1. |
Bortle 9 | Artificial
03:57
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Everything so artificial
Everything so fucking fake
Why can't we just give a little
I guess it must be, must be fate
Something breaks in my mind and I can't relate
Time just takes itself and aggrandizes each second
We better leave now, we shan't be safe
Ain't too shabby the way you patched yourself up
No help up, just days coming, you get up
You picture life in a sunray
Get there in time is a tough take, ugh
Thank god for the friends in my life
Till the end of the times
Just a dude with a rhyme book
That's coming to life
And coming to some headphones near you
Turn that shit up and I can't hear you, ugh
Back at it, rap addict, craft magic with the pad maddened
I'm heated, spittin' fire like a demon
Jesus, it's too easy, backpackin'
Let me up the amplitude, fuck the hands of time
Something something I can't decide
If I wanna eat it, rip it, beat it, tear it, chew it, true, it's all a choice for me
Cause at this fucking point it seems my talents are my voice and ink
In the booth with my boys with me
Poison seepin' from the tip of the this point five
Millimeters get hog tied
My schemes have just gone wild
Flashin' the world, man, I'm on fire
GOAT of this shit and I'm not trying
Can you imagine the sheer power
Like here's hours I spent trying to put an end to the shit
That just trips me up
Looking for a way I can lift me up
This is what I need to achieve the impossible
An audible called, I'm feeling so fuckin' baller
That I'll sprint to my zone and get ready to get thrown
To the motherfucking stars that I know are up there
I just can't see 'em, artificial cares
And I don't have to be scared any longer
Why the fuck did I move the city
The stars are my only way out of my own mind, what a pity
Every little thing within me gonna nag at me
I can't even see my favorite constellation and I'm mad at it
Raleigh got me feeling dim yeah
Torn down and used up like a gym bag
This shit can - man I can't even drive to a place
Where the stars emerge for me, what a life that I made
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2. |
Bortle 8 | Arms Above
03:54
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Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
Deserving of someone who wants me
I'd rather be solo than ghosted or haunted
It's like I'm walking in a cavern to the bottom of the trenches
I was honest when I meant it when I said that all I do is bend till I break
Spiritual minimum wage
Until this indica strain
Gets me into this couch, I'm dripping into my brain
Collecting into a pool that you just get up to drain
It's like you're drowning in the shallow end, how you been?
Round of applause, golf claps, snap out of it
Death by a thousand cuts, sounds like us
How'd we just get to the point of this precipice of forever
Ahead we go, but we're not meant to together
My featherweighted soul heavy as ever
I'm feeling better than never so let me sail to the heavens
Like I'm fated to, unable to, grip the cliff I dangle from
Indecisions taking us, say it's through, this the shit that's dangerous
Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
When I look up now all I see is the city lights
No more stars for me to long for
It's all for naught
I think I belong to the Milky Way
I see my fate in the arms above
Don't wanna be long forgot
Bruising my brain like a mental abrasion
This monumental occasion
Has got you thinkin' I'm wasted
My thinking just may be crooked
But I promise I'm straight
Feeling honest cause this cider's in my body, I'm sorry
I'm sitting awfully wobbly but my thoughts are on top of me
Holding me down, yeah, this is proof
The Zeroni Method works let me tell you the truth
It's like a Sisyphus offering, rock is difficult, bothersome
Listen, just walk with me, I'ma hop in the booth
Foolproof method when the weather is dark grey
I'm betting on myself, the top post in our space
I just can't wait for the day that I say I made it
I'm aiming into the skies with the shine that'll blind the makers
I'm talkin' to myself, just saying that I'm tryna save ya
Like bitch I don't need a savior, just a pen and a piece of a paper
Some bud and some rollin' papers
My hope is strength and my strength is dope
I'm taking hold
Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
Taking off like a bandit, it's magic
Fate lacking the stamina, tragic
They back in the corner thinking savage
Like piranhas festering in the blackness
When I look up now all I see is the city lights
No more stars for me to long for
It's all for naught
I think I belong to the Milky Way
I see my fate in the arms above
Don't wanna be long forgot
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Bortle 7 | Make Believe
03:47
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Getting closer but we're not quite there yet
What are you scared of?
