1. |
in/out (doors)
04:28
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ZAC
i used to rhyme like this,
pause to try an match my cadence,
but that all stopped when i heard my mother's mic drop,
now i linger over the meat rot
sever the finger for the plot,
cut tether to the original thought,
didn't want it to be all i got
left with just lenses tinted green
obmiss' how it defines me
if i don't talk about my down falls how can they deny thee?
have to yell to speak about the irony of leaking it out
volume stops the whimpering snout
my strained vocals seem louder
beam through the thick cloud
found home lane but i stagger
plant tracker my grand ego
grants roots and veins 'till they
entwine the ID, can't be seen
years wasted under x-ray machines
wish for the bliss of a twisted spleen
but destiny had insisted on testing me
my neuronic pie, been baked with chronic lies,
throat been caked in soothing coughs,
scared they'll respond with scoffs
hasn't happened but won't bathe in the surprise
didn't sleep with tom, too busy crying at the sunrise
TOM
god doesn’t have her hands together, she keeps fingers crossed
stones thrown at my body but they just skip across
water walking, not rock, you must’ve got your chris’ crossed,
pockets in the front but it’s backwards how you flick your tongue
jumping in the pond just to hear the fishes talk
send her my little songs just to keep me in her thoughts
working harder in the underground than mr fox
lift a finger and it’s shit within his jorts
then clip it off and send it to him, get that shit across
cathy where i got my strength and wisdom from
not for the silly talk, rapping what my lips are for
every word like the doors in monsters ink, you’re hanging off
trying to break the board like jaws, but staying empty what my brain is for
threw a hook he started looking for a ref like we were playing ball
probably should’ve stayed indoors
ZAC
parental resentment breeds discontent,
bottomless anger that i couldn't stop
became a seamless temper i didn't want
from a nest story thats been stomped
'till all innocence is lost
the sorrow too hollow to be paper bound,
still the wood soaked the drops
like the ground in which it was found
tearing at the press of the pen till the jugular pops,
and ink runs down the chin, grab a mop
you say with your chest out, i'm working on the chest in,
no hat no play, no cap, no okay
tired yet up, slow yet buff
grown up yet stunted
i know it's going slanted but fuck are my feet planted
focusing my energy to graph forwardly
you have anxiety,
jumping from stimulus to stimuli until you die
so you don't have to think
with the thing behind your eyes
god complex leaves i depressed
squandered opportunities fly by
sit and ponder activities like a wise guy
through the eyes window
damn where did all that time go
like i don't know i can't listen to the voice
diagnosed with directionlessness
supposed purpose becomes harder to find than the lost keys
swallowed by the lockness
back broke when they leaped out my pocket below my knee,
bent and fell call cardiology
pressed for a fix of features for futures
that possess hexes that perplexes witches
causing wounds that stitches can't sow
which to choose when you can obtain any virtue
can't choose to save my inner child
lose myself for quite a while
thought it through and my thoughts just lead to denial,
my brain is treading water inside itself for survival
find a boat to stop drowning in the nile
when swimming to shore wouldn't take long at all
far fall from grace can't be placed at the play-table
tall order, short glass, unstable past
don't think they got the right cast,
they call me proformative like they ain't put on designers casts
lights burnt out, often heard of offers burned,
offended but can't decide what's worse,
buried alive or seeing the light move first
handling young machines with commanding
pushing off-spring off shore
further from the loins of birth
prompt memories that painful
ravines spark the greatest understanding
when conversations become demanding
used to think i was a manly man for putting up walls that people couldn't understand
arrogantly saying they healed the wrong way
yet i double back, driving over thorns dropped
when i should've stopped, the roses could have popped
the tires are thin, glad no one's counting my sins
scared they'll cut off the slack, hovering yet held
the strength of the eye which views the world, the length of pi embodies my life force but the source is still written in morse
twenty two years to enforce
go outdoors because
it's nature that counting score
and i'm up once more
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2. |
Van 't Kruijs
02:46
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TOM
i’m eye level with god’s cunt, might tell her my loss won
tried to settle the score once, blindly ended with a draw, huh? what a toss up
screaming heads but it’s the tail i was caught by
trying desperately to remember what a thought’s like
might record this shit in morse
dash forward in time, trash falls from the sky
and i fell to my knees
latch onto my lines, zac taught me to drive, what the fuck else could i need?
