Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

Vael

Pride & Prejudice (prod. Avail)

produced/recorded/mixed(*) on PLatForm#5 [[CentralStation]
https://soundcloud.com/availover

Words (prod. Avail)

Summer Rain (prod. Avail)

Denial (prod. Avail)

Better Than I Do (prod. Avail)

prod https://soundcloud.com/rprezo1 & https://soundcloud.com/beatsbykrave

C'est La Vie (prod. redpriest & krave)

Feat https://soundcloud.com/drrux & https://soundcloud.com/lunaa1
Prod https://soundcloud.com/beatsbykrave & https://soundcloud.com/prodsoulsss

Sleight (Ft. Drux & Lunaa) (prod. Krave + souls1)

prod https://soundcloud.com/0k1ro

You had a bad day at the job?
They need you to stay back? Well tell em that’s tough
Send me a text and i’ll come pick you up 
I’m over east w the bros pouring mud 
Matter of fact let’s go and get dinner 
I know a place that I think you will love 
Lobster and rosé that kinda stuff 
It maybe too much it’s still not enough

I booked us a table I got it for 8 
They’re open till 1 so we’ll never be late
I know that you’re stressed and that’s something I hate
They need me back soon but i’ll tell em to wait 
I won’t live forever so money gets spent
Spent more at Dior than I do on my rent 
Ofc if I cop i’ll get something for you
Shout out to Jimmy i’m smelling like Choo 
Bags in my hands when i’m walking down pitt 
Service superb so I left em a tip 
The harbour is calling let’s follow the glow 
Roll me a zoint then i’m ready to go

Afterwork (prod. k1ro)

https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv + https://soundcloud.com/recyclexbin

Put the drinks on us when the teams at the party 
Champagne at the top floor hear it go *pop*
Want some buddy?
Bartender looking stressed out, my bad bro can’t believe what he’s seeing 
Pulled up with a mask on my face all blacked out, lookin just like my TNs (lookin just like my TNs)
Lookin just like my TNs
Lookin just like my TNs
With a mask on my face all blacked out
Lookin just like my TNs

Stepping out i’m not tryna be trendy 
TNs with the fendi 
ID check at the door tryna steady 
I feel like i’m headie got one on me ready 
Got a drink in my hand, I won’t stop shit
Gatekeeping always tryna lock shit 
One glove on my hand on my pop shit
Fell in love with the girl but she’s toxic 
On the balcony watching the view go
I’m the boss I don't know about hugo 
They want me they don’t know about you bro
Get upset but you can’t get a clue tho 
I don’t quit anything I won’t relapse
I just work all the time I can’t relax 
What you said bout your bros can’t believe that
Wonder how they gon feel when they see that 
It’s about that time, pulled up to the party with it
Don’t sip my cup, that’s not bacardi in it 
Yeah it’s kinda O.T, but the whole team is in it 
Must be your loss, cause we just keep on winning 

And I been getting money no joke
But I still get to it everyday like i’m broke 
Pouring up Moët by the moat 
Nice weekend away had to get there by boat 
And you spent too much if i’m just being real
But I just bought this coat so I know how you feel
Put the shades on my face man this place too bright
I don’t give a fuck so I do what I like 
I don’t even pose when the cameras flash 
It’s a new day I don’t know about past 
Security’s bro so he gave us a pass
Been here for a week how long will you last
They ain’t even know where i’m at lowkey 
Worried bout you if you’re worrying bout me
Yeah you’re doing that shit but you’re doing it for show
Do it for me so I do it for Crow 

Lookin just like my TNs
Lookin just like my TNs
With a mask on my face all blacked out
Lookin just like my TNs

TNs (prod. Shinjin + recycleBin)

https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv

Should I put it all together in a Haiku
Maybe then you’ll understand why I don’t like  you
They have it ready for me every time I slide thru 
I don’t remember but It sounds like something i’d do 
Should I put it all together in a stanza
Don’t worry bout what i’ve been doin get ur bands up 
Bros not into comedy but he’s a stand up 
With the boys talking shit but it’s banter 

Put my foot into a hand and then they boost me
When I say it’s going good I say it loosely 
I’d say my life is like a novel not a movie 
No you cannot get a feature you’re a goofy 
Bottom of the pit we exist yeah it’s kinda fun 
Let em in again am I smart? no i’m kinda dumb 
They won’t even know me when it’s over when it’s said and done 
Gems on my wrist look like the water of a setting sun 
Hanging in the alley with my crow 
I remember thinking this is as far as i’d go 
I remember no one even caring on the low 
I coulda held a grudge but I had to let it go

