1. |
Pressing Play
03:07
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Silver salts rewind, steady through my mind
To replay and reflect through all the past times
Everything is, everything exists
Pressing play to reminisce
You were once that reclusive kid
Now you a full grown can you make it on your own
Is the design of your intention just too big?
The screen was the kingdom, no need to leave home
Video tapes and vinyl make you feel rich.
With movies and music you can never feel alone
I was skimmin through pops records or lost in the video store
I had become dedicated to story and sound
I had become vindicated when I made that shit my route
But it's hard to grow older and still press on without doubt
Things get complicated with every strikeout
But I'll never forget to rewind and press play
Gotta make that little mothafucka proud
I'll never forget to rewind and press play
Gotta make that little mothafucka proud
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2. |
Just Another Voyage
04:21
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Radio Raheem like a mothafucka
Build yo best team, just a bunch a suckas
Your scene against me, calculate the numbers
Tokin on some leaves, I'll save some for ya motha
Chillen in the weeds taking notes and planting seeds
Been a benefit to me Silverslums came to be
While you sleep I'm building beats
And Ima push them to the streets
I'm Truman out to sea
I get free when I chase that mystery
You from the California desert so they think of you lesser
Bitch I shine through rockin a purple cape just like The Shredder
Make the speakers wetter, put work into your endeavors
Must have purpose and pleasure to do it forever
Make diamonds under pressure
Just another voyage, we on some new shit
The quiet type, but I just might, have ideas brewing inside when the time is right
Mixing flows and sounds in my compound all night
Grocery bags under my eyes but like Curtis I'm Superfly
Look like Cheech but I feel like Chong
Blending weed and coffee till I'm done with the song
Work in the AM, my head is heavy weighin'
Me and the clock do not get along
Its in my blood fire jams from the hood
We bumped gold in my house
My pops knew what was good
Dirk Diggler, I'm gonna be a great big shining star
A confident brown man, white folks be settin their alarms
Don't they know that I can be so full of charm
Bumpin Art Laboe on a Sunday cruisin down the boulevard
Just another voyage, we on some new shit let's have a party
Just another voyage, we on some new shit let's have a party
Destroyer of your worries, ain't nothin to it
Destroyer of your worries, ain't nothin to it
Just another voyage, we on some new shit let's have a party
Just another voyage, we on some new shit let's have a party
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3. |
Moving Right Along
03:50
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I keep it moving right along
From the slums to a paragon
Silver Surfing till the break of dawn
on and on and on on on on
Max Rebo on the keys, let me tour them galaxies
Misery feelin pretty with the pleasure of my company
Celebrator of creativity
Bust down real good in this festivity
Please don't bother me if it's too early and I haven't had my smoke and coffee
You a snail you salty
Real life is just a comedy
Can you Dig it? Are you wit it?
The flex of the future novelty
Introspective thought detective
To be respected gotta give respect kid
Using Venmo for gold caps
Gotta reset the format
Go further than the floormats
If you tryna hustle up and get cash
Take it easy, take it breezy
Don't be greasy, don't be greedy
Don't be dumb
I'm just trying to have fun
Why you taking yourself too serious?
Pushin hard to be someone a bite of fame got you delirious
I keep it moving right along
From the slums to a paragon
Silver Surfing till the break of dawn
on and on and on on on on
Bobby pins covered in resin
Yeah I stole that spot, you gonna call me out Ellen?
West coasted, toasted, posted in the pad
You got broken emotions they say keep them in tact
When your desolate notions be kickin dirt on your path
You either move along, or you fall off of the track
I still push forward, so I can sit back and laugh
Everyone's so obsessed with the past
We're on a bus driven by a bunch of maniacs
Smooth sailing
I cruise, never chasing
Who will be staying?
Who will be fading?
Smooth sailing
I cruise, never chasing
You can keep on hating
As I zoom I'll be waving
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4. |
Busy Busy Busy
04:15
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Gazing out the window am I on pause or am I in limbo?
