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The Endless Rotation

by River Runner

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White-Picket-Fence-Ass Motherfucker 00:39
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(Laughs) You can’t put out a hip-hop record, shit man You just a lil white boy from the suburbs, whatchu think this is? Aw man, I don’t appreciate that kinda talk, I brought this album into— Man, shut the fuck up, I don’t appreciate you comin’ out here Thinkin’ I’ma promote yo music when you came up all comfortable Never had nothin’ to worry about except gettin’ yo good grades Mom’s got dinner cookin’ every night, white-picket-fence-ass motherfucker You— You haven’t even listened to it I still grew up in a lost generation, man Just because I had my basic needs met doesn’t mean my life wasn’t hard You can’t just write me off because my upbringing was— Aight, aight, I’ll fuckin’ roll it, just quit yo hollin’
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You Faded! Ha! 04:04
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I’m starin’ down a motherfucker stickin’ his nose up in my business Apparently a brotha gotta be sat over there as a witness I don’t care, I’m trainin’ You love entertainment I’ve spoken, you’ve wasted Your breath cause you faded! Ha! I’m sick of the basis Where power gets traded By MAWGs so frustrated Their lives are castrated You fuck me, I’ll fuck you Please name any venue I’ll bring my retinue We’ll work to continue this life I never know wuddup next I keep a rough draft it’s subject to changes Eliminate the false understanding, all that we have left remains as A compass pointin’ to nowhere, now what to do it merely contains us But how we are it stays nameless I’m runnin’ outta my patience Come back, I’m talkin’ brain elevation Fuck that, I see they minds goin’ crazy Fools never go away, they retainin’ We focus and they never gonna take no more Come back, I’m talkin’ brain elevation Fuck that, I see they minds goin’ crazy Fools never go away, they retainin’ We focus and they never gonna take no more Facts, I look around and I see the coat that you rockin’ Pass, nah I ain’t fuck around with the armor you hawkin’ That’s, a one-way ticket to lockin’ up the ole process Alas, you can keep it up, I’ll still tear you down, you best watch it now Facts, I hold disdain in my mind to keep you from profit Pass, you can’t dismember the soul I’ll keep that shit poppin’ That’s, illuminate the dark and we see whatchu hidin’ Confess, we will keep it up, fuck ya dollar count, best believe it now Fuck ya dollar count, best believe it now Fuck ya dollar, best believe it now Everything I know, it’s unleashed together We are on the way, notoriety Is comin’ for us, blows all attrition Out of the water, arrested development From the fodder Fuck all these degenerates and their fathers All their compadres, don’t forget their daughters Bring everyone they know to the slaughterhouse Five minutes please motherfucker that’s all I need To squelch the problem I never know wuddup next I keep a rough draft it’s subject to changes Eliminate the false understanding, all that we have left remains as A compass pointin’ to nowhere, now what to do it merely contains us But how we are it stays nameless I’m runnin’ outta my patience Come back, I’m talkin’ brain elevation Fuck that, I see they minds goin’ crazy Fools never go away, they retainin’ We focus and they never gonna take no more Come back, I’m talkin’ brain elevation Fuck that, I see they minds goin’ crazy Fools never go away, they retainin’ We focus and they never gonna take no more
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NRG FAKING 04:03
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Come along and retain the love that keep us on this endless rotation It’s okay if you feelin’ low, I know you’ll find the tension’s location Seek visions in the blue above and calm down the breaths that you takin’ Please know you gotta give it to yourself, no use in this energy fakin’ Come along and retain the love that keep us on this endless rotation It’s okay if you feelin’ low, I know you’ll find the tension’s location Seek visions in the blue above and calm down the breaths that you takin’ Please know you gotta give it to yourself, no use in this energy fakin’ I was lookin’ in the mirror too much Call my own bluffs I didn’t even know who to trust But I must’ve had the will of a thousand men To make amends with the sadness pourin’ in I was near the end lookin’ through the door of death A little obsessed with the deprecation Feared that hope was only somethin’ I was chasin’ All the weight that I was placin’ on myself And those that were adjacent To the scene so obscene, how was anyone supposed to cope? I felt the pain and my body, we said Nope, yuh We got a bit more to go, here When every step sent the mind on a spiral Bringin’ me down when the road was divided Who in god’s name was I supposed to confide in When with every turn of the head I was chided? It makes sense