1. |
neither here nor there
04:04
|
|||
i'm so tired
don't let me close my eyes
i don't rest, i don't guess
whole lotta gas up in my chest
i gave you my rib, it's not a test
it's all in my head
he who would swallow himself whole, knows the toll
a lost touch
faithless hole
it's a well
dry as the cabernet
whittling my health
crust on a stone
love grown mold
just looking for my kumiko
shadow stays close
we were equal
the past holds growth not evil
but i'd lie to say i trusted in the sequel
don't let me close my eyes
cut my hair about as short as my patience
stained in my ways
safe to say i can't face it
roll a blunt and i face it
gave a fuck
i misplaced it
say less and sedated
these boys all theory and no practice
like bell hooks and condo flats
pissin prisms on the track
its a blunt twist
garner kick back
i can't give that
i can't give you what you want
hearts reflect the summer's hue
maybe green
maybe blue
either way we're chasing something that can only come to bruise
i ain't stopping for roses
life been smelled like shit
|
||||
2. |
uisce beatha
02:50
|
|||
all on my own
the bottle a ghost
double my dose
next time i won't feel anymore
heart in the throws
crown full of thorns
royal as is
next time i'll give from the go
maybe it's hope
this heaven i hold
maybe it's bold
next time i'll tell em to choke
never the most
never a joke
faith to insist, late as it is
next time i'll honor my whole
just want you to know
as i am water, my heart it for you
(break)
frozen hands grip colder hopes
squeeze it till it's warm
i know a bolder rolls until it smack the floor and i've been rolling too
my head, a couple screws loose
pack absorb the vacancies of lungs i never aimed to keep
packet loss the latency
you laggin
you can't hang with me
fair to say he make-believe
the heart maimed he hate to leave
my granny still pray for me
i'm stained
can't say it's saving me
i been that since the baby teeth
you playin? catch a fade
deep deep in a haze
know my family there to hold my hand
alone up in my head i stand
absolved from self critiques
the comparisons dry the creek in my soul
fuck a streaming subscription
we're flippin copies for the low
got a couple zips a home i never sold
i gotta smoke
where you goin? can i come too?
|
||||
3. |
truth prod. Malci
02:21
|
|||
all fact ain't truth
and that true ain't facts
what you see is what you get
but what you make of that buddy???
tryna break the game
we ain't playin for no money money
all about the love
baby sweet like honey honey
i don't know you bro
why you acting all buddy buddy?
we been making classics
while you sleeping like a mummy mummy
it's funny!
you're perception's outta wack
they tell you how to live and you aint questioning that
all my dreams dreaming back
charting spiritual maps
they diggin your ditch, you just tryna fit in!
what's a god to my kin?
one picks me up when i'm down the other countin my sins
still i can't trust no man
i throw my praise to the wind
harken shalimar
pride in the battle scars
can't stay in line, fuck a cattle prod
the idle mind
glitching like the synthesizer
show my cards to the table but they still none the wiser
they think they got the secret but they just some penny misers
heard that life's a trip
i'm tryna take that
packin piff in that thing
keep a spliff on deck
if home is in your heart, i think i left it in your hands
be gentle
my life to the bottle
we're swerving
this ain't a rental
relax
believe
i'll meditate and breathe
tryna make sense of the things that i can see
|
||||
4. |
listen!
02:32
|
|||
blunt smoke like a pesticide drift
what if i told you that the pyres are lit?
the climate is sick
there's kids in a ditch
light give life but it blinds the greedy eyes
how can we truly be human if we no longer aspire
to the earth
water
the air
and the fire
even if you with it can you be it
there a difference
surely well read but have you ever really listened
to them
to her
to your heart
from the sun to humbolt park
everything is everything
so you're the biggest part
and you're nothing at all
hear self control roar from the bathroom floor
i don't know if i believe in truth but i believe in you
when i finally go to sleep i hope there's something to do
and i believe that god is living in my neighbor's kitchen
there's a cat in the window all she ever does is listen
anxiety, out of me
i've been chasing god knows what for so long
i can't tell the sweat from my tears
the sum of all my fears
manifested in a mirror
maybe i was never really here
not cast in a mold
but a casket way back
found a textbook in knowing that there's nothing left to have
nothing left to grab except your hand when all's bad
said, everybody dies baby
let's do it together
harmony in living though a part of me's been weathered
tears taste of salt call it
love that's been fermented
but everything is sweet if i can make it back to kansas city
|
||||
5. |
mouthguard
01:54
|
|||
every pour stiff every roll spliffed.
heavy gold lips, bet he hold tricks.
mind on the fritz, lines in nose, kicks.
eyes on the light at end know im rich.
i aint focused on material my wealth is in the soul,
im rappin for the people you just rappin for these hos.
now i aint sayin i aint im all heady bars,
cuz im always on her lips like steph currys moutguard
yeah, my songs bang fortissimo but im moving more piano,
in in love with the fury got mad styles like mrs soprano,
stand out like lando,
cp3 with the handles,
750 a night, sippin dark till im tranquil,
u right
something to life i cant handle,
numbin it all until my fist unballs,
got get up and go to work tomorrow.
