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by Riley Thomas

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1.
One Goes Up, One Goes Down 03:15
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Category, List, Analogies 02:23
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8th Ave 16th St 02:50
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I tried to bring an offering to you but it was cheap and it was weak well hey, what else am I to do? yeah I ran just like a kid fresh outta school fact I've been running up and down Like I got nothing left to loose and I lied when I said that I had nothing left to feel inside and I wiped off the blood and snot tied up my shoes and kicked a rock and ran home I tried to get a message cross to you but I was so nervous it seems that now I've spit up on my shoes and my drugs and all my lies won't back me up this time I've fallen to another crime a call to keep you up and you vibed on my porch that night smoke with me just another cigarette I'll pass you up the light and I cried when you said "that's time" completely tore apart my train of thought and slipped into the night I've been trying to recreate the things we'd do and the way that hanging out with you would make me feel so cool but it's hard trying to mimic part of you I've got your photo on my reference wall to help me get a clue and I know imitation seems just as pointless as my piking dreams and I watched from 8th ave, corner of 16th street all the ghost-writers and improvisors trying to match your beat I tried to be a better friend to you but it was cheap and it was weak
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Rocket! 04:15
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Rocket, I want you to tell me Why’s it that my partners only sexual? They would all bring the same thing to me Leaving me feeling a little vexed tho Rocket, you can kick it like it’s old school Keepin it sharp like a Virgo Never ever bending on the quick draw You always kept it trend with your lingo Rocket, maybe baby you could fly me Straight out the country with no passport I know you got the means and the methods You couldn’t keep it if you tried on the down low Rocket! You can show me if you want to Rocket! You can tell me that you said so Rocket! You can break it if you bought it Rocket! You can take me like a benzo' Rocket you can wear it like a model Rocket you can bring it like a show girl A crooked cigarette worked in your gambit Analogy for just another death note Rocket got a razor in your pocket Maybe cut another curse onto your forehead Got them spinning like the chain that holds your locket Your neck is twistin' while your eyes tune in the ceiling Rocket got a rock and then ya drop it Nearly tore yourself up tearing through the carpet Made some calls, then you delete and lost it Keep on turning on your phone, waiting for prophets and-- Rocket! You can paint and you can layer Rocket! You can tie it off with ribbon Rocket! You can dress it under covers Rocket! You can post it like you're winning Rocket I want you to tell me Why's it just so easy for repeating You're reaping what you sow You stitch together I know you taste just like another beating Rocket you can make it look so simple Slipping in and out of time so seamless No fragments left behind, no dirty laundry You can throw it all away and call it even Rocket you didn't even have to tell me There's an altitude on which your quickly peaking You know I wouldn't hold that shit against you If you went around and lost all of your meaning Rocket! You keep trying if you have to Rocket! You can polarize completely Rocket! You're a disappearer's wet dream Rocket! You're the end and the beginning
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Callisto Jones 03:41
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Callisto Jones, Whatcha thinkin to do today? Callisto Jones Better run it down the road Where’d you go? I had another verse to show you today You left your poem But you didn’t sign it with your real name Hey where’d you go? Callisto Jones Are you gonna call up Jesse today? You don’t have no phone But you always seem to find him When you’re turning away Hey’d where you go? You rode your bike out, one night in the rain It’s been a long long time But you always come back with some smart ass thing to say Hey where’d you go? Callisto Jones Did you ever put that damn old red pen away? Callisto Jones Do you still have visions when your mind begins to sway? Standing alone You were in the terminal keeping count of the rain Said keep me on that train You had a dream that you were goin to LA Hey where’d you go? When you woke to find yourself still in bed? Back to the corner 132nd Left a post there instead You didn’t sign your name
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PNW 04:06
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With my hand out Feel it move around The cage it coughed up Pushed the captured out Smelt like summer there I held tears in my eyes Early mornings there Still tasted cold in July What a shock As we stood and watched The days fade to lines of color Obsolete Moving figures now Muscles flex and release Calibrated sounds Tongues that click rows of teeth Disposition how It held such frag-ility Weighted once now gone Super-flu-ous gravity Stomach rise Stomach fall You tore down that image you kept So pristine
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Baby Blue (ft. Victoria Bettridge) 05:41
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Ohhh, you Exercise your holy right it wasn't much of talent that got you through your life You like to wear masks now and pose up for a screen you sealed it from the back down- won't be revealing won't be... You used to be a real devil wear your pearls, and drink your tea But now you're watered down with ego (How's that?) and you don't care so much to be free You'd rather be nothing... You used to like to play God you liked to hold the strings and when you felt subsidized you'd write your own ending But now it seems you act out a script with a different scene your journal stays locked up it's been a while since your pen bled ink Or bled anything.... There's a power in your innocence pull it out for hearts that bleed see it adapt to manipulation You're not who you used to be Are you getting what you want now? Crying for the world to see your submission is your white flag surrender what you need surrender everything... I grew up in a factory filled with broken down machines and a silver auto-matron with panels and lights all blinking Kid's threw a rock through our window one year yeah, that sure did change everything it let some spiders and the rust in- Man, you wouldn't even recognize that old place anymore...
