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From the new album ALL HANDS out now on Doomtree Records! 
CD/LP: Doomtree.net/allhands
iTunes: smarturl.it/allhands

GRAY DUCK
Produced by Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger
Guitar by Jake Hanson

(Mike)
Ride on Blue Boy dipped in a Uni / dickin on a squad car, vickin on a fully / sick as a Sunni, strapped with a bobby / pullin on the pin, he Tutankhamun / Boots to the ceiling, boostin the serum / so sincere, brutes new to the feeling / Ridin on the old scene, buck if you hear me / bucks for the fabric of your fiber / bricked, dips, blicks, big, brighter / Bees in a trap? No, bees in a hive / Gee is for Geezus, Gs and a nine / Oh is for O.G.s, grease in the eyes / crease in the khakis, piece to the side / Forgotten youth when older mutants played Magneto / we believed the strip and never plagiarized their credo / Fashion cutter for the fascist, dirty-lipped and truly goony / Looney Tune Schooly Ds come off cartoony / No King Cloak and Dagger, Lavabanger Legacy / No anonymity, no forced validity / False Hopes, we got close, man, we got ghost / tough shows and rough roads until every sign said, GO!

(Dessa) 
Take the skins / hang em on the walls / not trophies, just reminders / what is left here when we fall

(Stef)
Ay, I’m pushing up on your tempo / she too stoned Nintendo / I’m Vint Cerf, she Pink Floyd / I’m jumpin out the window / Sike, I’m fly, I float aight right by / cut my own moat / get by with my chose fam / dismantle thrones / All the fuck in your station / all up in your dark / awkward in ya Marc Maron conversations / call em out the park / hangin out then Van Halen cabs in your city / all up on your block opposite the cops / y’all should all fuck with me / style like a Cadillac / crash with a battle axe handy / Gucci store fire on the couture / then planes, trains, and automobiles, I’m John Candy / Y’all just can’t stand me / I make em feel ridiculous / pickin apart they postures put together meticulously awful / in the air, hostile / the fingernails, watch em / sit and stare, box em if I gotta / Panic is the fashion / I arrow to the action / Pied Piper through all types a shit / types like me y’all ain’t fuckin with

(Hook)
Go get it / or go without / You going nowhere / run that shit into the ground / Go get it / or go without / We go for broke / and run that shit into the ground

(Dessa)
Struck by lightning / with a hand in the sand / came to with a fist fused in glass / Closed the circuit skull full of white light, mouthful of ash / Sparks on the pavement / dragging the chain / anchor’s off, man, lost it again / steady on gotta push through the rain / weather in the veins, came for this / train for this, fuck / made for this, pray they miss, duck / duck gray duck gets up and running / rest fall back like a bridge in London / brand new brakes I never touch em

(Sims)
You’re all spin move, you’re doing too much / rental car, trick cigar / I’m just laughing while that whole thing blows up / looking like I’m Joakim Noah / black mask, take your gas money / my name is Sims but call me David Lynch, I make em act funny / I ain’t afraid to change lines, state, date, or face / I’m option two when you skate or die but still survive on basslines / at least for the next eight months / then I change up like it ain’t much / you do the Roger Rabbit in Shape Ups / still blabbing bout some frame up vision / MN living gray duck risen / nay fucks given, way subliminal / class-war criminal trying to make my stance more pivotal / see what is left is suspect / the Pepsi Gen went crystal meth / and punk rock dads scream rap is dead / I laughed until I lost my chill / I’m really real, half Built to Spill half Kill at Will / half shark alligator and my Philly filled / Mill City kid in the field / gritty is in the blood, proof is in the track / fifty in the tank, on you like a Mac Truck / roll with a ton on my back / better back up fast

(Hook)

DOOMTREE "Gray Duck"

Featured track on the upcoming LP from producer Elroy Zhazbot, “Kicking Asteroids.”  Beat by Zhazbot.  Written and rocked by ‘Phate.

Cold Desire ft. Asphate

Produced by Biz-One. Leak from Ab Rude & Myka 9's secret lp AyeM Ray-DIO dropping Fri. Feb.13th here: https://keepthefeel.bandcamp.com/album/ayem-ray-dio

Sunshyne - AyeM Ray-DIO

Here's a previously unreleased track from Toki Wright produced by Doomtree's Lazerbeak. "I'm Not Lying" is part of the Unreleased Exclusive series as part of the Rome Sessions (tracks written while Toki Wright was touring Europe in 2012 between album releases). 

Available for purchase at https://soultools.bandcamp.com/

Photo taken at The Colosseum in Rome

I'm Not Lying 
Lyrics by Toki Wright 
Rome Sessions - Unreleased Exclusive 

you put yourself inside my shoes 
whenever listening to tunes 
it's my positioning it proves 
how much our distance moves 

so fish into this pool 
to see what you can catch 
I'm underpaid and overstressed 
and stepping out the waters wet 
couldn't overstep 

some preparing for the second coming 
some are daring yet their running 
funny some will say they getting money 
but the money doesn't run me (it don't) 
Toki 

I wrote this poem in Rome on Via Giuseppe 
with a liter of the fountain water 
and a bag of Nestle 
out a dream about a nest egg 

to lay away 'cause Labor Day 
be playing with my paper chase 
so I just grip a Paper Mate 

and sketch a way up our of debt 
through what I could do best 
I could have fly a jet to Budapest, you bet 
but what do you expect? 
(I'm gonna sit around waiting on somebody to tell me where I can go and what I can do? Not this dude!) 

No I'm not the biggest artist on my label 
but I got a space to place 
my paper plate up at the table 
got my videos on cable 
and I play in San Diego 
just me and my microphone 
to keep my life at home stable 

so I bust it like I got a budget 
gotta love it 
ain't afraid to show my heart in public 
and I'm not a pundit 
not a puppet 

people tell me I should talk about more politics 
but life is politics 
so yahll should follow this 
acknowledge its 

punishment to spit positive 
but hey I gotta live 
I've got a kid 
I've got to say exactly how it is 
not these fibs 
('cause rappers be straight lying. Straight up!) 

I got a beat from Lazerbeak 
the other week 
I told him that I need to speak 
I couldn't sleep 
I wrote a speech 

I seen a rapper on TV 
he beat a woman to the ground 
while his homies looked around 
as he rose into the air to stomp the ground 

It made me think about the generation 
that's about to take over the nation 
and what we could do to save them 

'cause if we just waiting patient 
then my daughter'd be a patient 
and I couldn't try to justify complaining 

I know the world is yours 
the world is mine 
so it's about that time 
that we drew the line 
and grew a spine 

cause there's no moment better 
than the present for the timing 

I'm not lying!!!
credits
released 13 February 2015 
Written by Toki Wright - Nanjotokimitsu Music (ASCAP). Produced by Lazerbeak - Legend Recognize Legend (ASCAP)



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