuckers
C:
Save yourselves together
Be the one who makes the biggest small change
Think about how we affect each other
Just be the best you there ever was
Belly full of laughter and armor full of daggers
It would be quite tragic if I couldn't do magic
Doesn't matter, though, watch me pull a rabbit
Rapidly rapped radically brash and magnanimous
Free to enjoy, hilarious charity
Fighting disparity with songs worded carefully
Dreamed of performing since I was a toddler and
Now I got the fodder from father far away
Not just in distance but in spirit
Can you hear it? It's the lyrics
Being subversive in this conversion
From bored millennial to thoughtful person
Even when the world doesn't hold I
Still lay the lines and know the lies told
I know the icebergs seem ice cold
But the worst parts the crash, never fucking
Fold, whatever comes your path, keep your thoughts
Bold, in aftermath the pluses and
Minuses might of all been an illusion
That's the easy conclusion, what are you
Doin with your life, if everyone was gone and
You were all alone, will you still sing a song no
Audience, just silence that needs to be filled
That’s only destroyed with the power of will
I didn't have a choice, I never
Created my own noise, as a musician it
Bothered me much, so my life got revisions and I
Even stopped hating religion, I'm not
Here to preach, although it's bound to happen I
Tend to be opinionated while I'm yapping
But the one thing I want you to take from this score is
How much I really motherfucking hate Macklemore
Would you like to play
We could hold hands
We could love some more, try it
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2. |
BALLOONS
03:08
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Took 20 years to realize
I lived life in 3/4 time
Waltzing around with a schmaltz
Combine Charles Schultz with lightning bolts
Yeah I've been in what some call a cult
Our education system is broke
I figured out, dropped out, and had a toke
And now writing rhymes and silly jokes
It's been for me, been flying
Diagonally, drawing aggro from the
Self awareless who couldn't care less if
They wore a pink shirt or a bare chest
Just cause I gave them a fair test
To help them shoot down their own arrogance
Please don't tell me that I'm soft, when I'm
Built from the granite in Vermont
Shit there just was, plain and simple
People on the street were your kinfolk
And I hope for that everywhere
But not because you're allowed to care
You decide your pride, I tell me
Mass media might try to mediate that
Conversation, but keep fighting em
Did you ever ask why life just
Left you behind for a stride
Alive, wise, nice, but suicidal
Now twice I've had a vice lie to me
Made me feel illegal, so ivory
And suffice it seems I'm on top, not a
Track matter next to this nerdish addict
To pokemon and pot, sorta flopping
Cause living is better than motherfuckin drops
Slippy tripping since shitty wisdom
Held me at its bosom, wouldn't
Ever tether forever with other lovers
Gloves they won't wear, frozen
Fingers, bodies while singing, and food
Bad for you, but you can't really refuse
In the moment, what you sposed to do
Just make it through? No! but you can
Still hold onto your pride too, no matter
How many times you've been lied to, take a
Look around at your own life, truth, and live
Life like your right in your mind, dude, take your
Cape off, it won't help you take off
Just there to clean the mess once you bate off
You just wanna key to the city when you
Catch the next fuckin Bernie Madoff
It'll take more than one ape caught
To stop shots fired by cops at the
Black Lives that matter, like mine does
No more "back in the day man
Kind was" bullshit, it always was
Fucked, we've just lifted up the rug
To find thousands of mugshots of
Men who needed more hugs
Prose is opposed to posers focused on the
Bitches and hoes they think they know
So semantic antics like "microagressions"
Are bougie, loopy, and only protection
If you ain't afraid of getting shot, drop your
Victim act, we all got problems but
If your worst are getting hurt feelings
Come together so we can solve other's
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Large crash, big boom
Here I am, trapped in this living tomb
Thought the night just had a moon
Until I felt roaring clouds shaped like mushrooms
Who knew bout the beauty in doom and gloom
Hit that hihat to buy back the afternoons
Stolen by the lies that told me I was something
When really, I was nothing
Floating fixtures tell me to look way
Beyond the sky
Nothing feels like everything’s alright
But am I?