I love it here, but I don't wanna die here
I may seem boring but I'm just bored as fuck
They hollow heads, basic and misled
I feel stuck
What you doing man, You flying too close to the ground
If you stay in that mindset you're forever stuck in this town
What you doing man, You flying too close to the ground
If you stay in that mindset you're forever stuck in this town
I got my Nikes on open up the gates
Let's bounce to Babylon buy some real estate
Gotta get away, gotta make an escape
Wanna be something great gotta throw out them roaches in the ashtray
I got my Nikes on open up the gates
Let's bounce to Babylon buy some real estate
You got your hats, you got your bumper stickers
Can your opinions grow any bigger?
You must make it known we're all wrong and we're all sinners
Can the Apocalypse come any quicker?
Ride until I die your disapproval in the corner of my eye
Bitches Brew playing loud when I fly by
Fuck a closed mind I'm elevated beamin bright
What you doing man, You flying too close to the ground
If you stay in that mindset you're forever stuck in this town
What you doing man, You flying too close to the ground
If you stay in that mindset you're forever stuck in this town
I got my Nikes on open up the gates
Let's bounce to Babylon buy some real estate
Gotta get away, gotta make an escape
Wanna be something great gotta throw out them roaches in the ashtray
I got my Nikes on open up the gates
Let's bounce to Babylon buy some real estate
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5. |
Let's Get Social
04:43
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Everyone on Earth is a full blown narcissist
Ya'll on some lame shit I don't want any part of it
You paint an idle lifestyle but your so fucking far from it
Your egos your placebo
You want the world to think you're marvelous
You get the clicks, you got your fix
The only way you keep a grip
Is by counting likes on your pics
By creeps and online therapists
Stop being an asshole, stop it with the hassle
On everything factual
Ya'll aint really livin
I just wanna be around those on some real shit
No fake friends, no pretend, no phantom feelings
I just wanna be around those on some real shit
No fake friends, no pretend, no phantom feelings
I'm a sarcastic bastard that you cannot annoy any faster
You're out of your element Donny,
Why you being so dastard
It's a task to relate when I don't care to participate
Why the hell would I wanna be a part of this social race
Movement automation, I'm lost in translation
Bill Murray come and save me
I've been testing my patience
Is this the Twilight Zone?
Can I please just stay home?
You putting dedications to the wrong destinations
We're now the generations that needs phone to make a statement
So counterfeit but complacent
Do it all for entertainment
You're just digital dirt, why the fuck you the center of your own fixation?
I just wanna be around those on some real shit
No fake friends, no pretend, no phantom feelings
I just wanna be around those on some real shit
No fake friends, no pretend, no phantom feelings
I can't pinpoint how to blend in
Take me back to Mars I feel like Marvin the Martian
Eyes are wide open, like Jules in Pulp Fiction
Burning webs down with just a little bit of friction
Am I a bad person to have no enthusiasm for a shallow conversation?
Do I really gotta hear this shit again?
Aint trying to fuck with your feelings
But I don't really give a damn about your opinions
I wish Cecil would of eaten you, Harambe had a jetpack
Intentions so narrow and we on a setback
Sincerity adrift, I'm scrolling through the mist
Your caliber desperately missed
With your lies caught in a twist
The sky's looking down at a fist
Snapping bones to make a wish
the sky's looking down at a fist
Snapping bines to make a wish
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6. |
Holy Hell
04:16
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It's been hard for me to understand
What's the primary plan
Thing's getting out of hand I'm bout to fly off this wasteland
There's too many morons on this planet
I can't stand it
You showing true colors so I set fire to the canvas
Where's the connection at man I demand it
We on different frequencies this is going nowhere
We stuck in traffic
We live in an era of chumps
This groove aint for everyone
Ya'll baked your minds in the sun
Wake me up when all this is done
I've just realized I'm in the wrong place
This party aint for me
Ya'll yap away, my head stay absentee
Internet gangstas, privileged fools
Raised up eating food on their parents laps with silver spoons
You think you bad but crying like a wah pedal when the beat stomps on you
Doctor Doom, I'm airing out the fumes
We due for something new
We become what we choose
You either a bitch, or you keep it cool
Don't get your head bruised,
Tripping over yourself trying to reach the roof
We live in an era of chumps
This groove aint for everyone
Ya'll baked your minds in the sun
Wake me up when all this is done
I've just realized I'm in the wrong place
This party aint for me
Ya'll yap away, my head stay absentee
Don't become a villain trying to overcome the struggle
Hiding behind a mask wanting to watch it all crumble
Don't become a villain trying to overcome the struggle
Hiding behind a mask wanting to watch it all crumble
Living in a holy hell
Wether you succeed, wether you fail
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7. |
Shapes
04:17
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Cruising the fury road in my post apocalyptic swag
I'm cutting holes in the bottom of your money bag
You ain't got no cash and neither do I
You that shit go fast the price of life always multiply
But loot don't rule my world
Paper chasing can be a curse
Magnesium, I stay lit
I been cool as Miles since birth
You thought I was a jerk but I'm just your favorite introvert
I observe and don't say much unless I'm writing the next verse
Stand on the edge so you can see the center
Are you phenomenal or are you just a pretender?
