1. |
Crash (intro)
02:57
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Monologue (Grayling)
You know that moment you look around like, "What the fuck?" That is now. How i arrived at this juncture is the clearest mystery i've ever encountered. A mystery only in the sense that i still refuse to admit the true fault in my own decisions. It always seems the precise motive of others is far clearer than that of my own. So now i look in the mirror and my reflection is so clouded with deceit and visions of grandeur, it's as if i refuse to believe in my own existence at all. And what type of existence is that? Sometimes i like to sit and look over my city and think about what was, what is, and what will never be again. It helps me understand my decisions and the consequences of my actions. The people i've helped, the people i've hurt, and the people i've left alone. If i could, i would bring the best out of every creature, but we were created stubborn and selfish, and that includes me.
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Verse (Grayling)
Secluded behind these glass walls
Aware of everything but the asphalt
It was my choice, so it was my fault
i looked out the window and saw the sky fall
Conversations in disbelief
Got my mind racing, i don't get to sleep
So oil the death of me, this is destiny
Rumble, young man, rumble
stumbled my way outside fell straight into the jungle
Just another young black man
Lost inside the shuffle
Gaining weight up off the muscle
i don't trust you, what you acting snake for?
Maybe cause you think i got the face of a scapegoat
Either way though, they move how i say so
i am Negus Supremus, tell Me what you came for
My dream is, nothing more than unity
Peace, Love, a little celebration at my eulogy
Between you and me, we got everything we need
Besides we got each other and that's everything indeed
i have this tendency, to live outside the moment
Mary Magdaline, with the constellations on her shoulder
Leans over, and whispers sweet nothings in my ear
Wherever heaven's at, i know it can't be far from here, my dear
You know this world is ours for the taking
Don't let em steer you wrong, life's exactly what you make it
So make love, make war, make history
i threw caution to the wind cause i can't take shit with me
Instead i chose a path of abstract symmetry
To reveal mystery, this is victory
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2. |
Ad Oculos feat. Steady
03:27
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Verse 1 (Grayling)
Motivated, cause last night, this was all dream
But i can't seem to get these heavy thoughts up off of me
i'm reading socrates off of trees and a couple acid tabs
Taking shots, bumpin Pac, rappin and grabbin ass
See everything that happens really ain't happenstance
You actin like it's just an accident, doin your magic dance
Making rules, i'm just makin moves
Groovin to this new shit, that you ain't used to yet
You know the music never stop though
Drivin fast, findin cash and dodgin potholes
They told us life was dangerous, wasn't shit they could say to us
Baby girl got an angel face, her man hooked on angel dust
So ain't shit strange to us, we choosing our own path, and we know that
She went from clean cut, to seen where the coke at, it was so fast
It's crazy how it shifts, i dip the blunt in lean and now seeing fuckin hieroglyphs
High as shit, feel like i'm piloting a flying pirate ship
With crookers beside of him, so don't be soundin like a lick
With my own eyes, seen it and made it happen
The eye of the storm causing a chain reaction
Ad Oculos
Hook (Steady)
I think you're stuck, until you wake up
Otherwise you're just, fooling an audience
With pretty nonsense, to hold an office you don't know how to run
You can't exude love copying the symptoms of
Insecurity's a smoking gun
Verse 2 (Grayling)
So now i'm cleanin, speaking with Alan Watts, cause i'm feeling lost, plus
All this animosity, in my city, ain't been helping me out a bit
i tried to talk the homie down, but he was yelling loud as shit
Tripping over some small time bogus shit, his focus is
Way off track, looking back, it's crazy i ain't noticed it
Or maybe i did, cause now my girl's in denial too
i was reachin for the astral plane, train to find a higher view
But the distance between us, got me shifting demeanors
Making sure i don't see her, she took me straight to the cleaners
Not to mention my fam, i pray that they understand
Hope my pops sees his son, when he's shaking my hand
i don't know though, and at the rate i keep ducking calls
It always surprising that i'm maintaining our trust at all
But this Ad Oculos
i'm awakening the masses, ot stopping the apocalypse
i'd rather strike a match, sit back, and watch it all burn
Let the wildfire turn the skyline to auburn
Ad Oculos
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3. |
Fuck Ya feat. Steady
03:49
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Verse 1 (Grayling)
Drunk and startin shit, locked in this apartment
They never tell you how dark it gets
They just gas you up, leave you sparking shit
Tim you park the whip, hop out on a mission, livin
Had to leave my chick, only time we got along was when i was tripping
This a different vision, can you tell me what your life bout?