They just let me in and no one questioned i’m official 
Everytime I get a text from crow it’s like a riddle 
Pendant on my neck I got it blessed it has a sigil 
Raining on the ferry im just sketchin in the drizzle 
Talking off my ear what do I look like bro your therapist?
I feel like i’m Leon all the evil in this residence 
I just spent 11 at Dior to show my reverence 
How’d they cut you off and you ain’t even get a severance 
Just keep it real that’s all you’ll ever need to do 
We’re in the gallows if you want then you can hang out too
There’s a part of me I hid so I freed it 
No one really wants it that’s the reason that I need it

Haiku (prod. Shinjin)

https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
feat https://soundcloud.com/jxxyy

Tell me what you want I’ll get extra 
I can get you whatever you want I’m the finesser
No thanks needed it’s my pleasure 
One mans trash is another mans treasure 

Another bad day tryna save it 
Sapphires on the walls thought it was the basement 
Lights in my face so long it’s still glowing 
I’ve been at the grove so long I started growing 
I'm a trespasser fuck a permit 
Lock on the door put a key in then I turn it
Gas on the bridge light a match then we burn it 
Go against me honestly is it worth it 
If you left a loophole imma find it
I just put a different name down when I sign it 
I’ve been doing it for so long I get a feeling
It’s called getting more for your money not stealing 

[Joeyy]
Explaining my intentions wouldnt be worth the breath
Purposely answered wrong every question on the test
If i'm crossed once more then im convinced theyre playing X
Os in my bank app fill the hole in my chest
Toe to toe with God its like looking at myself
Say a prayer for this animal that lended me its pelt
Fur on my collar calf skin on my belt
Crack the bottle on a pop and im pouring up gel
If I pop this pill hope I can focus
Bottom of my sneaks look like a focusrite
My wallet opens up like a lotus
If I leave with a bag then its going right

Finesser (ft. Joeyy) (prod. Shinjin)

https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv + https://soundcloud.com/recyclexbin

Grove stepper
But I’m wearing French leather 
Had to rock the Hermès & the Dolce matched together
She don’t know the streets 
I’m from West and she’s from East 
We can go wherever say the word homie 
Grove stepper 
But my shoes were made in Italy 
They had to hate me, then we met and now they’re feeling me 
Extermination, I come back they can’t get rid of me 
Grove stepping G-Stepping homie 

She only knew me for like a day
Now she calls me Crow 
Told you where it is so now you know
Welcome to the Grove 
I've got so much issues on my mind
Take 1 at a time 
So much people tryna hit my line 
Keep wasting my time 
Put it in my pocket bro don’t stare 
No one knows it’s there 
You wanted a feature over there? that’s a new moncler 
22s from shoes down to the street, mud across my feet 
Couldn’t see the Grove cause of the trees, have to look to see 
Is there something wrong then let me know what you want me to do 
All you have to do is ask me i’ll do what’s needed to  
Don’t worry bout it honestly I can handle it fine 
I won’t stay too long ive gotta go I hate wasting your time 

I’m going round and round
I’m going round and round again 
Need time to think it through
I’m thinking something isn’t true 
Can’t play pretend this time
I know what I still need to do 
I know it's fake, I need it true 
Like autumn time, I fall for you
I don’t want your karma turning bad 
I’ve seen a friend turn to a snake & bro it’s sad 
At the park with Spark he pulled it out the bag
Do it for yourself and you don’t need to brag 
It’s all about the Grove
It’s all about the Grove 
You’ve either seen it or you haven’t 
Still nobody knows
I had step up on the street and bring with me the place 
I know it’s hard for you to know, that’s something I should face

Grove Stepper (prod. Shinjin + recycleBin)

https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv

How can you be so greedy don’t you have everything that you want? 
You've seen the roof & not the floor
You’ve seen the drop & not the fall
Get out of my DMs asking me shit bro I don’t really care
I’ll keep it real bro they don’t care that’s what they said when you’re not there 
We’re doing Magic tricks inhaling gas exhaling smoke 
When I first a heard your track no lie I asked if it’s a joke 
There's 6 of us we're at the Grove that’s lot of Crows 
Got it imported what can I say
This one’s on me you don’t have to pay
Tryna catch up I still got away
You still got time it’s not too late 
If it don’t fit it gets cut like a tile 
I’m Wearing shit that was never in style 
Pouring the clear in the cup with the bile 
I’ll be there soon just give me a while 
I’m talking in code so only the bros know what it means 
I spent $200 on this belt to sag my jeans
I’m at the Copelow for the day hanging with fiends 
I feel like Dalinar I saw it in my dreams 
I’m such a Truther even if I lie it’s facts 
Might go to sweden for the week just to relax 
Might link w Drux & Lunaa yeah might link w scrap
I heard you gave up on yourself what’s up with that? 
That little crescent in the distance makes me calm 
I gave up everything for nothing no holes in my palm
Told crow i’m giving it another shot he just said garn 
They said i’d never make it I think that’s part of my charm 
So much choices to make I doubt I’ll ever rest in peace
I think that you would freak if you saw the cost of this fleece 
Got true religion on me I don’t need to see a priest 
I think i’ve got a problem so much 0’s on my receipts
Just copped some new kicks yesterday the bottom red just like my priest 
To do what you would like to do you’ve gotta do what you want least 
You know there’s something out there calling it’s on you whether you find it 
It’s really been too long i’m just happy we’re Reunited