Thats your choice, this a choose your own adventure
Question everything
Let the wonder tug your shoulder
Question everything
Mystery be your controller
Question everything
Let your energy be your shofar
You can limit yourself when forever is over
Always on my sci-fi shit and my conscience is my compass
Burning buds and palo santo steady cruisin in the focus
What is this thing called life?
Draped in spider silk we rollin with the punches
The business of escapism has always been my motive
Let's stay moving onto better things
Let's not sit being bitter beings
Gotta keep it golden, gotta keep your wheels in motion
Marty Mcflyer than a mothafucka
Fired eyed boy but my scene aint broken
Don't crawl under the bed because a little thunder
We learn to fight here in California
Stand on the edge so you can see the center
Are you phenomenal or are you just a pretender?
Thats your choice, this a choose your own adventure
Question everything
Let the wonder tug your shoulder
Question everything
Mystery be your controller
Question everything
Let your energy be your shofar
You can limit yourself when forever is over
Been around here too long
Ya'll gonna miss me when I'm gone
I speak truth so we don't get along
I aint a puppet, aint nobodies pawn
Freak out like Zappa
Ima float on
Don't give a damn if I don't belong
Still gonna blaze it in the beyond
Get the fuck off let me write my songs
Victim of circumstance
Water your brain like you water your plants
Put you in a spiral Coltrane style so you understand
I am what I am that don't mean that I am damned
You just a broken star on the side of Hollywood Blvd
You can't change your ways until you tear yourself apart
Some of ya'll have really lowered the bar
It's like we've looped back to the start
Ya'll sleeping straight through your alarms so
Stand on the edge so you can see the center
Are you phenomenal or are you just a pretender?
Thats your choice, this a choose your own adventure
Question everything
Let the wonder tug your shoulder
Question everything
Mystery be your controller
Question everything
Let your energy be your shofar
You can limit yourself when forever is over
Question everything
Let the wonder tug your shoulder
Question everything
Mystery be your controller
Question everything
Let your energy be your shofar
You can limit yourself when forever is over
Been around here too long
Ya'll gonna miss me when I'm gone
I speak truth so we don't get along
I aint a puppet, aint nobodies pawn
Freak out like Zappa
Ima float on
Don't give a damn if I don't belong
Still gonna blaze it in the beyond
Get the fuck off let me write my songs
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8. |
Birdy
04:46
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The key to life is privacy and comfortability
I get it
Whip out in the moonlight
Windows down and heater on
Bumpin Andre 3000
Don't be so timid
I wish everyone would calm the fuck down
I wish everyone would look for they head in lost and found
I wish everyone would take the filter off and look around
I wish everyone would just take they own routes
I wish everyone would stop focusing on the wrong things
I wish everyone would tell stories only worth telling
I wish everyone wouldn't be so quick to show they fangs
When they see you're not the same as them
I dont wanna hear about it man, no excuses man
Am I supposed to bummed I only have a handful of friends?
Am I supposed to have highs and lows time and time again?
Am I supposed to ignore the paper and let the ink dry up in my pen?