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Death Valley 05:33
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Oh feeling Please don't leave me Please comprehend my need for you Fleeting Oh, always fleeting it's here for one moment without a second to loose I see a child Standing in the valley of Death Eyes open wide and he's taking his first steps I see a girl she's got silver in her mouth she took the world put it on her shelf I smell it all like there wasn't any left I walk tall through the valley known as Death through the valley known as Death Oh sleep, I have not found it For I've been riding too close to the sun Oh dreams, Oh I dream nothing my mind's as empty as a fired gun So if you ask about peace Don't be surprised if you have none walk out to the valley better be proud of what you've done You cast aside all that you had left then you went and cried when you looked at all your mess All across the valley people rest their heads they don't move much now trapped in the valley known as death in the valley known as death in the valley known as--
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Sex as a Weapon 03:42
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I know how to use my sex now as a weapon I know how to shift polls over in my direction I know how to stack bodies, keep a full collection I know raining down on you like armageddon I know White shirt Sticking to me, like some pseudo protection Full force heavy metal and no invitation Of course There's some reason to my calibration Let's toast You're an overnight, and instant sensation Step back for a rush to kill out all my senses No need to concern myself with consequences I'm sure I'm a God, above all natural selection Pay me And I can place on you divine intervention I know how to use my sex now as a weapon I know how to shift polls over in my direction I know how to stack bodies, keep a full collection I know raining down on you like armageddon I know I know... (my sex now as a weapon x4) It's cold in the world, you need to watch where you step Don't be bold If you haven't got the means to your method You're told that your skin could sell a generation It's gold till they rip it off and wear it as fashion For sure I could tip you off the right direction Come back When you get an itch for more submission I can tell What you're missing is more meditation Cut close Ties with family, friends, and civilization I know how to use my sex now as a weapon I know how shift polls over in my direction I know to stack bodies, keep a full collection I know raining down on you like armageddon I know I know... (my sex now as a weapon x4)
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Cheap Money 03:12
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Everyday somebody’s gotta die for their money We all gonna bite the dust for our bread Maybe it’d be easy to toss out the hierarchy If we weren’t so goddamn hungry instead Everyday somebody’s gotta make big decisions Who see’s tomorrow? Who’s chewing lead? It’s not that hard to choose when poverty remains faceless Lookin down up from their ivory ledge Cheap money Cheap, cheap money Let’s paint the whole city red Your vote means nothing But your life can quantify things Like a decimal point shifted to a comma instead They like their cheap cheap money Cheap money It doesn’t matter if you’re brown white or dead Cheap cheap money Cheap money Clap monkey then go bury your dead Everyday somebody’s gotta stifle their victim Who touched who where? in who else’s bed? Toss her an hour’s pay so you can call her truth treason Say vote blue, no matter who’s cutting heads Everyone we know now getting sick for no reason Forget about it is all that he said Sanctify the speech to avoid reasonable weary Put the blame on margined people instead Cheap money Cheap, cheap money Let’s paint the whole city red Your vote means nothing But your life can quantify things Like a decimal point shifted to a comma instead They like their cheap cheap money Cheap money It doesn’t matter if you’re brown white or dead Cheap cheap money Cheap money Clap monkey then go bury your dead
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Idiot Boy 03:23
