nowadaze it's hard wakin' up / been married to my mind for a long time, thinkin' bout breakin' up / if i do, there's no makin' up / let my soul - not - be stirred, internal words, i'm shaken up / i'd burn the crosses that i've taken up / but i know me only too well, i'd see yours by the wayside & take 'em up / it's always been in my nature to save the hated / and try to redeem them, a dream that's never validated / i sit beside a man-made lake, next to a landfill / make man-made plans to stand up to the standstill / i've arrived at a stand, still, yet still it stands / to reason, i'd rather be mad then pop the pill in hand / within the eye's iris, spy a white ibis in mid-flight / permanent daylight, bright midnight / using insight, i can tell that my insides / have been dried, left with a mortal shell, stretched skin-tight / hellish helicopter propellers, like a ceiling fan / hung from the clouds, life's too real to be appealing, man / it seems to be peeling tan flesh from my old bones / the man that i've become visits the past like an old home / mold in my dome, grown from calcified thinkin' / floating like preserves in formaldehyde, sinkin' / as war cries rise like blood tides & more die / pops forced into retirement, watches rawhide
pain on the inside, pain on the outside / aiming for the stars, while i dangle over south fire / friends offer words of encouragement, i don't care though / when you feel this empty, it's hard to care about careful / piss on good judgment & throw caution to the wind / i can't cope, i can't handle, do you have a hand to lend? / a lot of mindwash newspeak, so disarming / it's alarming, friendly fire, disarmed by this army / fractured reflections in mirror shards, are not mine / so many lives within this lifetime, forgot mine / entranced in stationary placement, i need a transformation / stagnation's dragging me under, let's face it / something's wrong, i can't place it, caught up in the dragnet / fingers tippin' scales of the dragon's tail i'm chasin' / i never manage to catch up to past phantoms / on a white horse galloping, hands on a black lantern / illuminated by the dark truth, shimmer obsidian / stars don't shine on lost souls, they never pity them / feel like burnt offerings on the wrong end of a pitchfork / at every turn i get caught, whichever way the witch walks / within this maze, the children of the maize slip through / stalks of corn, awkward born, stuck out like a chip tooth / wordsmith tempura temperament tempered exemplar / semper fi to i & i eternal night, templar
once in a while the gears turn, wheels spin, no traction / so i let the fears return, seals me in, no action / frozen cryogenics, denial becomes medicine / life's knocking, but i'd probably die if i let it in / on an existential seesaw, everything i see, i seen before / except i used to wanna see more / now i just close my eyes, i wanna sleep forever / take my hand, it's better in neverland, we'll sleep together.
The latest release from D.C. rapper Tef Wesley, featuring Grussle on production. Hard beats and tough rhymes that evoke 1990s hip-hop. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 8, 2016