Don't fall off the latter watch my head splatter
Tried to put this out faster but I had more questions than answers
How do you create a masterpiece if you don't have inner peace
And somehow believe everything will turn out a disaster
I look away for a second now I'm burning down the pasture
I was grazing in the grass but that shit never lasts
If you don't progress and evolve you can't come back
So I keep my ears open so I can get my chance
You gotta try hard if you wanna get far
Riding with depression kick that bitch out your car
(Pac said keep your head up lets keep it supreme like love)
You're never gonna reach the stars if you're not yourself and emulate the stars
Most of them don't even know who they are
Hiding behind curtains from the start
I can't be a pacifist if I aint afraid to ball a fist
Life's a gas I'm a solid
Aint a soul pusher just to be famous
I aint callin quits while I'm alive on this planet
Come on world lets do the twist
We all got a wish that don't exist
Change it up hit a switch
Get yourself up out that shit
Self doubt pulling you down is just the devils magic trick
You know the drill fam, lets keep it real fam
Let's keep it chill fam, you know the deal fam
The key to life is privacy and comfortability
I get it
Whip out in the moonlight
Windows down and heater on
Bumpin Andre 3000
Don't be so timid
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9. |
Fuzzy
01:40
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Separated from the rest
Elevated wide open chest
Medicated hearts undressed
We at our best
You forget about the old
When everything feels new
Chamber of joy
I'm feeling fuzzy with you
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10. |
Feelz
04:39
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Stumbling off course
Opening and closing wrong doors
Priorities and aspirations scattered across the floor
I had seem to forget what I was walking towards
I was misplaced in the fog, then you came along
Followed a light out of a rut
Made you my wife now I'm on a soul strut
Heart beating like that shit was thunderstruck
I never plan on leaving, got me floating to the ceiling
This an everlasting feelings
Clouds cleared up I like what I'm seeing
What it's like to be wide eyed again
You are my favorite human being
I may be a mutt, but I get all the love
My girl badder than bone, man
She more than enough
She take care of my mind
She got my heart feeling fine
It's gettin better with time
Don't need a window to shine
And I aint never call my girl a bitch
Broke as fuck but still feeling rich
Forever high on those hips
I aint ever going back to them tricks
No more running on empty like a gas tank
I remember that moment we got our place down by the lake
Now we live in a place up on a hill
Every night Netflix and chill
Saturday mornings surreal
I may be a mutt, but I get all the love
My girl badder than bone, man
She more than enough
She take care of my mind
She got my heart feeling fine
It's gettin better with time
Don't need a window to shine
I'm not the greatest person yeah I know it
I got endless love for her but I don't know the proper way to show it
She makes me that better person yea I fuck up yeah Im learning
Nothing is perfect but it stay turning this fire still burning
She stay by my side, my spirit feels alive
We put in work, we put in time
We gonna be alright
It feels so damn good to feel so certain certain
It feels so damn good to feel so certain certain
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11. |
Time is my Enemy
03:56
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Slow it down you're going too fast
Bury you in dust as seasons pass
You want it to stop
But instead it goes ahead
We lose a memory we never wanted dead
Time is my enemy
My skulls been chillen on a gold mine for 30 years
Through the squabble and the friction
And puddles of doubt from underscored tears
I've been doing this shit for a long while
But I stay overlooked
They be scared or in denial to get they spirits shook
Fuck your bad form man I'm Captain James Hook
Arch nemesis the hourglass a battle since childhood
A rivalry straight out a comic book
My favorite enemy
You've never been a friend to me
You leave me high and dry in places I never wanna be
I lose track of days, as you love to fade away
From the grape to the glass
I watch everything pass
I was left behind, I've got so much to do
Excuse me Mrs. Time Im trying to get a hold of you
We've lost signal, I've lost my mind
We've lost signal, I've lost my mind
We've lost signal, and I've lost my mind
I just need a moment to get back on my grind
We've lost signal, I've lost my mind
Time is my enemy
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12. |
Pops
03:41
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Back and forth on some highs and lows
How do memories turn to ghosts
Been 10 years and I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
I don't wanna forget your voice
I don't wanna forget your face
But here I am fighting time losing my mind
When all I wanna do is remember old days
I know that you're still there
Even though I can't see you
I wanna hold onto every last moment left in my head
Don't let me forget
Hospital beds on Christmas
We watched that Laker game, they won that season
Wish you could of seen it
You talked to me on the phone from your room
Everything seemed it was gonna be fine
But March 9th, 2009 a beaming bright light went out that nigh
And I never got to say goodbye
I know that you're still there
Even though I can't see you
I wanna hold onto every last moment left in my head
Don't let me forget
Nothing was ever gonna be the same
That night everything went upside down
Everything was gonna change
And now all the years have passed on but I still think of you everyday
How do you process loss
Try to fill in a blank spot
Giving it my best shot
I owe so much to you Pops
But I could still use some direction
My head still filled with questions
Obscured in my own reflection
Can I get a sign am I doing ok?
