1. |
back on track
04:24
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[chorus: willem]
itās that album of the year shit
itās that Iām choosing to live shit
yeah Iām back on track
overcame some demons yeah Iām back on track
itās that album of the year shit
and I canāt tell you how to live, shit
yeah Iām back on track
Iām back on track
[verse 1: jay]
the day I told my parents that I wanna be rapper
I could see them think I must've dreamt too much
but so what if I do, so what if I did
told myself if I don't make it, it's 'cause I slept too much
they thought I must've, I must've lost my mind
talking 'bout them big dreams, big smiles all the time
said momma, momma, please take my advice,
let me skip class or maybe even school
so I can get to rule the world
that you gave me, and you given my word
ain't no need to be concerned ya lil' son gon make it burn
put my name on the map, eating suckas like desert
Iāma earn what's mine, come and take what I deserve
till I can fill your purse, said son you need a spanking
is you really gon' cut it like your dad did
she ain't really said it but I read it in her eyes
and once she read mine, she left and let me rise
[chorus: willem]
itās that album of the year shit
itās that Iām choosing to live shit
yeah Iām back on track
overcame some demons yeah Iām back on track
itās that album of the year shit
and I canāt tell you how to live, shit
yeah Iām back on track
Iām back on track
[verse 2: willem]
yeah Iām still here
canāt believe this
there were times on god it wasnāt easy
but we still here
we still breathing
it took some time for the wounds to start healing
now iām still here
fighting off my demons
my demeanor
was changing like the seasons
tryna fake my smile, hiding my feelings
tryna pick myself up but found no reason
and i still keep everybody at distance
still find it hard to open up when they listen
still havenāt shown my true colors
still working it out like newcomers
head first, no pool covers
blue collar, nine to five still wonāt have you covered
night shifts on night shifts, i lose mornings
my mind shifts from thick mist to white skies
but behind every cloud it still shines
[chorus: willem]
itās that album of the year shit
itās that Iām choosing to live shit
yeah Iām back on track
overcame some demons yeah Iām back on track
itās that album of the year shit
and I canāt tell you how to live, shit
yeah Iām back on track
Iām back on track
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2. |
die in LA
04:19
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[verse 1: jay]
I been conflicted, constricted, restricting myself to grow
the million ways that couldāve changed me, I wouldnāt know
just went where I was told go,
till me and my growth got stopped by the ends of every road
without the knowledge or faith thatās needed to make a leap
without the imagination to get me outta my seat
without the energy thatās needed to carry all of my burdens through the rivers and creeks
over hills with an angle too steep
it aināt that deep, is all they wrote
the sole thing that I have noted thatās been floating on my intellect
ready to make amends with myself from the future,
say that I regret I havenāt crashed any sooner
catching š¤ās, could say iām hardly ever awake
grown afraid of everything that I put down on my plate
and Iām done with it, done with it, donāt wanna wait
today, I die in LA
[chorus: willem]
thereās nothing standing in my way
speed through traffic on the interstate
life moves fast, caught up in the race
flat tire, backfire, crash
tell myself iām okay
ācause honestly i aināt got time to waste
no 9 to 5, itās night and day
i donāt care if i break
i got dreams to chase
iām on a ride, canāt hit the breaks
will i arrive one day
or will i die in LA?
[verse 2: jay]
I got fright to return to the country that I come from
cause the place that my headspace be in, be a bomb one
elevated, energized, I radiate it
put explosives to the walls, they been detonated
what once was desolated; prospering, swimming in growth
so on top of my shit itās like Iām
swimming in gold
with all friends no foes, no cracks in the code,
no cons just pros, in control and it shows
these stories were never told but now they bout to be
cus I feel comfortable with all of the things that been surrounding me
and see, I love to see it but Iām prepared for the fall
cus I know Iāma lose it all
catching š¤ās, could say I'm hardly ever awake
grown afraid of everything that I put down on my plate
and I'm done with it done with it donāt wanna wait
today, I died in LA
[chorus: willem]
thereās nothing standing in my way
speed through traffic on the interstate
life moves fast, caught up in the race
flat tire, backfire, crash
tell myself Iām okay
ācause honestly I aināt got time to waste
no 9 to 5, itās night and day
I donāt care if i break
I got dreams to chase
Iām on a ride, canāt hit the breaks
will i arrive one day
or will I die in LA?
