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The Space In​-​Between

by Ruby Watson

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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
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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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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louie's song 02:08
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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
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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.
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
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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?
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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
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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

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its the heat that gets to you though we praise the sun. sweating til your shirt clings to your chest like a child to their father's leg. hands cupped but no matter how tight you squeeze the sand finds a way to slip out the creases. it feels so right to hold you though. there's no time to worry about how much time there is.

This is the moment when the word is made flesh

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released March 12, 2021

Truth produced by Malci
Word is Flesh cowritten by NNAMDÏ
Mix and Master by Ruby Watson
Cover art by Shecky Shania

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