BRUNO PENABRANCA
Artwork & Design

C.J. ROBERTSON
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson
Lyrics & Vocals
Sampler & FX
Arrangements
Additional Production

2ND SON
Production & Arrangements
Drums & Percussion
Bass & Guitars
Keys & Synthesizers
Mix & Master

Grey Matter

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Grey Matter

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


Another novice move, I lost it all
Running with scissors now I’m cut apart
And I gambled it all off on a dream of you
Thoughts of you night and day
The desert of my dreams I’m high and dry
My fingers crossed, just a mirage
Well I’m hoping so

Right where I left it
It’s my heart no turning back
I’ve been searching this dimension and it’s a fact
It’s true
Nobody can do it quite like you do

Ring ring, guess who on the other line?
Tuning into your dreams from the next wave from your next life
Took long enough to find Meridith and get the life lines
I’ve been calling collect
And I keep ringing you cuz I can get through
And I’m wondering
Do you ever think of me like I think of you?
Remember those old times looking up at the stars all night long
I’ll tell you one thing before I let you go
Next time you look up in the night sky
You ain’t never be alone

No one can do like you do

Mirage

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Mirage

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson

So much realer than the real thing
Or maybe it’s a dream come true
When I’m with you
I’m no different from the background
The focus been put on you
It’s like a dream

I thought we could take some time baby
Just me and you
I’ve been tripping off the other side baby
You know I still got my sights set on you
If it’s right with you
I wanna get deeper into you

Other Side

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Other Side

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


Listen world
Just sending this to let you know
Got in a little hiccup about 5 years ago
Got swallowed up—sucked into a black hole
Just got thrown out the other side
It’s a nice way of saying I ain’t coming home
At all
At least not any time soon

Each hour feels like a year
And even with no gravity 
The weight still find a way to hold me down
Guess that’s just the price you pay
For the answers that are just so hard to define
I’ve been seeking my whole life to find a meaning at a distance 
To realize it was all in front of me the whole time
 And for that you know I’m sorry
I’m sorry  

But you will never be alone
 By the time you get the message I won’t be alive
 But you will never be alone
 By the time you get this message I won’t have survived my mission baby
But I’ll be in spirit with you all the time

Signing Off

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Signing Off

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


Is there anybody out there
Or am I on my own 
With the moonlight shining down on my soured soul 
And the four walls closing in is worse than the mirror
Of the corner of my mind

And the pressure has been breaking down my walls 
And I know I’m not getting much closer anytime soon—fore
The more I extricate myself I fall
 Into the background of my soul 

Is anybody listening
Or am I just alone in the corners of my mind 
With the corners of my mind

Listen

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Listen

I steer clear from a distance 
With all these big problems
Ain’t nobody tryna touch it with a ten foot pole
Let alone pole for the right cause
Ain’t it all so so so sad 
Boo hoo 
Nowadays everybody just scraping along 
Tryna spread that lil bit of cheese on the Triscuit 
Isolating all alone in your homes and now you feel like a misfit
 In almost every case money move the world 
Distraction through the tech and the trinkets 
Connection to your world sold separate  
All those ills that you spread trickle down
Karma come back around
It’s never too late to turn it around
Karma come back around  
You should listen before you speak 
Cuz I ain’t in it for the flavour of the week
I’ve been in it for a minute 
And I played the games 
And I’m so through with no call to action from other lames 
What happened to it? 
Thought you were in it for the love of it 
But you just love the way it looks 
So you ain’t in it for the art?
You just in it for the stacks and the sky rise and a lake view
and a lav life with a bad bitch on the side
Do I sound right?
 If not, how come everything I see on tv
Modelling how I need to behave
 All this time thinking I need to change to be me
 Bitch please
I’m just tryna feed up on this substance 
I ain’t got no time for any sustenance 
This value system corrupted and its twisted 
Benchmarked by the traders and their highest bidders 
No use for chug chugging for change 
Instead I’m chugging my bank account wrapped in brown bags
And even if I’m lucky and I start a little flame 
Just watch—probably spend it on a range 
Remember at the end of the day 
All you got is your brain
 Fore it all goes down the drain

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Karma

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


Listen baby I’m sorry  if we got off on the wrong foot
 Think I might’ve had a couple one two more then I should’ve
Wow 
This is what happens when you’re feeling so sure of yourself
In hindsight I think I burnt a couple bridges back there
Maybe I should’ve thought before I acted
 Oh well I guess it all adds up in the end 
Hold up
 I think that’s what Buddha said
All this confusion that’s going on
(In the World) 
Faced with the brink of destruction 
I think I hear a bomb droppin’ in the background
 (Damn, that's some fucked up shit)
 So let’s make love not war  

