LYRICS
queue: the mixtape
(2017)
1. Quit You
I don’t think I could quit you
Unless it was for show
If you give me opportunity
They will never ever know
Cause I’m your crutch
Yes I’m your vice
A bad habit that you form
With any luck
We’ll be alright
But together we are forlorn
Yes you have been fair warned
Chorus
Well you know that you can’t quit me
It’s decidedly so, so please pick quickly
No choice to choose no points to lose
You took the cue and then you blew past two
I don’t like the clothes you wear
The way you smile how you style your hair
Yes yes yes
It doesn’t match us sophisticated folks
It makes you feel classless like a savage little bloke
But look at her she’s so gorgeous
She out of your league runner she build a fortress
Keep you under siege gunner,
cuz under the covers she so undercover lover
Makes you feel nauseous to bleed for your hunger
But quittings not cautious for me any longer
I don’t think I could quit you
Unless it was for show
If you give me opportunity
They will never ever know
Chorus
2. Good Enough
Maybe I’ll see you at the movies
We can watch some shit blow up
Maybe I’ll take you out dancing
I don’t think that you could keep up
What if we got married
You don’t ever want the kids
We could rule the suburbs
Just like our parents did
And she sings so sweet
Such a pretty melody
Now bluebirds don’t you tweet
You’re gonna get the very best of me
And all my words go unheard
And it feels so absurd
But maybe it’s good enough for me
We can watch some shit blow up
Maybe we’ll get a german shepherd
I don’t wanna clean the pee
Maybe we could sing together
But you’re gonna sing off key
What if we just traveled
I don’t ever like to fly
How about take out from Sbarro
I don’t really wanna decide
Chorus
3. Motions
Been going through the motions
It’s very plain
For anyone to see
That all of these crazy commotions
Get the very best of me
I’m stuck in the city yes i am
But I’m wandering far here i am
Been working on my ending
Before the beginning even starts
Woah I’ve been working too hard
I’ve been living too late
I don’t know how to stop
First type of love
Some type of novel shit
I don’t know if i could get out of it yeah
I wanna leave you girl
Maybe i’ll see you girl
But we got nothing left to say
Adlib
Chorus
4. Curious Man
Ah Ladies
I’m a ladies man
I dibble and dabble across the whole land
When walking down the street you know who i am
But I could just be looking for a good looking man
Who’s got nice shoes
Shoulders i like
A face full of grace and those blue blue eyes
I’m not saying i did
I’m just saying i might
Cause Katy kissed a girl and it was perfectly alright
If you’re such a man
Why give a damn
I’m a curious man
Curious man
Everybody
Now fellas
You must understand
There’s lots of perfect 10s out there
who wanna hold my hand
All these females fans
Always screaming when i dance
Just ask anyone and they will give you the same anSIR
I need to interject
I’m attracted to beautiful people regardless of sex
You should try both sides before you reject
Man I don’t know why so many people still object
Chorus
Everybody
Everybody
Listen to me
We’ve got to learn to live more curiously
The birds and the bees
Hanging up in the trees
Allowed to be together with whomever they please, Sir
I need to interject
Im attracted to beautiful people regardless of sex
It might not be your type but its just what is right
Cause Katy kissed a girl and it was perfectly alright
Chorus
5. Hey Banana
I know you’re feeling so down
Ya just need a little pep to your step
Baby, i need to get away from here
Oh girl can we just get it down
Hey Banana
Shes got a look in her eye that’s turning me
Hey banana
you got a look in your eye
Right, now was it Elena, Miranda, or Savannah?
I met her in Atlanta maybe south Louisiana
I was looking for a damsel in distress
To catch a sample
Like a record on a groove
I’m the needle with no handle whatever
No picking me up I collect lust
Like i collect words to whisper
Keep them between us
Knees buckle when i call you
Criminal and can I cuff you
Another crown apple in my lap means I trust you
Lemme peel some layers off you don’t flip
Just slip n slide dive n dip i never do
Then again I might
I shoulda took a second look
instead I take a bite right into the world
Before it’s ripe enough
Thats sour actually bitter sweet
Not sweet enough to leave cavities on my teeth
See it’s the pain of refrain that would keep you on my brain, but
Whats a banana when you really want a plantain?
