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Intro
02:32
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[Verse 1]
As I walk up to the stage, throats sore before I speak
My Life's a book, putting pen to page
Writing about my rage, loves, apologies
Living my life through mythologies
My qualities include; ego, stoic or stubborn
Dramatic, So intense you get asthmatic
I’m erratic and inconsistent.
The world moves too slowly or I think too quick
Far from slick
High school was tough and I don’t drink
Ever got that feeling you don’t fit in
Let that fear sink in
Life like a clip on
Couple of girls came and went
Some never knowing they were on my mind
Looking for a sign
Wasting time on; chasing love, lust
Trust, just had about enough
Leapt from the cage
Free as my wings grew
Grew up, turned thoughts to words,
Words into stories, stories to rap
[Verse 2]
Recap to when I was 18
Didn't really pick up a pen till I was a late teen
Headaches, writing up, new content
Time spent learning to express myself in general
Have a feeling my talents congenital, to get medical
Suddenly Hip-Hop, sudden new taste
Sudden change kicked off
Now silence is filled, filled with a kick drum
Moments into some lyric or rhyme
Passion taking up focus
Eating away at culture, locust
Getting to know components all the poets
Flicking through CuDi, Cole, bino
New foundations, study soul, see no loss
Only progress in my amnio
What I'm made for not like neo
No chosen one I chose this one
My brainstorm I gave form
Been taking hold Allday
Alternative
But I tried your way
They gonna judge me anyway, so whatever,
I work late, I'll sleep later
Endeavour to enrich with words, even if I don't make tremors
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2. |
Cage
02:13
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[Verse 1]
I don’t fit in by default
Try to work the faults
Mistakes, quirks, ticks
World's a cage and I’m in a vault
Opinions are assisted by everyone
Who insisted on throwing a sneer of an insult
Empathy unearned in quest of self discovery
All too busy digging for gold while they bury me
Sitting on hierarchy, spending time on plastique, losing ability to be unique
Nail who sticks out gets hammered down
Except it feels like drowning out in white noise while you lose free choice
Stuck in routine, trying to find meaning
Swimming in a pool next to the ocean
Enthusiasm lost to the notion of working towards others goals
Working towards meaningless roles
Soul crushing, when there’s no drive
Hard to keep alive when you heart's not pumping
And you're not quite keeping the bed bumping
[Verse 2]
Work and no Play
No Incentive to Stay
Chosen, system's broken, bad soil for minds to grow in
Pushed too hard to follow the system, that progress is frozen
Patronising young minds then asking for devotion
Setting the model, beautiful ships in the wrong bottle
Irrelevant topics downloaded the syllabus is a fossil
Then leave, reprieve, not your problem
Issue falls from priority, finds a place at the bottom
Life happens cycle repeats, lost thoughts
To busy in the party to think of meaningless reports
Lost in the sauce and new direction
To sit back and remember in quiet reflection
But I remember, bad memories using it for inspiration
Day in day out counting till November
Standing on hot embers
Early AM wake ups
If I make it, hard to stay awake
Lates no mistakes
No transparent so I live in opaques
Days become easier when there are no stakes
[Verse 3]
Taking more breaks
New changes seen as delinquency
Deficiency
But my priorities were self development
I resonant on a new frequency
To be conceived my greatest traits
Take flight, dropping weights
Changing who narrates my life
Making waves to embrace my life
Day in Day Out
Work to please the crowd
Day in Day Out
Work to please the crowd
Day in Day Out
Work to please the crowd
Day in Day out
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
Work to please the crowd
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3. |
Free
02:53
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[Verse 1]
From the first word you were there
Though you didn’t care, a doomed love affair
Now there's a bitter taste to all the time I’d waste
Misplaced emotion without logical base
You were beautiful, you had talent
Looks, personality you were balanced
Trapped in wonderland like Alice
Trapped in the Nausea, the Euphoria
Victorious in my campaign?
Notice the pain as I failed
White whale
You were still fishing with me on the hook
Watching me squirm at the love I mistook
You shredded me up ready for the slaughter
‘Minutes wouldn’t past without a thought of her’
I opened up and you preyed
Feelings, thoughts, watching the raid
Neglected, disrespected
Made me believe I was defective
Young and näive, easy to deceive
Now I have perspective
[Bridge]
Mind kept thinking you were right
All thoughts went to you at night
Though something I could never see
That you were plotting out of sight
Mind kept thinking you were right
All thoughts went to you at night
Though something I could never see
That you were plotting out of sight
[Hook]
It's hard to fly with these chains
Try to move but you hold the reins
Bird wants to soar but my reality
I’m caged I’ll never be free
Like Icarus but burnt before leaving ground
I wanna scream but can’t make a sound
This bird wants to soar but my reality
I’m caged I’ll never be free
[Verse 2]
’Your hair looks nice’
Thanks for the compliment, remember mine you took without acknowledgment
Taking the praise, sucking my soul, while I was just trying to feel whole
I would idolise you
Pull you up when you were down
But you just left me like lost and found
Pounding on the doors of this cage
Frustration never rage
The world's a stage and I was a tree
In your company my mind wasn’t free
So when I see you and talk like amnesia
Like time has been anaesthesia
I try not to repeat Hiroshima
My scars took time to heal
Now you think you can tell me how you feel?