Look inward, you’ll find a solar system, you’ll find
Another Earth, you’ll find another you, you’ll find a
Better view, embrace this new birth, encase this
New worth, put it on a mantle, on a plaque
Up to a candle and watch the color it burns
Watch they way the smoke sways and swerves
One day those rainbow flames will decay, words
Written might be saved, but never again heard
Will our speculation even matter when the
Sun shatters and we wrote our final chapter
I guess this is all for nothing, but if
We created the something, we can be the
Anything we hope for while lying under stars, or we can
Try to figure out who we are, I don’t mind
Being corrected, while I hope these thoughts are
Reflective, it’s just my perspective
Turn off the strobe light, turn off the strobe light
I’m lovin this shit that you wish were your right, but
I got them windpipes that spin out these win tracks that
Distract from the fact that you fucked up your life, it’s
Tragedy, my bastardly catastrophies are actually a
Majesty from passionate ideas made reality, can
Callan see his future bright, not with all these strobe lights you
All try to flash at me, your machoman battery is
Flattery cause now I guess I am a threat to your arrogance
Apparently masculinity is so fragile that my energy is
Menacing, it’s imminent, your edipus complex won’t rest and
Motherfuckers will still rise as evidence by reddit threads, it’s
In your head, in both I suppose, you bros need some self control
Hopefully not parole, reassess your fuckin goals
Fuck boys, you fuck boys are fucking with anyone that
You see as fuck toys while I’m gonna rejoice cause
I focused my voice on actually succeedin in
Freakin, while you still getting drunker every weekend
Sorry that atari gets me goin more than hockey, but I'm
Tired of these tools who hate my songs, so sweet and artsy
Turn off the strobe light, turn off the strobe light
I’m lovin this shit that you wish were your right, but
I got them windpipes that spin out these win tracks that
Distract from the fact that you fucked up your life
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OLLIE (feat. BLIP)
03:25
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I probly ollie off a cliff before I score a snitch
Took a pill from Morpheus, see the numbers crisp
Tripping like I don't know what a pageant is, adjectives
Always stay my friend from the Ave to the abacus
Never needed nads to make mad beats, to make a
House mom freak, not like she hates some peeps, but cause she
Don't wanna loathe me, that classy white boy who always
Say “have a nice day”, yeah, my body is a
Temple, so what's next to my ears, just a weakness
Nahh, a mind divine enough to blind beatniks
Maybe I'll get 10s, but I'll probly get 2s on the
Basis that my banter is embarrassingly true
I was built for skirts, sprints, and speakin soft
So every verse is a challenge, Callan gets off at
Bein what you aint want him to be, Andross
Mouth when it's bout how much this shit does cost
Hangin from a cross for lost fucks who have it all but
Know that those whose don't matter fall cause they sadder than
Calls that your papa died, I speak for the kids who
told they can never bad mad about shit
Scream louder than for ice cream cause nice dreams aint
Handed out in culdesacs and before you stuck in roundabouts I
Hope you roar like catamounts that you amount to more than a
Cashier at a grocery store, you're a unicorn
BLIP verse coming soon!
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5. |
MEDITATION
03:14
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6. |
CALLAN AND HOBBES
05:31
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When there’s rain upon the world
We just skip stones cross the street
We hold hands while we laugh
We sleep touching feet
I’ve waited five hundred days to
Put something behind a beat that
Get’s this shit deep
You know what I mean
Different clocks to different walks to
Minimal talks to two stubborn rocks
Blocked off the path to different tracks
Changing those roads on the same map
And we look at the jungle
Surrounding us, we found us
Not leaving each other in the dust
Even when we let the other go
It’s hard to love though
When you can’t love yourself
Sometimes it’s just cause you
Don’t know what to like
You don’t even know who you are
You’re just a mess of scars
And someone can help you
Find you in there
The world tries to tell me that you’re not my people, but the
Ones who made me feel real was Kain and Chef Niko
Glad that I vomited so much I needed that miso and then
Realized she was a lie, me to me, my ecosystem
Formed me away from my identity, a plenty of
Faces that come with brevity, a black flowey
Skirt is all I need, the hurt covered by weed, the words
Never enjoyed til boy was not my means of
Expression, no exceptions, except some, fluid fruition
Made it ok sometimes for me to call myself “bitchin”
While some step out the closet I step out the kitchen, cookin
Somethin so hot, you won’t even know you’re listenin, you’ll
Experience sex serious tests, from breasts to testing beds
In a world when your different, you feel your death loom
Put on a mask and dreamed of bein MF Doom, took it
Off now proud to be so rare they be callin me a loon
Not sure if I’m a toon, stretchy, so messy, so
Blessed to be breastfeeding all of you lovers from my chesty
The man in me commands a band of brand new plans to
Connect all us settlements and win this game of Catan
He kills the bland in trans until he fuckin kicks the can and
Hopefully has an apprentice to impress a mess of vessles