Chorus
6. Tahoe
Pretty soon when i get out of bed
Won’t go back there in my head
have a cup and grab a smoke
The rituals that burn the most
Spend my morning showering
Wondering when life begins
Read the news and start the car
I’m pretty damn sure i won’t get far
Cause I’m leaving soon
Got two bags and ones from you
Moving time
Can’t go back and I’m next in line
Fill my boxes full of shit
So damn tired of being the bitch
My girly say she’s losing her mind
Never understood that life takes time
So I’m rushing in
Gotta take it on the chin if you want to win
Make your mind
I flipped a coin so i’ll be fine
All my friends
Like her better than me
Don’t waste your time
Saying goodbye to me
Cuz that’s fine by me
Chorus
7. Better Left Unsaid
So much better
3 in the morning
Sick of recording
And you call me on the phone at home
What are the chances I’m picking up
Always hitting me up when you liquored up
I don’t know how much i had tonight,
But i think I’m in love
I don’t know how much i’ll have tonight
But i know it’s not enough
So much better
Come closer
Don’t delay
Feel it baby
In your legs
I’ll give over
If you do
Just tell me baby
You want me too
Lying here thinking to myself what to do cause I can’t resist
I seem to pander to everyone else and that’s so ridiculous
Spent too much time yeah running my mind to now be suddenly pissed
If i could just find a mysterious kind and tell them all of my secrets
Woah you and me inside
you and me inside
That shit don’t satisfy me
Late at night on the spotify stream
Think of the people and places i’ve seen
Know that there’s someone there better for me
Looking to stay looking to leave
Looking for someone that i could believe
Well I’m feeling astray feeling so incomplete
But I’m feeling the way that your looking at me
I fell in love with a blonde from philly
When i think about that shit it’s so silly
Friends with bens
Brunette from houston
It had to end she wanna get exclusive
So much better
Ooh i want you
But so much better to be
8. Got Soul
I’m so proud to beg
Give it up and what you say
Think it’s oh so so kind
I wanted yours but loose in time
Baby got soul
Got souls on her ceiling
Just tryna scrub em all out
My baby Got so many feelings
Just tryna feel them all out
She goes home
All alone
I pen a song and i give her a poem
Well it’s a drag
So very sad
When i play nice she gets so mad
When you get high, I get low
When you get low, I get high
You’ve been acting so strange i know it
Don’t know why i keep on through it
I’ve been given how much i got, but
Everyone knows its right, but
You’ve been thinkin you would call me
You know my girl looking motley
Baby i don’t think it’s wrong, but
I don’t want you to buy me
Oh my baby come on down, gonna
You been looking so a-frown, i
Just don’t want to now, but
I don’t know what i could be
I think it’s so
I think you got everything you’ve got my baby
Chorus
9. Come Back Girl
I’ve been searching for a girl
Who’ll make me stop wondering
Up and down the world
And this time it’s genuine
What did you say
What did you do
When I went away
And then I said to you
Come back come back
Cause You’re my comeback girl
You’re my comeback girl
I call her wendy cause without her I’m lost
She gives me happy meals no matter the cost
Takes me to mickey ds every day
Burger king and I have it her way
We don’t got time for that fine wine and dine
Already been out of time, already said these lines
Keep coming around cause she hasn’t said leave
Whenever I look back well she’s always there to see me
Oh every single day
Gonna keep searching for you
Gonna come back to you
She came over
With a little written speech in her pocket
I was hungover
But luckily for me she doesn’t notice a bit
Not at all
Now baby just give me up
I’ll never cut it off
I’m no good at all
Chorus
10. Morning Dues
Lately
I want to talk to you
Call you my lady
Only if that’s alright with you
And you’ll tell me theres a fine
If i want to call you mine
So I’ll pay
My morning dues
already out of time
(2015)
1. 17:35
Now I’m too young to die, not old enough to vote
next year you’re gonna choke from the cigarette smoke
got a diploma, cap and gown
gonna do your best not to make your dad frown
the next four years is of downin’ beers,
taking off braziers, doing drugs with peers
but it appears that you’re here for an internship
so you can get a “good job” and a house to split
now you’re twenty five, feeling alive
‘jive at a dive after your nine to five’
you got a girlfriend, she may have moved in
she said, “fuck the kitchen, i’m a career woman”