I've got some shoes to fill though time still hasn't healed
You put me on this music trip so I'm climbing up this hill
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13. |
Dust Kids
04:23
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V town, the home that we grew up in
Southern Cali-forn-I-A
The High Desert sure is something
Hustling and roaming the streets
Do what you do to make them funds increase
At the carnival we rumblin with the police
Then we start runnin from them
Sitting in a jail cell I aint saying nothin
The crew is all I'm trustin
When we was cruisin and cloud bustin
But then we get busted
It started with just a joy ride
Now we missing dinner tonight
Shoulda stayed under that porch light
Nobody gonna pay that bail price
Only time will tell, Only time will tell, Only time will tell
Dust blowing in the wind
Bertha screaming loud at her mans again
She about to kick him out
Cisco Kid playing in the background
The block mostly black and brown
Wipe the dirt off our skin we still proud
Just a bunch of Bebe's Kids in hand me downs
Running around the town
Only time will tell, Only time will tell, Only time will tell
Laundry out on the clothesline
Pink and blue in the skyline
69 degrees, September breeze, 6'clock is the timeline
Scents of fresh painted cars
Cassete spinning Santanas guitar
144 spoked on the lowrider
Drenched in velvet with chrome handlebars
Watching the sun go down
Memories so vivid and loud
My blood runs thick in the streets of this town
But I've hit a point where I feel this stretch has run out
Change is crucial if you wanna keep the flow
We're meant to shift like seasons and sounds
And in between we should never forget what we owe
I remember every story every time I come back around
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14. |
After The Party
04:19
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Space is the place where I wanna be
I dipped out early cause I didn't wanna showcase every single part of me
Three decades in, and here I am still trying to adjust
Who the hell do I reach out to?
Who the fuck do I trust?
They say all you need is love
But it don't take much to see your bluff
It's a social game to get through those speakers to show what you're made of
Product of a kid watching Beat Street and Dark Crystal in the same night
Put on Pops records, turn on the Nintendo
We having a game night
A DJ who wanted his son to make jams for a living
A nerdy brown kid from a desert town was down for that vision
It's been a drawn out mission
But I still got rhythm and ambition
Put in work for some listens
Now tell me how you really feeling?
I wanted to be part of the party
Then I realized that aint a part of me
Im a brown recluse, sometimes blue
A well reserved oddity
And thats ok with my with me
Eventually I'll find my scene
I got my fam, I got my queen
Aiming to make music and get cheese
So I can finally roll in an 81 Beamer
Smoking weed and turning keys
To a dope house just a 20 minute cruise from the city
But if I sold my soul I could never forgive me
A dreamer dreaming big but still filled with pride and envy
They want you to be a big shot, but really you pinching pennies
The party is international but the room be feeling empty
Promoting yourself like some kind of brand
I can't really comprehend
All I know music is my religion
I only wanna make the room dance
I guess Im just a dreamer
Yea I guess I'm just a dreamer
Im no different than the rest of the people
On the ongoing hunt for rhyme and reason
My head roams with nowhere to go
At least I got my girl and my goals when I get home
I've got so much to show
But I feel better when I put down my phone
My head roams with nowhere to go
At least I got my girl and my goals when I get home
I've got so much to show
But I feel better when I put down my phone
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