Larry Ginni Crescent

Want You

Still Shadey's 6th studio project, released on September 17th 2021. A storybook-styled musical featuring 8 tracks of pure art.

How to kill a Caterpillar

Caterpillar Intro

No One's Gonna Save Me

MILD MONDAYS

KEEP IT LIT

Beautiful day - Jamie Grace cover

EMPTY

Too honest

[Intro]
Yeah…
3:42 a.m. again.
Phone on DND, brain on repeat.
City still breathin’, I ain’t slept in weeks.

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[Verse 1]
She said I’m cold — I said, “Nah, I’m numb.”
Every fight we had sound like reruns.
Drunk texts at two, she said, “You still up?”
I said, “Yeah, but I’m somewhere I can’t trust.”

My bro lost faith, moms lost sleep,
Ops still lurk, they don’t play for keeps.
Family fake love, only call when I peak,
Tryna guilt trip me like I ain’t been knee-deep.

Shit gets dark when the lights cut low,
Got scars on my heart only I still know.
She say I changed, I say I grew —
truth is, I just stopped explainin’ shit to you.

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[Hook]
Night shift — I been movin’ through the pain in silence,
Love turn violent, mind turn pilot.
Smoke in the whip, girl naked in my lap,
She don’t love me, just the way I relapse.

Night shift — got the world off balance,
One text, one call, could cause madness.
I ain’t right, but I’m real, that’s my flex,
I don’t pray much, just cash my checks.

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[Verse 2]
Ex hit my phone, said she miss that ache,
Told her, “Baby, that was never love — that was mistake.”
Told my dad I’d call back, never did,
Heard he talk about me like a ghost he raised mid-way, kid.

I done seen good girls turn cold off trauma,
Seen friends fold faster than commas.
Still ridin’ solo, but the seat smell like sin,
Perfume and regret, mixed with gin.

I got no peace, but I got a plan,
Every night feel like quicksand.
Tryna outrun my name, but it stick like blood,
Had to drown in vice just to feel some love.

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[Bridge / Half-Hook]
Night shift — where the demons all talk,
Where the real ones die, and the fake ones walk.
If I text you “pull up,” don’t ask why,
Just know the silence mean my pride might die.

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[Hook – Reprise]
Night shift — I been movin’ through the pain in silence,
Love turn violent, mind turn pilot.
Smoke in the whip, girl naked in my lap,
She don’t love me, just the way I relapse.

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[Outro]
Yeah…
It’s not about who stayed — it’s about who noticed.
We all play God when it’s hopeless.
Night shift.

Night Shift

Produced by @isitmalloy
Written & recorded by Quinn
Mixed by Quinn & Tok's
Mastered by Tok's


LAST TIME - Track 7 on Strength In The Pain... PART-2

I said the last time was gonna be the end
But I said goodnight
& no matter what you say 
I'm not the bad guy,
I hate the way I act sometimes


Well sometimes I'm just a little too broken
Little too fucked up disconnected from myself 
It ain't that hard to tell, I know that I said


The last time was gonna be the end
But I said goodnight and no matter what you say 
I'm not the bad guy I hate the way I act sometimes


And sometimes I get ahead of myself 
A little too often speedin' down the line 
No wonder I used to get high all the time
(never mind)
You were growing colder days passed I was never sober
And I didn't even have the heart to say goodbye 
(so I settled with a lie)


The last time was gonna be the end
But I said goodnight and no matter what you say 
I'm not the bad guy I hate the way I act sometimes


I couldn't face it so I cut all ties 
Livin' as a new guy, new life 
But a part'a me died that night
You call from time to time 
But I always hit decline 


You weren't innocent, but this ain't about you 
I can feel you in empty rooms, do you feel me too?
I wish that last time I coulda been there for you
But I was too high, all I could think about was losing you 


The last time was gonna be the end
But I said goodnight and no matter what you say 
I'm not the bad guy I hate the way I act sometimes
(but you don't care)
Where was I? I wonder if I knew you in a past life
Cause I only see the stars in your eyes
And I wish I wasn't so high all the time, all the time
All the time

LAST TIME

Second installment of the EP Series #LiveToLove

Live Again

It's Nothin ft. Joe Cooper X KamBINO

New from Paul The Messenger's new project make sure to check out the whole 8 track tape.

EMPTY

Darius James