[bridge: willem]
come back alive in LA?
will I die in LA?
come back alive in LA?
[chorus: willem]
ācause honestly I aināt got time to waste
no 9 to 5, itās night and day
I donāt care if i break
I got dreams to chase
Iām on a ride, canāt hit the breaks
will I arrive one day
or will I die in LA?
good day
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3. |
good day
03:15
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[chorus: jay]
dreaminā
all night, all day I donāt sleep
gravity donāt exist āround here
I canāt get off my feet
so why wonāt you
blow the dust off my surface
fix me up and give me purpose
even if I donāt need it?
ācause you caught me on a good day
[verse 1: willem]
laying still
taking pills
just to get out of bed
Iām missing thrills
can not feel
ācause Iām light in my head
not paying bills
way too chill, wish I got fire instead
but on the real
nothing feels like itās posing a threat
every day feels the same
I stopped looking ahead
a long time ago I was sure
this was my path
I wanna be led
I wanna be taken away
tears to be shed
but I donāt feel nothing
you just caught me on a good day
and Iām just feeling like a bootleg version of myself
should approach it in a new way
new pace, true friends
losing all my loose ends
foolish, acting like itās easy to be fooled with
I gotta take it seriously, seriously
this shit is fucking killing me
Iāve been ignoring this for too long
I gotta move on
go to bed with my shoes on
and start
[chorus: jay]
dreaminā
all night, all day I donāt sleep
gravity donāt exist āround here
I canāt get off my feet
so why wonāt you
blow the dust off my surface
fix me up and give me purpose
even if I donāt need it?
ācause you caught me on a good day
[verse 2: jay]
two in the afternoon turn and I snooze
No Zzzās, mind clouded by the news
of my pops that suddenly died in foreign
ears ringing, couldnāt even hear the silence for āim
prrrrrr, I turn and I snooze
Iād rather be on fun shit but today I lose
a battle I didnāt choose but I had to pick
right now I just need the world to get off my _
and quit tryna fix my shit for me
I just need time
but it seems I canāt afford it
always need to be rollin, always something important
that be knocking at my dox in the morning
yet I rise and shine but rarely on time
tired of maintaining that 9 to 5 smile
while feeding my addiction of escaping whatās before me
canāt control but I know I just wanna get back to
[chorus: jay]
dreaminā
all night, all day I donāt sleep
gravity donāt exist āround here
I canāt get off my feet
so why wonāt you
blow the dust off my surface
fix me up and give me purpose
even if I donāt need it?
ācause you caught me on a good day
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4. |
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[verse 1: abhi & jay]
novocaine all my days feeling numb
propane raps, Hank Hill with the thumb
slow days, on my own way to the grave
Iāma cold case, no cocaine on the gum
see me down under up down slam down with the thunder
ice cold moves, booth hot like the summer
grind on a hunnid times two
in the box locked up, go-ing up till we run it
Itās just me verse the universe, I run it
and we done one hundred percent to gain damn near nothing
but fuck it, you canāt stomach the work, you wonāt serve me a word, keep running
get a taste of the falls, hit the walls, on the daily
pacing phases, to my face, nothing faze me
besides the lot of things on my mind i need to say
bit afraid, so I guess they can wait just another day
I think I might be A-okay
If I wait just another day
[chorus: jay]
I got to tell ya
getting blinded by the lights
I got to tell ya
ābout the chaos in my mind
I got to tell ya
all these nights weāre not together
forgot to tell ya
[verse 2: abhi & jay]
I got to tell you, I aināt tryna make no promise
not nothing that could weigh down conscious
pay the bills and the rest fill pockets
still sometimes you be obnoxious
just want it different when Iām having you around me,
all night, no sleep, we down here
whenever we here, no problems
losing track oā time, till it finds us
down with ya till I make me a thousand
white picket fences, pool house loungin,
sounding good to me if you round with it
I kill the demons we hit the ground running
my stress gonā need a vest round the chest
reshape my world in 7 days or less
on the chase like the days, chased ice cream trucks
got us moving fast but itās never enough
yeah I know that the weather is rough
but it wonāt stop us
yeah shit is never enough
[chorus: jay]
I got to tell ya
getting blinded by the lights
I got to tell ya
ābout the chaos in my mind
I got to tell ya
all these nights weāre not together
forgot to tell ya
2x
[bridge: ]
[chorus: jay]
I got to tell ya
getting blinded by the lights
I got to tell ya
ābout the chaos in my mind
I got to tell ya
all these nights weāre not together
forgot to tell ya
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5. |
cracked screen ft. Lute
03:32
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canāt match the style nor the pow-uh
aināt no way the fire getting doused
lowkey bawse the ones that aināt with it we send āem out
9 millie the city fuck yo town up, oh my god
look at dude, he done made it on the news
he done did it now he rude
yup! down on my luck, and i on really give a, ugh
I sweat and I bleed, uh, down on my feet when I need
do everything to keep ya, bumpinā me bumpinā me through ya speaker
til itās time to rest in peace, yuh!