You suck it up like lipo? Or do you cry when the lights out
i'm Donnie Darko, out here, livin on borrowed time
A young Boston George, hustlin, tryin to walk the line
While i'm stuck on two sides of the same coin
On the road i'm Kerouac and i'm Cassidy, with the same voice
My boy, let me borrow his whip with no set backs
i made it all the way to Rhode Island, but, there ain't no way imma get back
Cause i'm drunk at the venue, thank god for Tinder
All i want on my tombstone, is return to sender
i remember, livin inside a brighter day
It might have been all a dream, but fuck it, we'll find away, ay
Hook (Steady)
You see us ridin, with the windows up
Fuck ya, you're not us
Keep it grindin, til the sun come up
Fuck ya, you're not us
We been at it man, working like an addict man
Keep it tight fam, we don't need no static man
Keep em ridin, with the windows up
Verse 2 (Grayling)
Boulevard of broken hearts, so i travel alone
i told her from the start, that i wouldn't be long
Cause i can't belong, i'm nothing more than a phase
i just move with the summer breeze, i don't choose which way
It takes me and, honestly it pains me
No, honestly, it breaks me
i've been looking at my past in HD
With the future blurry, shit, everybody in a hurry
i see the world crash and burn, but yet it keeps on turning
And i'm learning that, no matter how i feel about it
i ain't never gunna save them all
i used to try to play the hero, you know i had the cape and all
And that ain't do nothing but hurt us both
i wanted your heart and heard i was close
But in the end, i just hurt us most, damn
So now i'm shadowboxing my thoughts again
It's gettin dark, but i'm still in the park, chillin, tryin to spark again
Living this code of silence
Following a secret religion
Filling up my mind with nothing
Just tryin to see shit different
Hook (Steady)
You see us ridin, with the windows up
Fuck ya, you're not us
Keep it grindin, til the sun come up
Fuck ya, you're not us
We been at it man, working like an addict man
Keep it tight fam, we don't need no static man
Keep em ridin, with the windows up
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4. |
Babylon
03:37
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Verse 1 (Grayling)
Feel like i never had a moment like this, need to write this
Down or something, now or nothing
How the fuck did i get here?
Who's this girl in my bed?
Do i live here?
Shit yeah, and i got 60 inch tv in my living room
Closet mic, i'm hood rich
Bombay and tonic, all of the chronic i could ever smoke
You know, all of that good shit
But what of it?
The homie Lee keep telling me that i should love it
But it's hard to trust him when he's buggin
So instead i find bottle and chug it
i love this life, you can see it in my eyes
Yeah, it does me right, you can see me in the night
With the hood up, in the corner of bar
Good luck if you see me with your broad
Nigga this is Babylon
And since all the do is babble on
imma stay true, do what i do, dodge the blues
And just travel on
Hook (Grayling)
i don't know why this road is, i don't know what this road is
This road that i'm on, this road that i'm on
i don't know where i'm going, i don't know where i'm going
Just know that i'm gone, just know that i'm gone
Verse 2 (Grayling)
i close my eyes when i hit the stage
Shit, it's been a minute since i was getting paid
i remember when i didn't have shit to say
Now i ink the page and just drift away
But are they, my words? Or do i just trace 'em in?
It's getting harder to describe this mental state I'm in
But i can make a basement feel like a stadium
With a pocket full of j's, chugging a liter of Jameson
It's crazy when, it all happens like they predicted
While they was yapping, i really went out and lived it
No looking backwards, i really stepped out to get it
And i never got distracted, so i brought it to fruition
Young and gifted, livin the life i chose
Cause if it don't feel right, then it's right to go
The truth is simple, why you always complex?