While they're out burning bridges all day long 
We can build those bridges all night long
 While they're out burning bridges
 We can be building bridges
We can be building bridges
We can be building bridges

 Did anybody else wake up from the slumber
 And realize that we’re in a generation of take from you and give to me
Don’t worry it’ll stack up all one day
And what goes around comes around
Just like the way it’s meant to be
What’s up with all this hate and no love?
 It’s like we forgot there’s something up above
So many distractions to keep you busy 
No justice but just us, baby 
As if it wasn’t hard enough 
And always got the man tryna get you down
But tonight we got a reason to put it down

While they're out burning bridges all day long 
We can build those bridges all night long
 While they're out burning bridges
 We can be building bridges
We can be building bridges
We can be building bridges

Bridges

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Bridges

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


There’s something in the way gotta let you know 
I can’t tell if it’s just cardiac
Or if you just digging down deep within my soul
When I first saw you I didn’t know that I was in trouble
I didn’t see the sand baby
 Guess who’s sinking now? 

Was it something that I said
Or you just sensitive? 
(Little sensitive baby)
Baby, if you need me to go on trial I’mma testify
I’mma testify 
All I got for you is love
And I know for sure 
Let me prove it girl
 Won't you hear me out
 
See I was just floating along 
I’ve been doing what I wanna do 
Then you came
Crash landed on through
 I’m rethinking what I’m meant to do
What do I need to do  to get this through to you 
Cuz there’s one thing
One thing for certain, girl
 Pretty mamma I’m convinced I’m meant for you 

You think I like it
Every day 
Waking up with you
Got you on my brain
It’s enough to make a man go insane
You’re like salt up in the wound baby 
Your type of tempting
It’s not a game
Always love to put me back up in my place
I count the minutes
I count the hours
 Baby girl why you treat me so sour?

Meant For You

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - Meant For You

C.J. Robertson : Lyrics & Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/cj_robertson


You the type of girl make a man go crazy
 One hit off you—everything that I got I’m giving it up
 Listen baby I was thinking
Maybe we could have a little one on one
I’d talk it out but I’d rather get nasty 
Can I demonstrate that for you ?

Won’t you come a bit closer
 Can I tell you a little secret baby? 
All this time I’ve been searching
 I never found a damn thing like you
 You can feel free to correct me 
But you're the perfect mix between love and lust 

The way you win my heart with no contest 
Got me strung along I must confess 
Loosen up that rope around my neck 
And I hate to admit it, girl—but I love it 
How did they make you so perfect, baby? 

You see I always had a record of never having what I want 
No reciprocation, got jaded, sink or swim approach
 Frustrated
Been plagued through the disarrays 
No wonder why I feel the need to be a different place 
On a planet fucked as this
Finding you is like wow
 Does it really all exist? 
Baby girl you bring the hope like Leia
 So let me cast a holograph R2 can share

No Contest

C.J. Robertson & 2nd Son - No Contest

Been a long time… long way, baby… gon' get there.

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Get There

You went and changed up the recipe
Packed your things and checked out
I know you had your reasons
I know I’m not an easy man to have around
We built a home and not a family
So many years
So many doubts
I'll charge it to the game
I guess this wasn’t real love anyhow

Who can show me how to let go and how to breathe?
No one I can see
You made me your man but not your family
I’m just looking out for me 

You’re not a friend
Not an enemy
You’re a whole different person now
I know that people change
What happened to the love that used to make me so proud?

You can keep that same energy
You can fuck around and find out
It can never be the same
You can lose my name and number on your way out

You made me your man
But not your family
Just walking out on me

We can't be friends
But i’m not your enemy
I'm just looking out for me

I couldn’t say what’s ahead of me
I can hardly make a single sound
I hope you live your best life when I’m not around

I’m gonna come back a better me
I’m gonna show someone what love’s about
I’m gonna live my best life
As soon as I can stop myself from crying out

Who can
Who can show me how to let go and how to breathe?
Said I'm just looking out for me

Best Life

Always been a strange creature...