ghost pepper licks color split fire spit venom,
challah sweet lips para mi imma get wit ya,
better yet double tree gum stick raw leaves,
big gas try me
whip lash raw knees.
learned it from the metal face,
terror in the bass, collect debt, like pigs kettle kids psh disgrace.
dont mind me, i wrote this rhyme quick off two or three spliffs,
sharp shooter in the pen,
thick skin big glands, sweatin.
trippin on the money line
ruby been a dime a dozen buddin in the summer shine.
praises to wind you follow rules i break em.
if you love then im showin love
asalamu alaykum.
when the world runnin red like the blade blood rave.
imma keep the spesh or the maussberg 12 gauge
|
||||
6. |
solo en vida
04:05
|
|||
i don't rest, i don't guess
whole lotta gas up in my chest
gave you my rib it's not a test
it's all in my head
hyssop blooms a summer song
my eyes fixed on nylons the compass in my heart is blood red
the chamber's cardinal song
i should be on my feet
i took the night off
scattered thoughts of you like fireflies
the country night stars
you never seen their glow the city shines a different hue
don't know what to do
when i'm alone i think of you
knuckles raw like zested citrus rinds
i'm fighting with my shadow
anywhere
anytime
drop a line and i would run
i didn't know what i needed, i was bleeding just to see it
i ain't found shit
but some crown and spliff
another round head spinning
moving pack round the city like a fucking fedex ground shipment
maybe i was right and love was doomed from the start
maybe i just chase the high we shared in the dark
i got a lot of vices and i guess that pussy might be...
solo en vida
gas on me loud
i don't live that wild but i bet you see me now
don't know what's in store tryna make it till i'm 24
pigs split my head
emt bills layin on the floor
got collectors at the door
bell busted, guess i'm still at work
couple grams in the wood
suck it down, lung is soot
i got plays i never took
all that fame will turn you shnook
i feel like roy mustang snappin heat
diggin elbows deep, a little grease it's all capisce
workin till you on your knees
even when you're dead they countin past dues and charging fees
leave you lusting for progression in a fully rigged endeavor
like losing someone you thought you'd eat with forever
these days of getting better can't exist at this table
show a smile but they got their tricks from cain and able
|
||||
7. |
louie's song
02:08
|
|||
8. |
i am water (for you)
04:13
|
|||
like i am water
my heart is for you
hands caress
it felt like hot water on the back of my neck
i don't rest, i don't guess
i don't know what's ahead
and summer's never long if you know when it ends
i can't be what you need
this is not a hold out
don't know how to slow down
bottles on the floor now
we're at the end of the holocene
roots burning awfully
my current epoch defined by weed, wine, and probably's
stay burrowed in my pages
baby what you readin?
is surrendered to the air without a pilate slowly veering off course
of course i had my reasons
but things fall apart and timshel shines like east of eden
alright i get it
i don't need you
my granny smokin pyramids
i don't know what to make of this
growth is comes in increments
and light i see when least expected
the leaves are still green i guess i'll take it as, i'm blessed
i could never tell you know
but you can smell it on my breath
i don't fear the past
i been sleeping with my shadow
i can't trust a man
most are dogs
i already got one
harvest came in light another summer spent lost and jaded
roaming through this haze
i spent october rolling spliffs
like what's it cost to dare to try?
my footclan in demand like seats on fhloston paradise
you're full of lies like mayor light(foot)
september 9
these freckles showing
gingerly applied
angel kissed despite that lack of love in my ancestral line
(break)
i was inhaling earth in the morning
sunlight creeping through the cracks between the curtain the windowsill
if it's real then it's real
wake up to a ceiling i don't recognize
head throbbing
last night we quartered limes to mask agave times
my thoughts running and running circles on the line
you were so tired
i was so right
didn't even know what i had before it died
this an effigy of my shadow
lost hearts in battle
floating down these tears with no paddle
you want to dive into love i can't drown when it's shallow
|
||||
9. |
||||
ruby
DON'T BLINK!
they see a life as cheap
that vaccine nice, we need the insulin free
i live in the trenches
dispensing dense wisdom for the poets and the penny pinchers
wrote this with some henny in my system
figure if this shit don't take you out,
maybe i can
i'm nothing if not trying
they got something
but i'm not buying
oh those shoes cost a stack?
well at least you're trying
i break down chickens for a living and that extends to the pen and pad
wack motherfuckers never get it back
i rap in hieroglyphics
you scrappin for what they already have
only plan b i ever needed was the pill
only way they'll listen is if you brought the seal
so ya'll got me fucked up....again
why?
thats a question
fight?
that's if tested
lies.
that's their message
i'm high!
a spliff in the summer sun
i advocate for power from the bottom up
you perpetuate the status quo
we are not the same
if you got a bag
you'd turn your back
if i got a bag
i'd give it back
your wealth is not valuable
the state leads you on pinche cabrón
you can't reach what they on
they built you to be owned and they own
everything
talking bout the will of god
that's the will of the money man
you runnin into the money's hands
honestly it's a funny scam
a bit bummy but at least i ain't a dummy, man
there's nothing in this american dream
so stop sleeping...
