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Workhorse
03:15
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Up the hill on the hoof
Leg breaking, so “oof”
Clench teeth just to move
I’ve got something to prove
When the shove comes from push
When I’m finding my groove
What else would I do?
What else can I do?
Smile through the pain and say he’s acting aloof
Go murder the stage, then back of the room
Go on, I’ll die here
I do it for you
Keeping up how I appear
Seeing it through
Running through snapped femurs
Swinging quietly from chandeliers
with god fear like resolve
Measured liquor in loose liters
Working hard to be absolved
First to call and fall
Take me home
Need winks in 40
28 feeling 40
Hope the crowd adore me
Hope I write a good story
Keeping all my dreams lofty
Eyeing endless tracks in my inventory
You couldn't step to this
Without a minor pause, risking me breaking my wrist
History repeating & telling couldn’t give a shit
Working till I write with a knife
Clean finish
One more song, hope I learn
Fire to flesh, feel the burn
Learn speaking out of turn
Look for pride in anywhere but work
In anywhere but work
Get that steed broken
Got something to prove
There’s worth here for you
Yeah I do it for you my dear
I feel the fear every time I drop
Showing what I got
Spilling my truth my dear
Anything to offer
No dimes in coffers
Cough up another rhyme, I hear
Blood pumping
Is it desperation or loving
Can I rise above it
Peace with the work & play
Balance with resumes
& filling the veins
With something calming my brain
Number of voices calling my name
Too familiar tone I’ve been speaking to every day
Sounding like me
So saddle up me
This work horse
work to death to get to the peak
Each track another pack to the back that creaks
Before it snaps
And it won’t be surprising to me
Check the tracks that I’m leaving now
Check the tracks that I’m leaving now
And you’re seeing how
I might be just feeling out
Maybe bowing out
But I keep making ground
I keep moving on
I keep working
Get that steed broken
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2. |
Done Biting My Tongue
02:15
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Tired of questioning my moves and my lip
Say you got a bone to pick, be careful, I’ll break it
Snap fingers, pointing out how I do this
Speak straight, work hard now to develop
Big dreams, that's how I sleep better
Weak knees & cheeks redder when I enter the room
Best be pleased to see me or kneeling
I’m done concealing my pride
Confidence new costume and vibe
Crazy look in my eye be telling yeah, yeah
I’m not down with what you’re selling yeah, yeah, yeah
Write this shit for how I’m feeling yeah, yeah, yeah
Fake it till I believe it yeah, yeah, yeah
Career like a lit fuse
Keeping an eye on the news
For explosions in my town as they’re breaking
Mistaken if you’re dropping your gaze for a second
Blink and miss history in the making
Lick lips, spit blood
I’m done biting my tongue
Tired hearing talk of lone wolves
From the boys at the top with the most pull
Talk of the threats to the gene pool
If you’ve leaving this pack, we won’t miss you
Lone creator but I don’t feel it
Got my eyes open and I’ve been hearing
Feet stamping, air changing as we’ve been nearing
End of our tether, this breed of intellect
bros think they’re so clever
Talking Q&As, always got both
I’ll tell you where your talking points go
Sensitive little boy that your mother knows
Little kid sobbing on their hit show
Feel an unfamiliar flare to I’m writing
Found my nerve see you under harsh lighting
Say we’re fucking baited while you keep biting
Ask the right man, who are you fighting?