Lyrics and Vocals by: a l l i e
https://soundcloud.com/alliemoves

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/2nd-son


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Where Do We Go (ft. Gillian Mapp)

Lyrics and Vocals - https://soundcloud.com/g_ll_n
Production and Engineering - 2nd Son
Photography - Noah Ocran-Caesar
Cover Art Design - Gillian Mapp

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Wake me up in the morning
let your love
shine down shine down
yellow shades of you
on yellow shades of me

Wake Me Up In the morning
you are my sun
shine down on my skin
yellow yellow yellow shades of you
on yellow shades of me

let your love
let your love
let your love (x3)

wake me up in the morning
you are my sun
shine down on my skin
yellow shades of you
on yellow shades of me
wake me up in the morning
you are my sun

you are my you are my devotion
I'd set sail across the ocean to find you
(X2)

Wake Me (ft. Gillian Mapp)

movement // meditation

Produced by 2nd Son and @the-kount with additional keyboard / synth contributions from @rennie-b

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Synergy (ft. The Kount & Rennie B.)

@the-kount electric pianos
@rennie-b keys and synthesizers
@cy18291 additional lead synthesizer
2nd Son guitars / sampler / percussion / arrangements & production

Cover Image courtesy of Gemini Baybee www.instagram.com/gemini_baybee_

Parallel Process

Lyrics and vocals: Julien Bowry
Additional guitar and pedal magic courtesy of Ben Foran
Produced @2nd-Son
Cover photography: Raquel Da Silva raqueldasilva.com/

///lyrics

You know I
You get high
know it's wrong
feels so right

whatever you look for
let me know what you find
wherever you are
whatever you like

I'll be what you want
I'll be what you need
I'll be what you love
I'll be

Cosmic Blue

I'll Be

I'll Be (ft. Julien)

Produced by @2nd-son & @the-Kount 
Lyrics and vocals @g_ll_n 

I've been waiting right here
 to see where this goes
 nothing's for certain 
but one thing is clear 
we'll only know if we wait 
wait 
wait for it 
we'll only know what it is 
what it isn't 
what it could be 
we'll only know if we wait 
wait 
wait for it 
see where this goes 
what it is 
what it isn't 
what it could be
could be

won't you just wait oh 
won't you just wait 
 won't you just wait lawd
won't you just wait
 won't you just wait right here

I've been waiting right here 
to see where this goes
 nothing's for certain but one thing is clear , clear, clear
we'll only know if we wait
 wait
 wait for it
we'll only know what it is
what it isn't
what it could be
we'll only know

if we wait, wait, wait for it
soon we will know
what it is, what it isn't
what it could be, should be
it will unfold

won't you just wait oh 
won't you just wait 
 won't you just wait lawd
won't you just wait oh 
 won't you just wait right here

Right Here

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Right Here (ft. Gillian Mapp & The Kount)

Produced by @snclf & @2nd-son
Additional vocal adlibs courtesy of the Strange Creature @alliemoves
Cover Image by Yung Yemi yungyemi.com  www.instagram.com/yung.yemi/

Cluster Flux

Cluster Flux (ft. Sunclef & a l l i e)

Produced by 2nd Son & Emdee
Lyrics and Vocals by @matthewprogress

Oliver Jewellery

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Oliver Jewellery (ft. Matthew Progress)

Vocals @casey-mq & @alliemoves
Lyrics by Casey MQ & 2nd Son 
Block party polaroid shot by Dillon Baldassero 


Tell me if it's backwards
 I don't need ya 
Said I don't need ya baby 
Cuz our love is underground 
And you're always out of bounds
Taking me out across the lane 
Caught up in the crowd I lost my way
 Cuz I love ya and I want ya every day 
ahhh ahhh (x4)
But I know it's underground 
Yeah I know, separate goals 
Yeah I know 
I know it's underground
 You see my hands are trembling now, babe
Tell me if it's backwards 
I don't need your love if it's only underground
 I got love written slow 
Written bold

Can I just say that I want you 
And I need you coming back 
Give me everything
 I can't love you if you're always holding back
 Tell me one time yeah yeahhhhh

Tell me all the words you know 
Can you count em up real slow
 Do they say that you guide me 
Read em like they're scripts 
Surely I will not fold 
Tell me if it's backwards I don't need your love
 Ahhhhhhhhhh 
And I'm never going back

Only Underground

Only Underground (ft. Casey MQ & a l l i e)

Guitar narrative @middle-east-beats
Bass bounce @the-kount
Organ textures @rennie-b
Drums / Leads / Production @2nd-Son

Cover image courtesy of Gemini_Baybee_

Lane Change (ft. The Kount & Middle East)

Short Stories is a collection of instrumental compositions and original recordings mixed together into a fluid narrative soundtrack. This release marks the first two chapters in an ongoing series of experimental soundscapes, from psychedelic spirituals to cosmic journeys beyond the mind.

Cover Art: Gemini Baybee https://www.instagram.com/gemini_baybee_/

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