1. |
Perspective
02:30
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ScareCrow’s my eponym
Yeah
Nothing ever last
No
That’ll be my epitaph
Yeah
My whole life has been about
Stepping through
That looking glass
Asking what the hell do I see?
Do I see it darkly?
Do I weave reality with a certain
Joie da Vivre?
Do I skew that view
To fit that glass shoe
Or do I sing McCartney
And Let it be, let it be….?
Yeah I can see how words of wisdom
Turn a prison to palace,
Perspective is an overflowing chalice
If you do it right
But I keep seeing people
Bringing snowballs to firefights—
Giving it to’em, 3rd degree.
Till they grovel on their knees
Begging, pleading, for release
Goddamnit it’s so depressing
Aimless with no direction
And obsessing over answers
Forgetting bout what to question.
No tribe too spurned
No bridge too burned
What’s the difference
With indifference pit against
A Reflection aficionado
With bravado unearned
No stone turned.
Yeah you been around the world
But haven’t been around that block
That sit atop of your voice box.
Tunnel vision like a cyclops
That ain’t happening on My watch....
Listen,
I could be that type of guy
To take advantage of that
But I’m CCC man I’m better than that.
I’m so calm, cool, collected,
Really introspective
Gotta look at all the dots
Gotta see how they’re connected.
I’m a force to reckon with.
Transcendent my soul directive
I’m Eclectic with my words
Teeter tottering between
The real — and thee absurd
And realizing it’s the same goddamn thang—
Camus wasn’t playing
When saying that life’s strange.
Some came wit piggy banks
Some looking for loose change.
You know - Life is a why so serious game
If you breathing you eventually
Leaving the way you came
—Yin yang— full circle.
Everybody—-He-man
Everybody’—— Urkle.
It’s all about perspective
They ain’t No perfect circles (full beat stop).
Everybody got a little Donald Trump
Everybody got a little Angela Merkel
Only thing that matters
What you choose to feed
What you choose to beat
Until it’s black and purple
Hey- yo
Gonna let the better angels
Of my human nature
Dictate the taste
Of my nomenclature
No libtards
No right wing nuts-
That’s the stuff
That breed hate
Not love
Why tear it all down
if we can build it up
Why fight on a side
Till we bite the dust
No breaking bread
No drinking wine
That ain’t Molotov—
That’s enough to piss
Nice guys off.
Nero, fiddle
Buddha transcendental man
I’ll meet you in the middle, man
Yeah I be the middleman
Somewhere in between
That bitter and sweet
Yeah
That’s what I be giving you
To eat now
Bon appétit.
Peace...
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2. |
Hey Lady Hey
04:22
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I really just gotta say
You been running through my mind all day
And I know it might scare you away
But I gotta say, “Hey Lady Hey”
Like your face, like your legs,
Like the shape of your wing blades
But most of all I like the way
You talk to all you friends and family
Full of zest and understanding
So positive, you got a lot to give
And I’m taking it in and a dam sieve
And I’m questioning if I can’t live
Without your love - Your sent
What I’m sure of
Is you’re enough
And I’m so content
Doing nothing with you’s
Time well spent
Like fresh mint in a mojito
Just a little sip
And when it hit my lips
I lose all control of my libido
Whoa…. yeah…that’s facts
I get weak in the knees
Whenever you walk past
Indubitably I’m lookin’ at that ass
But you do it to me, so it’s tit for tat
Give and receive, got it down pat
And when I’m giving it to you
I say “How’s that?”
Cuz I care about that you climax
When we in the sack
That’s love
Feel so good like a ball scratch
and a back rub
On ecstasy but all natural
Not on drugs but I’ll
Carry purses satchels
Stealing diamonds from Hearst Castle
Do what you wish with no hassle
I am guns n Roses Axel after rehab,
Singing tracks with no relapse
Just happy for what we have,
Come on baby be baaaad with me
See thaaaat envy
In our ex’s eyes
I got mine locked on you
Keeping peepers on the prize
Wanna know!
Wanna know!
If you feel it in your tummy
Maybe little in your toes
When we talk over the phone?
Haven’t felt this way since I was like
11-12 years old.
So ephemeral it’s hard to grab
Worth its weight in gold
Yo-
Hey Lady Hey
keep you warm when it is cold
Feel like watching you grow old
Knitting sweaters December
For your tinder little bones
Gratitude is what I'm on
Can't wait to just get you home
Matter fact this back seat is plenty big
Let's get it on...
(interlude)
Man, I just went spit the dopiest verse
I probably ever wrote
Saddest thing is all of this
Nothing but a damn joke
I am single, all alone
No one asking how my day was
When I walk into my home
Hey --
Hey Lady lady
Come on
Just maybe maybe
We can pretend for the weekend
Be each other’s devotees
Yeah, fake it till we make it
Till I get down on one knee
And saying you complete what’s me
I’m playin’
We ain’t meant to be
You see I’m destined
For this solitaire life
Without reprieve --
No reprieve,
Best believe
I weave a story
That I practice to deceive
Myself, my health, my wealth
My cell is just a hell that I created
Feeling oh so isolated,
You know,
Where I dwelled and contemplated
Self-inflicted fabricated
Complications inundated my mind,
So hypersensitive to
Sentiments that we would ever
Run into each other, you know,
Right place
Wrong time
Wrong place
Right time
Goddammit at least
You can’t say I’m not tryin’
I’m just barking up these trees
Looking for peaches from pines...