then one night after glasses of wine
you passed the band, you asked the line
you’ve turned thirty two, hate what you do
your marriage ain’t stale, but it sure ain’t new
goodbye
seventeen to thirty five
goodbye
heavenly dreams of youth tonight
i used to think i needed
some type of life like that
let my neighbors hear me with a gatsby type of laugh
i could take the cake and slice the pie in half
and no one would ever question why
except for dear old i
the only trouble is with that life
it’s overly-prescribed, very trite
it’s the morphine or the knife before you die
goodbye
seventeen to thirty five
goodbye
heavenly dreams of youth tonight
3. Velvet Slide (ft. J.O.)
Already out of time…but I’m still here though
Sometimes… “What a wierdo”!
My time’s up, but I stole the mic
so it’s back to the rhymes and resisting the vices
cooking rice cuz I can’t break bread without dough
Get quicker, better. No Quicken Loans. Dissolving
Problems like a lozenge in alcohal
if you never look up never see the roof fall in / Rufilin
All the optimists tell me I’m a pessimist
All the pessimists tell me I’m an optimist
All the fake fucks tell me I’m the realist
when it comes to being real I still don’t give a shit,
Nut, piss, spit…any kind of entrails
See me with a bad cat, you know the details
If you’re burning up, I throw salt when I see snails
Sickening to some how I keep my ends well
when the city ends, well, then I’ll set sail
Send a postcard see you in hell. Get well soon.
velvet sky
way up high
waterslide
down to die
Set sail, came back cuz I felt unwell
unrest upset unsexed unhealthy
as fuck and the drugs the doctor ordered ain’t helping
I popped a pill and the sky turned velvet
Hell or high water what if hell and high water
bloodrain fell cats and dogs that are bipolar
picture to help you figure why my city high as ayatollah
and below the sea level, we keep sinking lower
Right now, I’m at the bottom of a glass
Want to see a fee shake like the bottom of a stash (*weed bag, not mustache*)
Want to see the freeze frame in the moment so it lasts
But alas, I’m looking in my wallet and it laughs
I sigh “wise guy” I gotta get it together
Water on my face while I’m looking in the mirror
Fire in my eyes and it couldn’t be clearer
Dirty life I’m living and I’m loving every minute of it
slide
4. Tucked In
i’m tucked in at parties
or should i say white tie events
these straps around my shoulders
keep my pants in suspense
my shirts tucked in
well my shirt was tucked in to my umbilical cord
as i popped out, melodies and the magical chords
into a quarter inch chord through my epiphone strap
micro korg, harmonies and an 808 clap
used to rap when I was younger in the back of the ford
wearing clothes i can afford, looking good as tom ford
fakin the makin or pickin’ the chicken so take in the tuckin’ in style
look in the mirror every once and a while
my shirt’s tucked in
5. Padiddle
let’s play some cards
let’s pass the time we won’t get far
when it gets dark
we can be superstars
well baby it’s about tonight with your people
baby just soul ride, don’t need a needle
baby just ride around, play padiddle
living in the moment, life is simple
cause i’m the doo hop skotcher
i got more swing than the rocker
i cook up emcees faster than a betty crocker
made more harmonies than hammerstein and rogers
can’t you see i’m more vintage than the brooklyn dodgers
and if you really want to boogie tonight
we can try to dougie, but the dougie ain’t right
so you try the twist, the twist feels right
the mashed potato, we can dance all night
i’m bringing it back for an encore
i’m drinking more wine than in concord
hip hop wasn’t made for the pimp and whore
and doo hop wasn’t made for the corner store
i’m bringing them together like the horse and the leather
by bringing something better you can be the trend-setter
i hope you take notes, grab your ink and your feather
two birds getting stoned, first time together
well baby it’s about tonight with your people
baby just soul ride, don’t need a needle
baby just ride around, play padiddle
living in the moment, life is simple
baby i got to go
i got to go
6. Cup
i should read more poetry
and i should read more novels
and if i did would you believe
i was aristotle?