just let me highlight this, highlight that
whateverās on the screen really went down like that
and you get a choice, love it or hate it but Iā¦
[chorus: willem]
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing what it seems
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing is just what it seems
[verse 2: Lute]
Crack screens, device that used to fold
Every thing that glitter canāt be gold
Everything that glitter cant be trusted
Fuck it cause I aināt got time today
People flexing insecurities on me
My imperfections aināt gone cure you homie
I used to think the money take the pain
Got the money never felt the same
I used to be the type Nigga that looked at tv and wanted to be like my heroes
But then I met heroes along with some egos
And realized they was just selling me dreams.
I used to be the type Nigga that walked through the mall and wished for the clothes in the
window
but then I evolved
The window revealed that being myself is the finest of things
[chorus: willem]
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing what it seems
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing is just what it seems
x2
cracked screen
broken dreams
cracked screen
broken dreams
[verse 3: willem]
I donāt need no one
To know what Iām worth
I donāt need no one
To know I aināt perfect
Donāt need you
To feel my own worth
Itās a waste of time
Always tryna be perfect
Some days down
Some are way up
My mood swings through the changes
Canāt get no sleep
Gotta stay up and get to the chase
Nobody sleeps in LA (no sleep in LA)
Every year
New phone
New goals
Cracked screen
Broken dreams
Fallen icons
Got my dirty nikes on
Donāt wanna be perfect
Iām just a real person
Got stains on my shirt
Mundane, overworked
Donāt idolize me it aināt worth it
[chorus: willem]
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing what it seems
live my life behind a cracked screen
nothing is just what it seems
x2
cracked screen
broken dreams
cracked screen
broken dreams
x2
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6. |
recluse
03:38
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[chorus: jay]
shawty boujee
light my fire
we reconciling
fulfil desires
I need loving
I can borrow
to kill my sorrow
on every morrow
x2
[verse 1: jay]
I can't count the times that I've unchained my heart
and had it fumblin' in the dark,
I can't count the times that I've unchained my heart
eagerly in pursuit of a spark
with knowledge it's set for failure, way before the finish line
oh my, just fall in line,
run me outta time, shawty, I don't mind
just need my fix then I'm fine, āleast for a little while
[pre-chorus: willem]
motionless weāre moved
through the silence
by the cycle of the moon
we ebb and we flow
through the silence
we stayed up all night all night
we stayed up all night
[chorus: jay]
shawty boujee
light my fire
we reconciling
fulfill desires
I need loving
I can borrow
to kill my sorrow
on every morrow
x2
[verse 2: willem]
I canāt count the times I tried to light up a spark
when I was roaming in the dark
but I still walk this route
uncertain of every step I set down
I donāt wanna stay inside my head
but canāt seem to find a way out
faint sounds of thoughts Iām always chasing around
like thunder in a faraway cloud
[pre-chorus: willem]
motionless weāre moved
through the silence
by the cycle of the moon
we ebb and we flow
through the silence
and stayed up all night all night
we stayed up all night all night
[bridge: willem]
all night all night
x3
[chorus: jay]
shawty bougie
light my fire
we reconciling
fulfill desires
I need loving
I can borrow
to kill my sorrow
on every morrow
x2
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7. |
perfume ft. Caleborate
04:18
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[chorus: willem]
I wanna move
like the tides under the moon
back and forth
like the smell of perfume
when Iām walking down the street in a hurry
when Iām tryna reach your phone and Iām worried
x2
[verse 1: willem]
Iām worried you wonāt pick up
ācause of the time difference
tired of living
woke up hating myself
yeah Iām right in it
endless traffic
but I still ride in it