Reunited (prod. Shinjin)

https://soundcloud.com/recyclexbin + https://soundcloud.com/rodmadeit

This times for us baby gon put my phone on DND
I’m at the store posted up lookin like a PNG
I want whatever you want, baby what you tellin me ?
Whatever you want 
What. ever. you. want.

Just like a rose
When I saw you my heart it un-froze
Couldn’t rewrite it if I wanted, I’m not much good at prose 
One of those?
Yeah, been there, time heals it the most 
“What if we never got to meet?”
Well I guess nobody knows 
Even if I had amnesia it would it stay on my mind 
When people ask me what I’m doing I say "Wasting my time"
Nothings surprises me when you realise we even exist 
There’s a song in my head it goes a little like this 

I hate to say goodbye so I won’t talk anymore 
Walk in the clear blue sky I don’t wanna wait anymore
Day after day I’ve tried but I think this time it’s working 
The PostLow for certain, in too deep like I’m surfing 
Cash coming in rn but I don’t care for it much 
They tried act so cool but I’m not into that stuff 
All of the words right there on my lips like a kiss 
There’s a song in my head it goes a little like this

DND (prod. recycleBin + rodmadeit)

https://soundcloud.com/availover
It’d be an honour to die by your hand
It’d be an honour to die by your hand
It’d be an honour to be touched by you
It’d be an honour to be seen
Ink on the quill can’t write it out
There’s nothing even left that I can lie about
Leak into existence in the hideout
Want the answers, careful what you find out

Think about it subtly
Only one step from what I wanna be
Only one moment from a tragedy
Happens all the time that’s why I treat it casually
There’s only one story can’t re-write
In the green grove with the green knight
Say it all true or stay silent
Follow through if you wish make it violent

It could be a 100 years I wont write back
And theres something tryna kill me but I fight back
Everyone left me alone but I like that
There’s only moss on the walls where I hide at
Leaving embers on the end when I’m ashing it
Leaving leather on my hands when I’m packing it
Leaving leaves on the path when I walk on it
Leaving details out my mouth when I talk on it

By Your Hand (Avail)

https://soundcloud.com/availover
No lights or cameras, action only
Judge me truly I’m not holy
I’ve received the shoulder coldly
How’d I know? Somebody told me
How’d I know? Somebody tells me
I have killed all my dependence
I will kill all you pretenders, I will kill all your defenders
Stop the thinking you’re not Descartes, feel the love but it’s a grey heart
Dumbest cunt don’t ever play smart, how the fuck are you still talking to me?
Kill me now if it stops you talking, you can run I’ll stick to walking
What’d you think it was I’m ripping? Did you want to be a victim?

Did you want to be a victim, well your wish is my commandment
Compliments are underhanded, it’s not your fault I understand it
Do you even believe in what your saying, the company you keep it says enough
Revelations on the cusp, decision making must be tough
Keep the chain on like I’m richter, there’s only one they call the ripper
There’s only so much I can say now, smell the rain it’s on the way now
All the stones are in a ring now, here’s a song that you can sing now
Come ups bout have its bring down, citys finally got its king now

I bring the silence to the good night, put the sigil on the pendant
That’s your friend and you defend it? Guess the good outweighs the evil
Guess that’s how you go around it
I will kill all these pretenders
No I will not do your interview, I don’t care who you can bring with you
Have you even seen the train line? have you ever seen the crows?
There’s a jealousy abundant and there’s envy in its throes
They are held down by the claws, can you even see the cause
There was me before the trees, falling straight down to my knees

Somebody Tells Me (produced by Avail)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael
It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael

Rather dead than dead wrong
Had some bad times turned to good songs
If you could would you change your life’s tale?
Would you live inside the grey Vael?
I was scared of nothing it’s all fear
I was looking for the answers they’re all here
Good try even if they had all failed
Took the trophy for myself now it’s all Vaeled
Now I’m all Vael

It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael
It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael

It takes a risk to take a risk
I told em take whatever they want, they ain’t take a thing
Was hiding myself from myself and that means everything
Wear the Vael everywhere feels like a wedding ring
How could it be anything else?
To let it win it would mean that I’m losing myself
It’s funny how I thought it’s over and nothing would help
And nothing did help me except ending Vael itself
Now I’m Vael itself
But, In the Vael it’s all grey
I tried to turn it red, I tried to turn it blue
They tried to tell me about the things that I should do
But you don’t know about the things that I’ve been through

