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T1:
Five years later two weeks notice
We set the record for dopeness and then we broke it
We never left we just totally shifted focus
And wrote up another opus the opening of a lotus
MK:
On our last record we had a song called Liam Neeson
But it turned out he’s a racist so straight up FUCK HIM (music drop for fuck him)
Maybe it’s a curse, turning wholesome stars toxic
But fingers crossed we don’t ruin Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
T1:
Eight oclock coffee with a flaming hot croissant then
I take a walk maybe not I ate a lot (exhausted!)
Clear my plate from off the tablecloth (conscience!)
And that ain’t my only way to start the day I got options
MK:
My style is every measure drastic, a quite conceited bastid
Who can flip a dusty record to a certified classic
I’m a litraly a master, you’re novice in this game
You barely make impressions, I’m here to leave a stain
T1:
I’m half Jason Statham, half Clay Aiken
I've seen the world off of songs that I made in my basement
Only fam i give a damn if the radio plays them
I want my songs on the International space station
MK:
10 foot tall, one ball, your partner sweating me
They think it’s so cute the way i sing my offkey melody
I’m a different pedigree, that’s just the way it is
You trying to maintain, i’m handling my biz.
T1:
This is a calm collected measured response
Not every song is intended to behave like a gentleman on
What do you expect us to do next when everything’s wrong
You are correct if you guessed Whatever we want
MK:
If you haven’t heard Two Weeks Notice is the squad
With an attitude so flippant we test the patience of God
Tribe One is a pacifist but you should be aware tho
But if you test kHill you might just catch a falcon arrow
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MK:
they can’t ever hold us down
even with a persistent frowns
wondering what the next step is, it’s still eventually found
stellar. best adjective to describe
at the bottom of a well but still yelling, yo, we’re still alive
and i get it, some people doubt or wanna act all aloof
but you can’t stand for long against that which is the truth
and i know, some people thought it wouldn’t last
talking out of their neck, spewing a bunch of trash
well the last laugh is ours, cackling the whole way
with a frosty glass of freshly sqouze lemonade
it was a popular drink! it still is
lots of people don’t respect the classics or recognize when the new ones hit
with the force of a tidal splat, slamming against your kayak
we did it again and they don’t even know how to react
but it’s it and that’s that, and you couldn’t touch that with a hammer or a ballbat.
T1:
we started at the bottom and all but been forgotten
for a lot that probly would have been a problem but we’re awesome
we’re like the perfect bond of anticon and quannum
to accomplish any goals we’ve got in common when we want them
we went from eating ramen noodles as a constant
to still eating a lot of ramen just not as often
we’re on the road rocking shows from omaha to boston
in a modern model datsun not even calling shotgun
just taking off and throwing caution to the wind
so our shows are less like opera more like talking to our friends
but i approach it like a doctor bout to operate again
i write a song like it’s a sin and opted not to make amends
we just flexing on the metronome until the next episode
you get to where you’re headed let me know
send a card and sign it with an x and o
there’s only one direction left to go, straight up
now that we been everywhere that we been tell me where do we go now?
now that we done everything that we done tell me what do we do now?
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Falls Apart
02:32
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Chorus:
And it all falls apart
All falls down…
Tribe One:
It was all going really well nobody asked and i didn’t tell
I’m just content to continue ringing the mission bell
never given anyone a glimpse into my hidden self
No me llamo, onamae wa or je m'appelle
Except for the fact there were cracks in my little shell
Which contradicted the fiction i’d written didn’t gel
Within the limits of my skin it’s like a prison cell
And every minute is a living hell
How much longer do I have to play this act of masquerade
I feel my passion fade to black with every passing day
I feel so trapped I can’t imagine that i never had to stay
But now the mask won’t come unfastened without having to decapitate
Wait, maybe it’s only a fleeting moment of weakness
Cuz the ground beneath my feet is so seething i’m getting seasick
When I can lie to myself it makes it easy to believe it
But suddenly i’m not so keen to keep my little secret anymore
Mikal kHill:
This is how it starts.
The buildup crushing on the broken parts.
Spoken steel on steel feel the heat throwing open sparks
Broken hearts, chipped enamel wrapped in cellophane
Paragraphs and laughter chisel chapter crass and so profane
It’s all the same. At least it feels that way, really.
Who’s to blame? my mind is maimed i’m barely feeling feelings.
Stuck up to the ceiling. Observing cracks in all the paint.
Realizing wasn’t who i was it’s really more of who I ain’t.
I’m in a grave. Trying to claw my way up in the pouring rain
The water rising faster now i know that it’s too late to change.
I’m thinking dang. If I could go back and change some things
I probably just try to make it hurt more when i walk away
A broken cage. Expression you can never gauge.
already left the stage before the lights and clapping fades.
Self made. For whatever that is worth.
Attained my goals and all you got’s your fuckin feelings hurt.
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Drown
03:00
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T1
And at the end of the day I never meant to let this get in the way
But now that everything is less than ok
I made a mess of this and yes it doesn’t represent my best on display
But what do you expect me to say?