slash all of my tires, crash caught in my eyes
and felt in my teeth, lies melt in my cheeks
have walls for the shrines, have wants for the needs
gnaw at what’s mine, god has been lying and i’m forcing her hand, pause to deny what i plausibly can
became from what i ran, so i’m god before man
an obstacle since i was in a pram, barely sleep but i yawn when i can, talking is not in the plans, put out a palm if you’re after a chat
of course i’m proud, i made my depression pretty, serious confessions witty
stress the petty so i’m left with less pennies than if i were to leave it and back up
meeting with peter, i’m taking my exes with me, in case i’m in need of some back up
back up
ZAC
aspirations torn from generations born because the next is scorned through actions mourned by thoughtless scum
who would drum up right chess mess, not unexpected when they couldn't move a pawn to e tress
best disposable elliptical when time takes mistakes to pickle
sour waters cause thickle incidences
incinerate incarnate, might be inconsistent but a gut shot will make a mate partake for fucks sake
shake from early ideals but forgot to cling to logical appeals that continued thought when all else is parsed meals
cant hold no longer, can't speak a bodger, can't make a mountain out of salt that'll just dissolve to bad days
clays no mountain phase, transcend but just another savage phase, thought answers could carve gaze until it stared back in a shocked amaze
like the fuck you doing with my powers aye?
fucked around but that statement was just running shade
use to play no longer playing, praying to myself that i'm thick not thin and this will end at the tip of my finger, not your skin
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3. |
broken jaws
02:19
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ZAC
ponder medicine's effect on natural selection
wonder if mental health is death's next filtering collection
for the self disposed caused by bitter thoughts that are self imposed, we make hosts
when we listen to the thoughts that no one knows
that factor x proposed,
that's when the monster shows,
try to walk to find the soul,
but it's not something someone stole,
it's just buried in an inward hole
don't dig too quick, the innards will bleed thick
and it's something you clean not bury 6 feet deep
the cost of healing is steep but complacency costed your goals, recognizes you sold it cheap, learn to lean on your morals
for they're through which your inner child speaks
so don't kick their teeth,
i feel like it would just hurt to speak with like a broken jaw
TOM
what’s in my chest is mine, a heart i hid my vest behind
i’m bench pressing time, shit getting heavy but i’m barely tired
when i emptied my head i made my belly cry
trembling off edibles, i’m soaking oil in the same way an egg is fried, when i hesitate, there’s no defending mine,
there’s no telling where my descendants lie,
rap with deaths to weaponise, i’ve still got crests to rise, can’t believe i haven’t attempted flight yet
fear i haven’t even payed the price yet
make clay of my debt, so many takes and i just layer my stress
lord knows the medicines in me, i’m trying to stray from affects but i may be the one that nature selects, i just pray it’s for the best
i’m relaying the block, like peter smelling stained with regret, retracting his steps
feel like screaming with a break in my jaw
like that’s restraint at it’s best,
god making me beg
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4. |
every room
02:01
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TOM
god helping like the government when katrina hit
demons i feel like i’m running from with a femur split
i’d die to move back in with my father like jesus did
surrounded by trees, what the fuck is the point of screaming here?
surrounded by trees, that’s the only thing i’m breathing in
pound of my weed in the same bag that my keys are in
only ever lose things i’ll never need again, so sometimes i still wonder where peter is
that inheritance was heavy, all of peter’s sins
i can barely bare it, the boulder won’t be budge, in need of strength
on the phone to my mother, i know it’s enough to see her grin
garageband got the folder i tuck my secrets in
standing on zac’s shoulders, this shits too deep to swim
the fourth came first like fuck the sequencing
you’re in the room so tell me how you couldn’t read that shit?
