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I Feel Better
03:15
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Look out, cause I feel better
No vendetta when I stare in the mirror
No hidden meaning between the letters
I’m speaking clearer, not holding back
You know I’m feeling myself over these tracks
This confidence is like a landmine
Limbs flying everywhere when I’m feeling fine
You fucked up let me close to 30
Too late learning showing mercy
Ha, I’m never planning on an exist
Under 30k, riding the knife edge
But I was counting on my blessings
I’ll take my chances way I’m heading
That inner critic getting older
Still pressing weight down on my shoulders
I’ve been working, getting bolder
Tongue loose & speaking colder
One more step, do this shit forever
Fucking watch out, cause I’m feeling better
I feel good, look better
Funny what courage can do when you let it
Don’t sweat it
I don't drive cause I see how you do
We all get where we're going, fuck my debut
I’ve been getting through
You say shit happens TO you
I make shit happen for me, paying my dues
Watch you drown in the shallow end of the emotional spectrum
like a damn toddler, what I was I expecting
So children want some drama
Not wasting my time on this hill you want to die on
Know the meaning of a deadline
Waste my time, how you cross mine
Got work ethic I can get behind
With confidence dangerous combination, now I’m feeling fine
Tired of primates talking apex
From prime real estate apartments
Woe is you and your inconvenience
Rogan got you paranoid and sleepless
Tired of taking that nice tone
Been clearing my throat now for too long
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Catch Me When Convenient
02:34
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You’re claiming your name? Drop it
Your sense of ambition? You’ve lost it
Sounding as tired as your topics
Shopping no proxy for clock in
Where is that kid that said “fuck it”?
Paint on the page and bopping
Know what the people are wanting?
People to get fucking started
Burning appendages
What the fuck meant by this?
Counting the words that I’ve written
That shit is towering, I feel empowered
Faces soured of poets that envy my hours
Been slitting throats every flick of the wrist
Fly over your head, but you get jist
This mirror my favorite rappers on my list
Yet still surprised that I am writing like this
Not feeling enough
Not touching my lust
For greatness, face this
calling my bluff
But spilling my guts
Might keep me in touch
But fuck, let me just show now what I’ve got
Pulse on the rhythm, production I’m killing
And tapping this feeling
And writing it down
I know this shits coming round
Sideways glances
Not taking no chances with this
Blood on the page till dying day
Placing no bets on a gift, I persist
I’ve been rigging the numbers, no risk
I’ve been showing up
I’ve been showing up
Watching you sleeping through missing your shots’
But fuck it, catch me when convenient
I’ll still be feeling, believing this
I’m peeking my life and I’m seeing the meaning
when writing it down
I’m writing it down
I know this shits coming round
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3. |
Feeling Zealous
04:06
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Man, I got a feeling
Living by it, man that’s how I’m doing
Keeping my eyes now to horizons
Oh, I’d rather be dreaming
Color me just a little jealous
I wanna feel a little zealous
But this shit’s a fucking mess
All that fear, I can smell it
And it’s tainting on your image
Got the truth? Ah man what a vision
I’ve been looking and I see the timid
Who’s got the answer? Fuck selling it
Bundle up with your goddamn supplements
World all chaos, yeah we’re living it
By all means, let's try to understand
But we can’t expect no complete answers
And fuck yeah dude, I’ve been looking
Ear to the ground, eye to the seeking
Too many anxious nights at the ceiling
So I think that I’m getting that feeling
Lately I've had a feeling
That maybe I've been dreaming
Rubbing my eyes watch you moving
Finding the rippling waves so soothing
We’re the bodies just making up the tide
Let it flow, let it flow, let it go, let it go
I feel off, though I've been eating well
Drinking enough so you never could tell
Lately I've had a feeling
I hope to god it’s just a feeling
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Been questioning your focus
This talk of being chosen
Did you notice?
You’re going around in circles
Leaping the bodies as hurdles
Talk of work hard a joke
on watch from the side and choke
On the “get yours” neurosis
You’ve got blood on your hands?
Say “it’s me or them”
Right, right
I’ve heard that
You can keep that
Yeah, right, right
That’s all you’ll have
There’s something alive in me
Been meaning in getting it seen
I hope it’s surviving me
I hope that’s it making a name
I hope it’s not fearing the grave
I hope we’re not feeling the same
I hope that’s is staking a claim
Hands together to pray
Desperately hoping that we’re meeting one day
But now it is walking on me
It’s looking to challenge
and looking to feed
I don’t think you’re ready
You’re looking unsteady
I’ve been playing host
and it’s getting heavy
Shedding my previous form, my old ways
It’s time to embody
Lumbering, stumbling over my shit
Losing my grip on reality
Letting my eyes shift
down to the blood as it drips from my glove tips
Was sick as a kid at the status
But now I’m just learning the habits
Playing the games with baddest
Putting blood lust into practice
This shit’s not a rental
I’ve been eyeing potentials
And watching you dropping your principles
In print I'm an acrobatic
With a flare of dramatic
Put down for the public
While you just “Get yours” and panic
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Poets & Kings
02:46
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I've been eyeing these kingdoms, think I can do better
But what? Expect to topple walls with these open letters?
Bitter flavors in the back of the mouth
when I think to what I've written about
All these poets and dreams
Feel coming on a vendetta
When I stare in the mirror
A feeling much stronger
Than felt for empires or kings
Watch the flow under the bridge
And myself washing away with it
Letting myself just feel the world turning
Hold my head as I swallow my tongue
Say this this shit as long there is no follow up
Alright? Alright. Alright?
Keep on getting it down
Keep on getting it down
Pen & paper terrain shaker
Topsoil and surface ripple translator
No imprint in the clay,
Hemingway
Rolling in his grave for the waste of space
Takes for me to say anything
At all
I haul
tombs & teetering folios
I scrawl my worst fears & plans
I stall
I feel my downfall coming on
Tripping on these pages that I’ve been musing on
I’ve been bleeding the page
From this comfortable chair showing my age
I’ve been throwing phrases, hearing them back
From the wall paper, watching it crack
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This is product of my environment
Why it's sunshine and deathly silence
Putting my feet up coasting
My own reflection island
Pick and choose a few statistics
Load up replays. the matrix
I’m bored as hell, I’m scared as hell
Need some theatrics
Need a little drama
So I’m reaching
What you needing?
I’m still breathing
Counting sheep but
Never sleeping
Live in deprivation
So I’m seeing
What I’m needing
Be believing
Just taking the edge off, uh
Just taking the edge off, huh
I’m bored as hell, I’m scared as hell
These are non sequiturs, unconnected
Frail ego, power unchecked
Human nature, self respect
Fear unknown, what comes next?
Scared running, falsely led
Tired heart, empty bed
Tired heart, empty bed
Feeling that myself for the record
Feeling that myself for the record
Now that’s a feeling I recognize
Now that’s a beat and a the rhythm I recognize
Now that’s a pause in the rhythm I recognize
Now that’s a heart I recognize
Now that’s a heart I recognize
Now that’s a face I recognize
Now that’s a heart I recognize
Fire, flames in the passage
How can we manage?
Just keeping our distance
While we watch for the madness
This all to an up-rise?
Expected some savage
Some lights camera action
Some devotion and damage
Sounding like a damn church
Hanging on words
Spinning that verse
Sounding rehearsed
Gaslight a caged bird
Tell it’s a canary in the coal mine
But in truth they’re the gold mine
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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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