The thumps in your basement?
You fucking insane, bitch
Just look at the way you're talking to yourself
It's fucking aimless
Is that why you're vacant?
Too many boxes in your head you never unpacked from last move
That's true, so take sips, you weak link
You're fenced in and your paint drips
At your defeated feet, you fucked up
Now you're in a corner, get unstuck
Like, this a warning, some tough love
Fate's in your hands like a nunchuck, it's such, ugh
I'm a product of my own division
No father figure to unload his wisdom
It's like the ocean winds are blowing this ship off its course
I am an X-Wing and to lift me will take a lot of force
I am the journey, the destination, the pot of gold
My thoughts are cold so I'm frigid if you gotta know, on a roll
Waiting for the stars warm me up
Where'd they go, w-where'd they go?
Is this life just make believe?
Or am I on my own?
Oh no
Living in the shadow of a doubt
Don't know how to get out
And now I'm down for the count
Underneath of this ground
So much shit on my plate
Will not cooperate
All it takes, call it fate, whatever it takes to ball I may just get the
Short straw I Jrue, now I'm leaving like a holiday
Serial cheaters already on their way out like Grande, eh?
I need to fucking heal, any bets on how long it takes?
I'm ick-say with this Pig latin, put your fucking hogs away
I'm closer to the light than before, yeah
A little worried 'bout the torch that I hold, yeah
I hope it burns till we're home, yeah
But this tunnel feels like it's tightening, oh shit
We 'bout to fix something that's been plaguing our minds
The stars are other suns, let us aim for the sky
Bare in mind that not all souls are lost
It's just a road less travelled when they're cold with awe, I'm just
Waiting for the stars warm me up
Where'd they go, w-where'd they go?
Is this life just make believe?
Or am I on my own?
Oh no
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4. |
Bortle 6 | Roses
05:04
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Look, Ma, no hands
Look at the way I be going around this ball of fire
Like oh my god
Low in the orbit of home
Touching the ground not a moment too soon
So forward we go
Cause backwards will only take us where nobody knows
And my phone don't get no signal there
So we can't talk just to clear the air
My mental smoggy, I'm breathing it in
Believe in the sin of the wear and tear
That this life wreaks on my body and brain
Slid outta the uterus like "sorry I came"
What's a life without stars to gaze at
What's a love without arms to hold me
Don't gimme that spiel
Cause I know what I'm feeling
And this is as real as it gets, healing
Every day that I live
Every day that I breathe
Every day that I wake
Every night that I leave
This earthly plane when I'm lighting this weed
Meet my maker and return to my feet
Whatever comes, it is worth it to me
I've set up the marks now Fate needs to knock 'em down
Look at me, man, I'm on the ground
I need to get up, am I having a picnic?
If the answer is no then I'm thicker than Witsit
This dick he can gets it
Why are you making this so hard on me, darling?
Want us all to live like a yellow boat, shit
Displacing the water, whatever floats it
All of this time, guess we'll never know, shit
Going further than any man has ever gone, shit
Life is about slowing down and smelling roses
You say "well it's hopeless" then it's swell I 'spose
Flow so cold it is Hell I froze
Want us all to live like a yellow boat, shit
Displacing the water, whatever floats it
All of this time, guess we'll never know, shit
Going further than any man has ever gone, shit
Life is about slowing down and smelling roses
You say "well it's hopeless" then it's swell I 'spose
Flow so cold it is Hell I froze
I made your clouds dissipate, yeah I ended your reign
And if the world needs cleansing... God'll send me again
Sit in my garage and I listen to pain
The silence and darkness are echoes of shame
Despite that, remember my name
Anticipation, I'ma let explode
No inclination for my head to blow
Let it go, let it go, let it go
Like that one Disney movie about the snow
C'mon man, I got shit to do
I got beats to slay, I got ink to rule
So don't hit me up, I don't think of you
Only thing on my brain are these words and my Carhartt
Worn it a decade and still it's an onslaught
Read between the lines like your car parked
I'm outta the ballpark, I press on your soft spot, baby shit
Kiss my ass if you give me lip
At the crack of dawn with you chicken shits
Ugh, spitting so yes I know
You must be Shia LeBeouf with a shovel
And fuck it cause God, you're under my thumb
Method Zeroni, cause you keep digging yourself a hole
The whole point is to smell the roses
Use the time to set explosives
Real shit like we sever toes
It's dead city, I'm a deadly ghost
Ready to haunt without rules, yeah, whatever goes
Want us all to live like a yellow boat, shit
Displacing the water, whatever floats it
All of this time, guess we'll never know, shit
Going further than any man has ever gone, shit
Life is about slowing down and smelling roses
You say "well it's hopeless" then it's swell I 'spose
Flow so cold it is Hell I froze
Want us all to live like a yellow boat, shit
Displacing the water, whatever floats it
All of this time, guess we'll never know, shit
Going further than any man has ever gone, shit
Life is about slowing down and smelling roses
You say "well it's hopeless" then it's swell I 'spose
Flow so cold it is Hell I froze
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You didn't stop to mention
I'm outta your comprehension
Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here talking to a god damn wall
Like I'm beyond your vision
I heal in four dimensions
Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here waiting for my god damn fall
It's not my fault, it's not your fault, but I will take that blame
I'm more equipped to handle this, I can't escape that pain
I look to the moon in the morning sky
It's crescent smile is all too sly
But I get what it means, albeit wry
Who cares if I fail if I don't try
Gotta give the glory to mother earth her story
Is full of so much more, I'm feeling it's so important
To lay the groundwork, like fuckin' the shit outta 811
And I'm digging that so hard, they may just come
Boring my way to the center of the earth, now
Like wow, this is really gonna hurt, now
Burnt down to the bone and chained below
And above is the reason that I hate to show
What I'm feeling in my danger zone
It made me go to bed sick and I wake up cold
Know that this is the tactic
This is the reason my demons are active
This is the reason my genius is back in a flash
Tucked deep in a backpack pad of paper
Two sheets that I had to save
Just in case if I pass away
The metaphor will carry me
I'm just Eric D
Let me float to the river and across the sea
It's RIP
It's hard to see
This world is smoky and the fog won't leave
It's not okay, but as long as we got the hope
Then this shit will forever be salvaged in our dreams
Shit, someone got a light?
If the world gonna end, I'm gonna be fucking high for this
You didn't stop to mention
I'm outta your comprehension
Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here talking to a god damn wall
Like I'm beyond your vision
I heal in four dimensions
Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here waiting for my god damn fall
It's not my fault, it's not your fault, but I will take that blame
I'm more equipped to handle this, I can't escape that pain
I look to the moon in the morning sky
It's crescent smile is all too sly
But I get what it means, albeit wry
Who cares if I fail if I don't try
I can see a few
Burn brighter than I even knew
I can see 'em when I'm seeking to
Do they see us when we're green and blue
Or is this exact moment in space and time isolated
No air in my lungs for me when I try to say it
I keep wasting my precious ticks, my prescientness
I better sit in its own world where my head exists
Reverence heaven-sent never been leveled in
Let me in to a secret that I bet against, hellish sins
Keep eatin' me, keep gnawing away at my flesh
Till all that's left is skin and bone on the side of the road
And even if my eyes were just closed
I could tell it's your body by the scent of the mess
What a horrible stressor, so let it be known
My words in the chamber when I get in my zone
The earth needs a savior, don't level our home
Surely a danger, so help me get this devil de-throned
Sooner or later, the oceans'll empty whatever you thought
Your head'll be empty
You head in direction of energy plenty
It's like we're alone and together we frenzy
The earth is an anthill and we are the colony
Alien boots don't stomp on me
Have we tried this harmony shit?
