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"Eastman"
02:01
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change direction every five months, i guess that’s just what time does
to smile is tough, but so’s my skin so my teeth are looking like the sun
pray the heat can’t fight us off,
the plight of us was slightly fun, sometimes like “maybe we don’t fight enough”
right?
started having fears, figured maybe i’d starting writing some
you try divide the sums, it’s mighty tough
i’m tired and stuff, you know i’m trying mum
forgive me when my kindness runs thin like lines of love and -
plate full of nothing, pray doing nothing, same movement - shrugging 🤷♀️
stay mute in public, snakes pull at the leg
plays pressed and face all disgusted
placing my trust in the same friends that shave heads and make more than money
they called it something, i saw it coming like a baseball to the head
can’t afford to plummet so i make sure that i’m dead at the proper times
fire like fry’s head, cold like i’m on some ice
cops heard the argument, they should’ve saw inside
matter fact, i wish they saw inside
it’s all alright, i’m sort of lying, you know, telling porky-pies,
writing all but light, still i’m writing with a quill like the back of porcupines
i hurt to touch, acting like she never saw the spikes,
of course i’m high, they just ignored the signs
pour a pint for all of my forgotten lines, immediately
somebody you thought of trying, come see if it’s we
really just after a seat at the seat, you don’t want the lines that i’m keeping to me
i see the defeat in all their eyes, they’re going toward it with speed in their feet
i walk to mine, that tortoise pride,
a measly decree,
at least that’s the way it’s seeming to be
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"Outdoor Fitness"
02:04
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feet plant quick, no technical advancements
i’m just getting better when i rant, shit
hugging the woman that my father put his hands on
rap well, it’s nothing to clap for, i bite when i -
it’s something to do, i might buy a zoo next,
run an open bar there and sometimes host funerals that gorillas officiate
strong like taste of some listerine,
fell in love everything i strayed from eventually,
you know what i mean? because i don’t know what i really mean
walk a tightrope made of silly string, man i’m really him
but just because i’m listening doesn’t mean i give a shit
it’s never everything, it’s just a glimpse within
i still print it big
it’s been a year plus and i’m still adjusting to everything
like it’s just setting in
if it wasn’t lost, i wonder how quick she would’ve ripped off that motherfucking wedding ring
cheap chatter piss weak, like really not shit to me
at the seat’s precipice, i predicate upon it ‘cause i can
looking at his ashes deadpan, face the resting bitch
i don’t like that line but i said it still
i don’t like to lie but i bet i will
i might move to queensland, a couple months, i’m talking three max, i might need to leave zac,
be surrounded by more trees, sand, you know, relax - because that’d be the reason
i can’t pretend, i miss her like i need her
miss her like i’ve been hit with a fever
miss her like - other things,
the distance is tough, amidst other things
sincere utterances, other things that a thing can’t fucking mean
i almost cried when she complimented my subtlety
amidst other things that could make me fucking weep
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didn’t pass the patience test,
every day i get up fast and bang my head,
forget to pray for them
better to stay prepared so i’m sleeping in a safety net
say my piece and then it’s pages shred
weed was the only piece of persuasion left as far as breathing in a day of air went
i could take the stress, the unknowns were what made the mess
a match made in hell, i was escaping through the air vents
that was where it went pear-shaped, everything debt takes, bare your best dead face, that’s the only escape
everything explained, everything gets paid off when you shred pages
entered zero, left ageless, set dates for your next paycheque,
that’s momentous, like a birthday every two weeks
news leaks, two hands stretching with some new screams,
wretched heart hidden under loose tee’s
i would do everything i did again and again
there was hope in my youth but i remember getting sick more than i remember going to zoo’s
i was under chairs and tables, i was turning six, i didn’t know what to do,
i still don’t know what to do
the reading journals that i wrote with a spoon, messy stuff,
the holding photos of the frozen at room temperature, the bruised and the tough
the wounds never healed, the proof’s in the trust
the group better yield,
i’m here like the truth never was
it’s sick in my genes, you couldn’t out-sick the sick that i’ve seen, sick as i seem, i’m well now but it’s sick that i’ll leave
sicker man sics a dog on a poor man
sicker asks for more yet the sick can't stand
sicker can't sort, the floors slammed
sicker asks for another helping hand while the sick can't sort their life fam
sicker takes more from the sick man, how's that sicko not banned?
when the sycamore sips from the simple grave
where the bourgeoisie's head lay
that's when sicker pays under the tree rotting in their shallow grave
to sync with the psychopath from the ruling days
I syncopate with these beats on which I lay
spread the word, I number the sicker's days
head out on turmoil, the fatal toils
that the witch's could only try to boil
and I cough back, not at the smack
but fuck off over all of that
when the helping starts make sure it's done in all parts
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"Julia Bashmore"
02:58
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eric and kori, bella, the censored few
there were before me, never resent the two lies told before the truth, beware the truth
i’m scared so i’m bearing tooth
i have a lot of t-shirts, i only wear a few - the biggest ones
this shit becomes easy when you’ve given up
but then it isn’t fun unless i think i’ve won
the rapping was the easy part, from the writing to the speaking part
all the trees were palm, we ripped the leaves off with our greasy palms,
the hardest part was getting up
when i was seven went with granny to the cinema,
i think we saw fantastic mr fox
then i turned eighteen, i mean, you blink it’s done
ticking hearts give it up to clots in a minute, bruh
of course i cracked, my heart just wasn’t ready for a loss like that
a cross for each hair on my back, a thought for each snare or hi-hat, trauma took my childhood, of course i rap
my thoughts bite back, got a mum that god might snatch
it’s just an hour for the odd five grams, of course time passed
well-practiced with running so of course i’m fast,
his ghost still caught my ass
eric and kori, bella, the censored few
shut the fuck up before we have to censor you
shaking like a daffodil in the wind
taking what i have to lose with a grip a torchlight couldn’t crack through
until habits loosen again,
my tracks through the fence are the proof of my sin, gap-toothed demands looting my hands
hand in hand, dad brought his suit to the sand
and planned and planned
my father just like harden, passed without looking
my heart was hardened but i still felt it like a coward couldn’t,
couple weeks where every hour stood still
commencements differed to conclusions until i found the bookends
now i’m shaking like a folk singer’s voice
years later, now we’re bigger boys
still making silly choices, now it’s bigger voids
that we filled with noises ‘till we’re voiceless
but i’m stronger than i’m quiet
every word is worth a fucking billion as long as i’m beside it
still stretch the hard truth like jake trying to get a wish
don’t remember last june but may my decembers sing
retched when the devil brought a tray with my head on it
i was very hungry, so i ate it and everything
guilt is very taxing, but everyone evades it eventually
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