Just press play and I’ll recite the lines that you’ve already memorized
And the overwhelming sense of pressure gets intensified
But you’re desensitized and I am best described
As an expert at leaving stress levels kept inside
Until it all comes out later in a song
And this becomes my way of saying maybe I was wrong
And maybe I’ve been banking on the waving of a wand
Maybe it doesn’t mean as much when you’ve been waiting for this long
And maybe I’m just digging a deeper new ditch
Putting my foot in my mouth to see if the shoe fits
Maybe the truth is this is just the best I can be
Nothing is perfect but especially me...
I’m sorry. For everything.
Mikal kHill:
I missed a lot of things, now it’s always on my mind
600 miles away while my kids saw snow for the first time
I was setting an example pursuing a better life
Just as many miles away for my latest nine to five
The truth is the water is always there, filling up my lungs
A sad song with a refrain that I always feel like i already sung
A bitter jagged pill I’ve taken by choice,
washed down to amplify a broken voice
A drink me potion that only made me more small
A monologue delivered through a shattered glass jaw
sincere bump all ya’ll from the most hostile in the game
Against a backdrop of friction and outright shame
a game, played with a malfunctioning controller
That in the wrong hands could blow up and kill the holder
Now i’m getting older, dug a grave for myself
A catalogue of lives i never lived on a shelf.
Chorus:
Why don’t you
Watch me drown?
Sing along as you watch me
Sink down?
I want to watch you drown.
I want to watch you drown.
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Falling Up
02:53
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Chorus:
The first time i tried to fly
my eyes were open wide
I Spread my wings and never left the ground
Closed my eyes
To the sky, To the skyyyyyyyyy….
[mikal khilllllllll holy shit]
eyes vibrate, uneasy feeling i can’t shake
Yellow line slides by as I veer out of my lane
The show was alright but at this point i’d rather sleep tight
With a bed under my body and a ceiling to stare at rather than headlights
Alright, have I told you the story about back when…
Of course I told you the story about back when.
you in the passenger seat looking like you were tucked in
I’m sipping on coffee and forcing a laugh and a grin
Every exit feels like i could turn this car into a bedroom
But we’re only a few miles away, don’t stop it’s too soon
Doom awaits along the line of every shoulder
Lot of darkness in the trees and it’s only getting colder
I’m only getting older, much like both of my kids
I’m getting past the point where it’s not just something they deal with
Its something they learn from, a lesson i teach
A sequence, a code to crack, a chance to practice what i preach
[tribe one]
Everything you see was built from the bottom up
With a little bit of skill and a lot of luck
I gave it everything I got but it’s not enough
And all i wanted was to make a meal and an honest buck
I put the rubber to the road left a lover and a comfortable abode
Just to wonder whether anyone was gonna show
Hungry to compete and reap the trouble that i sowed
Then coming home with several hundred under what was owed
And I never stopped to offer up a thought of any consequence
Or possibly acknowledging the flaws
But no one ever got an audience off of following logic and common sense
And opulence has never been my measure of accomplishments
That's the legacy i leave my daughter and my son
A monument to following a calling til it’s done
My word is bondage promised in the songs I haven’t sung
So i’m hollering with water in my lungs
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Getting Better
03:24
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Intro:
Someday real soon
Everything's gonna be much better
Chorus:
Everything’s gonna be much better
Things have got to get better
Everything’s gonna be much better
Cause it can't be worse than this
[t1]
Somebody somewhere, is out searching so desperate
Somebody needs to know it isn’t gonna hurt no more
Man, I’m out here asking my own questions
But I truly hope you find what you’re searching for
And if i happen to find it first
I’ll make a promise and decide that what’s mine is yours
Cuz I been grinding in the dirt
And sometimes a kind word is like water when you’re dying of thirst
When it’s just enough to keep from giving up to self destruction
And the kind of feelings people aren’t comfortable discussing
How can you come up from the rut that you’ve been stuck in
When it’s frequently a struggle just to function
All I can say it’s gonna suck until it doesn’t
And if you feel like giving up you would be justified
I know it isn’t much to put your trust in
But I’ll be waiting when you make it to the other side
[mikal kHill]
I remember waking up, lungs full of black dust
Eyes full of sickness, tongue tasting rust
Windows full of cracks, breeze that never stops blowing
With holes in the walls foreshadow where the plots going
Powdered milk, block cheese, No money for a doctor
Carry ballbats because we know who to watch for
Hope’s for kids who’s parents pay for college
While we might change your oil and hold a sorrow unacknowledged
But now I got an office and I’m holding a degree
Looking back on the past, I know it’s hard to see
But all the things i suffered led me to who i came to be
And there’s nothing much i feel about it now but feeling free
I was tempered in fire, now my whole soul burns
My heart learned to heal, mind wants to learn
Every broken moment gave a new type of strength
So I’m never going back but I learn to appreciate the brink.
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