days flow into each other
like two lovers on a park bench
dark lens
canāt see the future
ācause my cap still on
canāt live on like this
wish Iād be anonymous again
the moral of the story is I canāt
the smell of perfume reminds me of our days at the mall
we told ourselves weād get a bottle
when everything falls back in place
when we figure out how to be stars
but she told me that sheās scared of it all
[chorus: willem]
I wanna move
like the tides under the moon
back and forth
like the smell of perfume
when Iām walking down the street in a hurry
when Iām tryna reach your phone and Iām worried
x2
[verse 2: caleborate]
Spinning under shades of blue
Caller unavailable
Time is less
Space is new
Promises
Paint the view
Love sold with
Fate included
We love stories
Hate the truth
Go to sleep
Awake to proof
Young hearts wish they knew
Some scarred it ain't new
Try and figure what to do
Legs hanging off the roof
inhaling karma coughing truth
Wiping tears with profit
thinking of if its really possible
I'm not yo only option
Really this gon b a lot to lose
Really you just want something else
Tell you the truth Iām unprepared
To keep it real understand
Been there before
Conscious talks endless war
problems, pain and obstacles
Am I wrong
Canāt say for sure
Can't play with her
can't wait too long
all I know My heart is pure
all u know u want whats yours
and I canāt hold u
i feel like I lost
Lost my homie
My house quiet
My bed lonely
My phone dryer
than a bone
different zone
Friendly phases
10 missed calls
10 new songs
50 pages
About how we found love in a basement
I'm shameless tryna save it
Talk and smoke in the car
Call it maintenance
I love who you are
Yeah thats really safe sex
Words in the stars
Tell me say less
Like I said Iām on call
On this wait list
For these romantic
Unsolved cold cases
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8. |
lost in translation
02:17
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[chorus: jay]
Iām sinning and it feel right
sometimes it just be like that
said we need to talk?
told you iāll just be right back
sinning and it feel right
shouldnāt have given me a piece of that
now we need to talk babe
but I canāt convey what I need to say
so Iād rather throw it all away
[verse: jay]
can't wrap my head around the integrity of the motions
knowing that I don't have to and could just let it be like
like my emotions surf on 'em slightly blurry like gaussian
whenever Iām coastin, embrace the erosion
of walls we've created in desolate places
with make believe "emancipation" in parentheses,
these pieces needing Jesus still the most
or an outlet not growing stale and then ghost
making you wanna go, kill for it, die for it
If required put all of the superficial to the side for it
but canāt decide, If Iād let it envelop my inner me
disconnecting the cable and let go of my identity
feeling free, hoping how itās finna be
when itās just you and me, diving into who I be
and who Iāve been, on a venture with no end
if we keep coming back to when I get off track
[chorus: jay]
Iām sinning and it feel right
sometimes it just be like that
said we need to talk? (talk!)
told you Iāll just be right back
cuz Iām sinning and it feel right
shouldnāt have given me a piece of that
now we need to talk babe
but I canāt convey what I need to say
so Iād rather throw it all away
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9. |
desire
03:02
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[verse 1: jay]
desire many sides but canāt handle one
regardless of the facts Iāma have me sum
have me spun around my axis till Iām dizzy dumb
bite my tongue, Iām just having too much fun
and I seen you looking like youāre ready to kill
cuz I know you been craving a smile thatās real
but instead you been praying a while wishing to get ya pockets filled
but worry not, Iāll tell you how it feel
[pre-chorus: jay]
to love it when you bop your head like that
cuz it slap so hard ya could break ya neck
with so much joy you start to understand
If you turn out dead, itās not that bad
[chorus: willem]
desire
canāt decide on
what is right or
what is wrong
desire
are we lying?