i’m platonic for you
cause i was start to smarten up
and pour my thoughts into a cup
and just to feel you make a sound
i would start to drink it down
but i don’t read too much
it took me by surprise
the first time i could realize
that if i dripped one more drop
instantly my heart would stop
all i wanna do is call
hear you laugh, now baby that’s all
cozy up and watch tv
maybe if i’m lucky, a cup of tea
i know it’s against the rules
calling you would be too cruel
if you’re the jester then i’m the fool
baby i’ll see you when we’re done with school
and seven years from saturday
we’ll have lunch down at the frisco bay
maybe we’ll get married and maybe we’ll not
but it doesn’t really matter cause we gave it a shot
we’ll have beautiful kids with messy bibs
you can be the bread winner, i’ll bread the ribs
everyone will be happy
i, for one, will be happy
sweetness
on the tip of your lips
i wish i could taste it
right now
i should read more poetry
i should read more novels
to fix my heart
7. Happy Birthday
i forgot your fucking birthday two years in a row
the first time it happened, didn’t want to watch porn alone
we were in different zip codes, called your cellular phone
you were sipping patron with candles already blown
of course you were pissed, shouted out “what the fuck is this?”
“it’s my birthday bitch, don’t be calling me horny and stupid”
shoulda dumped me then, signed me up for ok cupid
i don’t why but you kept me on the line to my surprise
and then that second time, we’d already broken up
shows how much i’d already fucked up
scrolling on my newsfeed, when all of a sudden you popped up
and your friends i’d seen when i visited you for a week,
showered your profile with keyboard smiles,
“i love you”s, and “haven’t seen you in a while”s
and a wave of denial hit, like a pile of bricks
all i could do was sit in a pool of my own bullshit
and all the lies i had equipped for a moment just like this
they weren’t of any help as I felt guilt settle into myself
we talked about love, we talked about divinity
if i could talk to you now, it’d be to get rid of me
i’m sorry
i can’t love you anymore
i said i’m sorry
i can’t love you anymore
i’ve written a thousand verses, I’ve slung a thousand curses
all of them sound like the same sermon at the same churches
same flow, same rhyme scheme, same ending line
same beginning and same subject every time
it’s a crime the way i design what’s mine
i make identical mistakes, never learn after the ninth fucking time
i make promises after i get high, i’ll never smoke again
and then two hours later, shrug it off, say, “i’ll just smoke with friends”
i’m a piece of shit, how the hell did you put up with it?
i made you feel ugly and ashamed yet said i was the victim to the game
looks like i’ve opened the same fucking vein
i hope i die in vain and that you forget my name
cause I’d say you’re beautiful, you’re so mesmerizing
but i need a trophy wife so this isn’t good timing
i’d say you’re perfect, and yes, you’re the only one
but i need to fuck a girl or two before i can put the ring on
and over and over, and on and on til everyone i’ve ever loved is gone
and all i have are my shitty songs
when compared to my vices, i’m just a witty pawn
so on this february 3rd, i’ll wish you a happy birthday
and i’ll be gone
i’m sorry
i can’t love you anymore
i said i’m sorry
i can’t love you anymore
now baby, don’t be sad
i can’t love you
i won’t love you
i don’t love you
anymore
8. Look Around
i am a grand old wave
rippling off to sea
pieces of a puzzle
fitted just for me
but the people will always try
to disassemble your whole life
so i dot my “t”s and i cross my “i”s
just to dignify my rebel pride
if i
all my thoughts are a choice
all my feelings are employed
it’s a blue abyss
i cannot see but i can exist
look around
if you’re not, do not be
if it is, go to me
if it’s not, do not be
if i am, look at the me
look around
what a world
(2013)
1. Hymn
When a piano stops playing
That’s when you will start praying to die
2. Stoop Life
Salutations are in order so without further ado
my name is Slim Dean, it’s very nice to meet you
If you’re lonely and you got nothing to do
come on outside, sit down, and chill on the stoop
Everyone’s opinionated about the facts of life
there are no atheists when faced in front of a knife
You can never see your Shadow when you face the light
You never truly know yourself until you face the fight
This is Stoop Life
I got lost in my head today and I found what I thought,
A guy got lost in his head today and he found what he thought
3. The Groove (ft. Josh Gotoy)
I don’t like my humor wet
I fancy a coffee before bed
Oh I’m home alone, speakers blown, dancing in my head
Why do we choose to lie like we’re the dead?