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Idiot boy- high on pseudophedrine Idiot boy- he's a man among men Idiot boy- he's not much for talkin' But he's the voice of your movement now! Idiot boy- always goin somewhere new Idiot boy- with his colonist views Idiot boy- steps in gold plated shoes He's teachin Jesus to the kids in Ugand' Idiot boy- so seamless Idiot boy- so meaningless Yeah, when he's so vague All the boys and girls say-- Idiot boy- come easy Idiot boy- don't grease me I want you to hang that pretty face in everything Idiot boy- he's a capitalist Idiot boy- yeah he's dumber than shit Idiot boy- he get's real nihilistic But he's what all the K-I-D's wanna be Idiot boy- he's slick you can see Idiot boy- dipped in vaseline Idiot boy- denounced poverty I think today we'll put his face on a flag Idiot boy- so seamless Idiot boy- so meaningless Yeah when he's so vague All the boys and girls say-- Idiot boy- come easy Idiot boy- don't grease me I want you to say What the price tag on my head reads
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Wake Up 03:55
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Little babies time to wake up You know the world’s not dead Hear her calling from the window Pull the covers off your head Docile now from the destruction You tried to put it all down Lou said you wear a blue mask now You said I never come around Go ‘head and break a little back now You crack a whip to hear the sound Spit some blood upon the pavement Just to mark it as your town It’s not that you didn’t have it coming It’s only that you went around Everything you ever felt once Well who’s the cool guy now? Analogies for what you cannot speak Compromised in words whispered to me You stay so tied up to your past life You hold it in it makes you sick Catch your own stare up in the mirror You losing most your colorin’ Every step and each advance now You feel a little more chagrin Baby blue it turns to black out Doesn’t calm down anything You tuned it in, turned up, and dropped out You left the volume on 10 It’s only static that they broadcast The noise it almost felt a friend Sometimes the world can be so happy And then it’s vanishing within A moment’s high, a moment’s come down Yeah we call that shit the bends The feeling always hits the same point Right behind your eyes Clean out a bottle, take a pill, whatever kills the appetite
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The Boy from Xuzhou 03:45
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Satisfy (ft. Victoria Bettridge) 05:03
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Sometimes I stare into the Sun to get my fill Sometimes I kill someone and call that fun Yeah, it's all the same Yeah, it's all the same When I bleed real good I call that art When I feel real good, well then I'm not Sometimes the motion makes me sick But if I stand still, I still fall apart It's all the same It's all the same It's all the same I wanna tell myself to run get out of here I see myself in everyone unique and mirrored it's all the same It's all the same I'm still too sick to be alright My mind's a joke, but I feel fine I hold my breath to feel alive but I've give my life, for half a dime It's all the same It's all the same It's all the same It's all the--- It's all the--- It's all the--- It's all--- It's--- Is that you in the main frame? Come dig deep in the main vein You do it well, it's a part of your culture Infiltrate, reassign, and divulge her Is that you with the glasses on? Hiding out in the back Turning tricks to songs Did it work for you? Was it hard enough? I know you like a bad time, so was it bad enough? To satisfy you Satisfy you Satisfy You read it once or twice, it all sounds the same Bound to a code, like DNA and if it's all that's left then it shall remain Permeate membrane, and leak decay It's all the same It's all the same Count off my steps and walk away Sound off my lips, nothing left to say and "keep the peace," was a former phrase But now you cut with edge, and strike with blade-- It's all the same It's all the same It's all the same It's all the--- It's all the--- It's all the--- It's all----
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From the Other Side 03:12
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Milk & Honey 03:51
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Milk & Honey I'm coming for you you fill me up right Milk & Honey I'm coming for you you fill me up right Leave me out I'll spoil right up just standing upright Curdled and putrid but that's just what you like and I'm not wrong, right? In the desert I'm pierced up on stilts I'm still burning out bright pulsing electric, from demons in my dreams but you'll keep me up, right? Leave me out I get torn to shreds but you'll clean me up, right? gotta piece it out misplaced a part of you but that's nothing new, right? Milk & Honey I'm coming for you you fill me up right Milk & Honey I'm coming for you you fill me up right violate everything you do you're tweaking left right and wiggin out that's a part of you and I'm not wrong, right?