Then walk away content, get bent
I tried to augment a friendship
But you never paid attention
[Bridge]
Mind kept thinking you were right
All thoughts went to you at night
Though something I could never see
That you were plotting out of sight
Mind kept thinking you were right
All thoughts went to you at night
Though something I could never see
That you were plotting out of sight
[Hook]
It's hard to fly with these chains
Try to move but you hold the reins
Bird wants to soar but my reality
I’m caged I’ll never be free
Like Icarus but burnt before leaving ground
I wanna scream but can’t make a sound
This bird wants to soar but my reality
I’m caged I’ll never be free
[Verse 3]
I’m not mad it was unrequited, that I was misguided
No, you’re indicted because you delighted in my pain
Drives me insane that when I see you
I never shout, glare, still care
But you are cold, fool's gold
Everyone behold the wicked witch of the east, watch her feast
I pity you and everyone who smiles your way
All I can do is stay far far away
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4. |
Work {Demo}
02:20
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[Verse 1]
We all hope to get that running start
To where we want to end up
I had those goals
Not formalised with paper on a wall
Held them high in my mind
Vocalised made it so far to fall
Boasting down those halls
And I put the work in
No rest for the wicked
2 hours sleep had me twisted
Determined to be depicted as this hero
The underdog who came from the bottom
To the top
Until breathing was hard and I was told to stop
‘You're not made for greatness’ diagnosis
Still pushed past this, kept focus
Couldn't feel I was broken, refused to be hopeless
Refused to believe I wasn't made for this
Born to be what we want to be
Watch my name drop from the heights
I wasn't quitting
Until after all my work I was admitted
I think a little bit broke, all my dedication shattered
I had built my dream and watched it in tatters
My heart couldn't take it, literally
My window of opportunity disappeared
With my dignity.
[Hook]
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
And I'll keep working, working
Work till I work this out
[Verse 2]
Think this was the conception of inspiration
6 months of inaction but I re-prioritised
Working on the skills I provide
Had the tools but never the drive
Hear the rumble of the ignition
Putting my mind into submission
That's when I watched the isolation
Between my peers and I
Putting the time into work over social they can't understand why
Understand my development, I don't vocalise
Now most of my life a surprise
Hear complaints, can’t sympathise, not rocket science
You work to get results, No rushing it
See people get results without work
No discouragement
Don't need others success as nourishment
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5. |
Numb
03:46
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[Verse 1]
Smiles appear, to mask, as | 6
long, as the, effects last | 6
Hysteria en mass | 6
Ignore questions unasked | 6
Can’t smell it or | 4
see the changes | 4
Friends are becoming strangers | 7
Losing wages, on weekends | 7
On bars, that we frequent | 6
Smoke clears, It’s just me here | 6
Empty cup, Had enough | 6
Sobriety has me remember | 9
The night your mind has censored | 7
Watching you stumble, rant, reveal | 8
I left before it ended | 7
Only Here for | 4
invitation obligation | 8
rooms empty | 3
Despite the population | 7
Desperation fills | 5
Lack of social skills | 5
Drown in self pity trying to be witty
Friends is a word, actions have meaning
I say this because their actions were demeaning
At least I had the friends
[Hook]
Why does joy remind me of sadness
Why does normal have to be like this
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Every connection met with anxiety
What could go wrong?
I’ll give you a variety
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Why does joy remind me of sadness
Why does normal have to be like this
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Every connection met with anxiety
What could go wrong?
I’ll give you a variety
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
[Verse 2]
Open the door, hi with a hug
Their Enthusiasm, just shrug
Minutes ago, tears
Walking up streets
going through fears
Hearing the cars thinking of a way out
It's not something I'm saying out loud
But this
Train platform for the cure
Staring at the railing
like a lure
Hope for the day,
don't start parties
With my sleeve, absorbing my eyes
Hoping to disguise, feeling like shit
Not filling rivers but I do my bit
Every party carnivale
Every interaction put on
Giving nothing to let on
Doing my best to hide it
Hope they hear your silence
[Verse 3]
This was my doing, I felt it brewing
I let it spark into a fire
worked on that pyre
Irony that
lows brought me higher
Sadness, made me talk less
Compared to the excess of words
I expressed
My cure, was my poison
Drank it for enjoyment
Uncovered problems dormant
conform it
She clicked attending
Her songs so old I'm pretending
It'll bring feelings back
Offending, is what she does best
On that I'm depending, I'm
Spending what sanity I've left
Stealing from logic like theft
[Hook]
Why does joy remind me of sadness
Why does normal have to be like this
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Every connection met with anxiety
What could go wrong?
I’ll give you a variety
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Why does joy remind me of sadness
Why does normal have to be like this
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
Every connection met with anxiety
What could go wrong?
I’ll give you a variety
Smile in public, rain disguises emotion
Out of view, floods flow in
[Outro]
Numb
Become so numb
I’m so done
Become so numb
Numb
Become so numb
I’m so done
Become so numb.
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Ezra Allen Melbourne, Australia
Ezra Allen is an alt hip-hop act living in Naarm, Australia. Allen offers a lyric-heavy brand of hip-hop whilst drawing inspiration from genres of soul, jazz, and indie-rock. Allen is known for his introspective lyricism that explores mental health, masculinity, and maturity.At the conclusion of 2022, his debut album Summer of George was featured on Bandcamp’s ‘New and Notable.’ ... more
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