Such a glutton for the punishment
Of plundering with swine
Goddammit it's every time...
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3. |
Beautiful Day
03:46
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Beautiful Day
If you know me,
It’s Tragic optimism’s what I choose
Five days a week
But on the weekends I’m a freak.
And I’ll be quick to tell you
you ain’t watching news it’s the newspeak.
OK I’m off of my soap box
I shouldn’t just Throw rocks
Regardless of glass houses I know
Gosh,
Yo—
Sounds a little weird
But I don’t care if no one vibe this
I am my own tribe
and I abide by a divine bliss
I’m this
I’m that.
Encompassing
Everything
Fumbling
Lumbering
Stumbling through this life
Grumbling
Blundering
Slumbering through the strife
Pummeling
Plundering
Pondering what is right?
And despite all that 54:
You summoning the lightening
and the thundering
With flashes and claps
Fir me to get off my ass
And make a dash
With my passport...
I just might
No seat check needed
I be slipping out the kitchen
When it’s getting too heated
I’m about the slow simmer
make it tender then I eat it in the winter
when it’s cold out—
All about the Contrast
Sunny with the overcast
I might be a vagabond
Floatin' on his own raft,
In the near near future.
Who knows? I don’t.
All I knows
Waking up to roosters
Never felt like da maneuver
Ever since I was a zygote
No prince born to coffers
Grew up as the pauper
Chop wood carry water
No chip up on my shoulders
No season ticket holders to my stress
And I confess that I can dress
my own wounds with the best of’em
To heaven with rest of them
And outta my periphery
Alienation a small cost
for a little bit sanity.—
In time I’ve come to learn
that everything is about the focus
you don’t real know what broke is
Till the locust come and eat
you out your house and your home
And nibble you down to bone
Hard to put it in perspective
When conversing with a person
Whose pupils are in their phone, but
I still try
Still lying on my own sword
Some habits never die
Voices in my head keep me company
All night,
It’s all right
I prefer to be knee deep in weeds
of my own mind
You know? Woah--
No idols, dead or livin’, got permission
To be twisting my volition
I am smitten with convictions
Of getting rid of convictions.
Freeing up the pistons
So I’m banging on all cylinders
Hitting that flow state
With no brakes
Take the cake and eat it too
Isn’t that what you’re spossed to do
When cake is in front of you.
--hey
What’s so great about restraint?
I failed every marshmallow test
And I ain’t even like sweets.
I did it just to do it
Cuz there ain’t no guarantees
A couple different turns and you could
End up in the streets
With a couple missing teeth
Looking for something to eat
Oh no not me
Is what you’re saying to yourself right now!
Environment is indiscriminate
So is desire for taking shit in it
Why light a fire if that’s where you dwell?
Don’t be a denizen of your own Hell
Most of life is pass or fail
Stop sweating small stuff
And let your mind find Friendship
Live sleep eat repeat
Love so deep-L-Y
Hate can't
Even...
breathe….
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4. |
Message in a bottle
02:22
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If you’re gonna be a bottle
In the ocean
Put a message in it quit loafin’
This is my message in a bottle
Poor it all out, tip the nozzles
Should I be living life full throttle
Ehh….
I don’t really got a lot of grovel in me
I’d rather follow in the footsteps of Archimedes
And say Eureka! Eureka!
Yeah
Imma beatcha
To the finish line, just kidding
There ain’t no finish line
And there ain’t no road map neither
No,
Round the corners
Turn on a dime
You ain’t beating nobody but yourself
That’s fine
Your health
Not mine
I can tell
Nobody got a perfectly straight spine…
You know what?
You can look into the mirror
Best competition that you ever find right here
It can be your best friend
Or your worst enemy
And the root of all fears
Some of us smile from ear to ear
Some of us got miles of a cross to bear
It can get a little heavy sometimes
Messin’ with your posture
Got a little bit too much flair on your vest
Little bit, not enough,
Of the air in your chest
Let it all in and then decompress
You don’t know about peace
Till you deep in stress
And then
Crawl, out
Oh, I
Get it
Now
The key to life’s not lock it out
But let it in
Let it win
Everything life
So let it brim
I feel so Zen
When I am in
An instrumental
Life so simple
Outside temples
Pay attention
What’s essential
My penchant
For existential
Livin’
Everything’s pencil
Scribblin’
Temporary
Give in
To the idea
That we all go FIN
That’s just life
Ain’t no victim
We all swim and then we sink
That’s alright
buy that ticket
Take that ride
What you think?
What you think?