can't deny it any more
desire
[verse 2: jay]
up the fees, drop a stack for steez
or a rental just to flex the keys, I get it
by any means, want your neck to freeze
feed your greed with your endless needs, we get it
that you aināt got nothing you can hold on to
so you move around the world like it move āround you
man i been there too, and it aināt nuān new
but if youād like to learn I could show you
[pre-chorus: jay]
how to love it when you bop your head like that
cuz it slap so hard ya could break ya neck
with so much joy you start to understand
If you turn out dead, itās not that bad
[chorus: willem]
desire
canāt decide on
what is right or
what is wrong
desire
are we lying?
can't deny it any more
desire
[bridge (x2): jay]
chat funny being mad drunk
dressing funky looking mad bomb
if it hits want you to spit it like a anthem
go like bu-bu bu-bu bu-bu bu-bum
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10. |
horizon
03:13
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[verse: jay]
I am never ready, never am I not
from A to B to C in spacetime, no clock
lonely through the journey no flock
yuh, on or off the track keep it running donāt stop
will I get, one shot or many, no god could tell me
no dream no nightmare to sell me
no telly to distract me from my gut feel
this shit real but no gun kill me or my homies, we
forever living, all of our feelings, visions stuck inside the systems
once theyāre laid down over wax, thatās, only if you listen
dead or immortalized, we got that power in our hands,
Iād thank you in advance if you think twice ābout your decisions
but here I am, running, fugitive to whatās coming
pondering about the ways I could erase
and cancel the existence of the root of all evil
want to and gotta get back, back to my people
[chorus: jay & will]
all of my pain and my sorrow
wonāt be for today or tomorrow
I been waiting for the day
to get off the tracks I canāt follow
x2
[verse: willem]
the horizon never changes
they say my life's wasted
but sometimes taking your time
means you actually save it
rushing is to erase it
I admit it's like a wasteland
they say you need an escape plan
but sometimes taking your time
for your dreams to align
is faster than when you chase them
my horizon always changes
i sometimes think my life's wasted
i'm just going where the tracks lead me
they ask if i'm really free
i just think i believe that
you're not bound to the tracks of a train
you pave your own way
make your own faith
but realise that nothing will go as planned
there's some things we'll just never understand
[chorus: jay & will]
all of my pain and my sorrow
wonāt be for today or tomorrow
I been waiting for the day
to get off the tracks I canāt follow
x2
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11. |
i miss
03:44
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[verse: jay]
I miss the times where I drew between the lines
never needed clues, never searching for no signs
had the goal, the vision but aināt nobody listen
to a younginā with a mission, never gave the permission
to be doing what I wanted till I seized it in the morning
momma donāt you think, i should be doing what I wanna
live like i dream my world a fantasy unfolding
donāt need nobody savinā me whenever that Iām falling
like an astronaut, float next to sun, like it super hot
daddy pops, said that Iām a champ and that Iād pop
so i popped, out here calling me the greatest on the rock
said āiām notā but I took it and I rocked, it had me hot
had me good, felt I could take the whole neighborhood with me
til you cut ties and we move to a new.. country, new city, new this, new that
damn I used to hate it but in love with where Iām at
[chorus: jay & will]
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
mama told me wash the dishes
never thought that i would miss it
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
[verse 2: willem]
how did it all change in this short time
riding my bike to school ignoring road signs
i miss the days i wasn't worried 'bout my phone dying
constantly feeling i need to dive for a goal line
i'm running never do I slow down
tryna spend my days reconnecting some close ties
tired of using the phrase:' it's been a long time'
it's day n night like Cudi in '09
i miss the days where my passion wasn' t my job yet
honest to god i'm happy with where my mind's at
don't worry 'bout how much time's left
i' m just focused on the mile ahead
where does it lead
don't wanna know
i do it on feeling
i'm out on my feet
back on the ropes
still undefeated
i'm just tryna lift my spirit 'cause i need it
thinking' bout the days gone past i can't believe it
[chorus: jay & will]
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
papa told me iām a winner
lately thatās how iāve been feeling
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
[chorus: jay & will]
i miss, i miss, i miss
i miss the good days
x4
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