It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael
It had to be me that chooses
Cause it’s really only me that loses
There’s no guards watching this gaol
You don’t have to live inside that Vael


Vael (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

If I kill it I feel like that’d be too nice of me
Just because I suffered doesn’t mean that I think they should too
But I’m only human, who knows what I’ll do?
(You know what I’ll do, you know what I’m going through)
I’m the prince
I pulled it out the stone, therefore I exist
I’m sorry for the texts that I miss
I’m sorry for the friendships that I miss
I was busy, I was trying not to kill

What’s the problem? let us know
Contradictions aren’t allowed we can not let no body go
Brightest stories ever written in the darkest ink I own
I could end the suffering but that might hit too close to home
I mean it’s true
What’s my problems to someone I never knew
It’s old to me, but all for them, I’ll make it new
I’ve heard the tales bout the grounds I’m stepping through
There's nothing special bout my life but just for now it’ll have to do

If I kill it I feel like that’d be too nice of me
Just because I suffered doesn’t mean that I think they should too
But I’m only human, who knows what I’ll do?
(You know what I’ll do, you know what I’m going through)
I’m the prince
I pulled it out the stone, therefore I exist
I’m sorry for the texts that I miss
I’m sorry for the friendships that I miss
I was busy, I was trying not to kill

Who sits atop it isolated?
Who sits as cold as life, who makes decisions this impatient?
There’s lots of notes that I’ve played perhaps it’s time I face it
Who’s this, I’m asking? the one I’ve alienated...
The stage is set, it hurts to partake in truth
I’m mourning for someone I never knew
Round of applause this one is all for you
I became the prince that they needed me to 

I’m the prince
I pulled it out the stone, therefore I exist
I’m sorry for the texts that I miss
I’m sorry for the friendships that I miss
I was busy, I was trying not to kill
If I kill it I feel like that’d be too nice of me
Just because I suffered doesn’t mean that I think they should too
But I’m only human, who knows what I’ll do?
(You know what I’ll do, you know what I’m going through)
I’m the prince

The Prince (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having, lately?
What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been feeling, it’s probably nothing probably
They know me well there is no way they’re hiding something from me
Thanks for having me tonight I’m feeling so adjusted
Did I just open my mouth even I feel disgusted
What’s this feeling I’ve been feeling
Can’t escape the thoughts I’m in the hotel room just reeling
Open up a window is it hot or cold? don’t know
What’s this feeling I’ve been choosing, what’s this choice that I’ve been making all alone

Whats this illusion am I fed up? Keep my head up? yeah I guess…
You could do it even better? Go ahead and be my guest
Where’s euphoria? Cause lately I am over being stressed
When’s the results coming in cause I am over taking tests
Don’t reach out to me cause I am not in a state to reply
I been at the fair for so long, oh that’s only in my mind
In the distance building nothing buildings up, it’s made of nothing
If delusions are of grandeur then this reality's bluffing

What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having, lately?
What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been feeling, it’s probably nothing probably
They know me well there is no way they’re hiding something from me
Thanks for having me tonight I’m feeling so adjusted
Did I just open my mouth even I feel disgusted
What’s this feeling I’ve been feeling
Can’t escape the thoughts I’m in the hotel room just reeling
Open up a window is it hot or cold? Don’t know
What’s this feeling I’ve been choosing, what’s this choice that I’ve been making all alone

I’m starting to think if I live by the sword I’ll die by something else
That was real as fuck when Crow said “all you’re killing is yourself”
Prophecy was never real but I’ll make sure that it’s fulfilled
We can’t live with our regret so that feeling has to be killed
Layers only getting heavier the longer that it’s used
"What's the point of changing anything, you’re only gonna lose"
Truth is losing something old creates the room for something new
Truth is if it meant survival, I’d convince you of it too

What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having, lately?
What’s this feeling I been having?
What’s this feeling I been having?


What's This Feeling (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it
Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it

Are you stupid or what? I’ll make an assumption
Turn my whole life into a private function
Real life moments seeing this stuff
You get what you want If you need it enough
I’ve decided my story will be about victory
Step on a devil that don’t mean shit to me
Kill all pretenders I’ll try something new
The flames so hot that it’s actually blue
One story about victory
One small man and his will to win
One nobody and his chance
One nobody that you’ve never met
One somebody you can’t forget
One nobody who changed himself so in a way everything’s changed

Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it
Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it

Real grove shit what’s up goes down
No ig, I’m I.G. right now
Tapped with the roots that’s under the ground
So I keep my head high when I’m walking around
No words needed we knock on wood
The world's everything that you wish you would
Wait too long and you’ll wish you could
Never did what’s good, I just did what I should
They said live your life and wait till you're dead
Get judged after everything’s been said
Long ass story's gonna get read
But I’m here right now judge that instead
Never been you but I’m getting the gist
Black fletching go past like mist
If I send an arrow it never gets missed
How’s chivalry dead if we exist?

Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it
Once in a life time? I like my chances
Prorsum always, knights and lances
Wait till you're dead to start giving it up
There is no after, we’re living up it

[We're alive right now, we're living it up
We're alive right now, we're living it up
We're alive right now... we're, we're]

Once In A Lifetime (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

And the winner’s me you dummy
Live or live, I made a choice
Fog is thick, the lights are dim, all I followed was a voice
There’s a sorrow to these stones
There’s a story to this gate
There’s a reason I am who I am and they think it’s too late

Another sorry soul contemplating doing what I do
Let me be the first to tell you just be careful what you choose
When the difficulty happens I saw how quick they all froze
Don’t you call yourself a stepper if you ain’t planted a rose
In the grey damp alley where the feeling's always near
Where the candles and the stale air are all that you can hear
If you see the same puddle it means that you’re getting close
It was feeling like I don’t exist that I loved the most
Detective Dion on the case, I’ll be the first to solve it all
Took my book and all my ink but I’m still writing on the wall
Rust and mist, it tried to turn my life into a living gaol
Me and Shin were back to back and it was us against the Vael

And the winner’s us you dummy
Live or live, we made a choice
Fog is thick, the lights are dim, all we followed was a voice
There’s a sorrow to these stones
There’s a story to this gate
There’s a reason I am who I am and they think it’s too late

You’re feeling sorry for yourself and I feel sorry for you too
But in this life it's not about what you feel, it’s about what you do
If I tell you all the secrets you become one of my kin
Can you see the gate within the puddle? yeah we’re jumping in
My whole life’s a contradiction, I should be the one that’s dead
I was too stuck in my head, I couldn’t get outta my bed
Yon of Vael, rain or hail, I’m the one who made it out
Couldn’t let my story be defeat that’s what living's about
The nights when it felt like the only option was to wait and hide
Even when you live your life and all it felt like was you lied
Not to live would go against the codes that I chose to abide
All my tombstone's gonna say is “Here lies Dion” And “He tried.”

And the winner’s me you dummy
Live or live, I made a choice
Fog is thick, the lights are dim, all I followed was a voice
There’s a sorrow to these stones
There’s a story to this gate
There’s a reason I am who I am and they think it’s too late

And The Winner Is... (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv & (co-prod) https://soundcloud.com/availover
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

On the ships, wearing sails
Tried to change our course but it was to no avail
They almost OD’d… I O3’d
The building has been built, the procession must proceed
It's inevitable I mean
High battlements? You should see the stakes
They wanna go to war? well we’ll meet em at the gates
I’ve given everything I guess this is what it takes
The heraldry has one tree and its fended off the snakes

Simplest life, that’s all that I lead
I’ll never see the shade but I still will sow the seed
The ending draws near can’t you smell it on the breeze
Acceptance is a burden that I’ve learnt I want to need
The hours turn to weeks, the strong become the weak
We’re at the town square and they’ve come to see me speak
Tree roots, engraved into my palms
They know me everywhere I go it’s like my coat of arms

On the ships, wearing sails
Tried to change our course but it was to no avail
They almost OD’d… I O3’d
The building has been built, the procession must proceed
It's inevitable I mean
High battlements? You should see the stakes
They wanna go to war? well we’ll meet em at the gates
I’ve given everything I guess this is what it takes
The heraldry has one tree and its fended off the snakes

Just take a breath, who knows what happens next
I promise to protect you till there’s metal in my chest
Till where that fight happened has been washed away by rain
Created from the ground, so in the ground I shall remain
I’m from a place where the paintings never dry
The doves are bringing peace but the Crows will never lie
I'd rather die knowing that the grapes have become soured
The truth is there is nothing much worse than a coward

On the ships, wearing sails
Tried to change our course but it was to no avail
They almost OD’d… I O3’d
The building has been built, the procession must proceed
It's inevitable I mean
High battlements? You should see the stakes
They wanna go to war? well we’ll meet em at the gates
I’ve given everything I guess this is what it takes
The heraldry has one tree and it’s fended off the snakes

Inevitable (prod. Shinjin & Avail)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

It’s post-traumatic, tried to make my heart metallic
Tried to kill me with the silence, nothing new I’m used to violence
Doesn’t need me, it’s obsessive, it doesn’t get the message
Where I go it’s still located, it needs me to validate it
Wants me dead I’m living proof, the lies will cost the truth
Told bro what I’m going through and all he said is “as you do”
Live to fight another day, perhaps another night
Always one second away, always just there outta sight
And it won’t, but it can
And it’s scared to give in
Cause it knows
Oh it knows, it knows
That it’s taking us both in the end

