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Thieves

from Sink Or Swim by Justjoey

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lyrics

Any day
My basic state of mind may change
Like “Some of my priorities may need some rearranging.”
Then the next I'm vexed like how could I forget?
I don’t feel alive unless I am devoted to this mess

I’m addicted
I am so obsessed with blending note and word
Looking for the perfect combination
I’ll be stirring this while you get your encouragement from cycling in a circus hoping it will all be worth it

I’m a super nothing going nowhere fast
I’m a piece of trash
I scowl while everybody fakes a laugh
If I’m feeling like a living human worm I will never get the credit I deserve

I am terrified of what this means
I will clarify I’d rather die within the week than come to see this fizzle out
Hissin ‘bout the system
Fixed since beginning
Being a machine never really seemed like winning


Lost touch with becoming someone not something
I’m done with not loving myself through your screen
Trudge on to futures we don’t subscribe to
Bury the human who still lives inside you


Only brighter than blight
Told they're worth fighting for
Worth every life
Stuck in a fall that got labeled a flight
for the health of an empire: death is a lucrative plight
Thieves of the dreams we build
Anyone against the kings gets to be roadkill


I’m defective I might never learn my lesson
I am mildly respected
I’m still always second guessing
I am laughing from the belly in the stomach of the beast
I’m a creep
I would rather be asleep

Always tired
Always feeling I gone miles through the mire
Why do people think that art expires?
Was it ever worth a thing if it's already lost its fire?
Real love don't retire

I’m inspired I love life despite ire
I might be the kind of monk who has to set himself fire
I am gonna stand for something
Gonna give a hand to someone
I can’t fuckin stand another fan betting it all on nothing

Although I can’t say I don’t understand
If there were legal euthanasia I’d be in the promised land... which I don’t believe
I think that I’ll pass my energy to the worms I feed
Fertilizer to the leaves and trees, so...

Revamp those old goals
Street lamps with gold glows burn bright through turnpikes
We learn life through old souls
Hold on
Just pull through
Sold on a whole new
World


Only brighter than blight
Told they're worth fighting for
Worth every life
Stuck in a fall that got labeled a flight
for the health of an empire: death is a lucrative plight
Thieves of the dreams we build
Anyone against the kings gets to be roadkill

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from Sink Or Swim, released May 8, 2020

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psychedelic bops from a composer/rapper making monuments out of a tiny little life.

also in Lucid Logic w/ ILLOGIC & Modern Language with Museum and formerly known as Lucid Optics.

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