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5. |
Sand Castles
03:09
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Novelty keep me vertical
Habit what keep me terminal
Life is a lot of things
but one of them isn’t merciful
If Mother Earth spoke
She’d say that it’s nothing personal
We flammable – we burn—
This Entropy’s irreversible
I cannot confirm
That any of this is purposeful
I know that
Concern
Like what if this isn’t workable
I know that
In turn
You learnin’
You not invincible
But fragile as a
Sand castle -
choosing blue over the red capsule.
Whistling a ditty
To your dirt nap
Can’t wait to revert back
I know you
Been hurt bad
Probably even thinking
You deserve sadness
Tragic how a caged bird
Sings bout wings turned to ashes.
And so it goes
We live what we know…
reap what we sow
I suppose we wear clothes because
Everyone goes with the flow.
But sometimes it’s just cold
So I’m curling my toes….
I’m taking my ball
and I’m walking it home...
ScareCrow I know the
World should be enough but
We descendants of star stuff,
Constellations in my minds mind
I’m Consulting with my inner inner pulsar
Walking toward the North Star
Walking up to Zoltar
pesos in his pie hole
Man that’s all I can afford…..-
Tellin' me my life’s in tatters
Tellin' me he knows cadavers
With futures of higher stature
Even his old lady think I’m maybe
A disaster
I would put it past her
Or blame her
I know my trajectory
Can be perceived as call for laughter
But hell
only one bucket to kick
rather be a failed artist
Than a cog machine, pristine, cookie cutter prick
Headstone filled with epaulets
But never said a lick
I was here goddamnit
This music my flagship
Always meant to be together
Like a sowed up Cleft lip
Yo - You’ll notice I don’t stutter
I do this with no spit..
Practice don’t make perfect
But practice make permanent
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6. |
Firecracker Rebellion
02:20
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7. |
Tinder Life
02:38
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You say you want to be challenged mentally
But you can’t cuz you’re mentally challenged
It be clear to me that you Epiphany slow
Finally getting a joke that was spoke
Three hours ago, like….ohh
You say that it’s not you it’s me
Your life is so messy I wouldn’t believe
say C’est la vie
And hasta la vista
We ain’t meant to be
I know we just met
but you see the trajectory
Perfectly
Assuming to you is a certainty
You’re probably right
Why put up a fight
Let’s say our goodbyes
And continue to swipe
Another first date yeah
I’m earning my stripes
Tinders and Hitches ad Bumbles oh my!
Plenty of Fish, but I’m coming up dry
Why?
Swipe, Swipe
Left Right
Swipe Swipe...
Right...
Why she hold me at such a high caliber?
I’m not Excalibur
Not here to slay any demons
Up out of her
Not here to play
Any games or to clean up the mess
That was left by her ex
No janitor neither
I disappear in the thin of the ether
I can see clearly I know the procedure
Don’t you come near with that Ebenezer
Scrooge attitude
Gratitude is on the menu
And if you don’t approve
You be gettin’ the boot
And you knowing it’s true
Verisimilitude
We ain’t similar you
Got a negative mood
I can’t wait for the moment
You finish your food and
Conclude this date
Don’t mean to be rude
But I’m coming unglued
Cuz of people like you
as of late…
Dating nowdays
What I hate….
Swipe, Swipe
Left Right
Swipe Swipe...
Right...
That’s it
I quit
Went from throwing my hat in the ring
Now I’m throwing the towel in I think
Feel like an eagle without any talons
Or beak, no weapons or armaments
Nothing but chinks in my armor it seems
The Internet’s always got smoke and mirrors
And an endless supply of mirages in here
I’ll be swallowing sand till I die what I fear
Nothing is quite what seem to appear
When I go on a date and she so cavalier
I just gotta get out of this atmosphere
Imma H.A.L.T. here
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
That's you, not me,
A self-recognition technique
And I’m not getting sucked
Into negative energies
This is the part where we part,
Peace.
Swipe, Swipe
Left Right
Swipe Swipe...
Right...
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8. |
Heart Shaped Emoji's
01:43
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Heart shaped emoji‘s
What the world needs now
Like a cold breeze on a wet brow
Running in a field kickin
Yellow brown oak leaves
Feelin’ like a child
If only just for awhile
Stoke these
Recollections and emotions
Of a sinner and a saint
Together spending time on those knees
I submitted all the same….
Yo…
Now clam down
I ain’t saying they’re the SAME--
Kraft singles and goat cheese
Different category but
You’re still getting your protein--
Yo….
Let’s get into the nuance
More chemicals than DuPont
Influence how you viewing
Any problems and solutions
Now that you got
You wish for what you do not got
To come your way
I wish for what I do got,
To not go astray,
-Hey-
What can I say…..
I’m livin’ like a villain
When it’s opposite day...
I know, an amateurish approach
Juxtaposed
To the pro leagues
Neuroses big enough
To hold Trophies
At the top is so lonely
Soon as I lose a million dollars
I’ll be home free...
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