Peace and love, no arguments then
I'm just saying
If we're about to get jackhammered by some aliens bro
You bet I'm taking a stomach full of edibles
I get sick riding in a car but I could totally handle a UFO
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All the things I did in jest led me on this vision quest
Got me in this mess
Feeling stressed like a heavy chest
The same one that put my dad to rest
Miss him every day but I continue on
Because he's still involved with me yeah I feel it dawg
It's like that tip of the tongue sensation, that tingling down your spine
That spur of the moment instinct, figuring out what's right
And the moment I saw it standing there, the moment that I was just about to
Think about he met me there and intercepted
Like that quarter back on the ball court
It clued me in, it was all your
Doing and do it again
You shouted at me from the stands and I heard it
The cheerleaders booming
The stomping of feet and the seconds remaining
Like a tub full of water, I drained it
You and Mom, hell you raised it
Laser focused and major hopes
So it's crazy roads, I'm not aimless
Won't change the course, I'm made with force
I'm Plagued with thoughts, can't change it
I'm that patient
So amazing like the night sky reflected in the water
And it's never been so still
Crystal clear straight to the bottom
Straight to infinity, whatever you call it
I wish I could rocket
I'll settle for mornings with hands in my pockets
Letting the oranges and greys of autumn
Merge with the hues of the sunrise bonnet
Till I'm birthed anew and I'm falling asleep
August mornings they blind me
I can't see myself through the fog
It's no surprise that the Moon above me
And Jupiter finally call
Outside smoking, toking for my mental health
My heart is brimming over with love, so I'm full of wealth
And yet my pockets are empty, I struggle deep with depression
This shit can honestly tempt me, it fucking wreaks of aggression
But I can handle it, writing schemes and banishing
These mighty demons agitating me, my light can be so captivating, I know
So why go, outta your way to extinguish it?
Docked at the harbor, return to you sinking it, why?
I thought we could handle our business
I thought that we weren't gonna try
Thought we could manage the shipment
Breaking out the wings cause we sure gonna fly
I must admit I'm fuckin' pissed that I'm afraid
It's gonna hurt when I die
Come to think of it, it's nothing if I don't even have the urge to be trying
Under this moment that's anxiety thundering
Hit the indica and wish that I could yearn to be higher
They all just turn to the side
Wave bye like I learned from Poseidon
We all trying to have a better life
So don't let me get in the way
I just hope that when the smoke clears
We love all the same
Cause we're all here chilling on this beautiful globe
I feel dread for what the future will hold
But as long as I got my feet planted, eyes gazing up
Then I got a little bit of hope left in my blood, shit
August mornings they blind me
I can't see myself through the fog
It's no surprise that the Moon above me
And Jupiter finally call
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Bortle 3 | Gravity
05:35
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Waking up is a chore sometimes, honestly
How easy it'd be for me to fall asleep
Ignore all the phone calls, ignore all the texts
Just ignore the whole world and not get outta bed
That's my depression talking, sorry, he's invasive as shit
He's like a little tiny voice that you cannot get rid of
No matter how hard I try, he seems to hit back stronger
But at the same time I make the fight last longer
I can do this all day, man, shouts to the Cap
Put your hands up and put the ounce in the bag
If you know what's good for you
You'd diet, and exercise, and get good sleep
And put the ounce in the fucking bag
Ight, thanks bro, here's the cash, hit you up next time man
That's my healthcare system, it's helping me be
Cause being me feels like there's not a moment of peace
Haven't had a second to myself in a long time
Trying to figure out how to be at peace in a salt mine
When it's all said and done you can't tell me I've not tried
I'm on a hard drive, sitting in a wrong file
Never to be found
Never to be found
I'm falling into you
Your gravity it pulls me in
I don't know what to do
You took my life and you trade it for gold
Now I'll never grow old
I just want time
Just give me time
I'll look into the sky
I will find who I am
And it'll be the last time I
Cut it close when I'm close to the edge, like
All it takes is a rope and a ledge, I'm
Losing hope I won't choke on my best lines
Y'all go to sleep on me like it's bed time
I hope you're fuckin' tucked in cause this is some shit
Cuts quick to your core, dunnit
Aaron Eckhart penetrating me
Hilary Swank gets away with it
This amazing gift
Jason Bateman with a crazy scissor kick
What the fuck is wrong with me, I feel dangerously sick