Give me One
Give me Two
Then you know
You got The Groove
She had me off reason for fact
and if that pass, then snatch that, snitch ass nigga can’t get with that, and if a rich ass nigga can’t
Ok so there was this lady I was dating and if I may say so
had me goin up and down, How I know I’m faithful
Evenings would come and the keys would be black
All of that, yeah I sat back, chillin with a knapsack
Find me trippin over any woman with a fat ass
get to that, he gon admit the facts, and we’re gonna get to that
yeah
So bye bye
She gon come and holla
I ain’t got no money so I gotta grind for dollas
See me on the scene trust me I be with my team
Try to see the light of green
if you with me Baby high five
My dudes in the back
probably gettin smacked
I had said it already sunny run it back
I would never lose myself for money never that
Tell me gold for the soul be like cheddar whack
Give me One
Give me Two
Then you know
You got The Groove
4. Plato's Cave
Jeffrey’s mom made him get a job at 13
He’s been home schooled and trained for an american dream
His work habits are like rabbits when they fuck on routine
But then he thought a dirty thought that he couldn’t get clean
Jeffrey thought, i’m always told how and and what for
I work every single everyday and never explore
After that Jeffrey never went back to his store
All he does is smoke weed and ask his parents for more
It’s ok in plato’s cave
It’s ok in plato’s cave
Jenny’s not a bad girl, she never really was
She only liked guitars with fuzz cause her daddy got buzzed
And one time she heard thuds when she was six years of age
Her mom was on a business trip to the garden state
So she got out of bed to see what was the noise
Then she saw her daddy with a girl named Joy
If she never got up she could’ve changed her fate
Now she will always pick the person who will treat her like bait
Johnny just bought a diamond ring
For his girlfriend jenny who likes shiny things
And she’s not too smart, oh he’s not too cute
But Jenny likes Jeff and Jeff likes her too
It’s okay
5. The Front Page (ft. J.O.)
When looking at the Front Page of the internet
You can bet that i’ve Reddit and I’m quite upset
at all the people using their peepholes
to talk about whats legal and who should be equal
They drop a nickel to the fickle politician
and sees his decision turn into a mission
So this is my mission statement
your daily headlines are the ones that need saving
Get out of my business, I assure you it’s free
unlike those loans for a college degree
When at 18 I simply make nine-fifty
baking bread at the bakery in New York City
It’s a pity hospitality has turned shitty
write Santorum: “Can I please call ya Ricky?”
Aww i’m sorry I’m a little bit picky
I didn’t start the fire so try to come bic me
When I was just a little boy, My mama took me by the hand, put
on some dancin’ shoes, and told me…
Let’s get funky
Take the cable out of my neck I am done with the matrix
So far gone I don’t think anything could save us
Remember when we didn’t have cell phones to play with it?
Now it’s touch screens, smart phones, we don’t say shit
Face to face don’t matter with the book of faces
Satisfy your daily actions, stay complacent
Everyday the world around us slowly changes
You can’t believe in everything you read up in the papers
Front page lies
Tv lies, AM lies, FM lies
Turn on, tune in, shut down your mind
if you lose control try not to act surprised
Verse off the tongue, just rolls like Royce
I speak unique to teach and fill the void
At the end all that I can do is use my voice
It’s really up to you to move and make a choice
Now get funky…
Share and Exist
7. Wickedly Wise
To be wickedly wise is to be infinitely ignorant
and if others had not been so foolish would we be so different?
oh i wish my mind was a birds eye view
So I could look down and see what to do
Infinitely Ignorant
8. Regards,
Oh these girls pass me by
Oh why oh why?…
Girls, do you understand?
I am not the dick or the asshole brand
I would take a stand, to hold your hand
but every time I try you pick another man
So girls would you like me to blow you off?