NNAMDÏ
Wake up chasing the cake like its car jacked
Kale on the plate for my friends keen on all that
Riches to racks grab the Rag like a Bar back
Glass shining waxed black lips under carmax
Barbells still we got lead in our arms
Plenty bombs for the planes but they ain’t got a tarmac
ba ba black sheep every day a track meet Runnin round circles
Just copped a whip only cost 6 virgils
Riding in a hoopti
Doors stay open may as well introduce me
Making moves I can make em move like a Whole Foods
Paper too that’ll make em stew like Jamaicans do
Oxtail even at my end I cannot fail
Every dream big I can’t put it on a shelf
I just know I’m the goat and I keep it to myself
But life’s too short to be hoarding all the wealth
Oh well
Yall get a Hard pass from me like Odell
Know I’m “out there” like a Marshawn
Earth cut the jagged edge where the cardiac?
All gone heartless
No Funds and no food for the people
Chopping down branches all rooted in evil
I popped out and peeped it
binoculars with me
Ya Saw what you did
I do Not give a shit
You a bitch
|
||||
10. |
be / how i be
01:58
|
|||
breath easy there's demons up in the ceiling
if the apple's in my reach imma eat that shit like eve did
winter shifts the greens to blue
like greying hair corrupts the youth
i spent my year inside
burning earth and treating wounds
sunflowers stretch to stars
higher than we are
you don't wanna come down
she whippin out that pint of crown
bring my fruits to the alter
how the bees be
covet your flower
nectar seeping from my wrists
had to text, cause in speech i had faltered
got my armor gold-plated
know there's karma in common sense
that's why i stay green
eco-friendly
why i
be how i be
steez puff on trees
king's gotta bleed
love's all i need
i got light in my palm like killua
feel a bit heavy
blunt cruising in the chevy
the people reeling, ready
cracks creeping up the levy like sirens
it's about to burst
i keep my mind steady like a mother with her baby in one arm
the whole world in the other
all praises to the women in my life
they took my little ass and taught him to
be how i be
steez puff on trees
king's gotta bleed
love's all i need
|
||||
11. |
sidewalk chalk
02:05
|
|||
i bleed
my pride
split
under my skin
it's alive
2 card draw
betting high
slight of hand
closed eyes
maneuver double time, on my grind
boys cappin like you double d
exotic in my dungarees
the coffee's strong when morning's sweet
you'd lease your soul for 20 G's
the creases, cracks
unfold beneath
the land we owe to those before
winter 19'
slept on my feet
living where the liquor's cheap
catch me in the back
laying low
speaking tongues
i ain't quiet i just really dont fuck with you
have a nice life, i mean that
you get out what you put in
equivalent exchange
and i ain't got shit
but this smile on my face and some love
all that hate turn in cycles
drives a man insane
hit the store for a pint and some camels and i'm straight
don't need money in the bank when the sun light up my face
all that fetti gonna fade like the chalk we drew out games when we were kids
all is one and one is all so all is nothing in the end
how you livin the life you get?
|
||||
12. |
haunted house
02:07
|
|||
i cant feel a thing when i feel it all,
ya this typa shit that make you call ya mom,
i heard she love my songs,
this aint made for the charts i aint your number 1,
but i know that you gon play me when ya heart is numb.
and we can cry for love
spaces all liminal,
messages subliminal,
moods swings in intervals
posted under mistletoes waitin till you come home.
the work comin cheap i know that light isnt free.
still a part of me sings despite to spite the powers at be.
yesterday we saw ghost youre living in his home.
charlie died slow, his heart broke in the cold.
your neighbor told the story how the wife died before and him all alone,
pained seeped floor,
his heart couldnt take it, and finally caved in
we burned a little sage and told charlie we would pray and
hate see him this way,
stuck in a space tied to to trauma stuck and chained.
he left a little duck, a red ceramic totem,
we took to the lake and cast it out in the open,
hopin that his ties to earth would fold and could he go and,
be with his lover, beyond this house to another.
i think about you often chuck,
i pray that youre free.
i saw you in a dream, all alone or was that me?
the things we do for love i hope in all u can see,
that what you had was so unique.
i can only dream to find a love so full and free,
one that'd take me too if my partner went to sleep
|
||||
13. |
why? to be human
03:28
|
|||
i don't rest, i don't guess
whole lotta gas up in my chest
gave you my rib, it's not a test
it's all in my head
lost my way and found a shortcut modeled in 20 squares a day
big bottles we drank
got adderall in the sink
his head split on picket lines
they undermine the other guys
this america, somebody's gotta die right?
pull my heart apart like pork shoulder
shorty had the motorola yelling
i got weight to let
got a couple p's if you can net
said i look just like my father
we both drowning in debt
i can't be apart of peace, peacefully
we bringing pieces out
the least that i could do is scream it loud
beyond a reason of a doubt
the game is weak when love abounds
so best believe we break it down
|
Ruby Watson Chicago, Illinois
160lbs of water
Why? Records
Free Snacks
Inquiries/Booking
fcfarlee@gmail.com
Streaming and Download help
If you like Ruby Watson, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp