1. |
Leaving The Light
03:09
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Leaving the light
Always thought I was living a lie
Wasn't feeling it right
Always thought I was living a lie
Put my hand up on my heart, I beat my chest
The chaos moving down and down, seep in my flesh
The obstacles won't block my path, I see the test
They can try and swat me down, boy, I'm the pest
Only know what you see from the outside
You can run, God laughs with his mouth wide
I won't die on my knees, though my hands tied
In the end, it's a roach versus a landslide
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Leaving the light
Always thought I was living a lie
Wasn't feeling it right
Always thought I was living a lie
Leaving the light
Always thought I was living a lie
Wasn't feeling it right
Always thought I was living a lie
The pest is always on the move, I ain't vanish
Crush me with your holy hell, I feel no damage
I can never stop my path, despite the panic
The planet might be burning down
Fuck it, I'll manage
Green hills, I can see them smoking
Big smile as the flames approaching
I'm a beast, I can feel them poaching
Stamp me down, but a roach keeps roaching
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Better run, there's a God
And He's coming for me
Leaving the light
I don't need a gun
I can hurt you with my tongue
And I'm trying not to burn out
While I'm living in the sun
I don't need a gun
I can hurt you with my tongue
And I'm trying not to burn out
While I'm living in the sun
Leaving the light
Always thought I was living a lie
Wasn't feeling it right
Always thought I was living a lie
Leaving the light
Always thought I was living a lie
Wasn't feeling it right
Always thought I was living a lie
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2. |
The Roach
02:37
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Stay back
No, I don't play that
Like I'm not jaded
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Stay back
No, I don't play that
Like I'm not jaded
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
I was trapped
Trapped!
Trapped in the black
I'm a roach, don't knock me on my back
Legs in the air, hope God don't attack
Not tryna see my head on the plaque
Always watched but never seen
Said my skin was never clean
Tried to turpentine me
Only fit for the fiends
Said the popes and the queens
I'm the king of the unseen
Stay back
No, I don't play that
Like I'm not jaded
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Stay back
No, I don't play that
Like I'm not jaded
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Why you say that shit?
Feeling like Gregor Samsa
A bug in the cog of a grey-walled cancer
I'm tryna break free with a penciled stanza
So are we human or are we dancer?
I'ma waste a life tryna chase an answer
A big-boy suit with a paid-for candour
We all just comics tryna place a lander
For the pests I'm the great commander
(The roach, the roach)
The roach!
La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la la
Fear the roach
Love the roach
Fear the roach
Love the roach
Fear the roach
Love the roach
Fear the roach
Love the roach
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3. |
The Old Man
02:23
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Sometimes it feels like
There's an old man
Waiting in the sky
Just to fuck my life up
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
Tapping in the worst to get the best of me
Tapping in the words to get the bread to me
Waiting for the burning of the effigy
The hate I can handle, but the love always suspect to mean
You see the black and white, I see the lines between, the world's a checkered tee
My niggas wanna check on me, I leave 'em on seen
While I scream and I scream
Till I'm hoarse, like a kettle mean
Did the work to keep together now I cut the seam
There's an old man
Waiting in the sky
Just to fuck my life up
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
What's a roach to a God?
Tryna find the drive but I got a slashed tyre
Every day I wake up, boy, I'm battling Goliath
Flowers in the fist, still can't avoid violence
Tryna run from hell, I feel the warmth from the fire
In my veins
Yesterday's burnt but today's not the same
Squash my leg, five more to my name
Plan to leave more on this earth than a stain
Run roach, run!
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
There's an old man
Waiting in the sky
Just to fuck my life up
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
(I don't get it, I don't care about it)
Your master is a system
Your master is a suit
Your master is a dollar
The chaos that ensues
Your master is a system
Your master is a suit
Your master is a planet
The chaos that ensues
Your master is a system
Your master is a suit
Your master is absurdity
God bless the truth
God bless the truth
God bless the truth
God bless the truth
God bless the truth
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4. |
See Ya There
04:38
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We've been running for ya
Despite all the bullshit
He put anvils on my shoulders
Just to stop me from dancing
Know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Loose my shackles
I'm rattled
And battle worn
We keep searching
For purpose
But was there one, babe?
You're going to hell
I'll see you there
You're going to hell, baby
I'll see you there
You're going to hell
I'll see you there
And we could never do nothing 'bout it
Can't catch my breath, I've been in orbit for hours
I'll scorch the sun to dig my hand on the moon, yeah
The man up there will hide in shade like a coward
I'll keep on breathing till I see him there soon
Loose my shackles
I'm rattled
And battle worn
We keep searching
For purpose
But was there one, babe?
You're going to hell
I'll see you there
You're going to hell, baby
I'll see you there
You're going to hell
I'll see you there
And we could never do nothing 'bout it
And we could never do nothing 'bout it
Walk it out
Carve my way
I could never know what you'll throw today
Say, toss it out
Beat my path
I could never die, boy, I'm in my bag
Say, walk it out
Carve my way, yeah
I could never know what you'll throw today
Say, toss it out
Beat my path
I could never die, boy, I'm in my bag, yeah
Never do nothing 'bout it
And we could never do nothing 'bout it
And we could never do nothing 'bout it
Could we, baby?
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5. |
Freak Boy
02:27
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Cosmic dread, I got a fistful
If ignorance is bliss then I'm tryna stay blissful
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
Overboard, we got a man alive
A fucker-free life, that's just something that I fantasise
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
Don't wanna turn out just like you
Hating everything that you do
I hope I figure out a thing or two
Don't wanna turn out just like you
The world's a big place to move
I hope I figure out a thing or two
Roach, keep running! Keep running!)
I'm a roach, I'm a freak boy (Freak boy)
I saw the world burn, but I smile, this is freak joy
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
It feels scary but you gotta get your head out the sand
I know you freaky but you gotta keep your sh in your pants
Unless you wanna (Ah)
Unless you wanna (Ah)
Unless you wanna (Ah)
Unless you wanna (Ah)
Don't wanna turn out just like you
Hating everything that you do
I hope I figure out a thing or two
Don't wanna turn out just like you
The world's a big place to move
I hope I figure out a thing or two
(Roach, keep running! Keep running)
Roach, roach
Why you hiding in your clothes?
Roach, roach
See the world is at your toes
Roach, roach
Why you hiding in your clothes?
Roach, roach
Keep running, keep running!
Roach, roach
Why you hiding in your clothes?
Roach, roach
See the world is at your toes
Roach, roach
Why you hiding in your clothes?
Roach, roach
Keep running, keep running
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6. |
Tied Up!
03:08
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Ah, ah, ah, ah
I'm
Caught! And I'm feeling tied up, tied up
Tryna be a better man
Caught! And I'm feeling fired up, fired up
Hot than a ceiling fan
I'm bleeding from my legs but it's alright today
It's better out here than the hell where I stay
I say, my feelings start to wobble when I stare at the doves
I'm fighting through life, I have no boxing gloves
I punch my way through hell, what other choice can I chose?
The puppet strings tug from my head to my toes
I said, the world is getting salty, that's the way that it goes
It's Sodom and Gomorrah
Vogue, strike a pose
Caught! And I'm feeling tied up, tied up
Tryna be a better man
Caught! And I'm feeling fired up, fired up
Hot than a ceiling fan
Dance my way through demons
Mama told me, "Give 'em hell!"
Dancing in the darkness
I'm the boy inside the well
Grab, grab, grab, for any piece of my part
Stab, stab, stab, there goes the beat of my heart
Pump that thing right back
'Cause, damn, what else can I do?
I can wait here for Godot or pick my legs up and move
They only let me whimper when I'm crying to a groove
It's a wild west
Baby, life's a saloon
Tick tock, let me see
Tick tock, tick tock, set me free
(Burn the clock, I'm tryna fight the time)
Tick tock, tick tock, let me see
(Burn the clock, I'm tryna fight the time)
Tick tock
(Time
Ah, ah, ah, ah
I'm)
Caught! And I'm feeling tied up, tied up
Tryna be a better man
Caught! And I'm feeling fired up, fired up
Hot than a ceiling fan
Caught! And I'm feeling tied up, tied up
Tryna be a better man
Caught! And I'm feeling fired up, fired up
Hot than a ceiling fan
I'm the struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
(I can't breathe, there's demons on my flesh)
The struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
Ain't no way to love ya
I'm the struggler
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7. |
That's Life (A Swamp)
05:25
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Pull my sins away, I know it ain't right
Steal my lonely soul from out the daylight
Pay me with my blood, my loving ain't free
Bind me with your tongue, my sabretooth leash
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
Weld me to the floor, I've seen enough sky
Numb me, child, I love the flavour of lies
Paint me, artisan, the colour of sleaze
Puncture me with holes, the boy becomes breeze
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
I said, baby, baby, baby, it's not about me
Watch out! Watch out!
Put the love and the drugs in the bag
Watch out! Watch out!
Put the love and the drugs in the bag
Watch out! Watch out!
Put the love and the drugs in the bag
(I can't tell you about me, watch out, watch out)
Watch out! Watch out!
Put the love and the drugs in the bag
(Watch out!)
My arms are tired from carrying the weight of your shit
Tryna travel light, but the baggage round your waist is a bit
Oh oh oh yeah
My arms are tired from carrying the weight of your shit
Tryna travel light, but the baggage round your waist is a bit
Said who are you but everything absurdity and chaos brings
That's you, you
Oh, that's you
You bury me with all your doubt
A stream of hate comes out your mouth
That's you, yeah
Oh, that's you
My arms are tired from carrying the weight of your shit
Tryna travel light, but the baggage round your waist is a bit
Oh oh oh yeah
My arms are tired from carrying the weight of your shit
Tryna travel light, but the baggage round your waist is a bit
Oh oh oh yeah
Oh oh oh yeah
Oh oh oh yeah
Oh oh oh yeah
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8. |
Balthazar
02:59
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I won't wait my turn
The way I live is the way I'll burnt
What's the point when we all end up in the urn?
Shit, the point's whatever I discern, that alright?
It wasn't for my alchemy
You'd burn me through
You don't like my alchemy
Well I love you too
Melt the floor
Melt the floor
I'm the pride before the fall
Balthazar
Balthazar
Get the roaches out the door
In one day we go blind
I can see where you're at
In one day we go deaf
I can see where you're at
In one day we go dumb, we can die, can be born
We can fly, fall in love, waste aside, be the one
Baby all in one day
And yet we choose to wait
Why?
Melt the floor
Melt the floor
I'm the pride before the fall
Balthazar
Balthazar
Get the roaches out the door
Melt the floor
Melt the floor
I'm the pride before the fall
Balthazar
Balthazar
Get the roaches out the door
It wasn't for my alchemy
You'd burn me through
You don't like my alchemy
Well I love you too
Melt the floor
Melt the floor
I'm the pride before the fall
Balthazar
Balthazar
Get the roaches out the door
Melt the floor
Melt the floor
I'm the pride before the fall
Balthazar
Balthazar
Get the roaches out the door
Fight time
Fight time
(I can fight the world but I can't)
Fight time
Fight time
(I can fight the world but I can't)
Fight time
Fight time
(I can fight the world but I can't)
Fight time
Fight time, fight time
Fight time, fight time
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9. |
Stay Blessed
02:56
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Come and kiss me
I'm a bastard
I'm a roach that a god is coming after
Just a vessel for a natural disaster
A demise is running, better run faster
If you feel me now, then the filthy crowd got a brand new crown coming through
Now we fill the ground, if you kill me now, you gon' deal with roach number two
Hey!
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest
Now watch me sparkle
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest now
Hey
No guide, no knowing
When you're going through hell, you just keep going
Your reality is showing
Hold a cross, I don't plan to be a martyr for no one
I'm a muck and that's okay
This world absurd till we pass away
This globe don't hinge on morality
You here, I'm here, didn't earn this mortality
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest
Now watch me sparkle
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest now
Hey
(Where to go?
I can't see
I don't know
I don't see)
Where to go?
I can't see
I don't know
I don't see
Where to go?
I can't see
I don't know
I don't see
Where to go
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest
Now watch me sparkle
Stay blessed, stay blessed
You're killing me dead
My flesh be charcoal
Stay blessed, stay blessed
I done been a damn pest now
Hey
Stay blessed, stay blessed
Stay blessed, stay blessed
Stay blessed, stay blessed
Stay blessed, stay blessed
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10. |
What Comes Will Come
03:50
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Make some noise for your momma's favourite agitator
I ain't say none, 'less I'm speaking for the paper
The great debator, my life feel like an elevator
I'm going down, if you walk with me then you walk with Satan
A wise man once said, nah he didn't say none
Now I got paid some, I waffle like a fuckin' baker
To survive, got me feeling like a fuckin' faker
Tippy-toeing through a hell, not tryna meet my maker
You ever see the sun?
You ever walk my way?
I never felt at home
Nah, never in this place
I never saw the sun
I never walked this way
It never was my home
Nah, never, not this place
Busy making new trauma so I got something to rap about
Self-inflicted stabbing doubt
Baby, what's that about?
So, acting like I don't know
And of course I blame my boots for the faults of my toe
Living life in a daze, I don't know where-where I'm going
I get back to the airport like "Honey, I'm home!"
Boy, I bathe in sin, and still I cast the first stone
Satan saw me again and said, "Nigga, get gone!"
You ever see the sun?
You ever walk my way?
I never felt at home
Nah, never in this place
I never saw the sun
I never walked this way
It never was my home
Nah, never, not this place
Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
I'm Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
It's hot, yeah
It's hot, yeah
Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
I'm Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
I'm Peter Pipe
I'm Peter Piper
It's hot, yeah
Hell is hot, yeah
I suffered at my least
What comes will come to me
What comes will come to me
What comes will come to me
I suffered at my least
What comes will come to me
What comes will come to me
I can feel your everything
I can feel your everything
What comes will come to me
I suffered at my least
What comes will come to me
What comes will come to me
What comes will come to me
I can feel your, I can feel your everything
I can feel your, I can feel your everything
Yeah
I can feel your everything
What comes will come to me, yeah
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11. |
Stuck To The Fan
04:15
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