Written by Jim Swim
Produced by Avery Moss and Mary Bozaan

Tuesday Night

I hope these songs make you proud of me
Life keeps on pullin’ um out of me
Burnin’ through calories 
Still learnin’ how to be free
While I work for my salary 
Trippin’ on inches in infinite space
All of my symptoms fit with my case
I wish existence would fit with my taste
I get it what it gives and release what it takes 
Then make a face fake it pray till I’m gracious
It takes so much sometimes 
Can’t pretend that I hang so tough 
That I don’t complain all the time though 
Keep my defenses in fight mode
Lookin’ at what I don’t like
I know you’re with me you give me reminders
That get me back laughin at all of my s***
Help me float over the walls that I hit
You make it less than a lot
Thanks for the ways that you get me 
You give me a taste of the home I forgot
I phone home with the typical trouble on the tip of my tongue
Same old hunger to soothe
I take up space you make room
You make what aches feel like new
I feel it all I put faith in the facts
Open my heart when I work on my back
Try and align all my words and my acts
All I worry bout’s everyone everywhere everything
Clever men pullin’ too many strings
I think about what the end’ll bring
Call you when it all of it goes
You keep me comforted most 
Calm isn’t far when you’re close
I copy your pose
Pause for the moment and hold
I hit the bar till it closed
I still get lost and indulge
I wanna be free
I guess I got what I chose
Caught up involved with my role
My thoughts and my goals
You hold a lot that’s untold
So I’ll keep on listenin’
When you say how it can be
I phone home with the typical trouble on the tip of my tongue
Same old hunger to soothe
I take up space you make room
You make what aches feel like new

Inches In Infinite Space

Jim Swim x ADE - Waited

Comin' On Slowly

Saw it Go

Produced by Abraham and Jim Swim
Artwork by Kenzi Reyelle

Jim Swim x Novet- "Orbs in the Sky"

Written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Avery Moss and Jim Swim

Jim Swim & Avery Moss- Heading Home Again

Jim Swim x Blookah- Almost Time

A song for the hours we get away from work with the ones we love. 

Lyrics

Love
I know that you get tired of the news
And the job that you don’t really wanna do
Come on in and get where it’s alright though
Think I might know what you’d like most
Come on in let's get it started hey
Boulevardiers
Know you're starvin' hey
Yeah yeah yeah
Know ya hardly ate
Work was hard to take
Tell me all your day
Yeah yeah yeah
Spin around let’s unwind
One time
Then float and sway
Here now
It’s sunshine
Here’s your lime
Gotta toast to make
To you
So listen
You moved so efficient
Your dues paid with interest
It’s true
You grinded now it’s tonight
Here’s to livin some life
I give no tips or advice
Let's drink to now and later on when we’ll go do what we do

It’s hard on a body doin jobs that a body don’t like
Love
We got debt but let me spend this check on you tonight
Love
One night vacation
One night vacation for two
One night vacation
It’s hard on a body doing jobs that the body don’t like love
One night

Knock that back lets get fresh and dressed
Grab your sweater and your specs
Feels good to know what’s next
I feel like dancin' down your steps
Let’s go to get less low off that blessed potion
When it sets in we get less social but more open
Out on the town with all these college kids
Tryna forget how small it is
We hit a dive with a vibe that fits
Run up a tab like my daddy's rich
Sayin all that we need to say
Tryna hold back with the PDA
It’s not so easy you lead the way
Let um all see it they’ll be okay

Take me away
I’m almost there
It’s almost time
To go to bed
With you again
I’ve had my share
So steer me slowly
Take me away
I’m almost there
It’s almost time to go

It’s hard on a body doin jobs that a body don’t like
Love
We got debt but let me spend this check on you tonight
Love
One night vacation
One night vacation for two
One night vacation
It’s hard on a body doing jobs that the body don’t like love
One night

One Night Vacation

Home Cooked

been usin youth to loosin up

soundcloud.com/blookah


Headies ft. Martie Bee (prd. Blookah)

 Just givin winks to the theatre. 

beat by @Corygotbeatsdoe




low key (prod. Coryayo)

raps from hypnagogia


@corygotbeatsdoe
@lordmatador


to you (prod. CoryaYo x Matador)

"Yass!!" w/ Villanova Slim(prod. Blookah)

another one with the mighty @villanovaslim

purchase Dil Withers' very dope beat tape here: https://grandgarden.bandcamp.com/album/studies

"Knuckleball" w/ Villanova Slim (prod. Dil Withers)

Did a little rap over one of my favorite @corygotbeatsdoe joints for Flow Media's pop-up performance series.

easylike freestyle (prod. CoryaYo)

At the beginning of the summer @coryayo said it would it be cool if I revisited some tracks from his Young Vibes LP for freestyles and one-off verses. Whenever I've needed a dose of insperado I've listened to that project and it never fails to provide. This is what came out last night at 2am during one of those sessions.