We keep the talks kinda brief
Keep the compass in the breeze
I put one foot on the street and the other's bound to follow
Keep the spinners changing fates
Keep the corvus on the gates
There is one thing today hates
That I never need tomorrow
Let’s make a pact, just yours and mine
Wherever you go, so will I
I heard it wants to get me and that’s fine
I’ve got time
I’ve got time

We could count the seconds if we wanted, watching days go
Tell me how much water does it take to make a rainbow?
I’ve become a fan of everything we’re at the same show
I heard you were there I wouldn’t know if you ain’t say so
I’ve been lost, I’ve been frightened, I’ve been worried and that’s true
But the stepper keeps on stepping because what else can he do?
Built the gates outta the brambles, let em know what we've been through
I heard that it wants to get me well I wanna get it too
I just think that it’s obsessed
It said it never needs me but I always feel it’s breath
Go ahead and take me only thing you’ll get is flesh
I forget about before I wonder what’s gon’ happen next

We keep the talks kinda brief
Keep the compass in the breeze
I put one foot on the street and the other's bound to follow
Keep the spinners changing fates
Keep the corvus on the gates
There is one thing today hates
That I never need tomorrow
Let’s make a pact, just yours and mine
Wherever you go, so will I
I heard it wants to get me and that’s fine
I’ve got time
I’ve got time

Brief (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

I don’t want your roses, I’ve been tending to my garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this sacrilege I witness, it’s no wonder I’m astounded
All this deviation from it, don’t you know where it was founded ?
I don’t want your roses, I grow my own in the garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this being scared for nothing, may as well be for scared for something
All this hoarding and protecting time to open up and give and give and...

Put the destination first and that’s all you’ll ever get
This was all just an idea but that’s so easy to forget
All the hate gets weeded out and through the Grove you’ll grow the truth
Ofc I still rock my TNs I can’t forget bout my roots
Back when we had no money to even catch the train
I got opal on me now tell them coppers check my chain
There’s no therapy for us but we've been working all the same
There’s no respite here for us so we’ve walking through the rain

I don’t want your roses, I’ve been tending to my garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this sacrilege I witness, it’s no wonder I’m astounded
All this deviation from it, don’t you know where it was founded ?
I don’t want your roses, I grow my own in the garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this being scared for nothing, may as well be for scared for something
All this hoarding and protecting time to open up and give and give and...

You’ve been looking for the path and didn’t realise you were on it
They asked who was on the track and didn’t realise we were on it
Im like if the fountain’s to the east then I’m what’s left of it
That one hill looks beautiful but would you put your death on it ?
Would you put your life on it? Intertwine your life with it?
Quick decisions to be made happens in less than a minute
Do you really have to ask me? You know me.. the sacrificer
I’ve been looking at my life, I think I’ve earnt the title Lifer 

I don’t want your roses, I’ve been tending to my garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this sacrilege I witness, it’s no wonder I’m astounded
All this deviation from it, don’t you know where it was founded ?
I don’t want your roses, I grow my own in the garden
Keep on begging for a reason, but you need to beg my pardon
All this being scared for nothing, may as well be for scared for something
All this hoarding and protecting time to open up and give and give and...

Roses (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

There’s nothing new under the sun that hasn’t already been said
There’s nothing wrong in the acceptance that you’ve already been dead
“How heavy is it? how heavy is it?” don’t act like you forget
You can smile with the rest, let the truths be said in jest
There’s nothing new about disdain, but novelty still has its place
New Vael with the wedding gown and it’s still covering my face
New truth isn’t really new, but I won’t tell if you don’t either
Nothing disrespectful either, they’re still following the leader
I’ve been offered this and that, but none of that was that appealing
When they ask how long until I tour? I’m like “I know the feeling...”
I don’t worry bout the end or the feeling of the scythe
That’s not death knocking at the door my Crow, that’s probably life
Nothing new about a death but mine or yours might carry weight
Some say they can change their lives, and others say they’re bound to fate
Either way I like illusions, so I’ll stand here at the gate
So I’ll stand here in indifference just in case it opens up
“Nothing new under the sun”… but all I’m seeing is the moon
It’s one a.m. right now for me, and for Crow it’s probably noon
Something strange did happen too, I saw the Fountain in the West
I’m not saying I saw it first, I’m just saying I saw it best
How? How could there not be one single thing that’s new?
Wear the Vael, tell me if that’s something someone else can do?
Check your heart, is there something you still think you can go through?
There’s your proof, that there’s something yet to do
That there’s something new for you
Yesterday there was a tragedy I guess
No more Vael only Vaeled, Only I could do the rest
Can’t end what’s already ended but I did my best
Who would love and who would die? I was down to take the test
Feel the pull, it’s the middle of the sun
It’s like being someone’s son
It’s experiencing fun
It’s that never there whisper that keeps beating like a drum
It’s that secret that you’re in on, even if there isn’t one
It’s the sacred, it’s the sense the you belong even with trees  
There’s a feeling on the breeze, that you feel and no one sees
It’s still winning even when it feels like everything should fail
It’s a moment (never pale), I call going through the Vael