i need a gram for everyone i see in here
ZAC
been funny about audio cause it didn't hit my ear right
still, listening for decades i heard with my eyesight
until the acid subdued and it hit my heart right
still decipher raps that clap at the universal scale cause they might be deep enough to laugh but second to an experience of all our pasts
still scared if i'm complex they mistake my unfiltered content
for insult and bugger off
still never chose, didn't choose scared of what it will set loose through scoops colder than police reviews or deserts spoons, the blues can't shoot for the moon
still only curse in a song around mistakes i've made
never around accomplished mates
i'm sick of being mature gonna thew up on their shitty excuse, they still throw hoops but just ones to jump through
depression can be an addiction, took me years to cut loose
and i don't know you but what voice you paying attention to
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5. |
agreements
02:27
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ZAC
boat pic with exposed tits and selfies to suit all for the insta pic, i still like it but shit, structures reduce my friends to likes and hits to fulfill the soulless pit claiming that's how it has always been because it's all we have ever seen
kept my fb dp because i know i had more friends in childhood and my current yield would be old mate, my parents and my grandmother
my grandfather's are stagnant bastards my other grandmother's dead so she can't like it from the grave, wait for zuckerberg to resurrect her from a diary like chat grandmother protocol tool
my other acquaintances have career plans to fuel their life for cars and land,
forget their more than just hands, i lean and wait because i can't stand it, while their fate ends with palaces, castles and towers overlooking their slate
the wills read to savages, battles and prowlers who agreed the dead just wanted to be happy mate, wanted to be something someday, walls held pictures and frames with forced smiles and twisted fingers, one more day 'till retirement to live among assisted triggers
i'm walking my ego trying not to let the leash loose,
working on grip strength, the barks demand death
while i'm listening to the animal for it's beautiful
TOM
old dickies with the holes in them
dad’s steel toes has his soul in them
might put them on at the ocean and get my toes dipped in
exposed boat sketches of rose before sinking
hands to hold a moment in, not to mould it with
photos for the frozen in
throat burns like grandmother ashes
we said the dead just wanted to be, i mean i thought we agreed,
the undead aren’t often unseen
what was once meant comes calling for peace
i took my hands off of the leash and that made a monster of me
the further east you travel, police stations get prettier
the bickering between mother earth and father temperature getting louder with every bark
the animal keeps calling but i won’t listen
old dickies with the holes in them
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6. |
QUASARS
02:50
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TOM
alive but barely living, really tried to quell the instincts
but christmas still comes in an instant
i left a blunt under the chimney, functional dismissal of my infancy,
memories that refuse to live with me,
couldn’t afford the rent my skull demanded every week
very weak like i could barely eat
missing pieces, empty heads mean bliss and peace
that trickled down from him to me
ZAC
initially lost my infancy to instinct in an instant
living carelessly because i don't value money
but that's just me being kinda funny
i don't remember easily so i act quickly
which is such a pity cause i could solve my problems with a notepad but i'd just fill it with rhymes i don't have
wepassed december speaking to mortgage brokers and death just another lender
building my irritation could be resolved with mitigation but my brains out on vacation
will soon be back soon as long as this grinders level fading
trickled back down to the mesh at a rate about a gram an hour, hope it doesn't trickle through the seeds
TOM
the wind changed with my face pouted, sad and sour
with a joint in it, had my mouth stuck
people crumble at their proudest, getting higher than sea levels, leaving sand devoured
not a trace of magic in this story, couldn’t pray for better
i was made in a laboratory with the last strand of my father’s hair before it made it’s exit
his thanks to chemotherapy, mines thanks to stressors
blessings never stick, i’m just a dog made to fetch it
ZAC
write shit you couldn't have thought of in your infidelity
back when you mind was still open to creativity
what mazes we are when neighbors are far and vibrations light up the hearts striations like a quasars
point and retreat, like a cassette you have to reverse and repeat,
i believe seeing behind your novice seat i'd see me as a step in the wrong direction but your falling behind in the game of perception