Take you out on a date and talk about jacking off?
eat my waffles with syrup when you have a bad cough
Never buy any condoms you ain’t worth being bought
Am i better this way?
More attractive? More adaptive? More alpha than a raptor
More sex than the morning after, More game than a master
I’ll make you say Oh My God more than a pastor
But truthfully I feel more alone than a bastard
Miserably I’m looking for a companion’s laughter
All I find are shallow girls getting plastered
Stealing my beating heart like it was napster
To cuddle is my favorite part of sex
You can bet it’s the best, better than ass or breast
I know it’s hard to test because you can’t detest
the person whose breath is breathing down the back of your neck
I know, let’s take it real slow
I’ll take ya t a show so we can get to know each other
and I can meet your mother that’s the way i wanna know another
Make you toast in bread with extra butter
Oh these girls pass me by
Oh why oh why?…
9. Loverman
I got your letter in the palm of my hand, oh yeah I do
I got your cheeks your sweet rosy cheeks on my, my fingertips
And the closer we get the farther it feels
away from the world that feels so real
Is that too cliche for you?
Oh baby, baby I need your tenderness to get me through
Just give me all your love, and I will be fine, yeah I will
Just give me all your love, and I will be alright, oh darlin
Loverman
Just give me all your love, and I will be fine, yeah I will
Just give me all your love, and I will be alright, oh darlin
11. Pardon My Insolence
If I don’t get out of here I will surely die
I live my whole life on a screen gazing helplessly
The nicotine pixels make me fiend viciously
the 21st century has bested me
and my generation has arrested me
I eat a digital sandwich cause I’m watching my weight
My life is so frantic from possible status updates
Why do I scribe my life for people i don’t like?
and subscribe to your vibe because I knew your brother Mike?
a Metropolis in the clouds sounds great from the crowds
But the mayor knows how life on the ground will be from now
a bleak and bland misrepresentation of a cold and contagious digital nation
If I don’t get out of here I will surely die…
12. Scrutinizing The Bland
Don’t think don’t look, don’t even feel
your mind will contort what’s solace and real
a walk in the park or sleeping entangled
well it all goes to shit when your mind is on the panel
It’s your enemy and its plentiful disease
sells confusion on the streets like a taxicab fee
so girl can you teach me how not to care?
cause I’ve tried to keep score and life ain’t fair
But remember that time that you taught to forget?
can you break it down for me on how not to regret?
cause I contemplate too much on sporadic misfortunes
like a kiss from you which sent nothing but desire in motion
Well you know how I am
Scrutinizing The Bland
I am lost without a plan
The world in the palm of my hands
but I can’t read between–
So we’ll talk and we’ll talk until the sky ain’t blue
but it won’t change the color of how I feel about you
and this whole time i’ve been thinking away
life isn’t black and it isn’t even grey
but I should stop thinking cause colors don’t have any meaning
Their only purpose is to be aesthetically pleasing
and if I’m on that train of thought then music can’t mean anything
it’s just an emotional attachment to a stranger who sings
and my momma told me never ever to trust strangers
so why do I bequeath them with my deepest, darkest angers?
Why watch TV if its just cliff hangers?
well throw me off and watch and I’ll be happier than ever
but to you it’s just whatever, you’ll probably feel better
you’ll chuckle a few laughs merrily together
This next parts the header of my very next letter:
“all girls are cold and dry even if you get the wetter”
Well you know how I am
Scrutinizing The Bland
I am lost without a plan
The world in the palm of my hands
but I can’t read between the lines
13. What a World
Oh don’t you ask me to live in this carbon city no more
there’s no more smokes on the shelf or coffee at the corner store
Oh I still feel out of place
I have a different smile every time my feet hit the floor
arrange myself every morning because I feel out of sorts
Oh I could build cathedrals if I had my tools
I got lonely days and lonelier nights
You got lonely days and lonelier nights
I got lonely days and lonelier nights
for the rest of my life
And what if we lived in some fifties snowflake lullaby?
(sleepytime)
and dreamt a dream that we never woke up
Oh could that be fine livin’ Cozy and Sublime
(you know it feels right)
You tricked me once you can trick me twice
What a World