Ready to be themselves, spelled out q-u-e-e-r
Ill change you all so much you’ll join the trans vanguard
I thank you every day
That you helped me become more than the man I was supposed to be
More than just a social outcast
But a beautiful person possible of so much more
Of being fluid, present, and honest with myself
Thank you, I love you
When there’s rain upon the world
We just skip stones cross the street
We hold hands while we laugh
We sleep touching feet
I’ve waited five hundred days to
Put something behind a beat that
Get’s this shit deep
You know what I mean
Girl that was hurt by the obstacles made, and
Boy who was worth what he was paid, two
Kids in the bodies of those who lay, with the
Scared looks that indicate they prayed, but the
Prayers paired up and ran away, knowing
They’re bullshit, they feel the same, the two
Kids come together, they see the pain the other has
They’re alone, prone to say, “fuck our dads”
It was the best laugh they ever had
Til the next one, and the laugh after that one
A bug once said here comes the sun, and it
Burned soon after, but not us, we
Shone so low upon the earth that the men and
Women couldn’t ignore where we found worth, warmer they
Got until with love they all burst
And I hope that boy is me
I know a girl who gave me this dream
I hope when she hears this she’s in my arms
In my bed, or we’re in hers, and I’m in her heart
If not, I hope what I jot brings some
Good to the people who have nothing they got
Something they wake up to and read a lot, and
Share with your kids, signed Callan and Hobbes
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TALES OF A SCULPTURE
04:07
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I saw Jesus near the top of a cross, tellin me, fuck off
I accepted my loss, crossed my fingers, hopin coke was wrong
Got that right, despite their might I think I turned out alright
Pressure, perspiration, and premeditation fucked me good in the night
No pussy’s perspired pheromones that were comparable, and
Like them, I'm individual, when I'm added up instead of divisible
I'm invincible, like The Lord is, when I'm near Cape Cod, where I
Saw God's son once again, givin my ass a 9 outta 10
Now got more faith in 4 leaf clovers than devils and angels on my shoulders
Not cause I'm bolder, older, or from Boulder, nahh, like I told ya
I pushed up against the pressure from the hands who wanted to mold me
Tales of a sculpture, now my dick hang out and I'm made outta bolder
Poltergeist heists I never think twice about, I'm apatheist
I looked around me, and it's just us, horny over two dykes
Am I one, no, but I found so much less necessity in
Pronouns, or am I confused by what I found on RedTube, is
This cause once a dead dude decided what was right, and we think
Those who rock the water are all assholes, but I love skipping stones
Started at my Grandma's where the creek gave me meditation
Behind the vegetation she grew, I joined the plants, shot
Higher and higher while enjoyed a plant that stinks in the fire, higher and higher
Hitting the bong til I bled from the hand, and still no desire to stop where I am
Now I leave a red handprint on all these fucks that I touched, no need for a tan
If I need power to be a good male then I am no man, Serendipity
Hippy shit and suburban pigs I've been split between since I was 14
Fuck all the fucks who say I'm fucked up cause I got another source of dopamine
I'm not fucked up at all, and if you were to ask, the way you worship malls and
Balls and dolls and a fuckin God that isn't there at all's fucked up to me
Now got more faith in 4 leaf clovers than devils and angels on my shoulders
Not cause I'm bolder, older, or from Boulder, nahh, like I told ya
I pushed up against the pressure from the hands who wanted to mold me
Tales of a sculpture
I'm passive, and people find that way too attractive
Been bred to be justification since I was actively givin out passion
I'm tired of people who keep asking how I'm doing cause they
Just need a distraction from their reactive actions, do I want a
Midas kiss, or am I fine with the kanker soars that I find, do I
Need nirvana, nevermind that shit, I'm ok with a life like this, with the
Pain that comes and numbs you til you grow hard like a sculpture
But fuck it I'm beautiful, from the vans that I wear til the hair on my shoulders
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SHAMAN
02:50
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The funk’s my feet, my speak’s a skunk, suckin
Nips while holding hips til I got too drunk, faded like
Outros, track record imperfect, so worth it, this
Inertia birthed a murderous version of Cal courage, sir
The shirts off, the first knock’s to the jerk standing
In the mirror who can't see his own worth, what kinda
Hero defeats himself in his own verse, I’m worse than
Curses, village verses shaman, Cal slurps his
Ramen, poorer than vodka to glass, I guess
I got too stoned to get glass out my ass, true
Story, got scars, from my cheek to my heart, but getting
All the shards out wasn’t even the worst part
Most folks only saw one piece at a time, so each
Bloody piece I pulled out they told me, “you’re fine”
When they're around just a moment, no one seem to mind the
Tragedies that happen, but still fear to be blind
I’d rather lose my vision than my hearing cause I
Value all your words, I’ve teared up in
Front of yall cause I called for justice for all, but
Nobody can hear you when you’re just not that tall
Who defeats himself in their own verse?
This fuck on the mic who finds idolization perverse
I hope you worship yourself and know why you’re here, though
I hope that I get to be your last hero
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IRRELEVANT
05:17
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I didn't choose this music, it chose me
None of my raps should be classified OG
Maybe I'm irrelevant but this is for the hell of it
Syncopated bass drums and analog synths are my
Element, it started in a mellowship
Split shit with scripted analysts, Manic hits
Seem to be my strength, no way my spit celibate
Rapped about myself while wearing bright yellow shit
What twist got my game lit? Well I heard
Alliteration, thought it was magic, picked up a
Pen, put down the ax quick, and got so many
People telling me what I do is irrelevant
Not about an image, just a Guy who had
Too much to say in just one phrase
I went about it with respect to the greats, but my
Fate was to create my own mixtape, though
First it was a joke, making fun of wangsters
Then I felt the anger that made pens scribble paper
I got out that Donald Draper
Wave and surfed days on earl sweatshirt and vapor
Funky bass lines soon became saviors
I tasted so many different flavors
Changed my syllabus, fuck all the majors
Prescribed myself medical melody and metaphors
And by fuckin miracle I rock this shit
I rock this shit, I'm positive, I get shit
Lit, a pox I plagued through rhythmic rips til
All the kids had thought I lost my grip
It's not a bit, a story straight from college
Had to quit before I ever got that knowledge
Dropped the S and I left with honor, no more
Lisp that mists, no more drowning in water
Operation sublimation of the hip hop
Nation has been debated as much as hip hop is hated
I grew up believing rappers just got faded
Then I dug deeper and related, not cause I
Wanna be black but cause I felt my back up
Against a wall and saw you could stand tall if the
People who had it worse could still fight, so I fought to
Make sure that all my skills tight
These guys were heroes to me, mixin rhythm and some
Poetry to flow through me like Holy Ghosts through rosaries
Feels like my mind grew ovaries cause I'm giving birth to
Poultergiests who haunt my listeners, an overly
Ridiculous remark, but the hearts in the bark, lift you
Up so high you see the light over dark, you feel the
Spark like a car whose stuck in park, feel the start
Of the revolution inside you imbibed too
Fast, but that's the best rate, now you kick the
Assholes till they got Brown taint, you get shit
On, and you learn to love the hate, you know they
Only give a shit if you make them irate
I think it's only the media who spins that the
Start of hip hop is right where it ends
But freestylin is fun with your friends in the
Back of subarus, puffin blunts or vape pens
Rap when your sober, rap with your partner
Learn how to beat box and speak like your heat rocks
Just believe in yourself, that's the whole point of
Rapping, not bragging about how big's your joint
I need to thank tyler, em, Earl, ye
Smalls, doom, mos, guru, Kendrick, and dre
They showed me how beautiful rhymes were when
The times hurt and you hated yourself
This shit’s now a part of me, I know I'm not
Gonna make a hit, shit at archery, but someone will
Take what i mean home, I believe that
It's all I need fore my bpm goes flat
I wrote from the moment, now it's scribed, my one
Scratch on the earth before I die, of course I
Dream that my impacts much bigger than an elephant but I'm
Prepared to be irrelevant, peace
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