and you can call it thoughts but i'll read another of yours in the library's complicit section
your deep thoughts are my shallow shores, comprised of cheap words for easy slaughter
it's not the syntax but the way they're laid fourth that makes mine worth more
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7. |
tommorow, a relief
01:40
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ZAC
the wartorn child and the childless war
brings biased whores whose soul goal soars above laid laws
for the final blade determines justices shade
and plays a fickle game of manipulation to bring forth their enemy slain
for power keeps the powerful tame, less their will-power is unleashed in heavy spades,
but hearts are always kept in a separate deck, to justify the powerless hung by their neck
up projected mountains the youthful treck just to fall when the projector stalls and the powerful call for neutral bets
but they set the dealers hand and sit back as the shock rocks the believers in the stand
i am pain, i am peace, i am rage through defeat
i am the will in the heat to stand on two feet,
i am an awkward calmness that's just arousing amusement just to attain admiration through madness driven actions i fill the boredom with confusion and finesse,
too empathetic so i try to relieve their sadness and stress but when it falls the confusion sprains further actions that should've been the ones i addressed
appreciation of beauty through craving anxiety, stand in awe of a tree with propagating moss variety
finally consider tomorrow a relief, the horrors of my past pertain to little interest,
the futures exciting to see, the joy of nostalgia to learn from belief so when I fall it's a step forward from previously
entranced on what i could be now I have set myself free
never bow in front of a mirror just thank it for being me
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8. |
state to state
01:28
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TOM
you could pierce the tension with a toothpick,
you could hear a metion of the truth with your two ears,
what you’d gleam by keeping glued lips
sink an eighth quick, i guess that’s just what the cue hits
loose hairs from the new stress, couldn’t beat that but samples getting suplexed like look at me rap
with no certainty, it’s all theory in my music but songs are still cordless as airpods
home-birthed disease, walk weary on a shoestring but odds are still more set than they’re not
it won’t hurt your feet to talk clearly with your two fists, a promise not kept for the reward
at least six joints in my breast pocket, heart beating so loud, might make my chest pop
deleting memories like trying to shred docs,
sometimes the best option is to press stop
new stress, make my motherfucking head bald
either squirm in my seat, or i’ve been flying lately
i had a purpose to meet,
but i was late, found the bird with the worm in it’s beak and all i can say is
i just ate
nothing left to do but admire my pace, can’t even try to change it
time misshapen, misaligned with a prior engagement
so starting now, i just state mistakes, i don’t write at all
he had a car and passed it down, i took it state to state just to write it off
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9. |
too long
02:23
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ZAC
it took me too long to give up my nostalgia, holding bitter resentment to my father for every passing hour.
but i forgot to thank him for being strong, for holding out so long, and at the end of the day it's okay i got my maturity from tom
still find it hard to tell when i'm being real with myself or disregarding another feeling held
what is this superficial pain I inflict on myself?
my engrained lanes from pathways, i'm scared they end at hell
why dont battlefield deserts taste as sweet as the moisture from broken feet?
realise that to develop character i have to let go
let something in, forgive myself for my past woes
i've got secrets only the privileged bair, so when i cross the finish line that's up to tom to share
it's the company that mattered most so why do i rush when I'm alone? when i walk i drop my weight when i know the step is done,
but i'll still push that bar another notch higher just for fun
TOM
shit, it took me too long too,
to give into what i grew up through
two shoes of his grew into as the hours flew, it’s bitter to the tooth, nostalgia bruised the room when i was taught the truth is useless
but truth told no “thank you’s” are due yet,
matter fact he still has some loose debt
flow tight as a noosed neck,
the numbers don’t lie but they do bend,
the humble harmonise up in the sky every new trend
zac cups the truth is in his two hands
knowing it’s fragile, wouldn’t let in a hair strand
i’m standing in front of headlights you wouldn’t dear stand
either he was in a coma or he was staring at me deadpan
the next step is the one where i break my foot
the best kept secret was always the one i prayed they took
shit i forgave for what?