Nothing New (New Vael) (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

Can’t, can’t sleep
All I pray for is the end of the week
All I need is for you not to speak
In this tunnel that I’ll never get to leave
Can’t, can’t sleep
Have you ever felt the cold therein
It’s a battle that I just can’t win
Another long day I put it in the bin

You can run and run away
But you take that with you anyway
You’ll forget and wait and wait and wait
But it all comes back and it all comes back no matter what
Close my eyes
But it finds its way to my mind
Hear the rain drops falling outside
Until it’s finally…(Shh) goodnight

Can’t, can’t sleep
All I pray for is the end of the week
All I need is for you not to speak
In this tunnel that I’ll never get to leave
Can’t, can’t sleep
Have you ever felt the cold therein
It’s a battle that I just can’t win
Another long day I put it in the bin

The sky’s sinking in, it spins in a spiral
Attempts at avoiding the things that are vital
The heart in my chest almost jumps out my ribs
There’s so much to forget I forgot to forgive
It’s torture
It’s easier to walk on water
Send the shadow over me if you might
All I wait for is… goodnight

Can’t, can’t sleep
All I pray for is the end of the week
All I need is for you not to speak
In this tunnel that I’ll never get to leave
Can’t, can’t sleep
Have you ever felt the cold therein
It’s a battle that I just can’t win
Another long day I put it in the bin

Can't Sleep (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different
I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different

Perhaps my hand will never get to hold the thing it ever wants
We're not to become the butterflies, we’re turning into moths
See that stone skimming a few times, but it ultimately drops
The connections never there, the sentence started how it stops
Day light Lifer, I’ve been living in the lightest of the stream
Put the leaf into the stream and now they’re getting what I mean
It’s honestly insane the things I did in hopes that I’d feel good
I used to think I was insane I get on beats, I’m understood

I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different
I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different

I’m getting older I should quit, but where’s the poetry in that?
They perceive me on the beach, the western breeze is at my back
Pictures always by myself, it’s only me be where I’ve been at
Don’t you stand right by the door, say "nevermore" like it’s a fact
All the hours that I’ve lost trying to avoid the loss of time
Perhaps I could save a life and all it takes is all of mine
People getting to live life and I was jealous of it too
But there has to be someone like me so they can be like you
I’m a normal guy had times I felt like I was stuck in hell
Lowkey it didn’t work out, but besides that I’m doing well
I don’t want to sell out, but I hope that something starts to sell
I’m on the cusp of leaving, but I never will Crow can’t you tell? 

I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different
I’m always real, but sometimes I am fake
I’m always here, but sometimes I’m at the lake
I’m sorry you don’t like me, tell me how to fix it
Wanted to be me so much, I became something different
﻿


Real (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout
Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout

Another Lifer shows their face, we bring Murder to their place
We survive and end despair, that’s connection in the air
Who’s the warden that’s been watching? Who’s the sullen that betrayed us?
In the garden where they made us, we want life, you wanted famous
One hand is all that I’ll need I’ll end the history right now
Don’t you step another foot if you’re not bringing hallowed ground
Don’t you bring those losers round us they aren’t allowed in the town
Not everything’s gonna be easy sometimes up means goin down

Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout
Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout

The years I’ve given to this life, I think that it got the best of me
I don’t know if I could change it, I think it was destiny
Our life’s like this Roundtable, you’ve been sitting next to me
Tried to hit me with the curse but you keep on blessing me
If I get the word from Shinjin then I know it's factual
Put the words into the stone so you know it’s actual
Another stupid day wasted but at least I tried to
You thought that I could do better, but you know I’m fried too

Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout
Clean the slate by hand
Smile every chance I can
We got choice for choosers
We got uses for the users
There were days I wish I could forget bout what I wish I could
There’s days I think about other days I was thinking bout

Clean Slate (prod. Shinjin)

Produced & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/shinjinv
Written & Art by https://soundcloud.com/bydion

We carry on the corpse, even that sounds like a joke
Though the comedy is slow, this is still a funny show
The depravities I've reached tryna feel some type of thing
Tryna let somebody in, I don't even wanna win
I don't want all the attention but the liar does their best
When they've given all their truth and this is all they've got left
I could tell you I don't want it, but then in the same breath
I'm still telling you about it, one of life's greatest jests

Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea
Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea

I see the crescent in the distance, but I'm waiting on the shore
You could tell me all about it, if you wanted tell me more
Another chapter gets written, but who am I writing for?
Another day losing my mind, but who is even keeping score?
In the rivers that we float, all our lives have been led
Everything's already happened, in a way I've been dead
Looking at the brighter side but I'm a pessimist at heart
If these are the best years of life then you can see why it looks dark

Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea
Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea

Just keep on thinking about things that doesn't matter anymore
I wanna dance, I wanna live the life I've heard of once before
The comedy is ever endless and the stage is fully set
There is no love that's not worth dying over I cannot forget
I have separated separation now I just exist
I don't wanna feel your lips if there's no passion in your kiss
My life and the way I've led it hasn't changed much from the start
But letting go of what had never been has been the hardest part
Maybe I have troubles getting close to me
Or maybe I have troubles getting close to you
All I really know is I don't know a thing
And maybe that's all that I ever knew
Clear, clear skies I see the smile
I am who I am and that's vile
I saw what you said and it's true to me
I am who I am it's nothing new to me

Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea
Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea

Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea
Dance, let the light take its fee
Let the love take from me everything that you need
There's conviction and then there's what's left of me
How far can the sun make its way down the sea

Conviction (prod. Shinjin)

prod. https://soundcloud.com/0k1ro + https://soundcloud.com/pw4prez

To see it all alive - it talks, it breathes
To fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed
The falling has a price: the thing it’s falling through
I’m calling someone out, it’s YOU! Yes, you…
The Pentecostal rose, the fire it burns
I stand here in the middle, I spin, it turns
I’d give another eye, join Woden or Brigid
The coldest of the summit it’s freezing it’s frigid

We give and then receive our thumbs are turning green
To write another line is to live more than I’ve seen
Furthest of the furtive, and still they’re going farther
We don’t have to kill, we build Cills under Darragh
Betrayal has to happen and that’s the only truth
Betrayal has a taste it’s the fountain of our youth
The red is turning white, the white is turning grey
The day is turning grim and they’re still turning away
For every lie that’s told I’m coming back with mercy
For every promise broken I’m coming back with vows
I saw the shadow disappear and I blessed it
I saw their actions and I seriously detest it

To see it all alive - it talks, it breathes
To fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed
The falling has a price: the thing it’s falling through
I’m calling someone out, it’s YOU! Yes, you…
The Pentecostal rose, the fire it burns
I stand here in the middle, I spin, it turns
I’d give another eye, join Woden or Brigid
The coldest of the summit it’s freezing it’s frigid

yes, YOU! (prod. k1ro + sochi)

prod. https://soundcloud.com/pw4prez

Is it not? Can you tell me: is it not?
In the water when it drops, in the wood when it rots, Is it not?
If it isn’t where’s the harm? If it is I’ll take a chance
If you stood where I stand you’d see never-ending blue
In a world that wants it done, I still wonder what could be
There it is, is it gone? it’s so far away from me
Is it not? Tell me now if it isn’t
Then goodbye and good riddance
But it is, as it always ever was

My heart’s resilient, it can break and still care
Where’s the Crow? I don’t know, somewhere in the blackened air
Where’s a tulip or a rose, do you know or even care?
Does it matter if you did?
I remember what’s forgot, to forget, so someone else can remember
And the cycle goes around from December to December
From the henge back to me, is it not there as I speak?
Is it not there as we breathe, from now to eternity?
Depending? well I think everything depends
To begin there has to be something that never truly ends
Reward is nothing more then what is left when something is endured
Cold hands and warm heart, I’m still carrying the sword

Is it not? Can you tell me: is it not?
In the water when it drops, in the wood when it rots, is it not?
If it isn’t where’s the harm? If it is I’ll take a chance
If you stood where I stand you’d see never-ending blue
In a world that wants it done, I still wonder what could be
There it is, is it gone? it’s so far away from me
Is it not? Tell me now if it isn’t
Then goodbye and good riddance
But it is, as it always ever was

The cruelest second is the first
But the good news is it doesn’t get much better or much worse
Jacaranda purple on the floor, is nothing to be spared?
Is there hope for someone like me who has only ever cared?
I’m not scared, but I think there is something that I will miss
And it’s this, it’s a chance to remember all the beauty of it all
Why let me even have the colours, every scent, and tenderness
Just for the destination to be emptiness?

Is it not? Can you tell me: is it not?
In the water when it drops, in the wood when it rots, is it not?
If it isn’t where’s the harm? If it is I’ll take a chance
If you stood where I stand you’d see never-ending blue
In a world that wants it done, I still wonder what could be
There it is, is it gone? it’s so far away from me
Is it not? Tell me now if it isn’t
Then goodbye and good riddance
But it is, as it always ever was


Dion

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