It's like the faucet is on and the words they keep spillin'
It's like I'm talking to god but the earth it keeps chillin'
Jake Gyllenhaal with the flow, I'm crawling up in the night
I'm holding this beat prisoner, darkness is what I fight
Must be going well cause I'm ear to ear smiling
Not even gonna finish this bar, I'm wilding
Haven't had a second to myself in a long time
Trying to figure out how to be at peace in a salt mine
When it's all said and done you can't tell me I've not tried
I'm on a hard drive, sitting in a wrong file
Never to be found
Never to be found
I'm falling into you
Your gravity it pulls me in
I don't know what to do
You took my life and you trade it for gold
Now I'll never grow old
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Bortle 2 | Starry Night
03:47
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The stars are out
The stars are out
The stars are out again
The stars are out
The stars are out
The stars are out again
I feel so alive
With the light entering my eyes
Thank god for the fact that I'm alive
There's more to me than meets the eye
Don't take my soul away
Or else I'll get revenge
Make it a trek
Make it my own little personal quest
Thanks for the fire that's deep in my chest
Thanks for the boost in my battery pack
I'll figure the controls out on the fly
Igniting the sky when I'm down in the night
Down for the count
Wanting to get back up but I just don't have the strength to do so
It made me too low
Aim the Moon, yo
Wild dreams might chase the truth
Blow past in a ploom of dust
Okay, sure, I'm moving up
If I don't reply, I'm just doing stuff
Don't take my soul away
Don't take my soul away
The stars are out again
And what I mean by that is
Not that they're gone
It's that I can see them
And I hope they see me too
And I know they'll see me through
Can't even tell you what it was like
Nothing but darkness, nothing but light
I grew up in Alaska, suppose I was spoiled
Going outside for a toke and it opened the whole world
The entire Cosmos unraveled at my feet
One step in the snow could take me far into my dreams
If I wasn't so fragile I could've tackled my demons
It's a miracle I somehow seemed to manage defeat
I am the whole package, yet nobody handling me
Me and the photons agree, get on the wavelength
Yo, and balance your chi
I am just setting me up
Not for a failure
But for something that's way more incredible yuh
What can I tell ya
I'll be eating these beats till my belly is full
Setting that sail soon
It's meta as hell but the weather will tell
Don't sweat it, you're just in my reticule
Don't take my soul away
Don't take my soul away
The stars are out again
And what I mean by that is
Not that they're gone
It's that I can see them
And I hope they see me too
And I know they'll see me through
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Windshield like my bud, uh, frosted over
Come and sit and toke and talk I got lots to show ya
All I know is falling's over, time to lift and call it forward
I forget just how it goes, all this AI has got me crossing over
Sorry, folks, it's halftime so get your beers
Take your piss and listen here
There's wisdom in the silence
There's a sorta vibrance in the sorrow
Trying to put all of this behind us
There's a sorta trial by the fire
Lord pick me up to get me out of this
Too many snakes when I'm down in pits
The sound of this hissing is loosening every weak part of me
I just wanna seek harmony, please God can we
Settle this like gentlemen
Communication is everything
So why don't you talk back
Maybe you do in ways I just don't understand, damn
You know that feeling you get when you know why
Why this feeling inside you doesn't burn
You know that feeling
That feeling winter's coming
What's it take this time
What's it gon' take from you
What's it gon' take from you
Everything, it's gonna take it all
Winter opens up my favorite constellation got his bow aimed
Yeah Orion so dope, Aldebaran so lame
No bull, though, no space between us can be so vast
Wasting time that we don't have
You're out there somewhere, I don't wanna alter the plot
But what should I do?
Should I go even farther or not?
Don't want tomorrow to be lost
I'm just a ship that shot to moon, call me Apollo astronaut
But I'ma soar the sky and heavens above
This one life is never enough but I'ma be willing to settle cause love
Is biking through the warm summer breeze puffing weed smoke
Hanging with your friends and working on your ego
Cause you thought it had died, but nope, it's back to life
I'm thinking seven grams of shroomies oughtta do me just right
This life a serenade like who produces the tracks
Call him hypothalamus, the music relaxes
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Eric Dutton
Eric Dutton || Nebula-Hop artist, producer, and writer || On a path to a better world. Come with me. || Midnight Sun Music artist ||
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