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10. |
Weet-Bix
02:04
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TOM
i’m a weet-bick away from a growth spurt
can’t talk to the man that’s been lie-keeping
i’ve got weakness to pray from my home turf
put chalk on my hands when i climb trees
my mood changes every five seasons
true restraint is in the dry heaving
through the storm, i’m sleeping
the storm ended like rest, i slept then i woke so i’m grieving
the bible read “i wept” but i’m smoking so i’m eating
more growth spurts for the five weetbix in each bowl lighting, each bowl being lit
each bowl i’m trying to find freedom in
sprint from my leadership, for each hole my feet are in
ZAC
the head is a grave of personalities
filled with holes and cavities where analytics
strip back the psyche to deliver the fatalities
left with a void and his insecurities
begging heaven please just send an end to this pursuit of lonely neutralities
saw thought through distant habits,
where avoidant tactics plead with semantics
to determine feelings are practice
over personality fed maggots stands the raw fabrics
that chants "you couldn't hack it!"
to keep myself from feelings that inhabit this lonely den of holes and cavens
my mind protects from life due to past tragics that should have been just teenager antics
but a jagged blade draws infections from anguish
where language, not even Spanish, could find a library where the solution to panic is written in bold text for the story is lavish when read in past tense Hispanic
it’s a big planet, shit shiver when i hiss at it
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11. |
a lot to ask
02:24
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TOM
father time sitting in first class, it works fast
he martyred mine, thinking the thirst lasts
anxious, hands shaking more than the working class
whatever’s in the flask burns like a hurting heart
anxious, already said it in the third bar
couldn’t quite put a finger on it like i’m trying to learn guitar
couldn’t quite place it like blame but i stay next to the paper like i’m earnest marks
just to write a story heard in parts, i should’ve learnt my part
because i forgot the script when the doctor said “his time has past”
the clock is turning fast, or quick
i’m trying to turn it back,
so i ash the wood stick to ball my goals up like a hurling match
the blunt forced the trauma from the head down to the world and back,
mainly the writer that the words impact
fuck a part, i’ll die with everything i learnt from zac
the clock is turning fast, i’m trying to earn it back
certain patterns you can’t capture in a topsters chart
couldn’t place it, guess i just i forgot to ask
this isn’t real life, it’s just my first try, it’s just a draft
guess i just forgot to ask
ZAC
shoot shots faster than father time, working through him to master this fate of mine
explore the cause of the state of mind but left with nothing but circles to find
it's a personal mix of fireball and gin to rip the soul to where the conversation hits
playing pick up sticks with strings strung out across ravines and pits
cannot walk it yet but i'll play catch with you between working sets
while we talk of who's going to start the balancing act on the narrow path
just a heads up, i'll keep you close, i know that's a lot to ask
but don't worry i also forgot my part,
guess i just forgot to ask
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12. |
and labour
02:14
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TOM
the going getting tougher than my skin is
my soul is empty, stuffing it with guinness
but it’s spilling like my luck, took an irish hand and it lifted me up
putting fire to the crumbs like stuffing in a chicken
looking tired but i’m up and i’m running from apparitions
apparently i’m a chemist, the thc is the apparatus for the timid
keep it with me like a barbershop and scissors
far from off the cliff but my arms are for the flinging and my heart is for the fixing
the past is not intrinsic to the path we’re on
rapping to a pantheon, father’s transition to passionless is inherent to the trance he’s in
freedom in the weed that it’s in the pants he’s in
rather motif it than address it, so the habit sticks
the relief comes in a transience, the relief comes with the cancerous, thought dad was king when stampedes birthed by his scars still couldn’t trample him
ZAC
write a verse because i could stand forever if i don't count the seconds
could make a relationship last forever if i was never present
my father was hardened by light and labour
my mother by her plight and labour
the name akin to the responsibility
still scared i was ruined by their gratuity
fall back on the sword that's just immaturity
for what it's worth but just to recognize isn't maturity
i humour the strength to focus on the future
to not presume the privilege or dress it in a bandage
ignore my egos ill will for the way people love
i don't wanna be great because my goal isn't single those
mono minds give themselves to stand above all people
i love myself not to spite others but despite others
what cop-outs our ego can arrange to
lower expectations in a vain attempt to
limit the exchange of pain when hiding is
a fulls game to blame our dreams for inability to
want a whole dollar over 4.25 cents of change
when concerned my higher self asks would the inner child do the same
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