You can buy the Young Vibes LP here for only $3: https://coryayo.bandcamp.com/album/young-vibes

track art by jesse treece: http://collageartbyjesse.tumblr.com/

2am 2 awake (prod CoryaYo)

I got sore and boarded up the door of my cave
Been restorin my force for forty whole days
Forty foot waves or warnins of world war
Couldnt force me out
I ignore what I've heard before
Solo
Free from interruptions
Lackin the grace for meaningless discussions
Lackin the face to be fake for introductions
They tell me who I look like
And then I look disgusted
The bar's Darwinian 
I do the limbo
Starved for your opinion
Not
So miss me at the function
I'd Fail to find the kindness to entertain assumptions
I can't smile or or even feel somethin
At the pinnacle of cynical regard for these bumpkins
Ive quarantined my tongue and teeth
Been underground see underneath


I gotta reconfigure
Fell into my cycle once the loop had gotten triggered
I'm shiftin bitter to bigger
Little by little I think I'm gettin the picture 
But I still flinch at every camera flash
Photophobic ruin photos cuz I cant relax
I hold no candle to a man of wax
Back in action all my vanity's a handicap
Between fate and genetics
Tryna shape an aesthetic
I can feel for a day or so
Reveal what I've vetted
Conceal whats pathetic 
Protect it the way i know
Is it real if I edit
I just feel I'd regret it
If i said what should stay below
I appeal for your credit
And the feel when I get it
Is just somethin i hate to show
Feelin my fatal flaws
Feelin whats not evolved
Feelin I lost a gift
Feelin I dropped the ball
Feelin I oughta quit
Feelin I lost the call
Some of us get a lift
Some of us got to crawl
Lots of impediments
Blockin my resonance
Locked in my residence
I Spit futility
All of the evidence
All of my precedents
Say that the lesson I'll get is
Humility
--
Image from the short film "Saturno" created by Wox Rincones and Matthew Lloyd Wilcox -https://vimeo.com/136605078

notes from underground (prod. Ozias)

Teamed up with my former student @geeked-up-steph for some Language Arts. Shout out Wash High.

Art by Andrew Archer: http://www.andrewarcher.com/

"Form and Function" w/ Geeked Up Steph (prod. rkm)

Tribe

Another one from @bayo-ajose  and I. 
For feels we don't wanna forget.

Jim Swim x ADE- Killin' Me

Made this beat a while ago, but couldn't get the verse to fit till I saw "Sorry to Bother You". Everything came quick after that. @km_rukie and @mgbozaan came through and killed it, and Nick Dap (@ontrio) cooked up the perfect image.

Thanks for listening.

Shakedown ft. KM Rukie and Mary Bozaan

ADE x Jim Swim x Abraham- 'Movie'

Way Past Three

Sleepy split single. 
"Tired Now" prod. Jim Swim
"Gotta Sleep" prod. Slavant

Tired Now

ADE x Jim Swim- "What's the Move?" (prod. Tyler Stück)

For The Aliens And Heavenly Bodies Ft. Hoot Uhl

Thought You Should Know

Teamed up with the homies @blookah  and @tylerstuck for a summer joint. All revenue from Bandcamp and streaming will be donated to BLM supported orgs. Thanks, as always, for listening.

In The Mode

All New (Energy)

Circuit Dance (Intro)

Diamond Cut ft. Jordan Burgett & Novet

Michelin Astronomy

Softee Boy's got problems...

Co-produced by Abraham

Lyrics

Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will, come but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way


In the halls like a lamb to the slaughter
Underneath the surface softer than a tissue in water
Gotta stay cautious like he stays with his father
Who jokes his only child is his favorite daughter
Awkward
Strength, meek and patient, 
Meets mean and takes it, teachers see him weak make worried faces,
It's a cold hard world, he’s in secret places 
So deep it’s hard to speak or to meet their gazes
Child in him just keepin' warm
Seems to wanna keep his body held in its form
Wild boys turn wild men as if reborn
Softee boy keeps showin' up to be ignored


How long till he learns
How to harden up
And hold his own
When holdin' on is hard enough?
Holin' up in his room, boy's smart enough
To tie himself in a dozen knots
Got him stuck
It's a lot just to sit alone in his zone
His only homie gives him more of what he gets at home
Tells him grow him up some stones, dont b**** and moan
What he’s got nobody seems to wanna get to know
Is it nothin'
If it’s not understandable to some other animal?
Is it nothin'
If it can't find a form and a space to be tangible? 


Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will, come but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way

Im gunna learn to love the way I am
The way I am
I wish you’d love me the way I am 
The way I am
You don't have to understand
The way I am
Could just love me
Love me, love me

 Signed the note
Moved out in the thick of summer
Saved enough for just a month, it's got him covered
Got a friend, they got in close, they're almost lovers
Gives him life to go his way and start another
He’ll be runnin' for his livin' in a job or two
It's not freedom, but it's somethin that he got to choose
Got a different set a problems now, they oughta do
He’ll meet the world as he is, like it's somethin new

Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will, come but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient though, there's space for your way

Softee Boy

Collabs and booking: itsjimswim@gmail.com

Jim Swim

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