A lifetime loser, still caught in nonsense
But god bless, imma follow my own path
Where all i need is my mind and this notepad
Know that, cause i've seen true love go bad
I looked her in the eyes and told her we'd never go back
Hook (Grayling)
i don't know why this road is, i don't know what this road is
This road that i'm on, this road that i'm on
i don't know where i'm going, i don't know where i'm going
Just know that i'm gone, just know that i'm gone
I dropped out, so they cropped him out
Man, that's that shit that i been talking about
Small minds need something to gossip bout
so let's just spark it up and have a walk-about
My only motive is progression
If you know yourself, you don't need second guessing
Continue on your path, the blessin is the lesson
Learn to use your mind as a weapon, go
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Verse 1 (Grayling)
All alone at witching hour
Monsters in these streets, if i sleep, then i get devoured
So it's cold showers, workin til i know peace
i been tryin to write, but this pen is at a slow leak
If you know me, you don't know what i been going through
It gets lonely, when you wake up, see you have a world to move
So just show me, what type of difference do you make?
Man, everyone's too fake, fuck a gold tooth and a toupee, ain't no difference
Little hitter pulled a pistol out the other night
i hopped out the truck, grabbed the gun and he ducked and ran for his fucking life
We control our value, so let's raise the standards
Or just raise the roof, cause either way, they can't stand us
Hook (Samantha Giacalone and Steady)
Got, gotta get, gotta get mo high
Just to keep this fire alive
You know i gave you up
And gave my heart to the beat of the drum
There's a rock solid bottom, that's rushing, rushing up at me
You know i gotta find, a way to fly, before i hit the ground
Verse 2 (Grayling)
i ain't really talked to Joel in a minute
But ever since Tanner died
Everything's been different
It's a new look in his eyes
A chain of events
A broken shoelace
A hole in the fence
These days, i'm afraid to look down, all these crooked cops
If it wasn't for my pops, shit, i'd prolly be out there getting shook down
In this little town, little old me, smoking weed
Literate, Degenerate, still figuring out what i'm supposed to be
A poster child for lost souls with a lost cause
Stuck in a past life, still making shit pop off, yelling live free
Freedom till the death of me, livin the Law of Thelema til i rest in peace
Hook (Sammzig and Steady)
Got, gotta get, gotta get mo high
Just to keep this fire alive
You know i gave you up
And gave my heart to the beat of the drum
There's a rock solid bottom, that's rushing, rushing up at me
You know i gotta find, a way to fly, before i hit the ground
(instrumental bridge)
Hook (Samantha Giacalone and Steady)
Got, gotta get, gotta get mo high
Just to keep this fire alive
You know i gave you up
And gave my heart to the beat of the drum
There's a rock solid bottom, that's rushing, rushing up at me
You know i gotta find, a way to fly, before i hit the ground
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6. |
The Lake feat. Steady
04:42
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Hook (Steady)
In the last place i thought i'd find
A rarer frame of mind
Standing in the lake
If i thought it was a mistake
To say, i was the one to blame
i just haven't done enough
But was it all, was it all just a waste of my time
A gentleman disguised as a madman
Just smoked an oz in two days inside this damn van
Rolling with the homies down to Texas
Felling blessed i found a spot to work and get the fuck from where the ex is
Plus i got these instrumentals in my headphones
Staring out the window, felling lost, tryin to get zoned
They got me thinking back, picking words out of thin air
Man, it's been a crazy few years, you should have been there
Cause, drugs and money, does some funny
Things to people, but shit, i shoulda seen it coming
Told the homie once, i wasn't gunna play the dummy
But he wasn't with it, now his arraignment's coming
You can always smell when that rain is coming
i try to tell 'em, but these people think i'm playing or something
Hate to say it, but fuck 'em
i ain't gunna save 'em from nothing
i'd rather stand all alone up in the face destruction
Hook (Steady)
In the last place i thought i'd find
A rarer frame of mind
Standing in the lake
If i thought it was a mistake
To say, i was the one to blame
i just haven't done enough
But was it all, was it all just a waste of my time
Verse 2 (Grayling)
Up early before the sun
Justin in the kitchen cooking something up
Body hurting still from that fucking truck
Got a few more days though on this lake
Don't be late homie, buckle up
i'm sober now, i an't even been smoking
i'm arguing with this bitch again
But shit, she provoked it
So fuck it, i ain't even gonna look at my phone
It's prolly best if i leave it alone, but you know how that goes
A wise man said, "Never argue with fools"
Cause people from a distance, can't tell who's who
Besides, i'm finally living in a house full of artists
Smoke and rattle, word to Scott, man i got y'all regardless
i promise
Hook (Steady)
In the last place i thought i'd find
A rarer frame of mind
Standing in the lake
If i thought it was a mistake
To say, i was the one to blame
i just haven't done enough
But was it all, was it all just a waste of my time
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