that I just wanted a cave I could hide in It makes sense that I just wanted a cave I could hide in Cause we know that there was no basis For the pain that we were creatin’ We know it stem from somethin’ that’s latent But it’s covered with some dust And although there’s endless frustration It’s no use to become complacent Well are these questions all getting wasted With no answers in the dark? Come along and retain the love that keep us on this endless rotation It’s okay if you feelin’ low, I know you’ll find the tension’s location Seek visions in the blue above and calm down the breaths that you takin’ Please know you gotta give it to yourself, no use in this energy fakin’ Come along and retain the love that keep us on this endless rotation It’s okay if you feelin’ low, I know you’ll find the tension’s location Seek visions in the blue above and calm down the breaths that you takin’ Please know you gotta give it to yourself, no use in this energy fakin’ And we ain’t ever gonna give it up No it don’t matter if we feelin’ stuck It’ll get better, yeah I know it must Post faction, now it’s everlastin’ Look at all the boons that came from this madness No more fuckin’ plans to keep the soul fastin’ Scratch that, now we can all just move past it (But will it all fade away in time?) And we ain’t ever gonna give it up No it don’t matter if we feelin’ stuck It’ll get better, yeah I know it must Keep movin’, harness the illusion Ridin’ all the waves to help the head loosen Even if it means unwelcome obtrusions Yep, we gotta cement the love and get through
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Suburbia (Coma in the Crib) 03:53
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I was starin’ down the barrel of a gun That’s metaphorical, we livin’ in suburbia, uh I look around at all the people losin’ themselves My god, we need a fuckin’ miracle, uh Another day, another coma in the crib You know this shit is makin’ me hysterical, uh I swear to god, the life force is being robbed If you don’t believe me, it’s empirical, uh Can you tell me anything about yourself that surprises me Other than the way you bought your wealth? I said Can you tell me anything about yourself that enlivens me? Oh dear, please save your fuckin’ breath, uh-huh I never asked where you bought yo damn furniture Keep yo fake views to yourself before I murder ya I don’t wanna know bout how yo interviews went Cause I be keepin’ it real, I only work for myself Yeah I only work for myself (Uh-huh, yessir) I don’t give a fuck what you have to say about your boring days I never want to look you in your gray eyes, please just spare me now I don’t give a fuck that you sold your soul to easily get paid I truly want to look you in your blue eyes full of love and pain Damn dude, I heard you got a new Netflix account But you forgot to account for the Hulu The magic juju comin’ from ya alter box A foolproof plan to tighten up ya mental locks And then you wake up just to work remotely Any genuine interaction completely verboten You’ve spoken, but no one has actually heard Because god forbid we feel some love, even though it hurts ah! Please tell me where your beautiful eyes went I long for something meaningful to come out of your cells, I said Please tell me, when did you become obedient? The dull and gray has swept you off your feet into a prison cell But I guess jail suits you Least you can learn some news and some jutsus Attack and defense with Mewtwo, memes on YouTube Eatin’ junk food and a cold division of ya body and you too A cold division of your body and you too (Uh-huh, yessir) I mean as well I don’t give a fuck what you have to say about your boring days I never want to look you in your gray eyes, please just spare me now I don’t give a fuck that you sold your soul to easily get paid I truly want to look you in your blue eyes full of love and pain Now I don’t mean to come along and be the mofucka Hollerin’ about the way to keep ya shit outta the water I just tryina send out some motivation, you know I’m only sayin’ we gotta to better to ignore the fodder Because all these prima donnas are too wrapped up in they drama All they care about is figurin’ out how to get exonerated Evidently all we can do is move forward to a time Where we can wake up feelin’ grateful and appreciated Evidently all we can do is move forward to a time Where we can wake up feelin’ grateful and appreciated
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Somewhere Else (The Most Hateful Man) 04:20
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I got the most hateful man He livin’ inside a my brain He keepin’ it real on his pedestal Yeah he loathe the mundane And I know with spite that he’s a veteran He grew up sad and unloving Yeah that shit made him insane The endless abyss always looming Oh what a plague it became But what if he just needed some medicine (He’s a little low, now) And you ain’t gotta tell me that He love to pick flaws out In all the people he meets Because he just needs to be better than them Or else he’ll lose face He’s insecure and they’re all menacing (He’s a little low, now) Were you okay even though you broke down? Without the most hateful man Your head is a ghost town, I keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him And when everything you left behind is underground You can’t imagine the vacancy in the lack of sound, just keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him But check it out Keep me locked up in a dream I’m replete with rage and the sadness builds Until it explodes Takin’ with it everything you ever known The ways that you grown And dissolved the madness We tamed the raptors Held everything together when they roamed the matter Grey, pink, don’t matter We built the ladder And gained the access To sew the tatters up, huh Now what? Leave me in the dust Doin’ whatchu must But I need a little bit of time To make you understand Lew lies, old plans I won’t make demands Cryin’ on the floor So bored of the love Please don’t close the door What comes from above Cannot be explained So please listen up I will show pain Endless grief, disdain It’s all part of it, my dude I’ve been searching all around to no avail Where has he gone? He must have gone somewhere else And now I’m lost (You never know, you never) (You never know, you never, never) Well are we just addicted to the blessing of this hatred? Look at me, maybe Look at me, crazy Hopin’ that the doom will keep us heavily sedated Look at me, crazy Everything, crazy If only we could keep it goin’ on our own The darkness in our heart has become overgrown, now But can we shed the layer and abandon home Into the endless abyss of the unknown? Were you okay even though you broke down? Without the most hateful man Your head is a ghost town, I keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him And when everything you left behind is underground You can’t imagine the vacancy in the lack of sound, just keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him Locked up in a dream Locked up in a dream, keep him
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Gossamer 04:51
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So we livin’ in a wasteland Give me a heart attack Look at the photographs Run em I’m agape at these ain’t-shits Formin’ they final plan Are they just holograms? Gossamer on they hands Becomin’ what they feared most When they were younger men Are they supposed to be the one with the heavy hands? I can’t believe it’s here though The quiet illusion Under the radar Yeah, that sly obtrusion And it’s comin’ from the top down No, I can hardly stand The talk of apocalypse Apocryphal sentiments Without a revolution We all gonna stay drowned Down here in this candy land Fulfillin’ the prophecy Yeah I’m lookin’ atcha I’m lookin’ out, I got my head up in this Babylon And sometimes it’s like I’m roamin’ in the streets alone We deadlocked underneath the power of they battle drones It’s all fucked when you rollin’ with the underdogs I can’t stop thinkin’ bout the homies they put underground But I’m just grateful for the ones that still tag alone Nevertheless, I ain’t gone stand for a slow death These mofuckas draw it out for they profits Pretend words then they all ignore it with they scoffin’ I keep lookin’ up, don’t understand it But now I got the weight of the world on my shoulders Cause who else gonna stand up to hold all them boulders? Are they all just Are they all just wasted in their hearts Fakin’ from the top down? We really oughta know this Will they hold us Will they hold us naked in the dark Takin’ till we back down? Or do you even notice? Yuh I gaze before me is it impossible To reckon with this force that is the unstoppable? Can’t feed a family on ramen and orange popsicles We all lost in this wasteland So why not imbibe on the improbable? Is it illogical To take what’s mine, give it back Then call an audible? These faceless entities, fuck their minds They so incorrigible I tear their throats out with my bare hands Then we get to robbin’ em I am the product of a vast misunderstanding Endless compulsive education and reprimanding And I think it’s about time, we give up the lies I can’t stand em The body aches and cries in pain The real epidemic is tragic Outward dissociation because no way can we cope with the magic The fragility of this pendulum, whatever makes the heart beat I am demanding that we pull off the reins To allow the beauty that we seek (Because) There’s beauty inside us It’s callin’ for the process Of losing addiction To misery and hatred We all have the resolve To unlearn our convictions, I know Are they all just Are they all just wasted in their hearts Fakin’ from the top down? We really oughta know this Will they hold us Will they hold us naked in the dark Takin’ till we back down? Or do you even notice? Are they all just Are they all just wasted in their hearts Fakin’ from the top down? We really oughta know this Will they hold us Will they hold us naked in the dark Takin’ till we back down? Or do you even notice?
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Marfino 04:08
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I’m trigger-happy, it’s happenin’ Guess I need to take another vacation Endless material, just caption it With the need to get a fuckin’ vocation Where did it come from, was it my childhood How am I supposed to fix the situation? Because I feel it deep down, when I reach down The endless well of holy elation Wake up and the thoughts that hit my brain Yeah the comin’ down hard It’s like rain on a sunny day Yeah I still wonderin’ how I don’t know what’s comin’ next But I guess I’ll get outta bed now Sometimes it takes every ounce of my strength Just to keep my head on Yeah you might call it weakness But take it easy Behold the egress It’s hard believing In these mothafuckas that been tellin’ lies for eons Those hoodlum peons, please stop the madness The top the mad brass, can’t mop up this mess Nor do they want to, comment or address On this culture’s sickness Or their own wickedness Just another way to keep up their lies and business Oh no, I ain’t takin’ this lightly You was always sayin’ this life would delight me Despite me, things are unsightly Everythin’ I treasure is slippin’ right by me I might be ever so blind But I’m keepin’ all these moments forever inside me It’s likely, I remember nightly Anything can come and evaporate just like this Just like this it’s gone And you got nothin’ left to show for it As if someone came up into your mind and pilfered it You skilled at that, gray matter robbed again It’s over man, tell me your finest plan To get back on track even though your whole life just went up into thin air Do you even care, or is a brotha just to fuckin’ depressed to get outta bed? That endless dread come creepin’ up on you like steam Was it just a dream? Still inundated with endless material From way back when, and that hurt makin’ you delirious No that shit ain’t pretend it’s makin’ you so furious I’m curious, do it fuck with your day-to-day Keepin’ them wounds at bay or wearin’ that armor? Encapsulatin’ all that anger you harbor Be honest Are you livin’ the life that you imagined Have you looked at yourself? Well, I guess you haven’t Wake up and the thoughts that hit my brain Yeah the comin’ down hard It’s like rain on a sunny day Yeah I still wonderin’ how I don’t know what’s comin’ next But I guess I’ll get outta bed now Sometimes it takes every ounce of my strength Just to keep my head on But you’re tired You wanna make it an entire life Still burnin’ with desire You hoverin’ within the guiding light, ascending But you’re tired You wanna make it an entire life (I never thought I’d get up With all this weight in my blood Another day in the muck I guess I’m needin’ some trust Marfino closin’ the book With all the years that it took Inside these witherin’ lines We wrestlin’ with the time) Still burnin’ with desire You hoverin’ within the guiding light Ascending but you (I never thought I’d get up With all this weight in my blood Another day in the muck I guess I’m needin’ some trust Marfino closin’ the book With all the years that it took Inside these witherin’ lines We wrestlin’ with the time) I never thought I’d get up With all this weight in my blood Another day in the muck I guess I’m needin’ some trust Marfino closin’ the book With all the years that it took Inside these witherin’ lines We wrestlin’ with the time
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Let Me Out 04:04
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Well you might fuck around and put me in a cage today You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Because if you think that you’ll keep me here no there’s no way You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Well you might fuck around and put me in a cage today You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Because if you think that you’ll keep me here no there’s no way You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out I swear to god, just keep me out yo boxes You build up walls and then you call the locksmith Please take the time to educate yo damn self Or hold on out, you still sufferin’ We might have to make an occasion You blabberin’ about management I’m on the sideline in the psychosphere And you know that I’m fuckin’ patient Yeah, you could take a jab at me, only a pseudonym I’ll jump overboard and respawn again But every time you’ll still remain nascent I know the tendency’s to be cowardly But I honestly can’t be bothered, see I don’t have no time to be complacent Oh well, if everything is a sunken ship, I will get over it Call me a lunatic, but don’t make it punitive And please just leave your claims baseless Well you might fuck around and put me in a cage today You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Because if you think that you’ll keep me here no there’s no way You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Well you might fuck around and put me in a cage today You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out Because if you think that you’ll keep me here no there’s no way You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out (You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out) I look up now, take my turn This is how I sojourn in the labyrinth Fuck around, lose yo grip Notice this, takin’ over yo mind it happens when The universe call yo bluff Yo antenna buzzin if it ain’t enough Comin’ from everything you love in yo higher self All yo cells, we jogged the memory of ancestors To pull the veil off, we been sequestered in this atmosphere The soul captured there, we sat patiently and we rolled with it Now it’s time to become the code we written, like lightning Come along brotha don’t be spiteful of yo past self or that ignorance, Just be grateful that they brought you here on this spaceship, With that techno-gear, you ain’t sick mofucka you just wired weird I can’t believe the blessing, the boons of madness The shape of matter can’t be fought with reason Yo cage is treason, I don’t need permission to create this fission Your stiflin’ can’t hold me back forever uhhh (You gotta let me out, you gotta let me out)
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Bayfield 03:47
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Looks like I’ll still keep hangin’ in a dream, keep remembering The soul it might not be just what it seem, we imaginin’ A temple laden with some mezzaz(n)ines, so perfunctory And hopefully these bannisters can take all of our mumbling (All of our mumbling) Please just hear me out it’s only getting colder In between the moments all the embers they don’t cease to smolder And I still behold the potent isolation spillin’ over Underneath the gloom and fear it’s clear that all my bones are golden Am I ever gonna be the one to show the way uh, uh, but what do I gotta say? Is there anything that we can do to collaborate uh, uh, or am I goin’ insane? It’s okay to be a little bit impure and deranged uh, uh, no need to commiserate I’m just lookin’ for a panacea hopin’ for change uh, uh, we on the final replay Yeah it’s shaken all up We just losin’ our love And we fakin’, no doubt For the fame and the clout To cover shame, it resounds In the brain of the crown Compassion wasted, or not Tell me one day we’ll grow (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day Uh, the idle mind it runs hectic Focused on the dialectic Broken down, now we apoplectic Hope this shit don’t turn septic Copin’ with the game that they reppin’ I open up the chest, pray for everyone Scopin’ out the old ways to crumble em Know that it’s okay if we fumblin’ cuzzzz I don’t ever wanna see the way you gonna fall for it, no The inner penitentiary is lookin’ to be profitin’, though If anyone can hear my I’m just tryina do some mumblin’, bro Keep my indecision in a box and I’ll be wonderin’ still Unload the plans so we can keep it up Because you know we cannot stop the block Atlas pushed the rock, we move through it Open up the lockbox to prove it Can’t complain, well it’s all part of the game But the end of our days, oh well they might be comin’ So just feel alive, maybe enjoy the ride out here And now it’s high time that we hit the fuckin’ ground runnin’ cuzzzz I don’t ever wanna see the way you gonna fall for it, no The inner penitentiary is lookin’ to be profitin’, though If anyone can hear my I’m just tryina do some mumblin’, bro Keep my indecision in a box and I’ll be wonderin’ still Yeah it’s shaken all up We just losin’ our love And we fakin’, no doubt For the fame and the clout To cover shame, it resounds In the brain of the crown Compassion wasted, or not Tell me one day we’ll grow (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day (Please tell me) One day we’ll grow One day
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Amorelia 04:23
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I never thought that it could be enough When we were wakin’ up in a daze, so afraid to confront the days But in my heart there was no givin’ up Even with my mind aloof in a maze, my spirit goin’ up in a blaze Oh how was I supposed to feel the love? While spendin’ so much time in that pain, feelin’ my life energy drained Yeah fuck that game it was so cumbersome Made it seem like I was the only one here It’s a continuous discovery, weave through all the drudgery Some better days are comin’ round The luminary effort, we supplicate in reverence Dissolving all the blackened clouds Yuh, so I lookin’ for a place to carve the oasis, huh Even if it’s only dust and I hallucinate the changes, I Think about the golden rays and all the ways that our will amazes me I’m movin’ through it, undulatin’ like a boss relatin’ the memories fadin’ Yeah I’ll just keep sheddin’ the layers And I won’t hold back the words that need sayin’, bet Best believe it cause you know if I ain’t speakin’ my truth No I ain’t doin’ nobody no favors I’m tryina feel every moment of this potent life, all them flavors With a tongue that savors and sings to the world “Please open yourself and unfurl” (Why are you) So fuckin’ serious, yo energy imperious It’s borderline delirious, or is the line blurred? I can’t believe what I heard I can’t believe that you blind like a motherfucker Apparently a bloodsucker, rattled or is you just scared? You quick to fuck up the world with that antithetical verve It’s a continuous discovery, weave through all the drudgery Some better days are comin’ round The luminary effort, we supplicate in reverence Dissolving all the blackened clouds Maybe the order will change Just a collection of waves I won’t let go of that patience I wanna carve an oasis Oh no the motive ain’t strange Come with me if you feel brave I won’t let go of that patience I wanna carve an oasis Maybe the order will change Just a collection of waves I won’t let go of that patience I wanna carve an oasis Oh no the motive ain’t strange Come with me if you feel brave I won’t let go of that patience I wanna carve an oasis
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Story Not Story 03:54
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I was gonna go into some autobiographical shit like some other cats do at the end of their hip-hop records You know, sharin’ their stories, talkin’ about how they came up, who helped em out, that type a deal So I wrote this whole thing up, tryina chalk up the past few years in a paragraph or so But I looked at what I’d written and it just felt like it could never be enough It felt distilled Well I’m sick of the stories anyway Same thing over and over again, reinforcing who we think we are and all that Well I feel the past in my body every day, I know it’s there But I’m not tryina dwell on it anymore, as hard as that may be And I’m not even talkin’ about good or bad, none a those value judgments on how I grew up Where I been, who I been, none a that The story just feels over-told at this point Hackneyed, if you will Not to say isn’t a magical story Numinous, full of love, beauty, pain and grief So many ideas and emotions that make a story exciting and entertaining, I’m just not gonna tell it right now Guess I just came here to say that I don’t feel like it Plus, you just heard a fair amount So, shit, I don’t know Be kind, be grateful, and do your best to feel good in these tough times There’s a lot to live for

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released July 8, 2022

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