Lick lips, spit blood
I’m done biting my tongue
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3. |
Good Morning
02:49
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I’ve been mourning
Good morning
Why do I mourn your death
while you love, drink & laugh
Why you’re still drawing breath
Why you still get upset
At the world and its state
I’ve been finding my place in it
Feeling my weight shifting
Still seeing my repetition
I drink like you do
Move on like you do
Reminisce like you do
I’ve been seeing right through
This confidence that’s brewing
As I only think to you
As what I might be
Fear and love
Home and hate
Fucking typical
Don’t fucking wait
Think it through
Feeling cynical
Please take me home
Where I’m known
Guess I’m whimsical
But fucking blind
Drown in wine
Now I’m feeling good
Feeling so fine that I might die
I guess dramatic, have you met Ry
I’ve met you, so I’ve known myself the longest
Same mistakes while I pray for your youngest
I’ve been mourning
Good morning
Knife and fork take me back
I’ve been living it
Like on the attack
Of my liver, with
The shit I’m leaning on
I’d sooner see you gone
Then dealing with my demons
I’ll just write another song
Ha ha
Praise to the son
Let the golden horn blow
Clearly not dealing
With the way that we’ve grown
I’ve been writing
And running from this
shit that I’m fighting
Pretending that I don’t know
But back catalog beg to differ
All this fucking writing on liquor
Sipping on something bitter
Never enough to reconsider a lifestyle
Keen eye for anything leaving my blood thinner
Something strong like this song let me bleed out
Something strong like this song let me bleed out
I’ve been mourning
Good morning
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4. |
Catalog
03:07
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Hearing all this chatter
Your teeth are chipping for your drama that just don’t matter
Say you work hard for an output that really just don’t flatter
For each line of yours you know that I’ve written whole chapters
You’re stuck on your grammar
Give a fuck what you’re sipping
I drink harder then you’re living
You think you’re competing
My hangover bigger than the catalog you’re sitting
I'm just warming up
Do it for the craft, make an art of letting blood
Discography my therapy, that’s how I grew up
I've dropped my lies and my walls with the tears that I’ve cried
You're another one that is hopelessly lost in my eyes
I spy another one that is loving wasting my time
The self obsessed, know fuck about a dead line
I swallow that gore
From gnawing my tongue, but I spit it out can’t take any more
Through a clenched jaw, finally speak, not gonna like what’s in store
Watch my words drip from a cracked maw grinning with my teeth bloody
Want to stain them with yours
Blinking, disbelief
What the fuck are you thinking?
Stop speaking on this shit
Until you get releasing
What’s that? EP number three
Each beat made by me
Hearing no conceit
At least, you can see
Each time
that I breathe
I release
It’s a need
Yeah, proving I’m learning by doing
Get my hands dirty, get a shoe in
Keep the pedal pressed, and I keep moving
Hope these steps in the right direction
Each release, minor correction
Another trip, another learnt lesson
Answer questions with this self obsession
End to the series seems fitting
Off my chest how I’ve been feeling
Never listen back, always itching
Another session, AND composition
Blinking, disbelief
What the fuck are you thinking?
Stop speaking on this shit
Until you get releasing
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5. |
Tones to My Palette
03:50
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Harness strength or throw myself in blind
Leap of faith, land hard, jump twice
You could say that’s the courage of mine
I’d just say a habit of time I might be wasting
Every step forward, fall back pacing
Are what we do, not what we’re saying
With each truth spoken, I’ve been lacing
Words with confidence I’ve been faking
Just the kid inside terrified I might run the clock
I won’t pay the cost, I want what he’s not
the longing won’t stop
and he knows he’s being dramatic as fuck
Been adding tones to my palette
Thanks to those with a talent
For keeping me in check
Show myself some respect
Hear a tremor to my tone when I speak
So no reason to seek change in scenery
Or my livery, I keep it casual
Speed gradual, I’ll walk it
I can talk my shit but not sure if I live it
Keep flipping from bemused to livid
At the kid staring back in the mirror
But slowly visions coming clearer
Been adding tones to my palette
Thanks to those with a talent
For keeping me in check
Show myself some respect
Your creation in the eye beholden
But your eye stolen by a rolling shutter
I shudder to think what I might when older
Just how little I might leave
What little more do I need?
Live peaked curiosity
Be happy with the air I breathe,
company I keep
& infinite mystique
Course I could chase some digits
Race at red line limits
Stick something in my system
so I keep breathing
Like all I’ve met
We’ll drop any minute
Whole practice is broken, its telling
No telling what we might do
without a change of heading
So why do I do this? I keep forgetting
We keep repeating
Been adding tones to my palette
Thanks to those with a talent
For keeping me in check
Show myself some respect
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Rhath Melbourne, Australia
Rap - Hip-hop - Melbourne
Australian rapper, producer and performer working under the name Rhath making
dark, introspective & lyrical hip-hop.
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