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River Ran Red 04:53
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Lisa walked out on Friday Looking so color-me-dead She had a little left in the main valve She had a little left inside her head She’s hanging over there by the trashcans A few hours now waiting for a friend Could feel the spring rollin from the mainlands And when it hit her yeah it made her knees spin Lisa stepped out on a Sunday night She wrote a letter that she really needs to send She took a little hit back in her main valve She took another hit face down in bed She wandered on down, right past the statelines She wander on down, right past the ledge She shaved her head down there by the water And when the summer came the river ran red x3 Jesse laid sleepin with a steak knife Jesse laid without sleeping instead He tried to tie a knot and then he lost it He tried to tie a stand before he fled He says it’s kind of funny being someone When you feel like someone that you never met It’s really shit to think of your whole lifetime Every single time your lost in your own head Jesse he don’t care about tomorrow Jesse only wants what he can’t get Whenever time is something he reflects on He takes another pill to not get sick Never thought it even take it this far And that far’s now long behind- how quick it went! Never thought the joke could catch up at all Now the joke’s the one ahead takin’ the piss x3
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The Impossible Dream Pt. 3 06:37
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He put a ring through his nipple He felt more genuine this way He watched someone do it in a movie once I guess it stuck with him He felt his fair share of abandon Both awake and in fever dream High on LSD and stone cold sober Maybe that’s why he cast it back He lived arduously Couldn’t pass the notion that he was just being swept around Some nights he would see Satan on his bedroom ceiling And when he did he would say Tadadadada Dididididi Tadadadada Didididi Keep me up Talk to me His mother used to cry at night, Worried about her boy Over the different paths he elected And the smoke screen of which he hid behind He sequestered himself into nightmare of misfortune, And sometimes it seemed he preferred it that way The catacombs that weaved their way around him only took him further from home, till one day he was out of sight He was never brought up on the streets But at times he still found himself there Sitting placid in the ponds of human cud Already chewed up and spat out He was idle in the face of what would come next In fact preferring idols over true intentions He would often meet with strangers late into the night And when he spoke to them he would say Tadadadada Dididididi Tadadadada Didididi Keep me up Talk to me He rearranged what he could constantly Always in fear of being stagnant He could move for miles and it still wouldn’t be enough It had been a long time since the drugs had left his body But still, years later, found he couldn’t shake the restlessness It was an imposition to be tirelessly worried of what would come next and sudden juxtapose from his prior mentality often made him sick He noticed changes in his appearance Small lines near his eyes and strands of silver apparent in his hair He cut it off, and closed his eyes He calculated each step that he could Until one day he became paralyzed with fear Legs fragile and wilted, he stayed confided to his bed Dreaming up yet another impossible dream He looked up to the ceiling to try and catch his old friend Satan When he could no longer find him, he instead turned to his own reflection And he did say Tadadadada Dididididi Tadadadada Didididi Keep me up Talk to me
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Life Down Here 04:01
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I dug a hole looking for water but I climbed inside and kept for shelter and I didn't notice the rain filling it back up I formed channels and thought "Direction" Then climbed through mud and stones and darkness and I scooped out a place where I could fit my head and crust was forming on my body an ectoskeleton surrounds me and I sit, and itch and wait for it to end wait for it to end the bugs are company, I consume them Life down here's no different than above land though I forget my name, or colors, or what's sound My eyes glaze over, I can't use them It brings no change to my existence They turn to cream I breathe fluid Sorta sweet and there's clay where I once kept my memories It's okay, nostalgia no longer plagues me I watch it sink, watch it fade wait for it to end wait for it to end

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released January 31, 2019

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