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Things Are Happening

from Sink Or Swim by Justjoey

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These songs are search parties
Bloodhounds with cheeks dripping
Walk through snow with teeth gritting and finding you
(Lost wanderers)
The cost of pondering possibly can be such a haunting thing if you shift your perception and begin to treat it honestly

It is what it is
We negotiate the difference
Why can I envision least a hundred other ways it isn’t?
Got a mind that align with the sign but a wise one find that our senses try and fail sometimes
Hail one time was the product of an angry god’s fail safe crimes

I get it now
I’m forming better habits from the jump
Fool me once and school me such
Fool me twice: now what the fuck
Get it right by trial one and save your self a couple months, or years depending on how long your fears and failures go untouched

Only know the pieces of me needing work by slowly rolling pins on me until the discomfort controls me
Tired of giving in
Binging on sins unholy
I've been making myself cringe and only changing will console me

Gotta stop making up situations
Fall for the false flag my brain’s making
I ain’t faking the funk but I’m breaking the junk
Now stumped misplacing the months

Only realize the prize it was when the silence hums from rising dust
Sizing the sum while I hide in the hide of a rifled buck

Stuck on what I’m coveting
It’s muddying the study cuz it used to be a puddy now it’s modeling me instead
Bottling bother ain’t the answer either but I’m tired
And the spiders on the ceiling appear larger by the fire

Shadow dancing giving daddy long leg even longer legs
Suck it up, be stronger, thinking things only your father say
Coddling the fauna only in the diorama
Gotta look it in the eye while it’s alive like no imposter

I get it now
A master never claim they grown enough
Never feign they know what’s up
Only vein there carry blood
Moments of glamour cover lifetimes in prairie mud
People see a still and think it’s all glitz like fairies fucked

Only know the pieces of me needing work by slowly rolling pins on me until the discomfort controls me
Constant reevaluation breaking from the old me
Making subtle changes been the only thing consoling

What’s happening?
Things are happening


What’s happening?
I’m really glad to have you at this gathering
Thanks for listening and not just chattering
We are barely balancing
Showings like these are tip-toeing on railings between balconies
Continue doubting me


Do you remember when you dared me, so as loud as I could I howled at the woods?
And that owl swooped down and caught a mouse
Wow...
I do

Do you remember when we mustered up the strength to ask our way into that gated jacuzzi and talked anime with strangers?
And I found out you sometimes pass out with enough hot air
And you just laid there
I was way scared

Do you remember that time you and I went do or die when scrutinized?
We wanted to be euthanized
But who am I now?
Stupefied ricotta jaw admitting I just wanna look into your human eyes

Do you remember the time when my rhymes and your designs met?
Now that’s a fine mesh
Already made something timeless
That’s kinda fresh and partly why it feels like things are happening


Things are happening
What’s happening?
Things are happening


I’m not sure what’s happening
I’m really glad to have you at this gathering
Thanks for listening and not just chattering
We are barely balancing
Showings like these are tip-toeing on railings between balconies
Continue doubting me

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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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