Natural

We dance when we're supposed to,
then fight when it's over
you cant come closer,
cuz we've got no room,
we filled up all of our space with what we want to say.

its in the air how i found you
the look that gave you away
that told me you can't behave 
the way you wanted to
But you've always had someone to fall back into

dont take this the wrong way but u got me fukt up
blaming my history when thats what i learned from
i learned from, mistakes that, youve never had before
I'm just vicarious, and i aint scared of this

I know the space seems so cold,
when my disease cant be yours,
but the waves keep rushing back
it's all i have and its what i lack
Im frozen in place, till im sold

bruises and cuts but no broken bones
a little soreness and rips on the clothes 
between beat up and roughed up at home
there's plenty of people to make u feel alone

but you wanna do that by yourself
realize your existence by yourself
antagonize the assistance by yourself
you despise every little thing bout yourself
your alive but this aint how its supposed to feel
hypnotized by what they say is really wealth and happiness
and freedom but you're just lookin for whats real

and I havent heard a word from you, no feels or expression,
i guess im the one with explainin to do but could we do it in september?
these summer days aint like what they used to be aint used to waking up early
thinkin of you firstly next thing you know I'm still in bed and its 11:30

i keep keep keep hanging on for the coming seasons
my mistakes they keep repeating
cut that shit out i need to breathe
doesnt help that im scared

i told you that i loved you
cuz the price i paid was nothing
the consequence of words 
is either sex or dissappointment

and I could live with both
cuz i was fine with that one thing
i decided to be a ho
but now im sorry that I'm nothing to you

cuz I've come to my senses,
Now I feel this emptiness I can't replenish,
close to home yet so far gone from where i belong
i know i know, you feel the same


Hands

HOME
Performed by Matt Valenzuela 
Produced by Ivory Monks/Matt Pham
Sample: Argument taken April 7, 2016

There aint no time to rearrange my
feelings for you so i'll go ahead and say i'm
liking the way you speak to me,
carefully placed spontaneity

I've been in search for comfort, the way 
i feel like when I'm alone when its grey
outside, id rather have home than paradise.

I'll be the only guy 
to come up to you this way,
I know they think it's cute when they're shy, 
but that's just not the game that i play

I'd like to play along with what we got goin on,
till it gets hot
I hope to God that you feel the same way
and I hope you don't stop

Gonna go to my evenings whens the sun still in the sky,
Earthlings still believe that they can find their place at night.
No matter where I come to you i'll arrive,
could be over the horizons any place that i'd survive.

At my house, or your place, or someone else's abode,
outside or inside or underground just not alone,  
Wherever I can plant my feet in, that's the place I'll be reaching 
for you

I'll call an uber and pay all of his debts 
if he can take me all the way straight to your doorstep,
That's where it feels like, that's where it feels like home

Don't even see how this love effects me 
When Im in too deep it re-ressurects me
i need a pool of water, dip me in at the altar,
take off my pants after my day at works done
put up my feet with my favorite person, with you

HOME ft. Matt Valenzuela

Performed by Che Winters
Produced by Ivory Monks
remastered, with additional brass performed by Stephen Manion

Samples: 
I Want You - Marvin Gaye (Pls don't sue)
Every *Bloodclaat* Ting Scene - Shottas (2006)

ROUND ME

Round Me (Deluxe) ft. Che Winters

Written by Matt Pham & Denis Po

Samples used:
She Wants to Move by N.E.R.D

Lyrics:
He keeps telling you to "take one I'm on one
If you don't then I'm leaving"
Come my way instead girl I'll give you 10^6 reasons.

While we're on the topic
Is he running out of excuses?
Gave it your everything
Wanna be that girl with the diamond ring

Do you know what he do when you're not there?
Tryna leave him but you're still scared
Girl he wanna make you plastic
Me want the real me want the classic

Already seen you with that dress off
I wanna pick up where we left off
You know that pussy got me stressed out
Get ready cause your boy gonna head south

Let me
Slow dive
Hold tight
All night
Deep inside that treasure
You're pulling me down until I drown in your love

I hear all these bitches talking and gossiping
You and your man falling off and I'm the cause of it
Ain't nobody out hear looking out for us
If I'm going out I'll go off and take all of it

Take the cars and the jewelry 
Take the 120" plasma screen
Don't need to take your girl cause she'll come my way
She'll give the keys and the code to unlock your safe

Have your other bitches not say a word
When the feds come on a red alert
I'll be long gone from the scene like I've never been
Hotels in LA where it's 100 degrees (Fahrenheit)

But she don't love me, she just loves the chase
She got her own intentions, we're two faced
I keep her up for the whole night
She still loves it when I

Slow dive
Hold tight
All night
Deep inside that treasure
Let me give it to you all night long

Slow Dive

PART TWO: The Heist

Written by Denis Po & Matt Pham

Heist (Interlude)

Written by Matt Pham & Denis Po

Samples used:
Feasting by Young Fathers (White Men are Black Men Too)
Numb by Linkin Park (Meteora)

LYRICS:
You know you got me going crazy from the beginning
You had me doing stupid things for you
Thinking of all the time we wasted, it was never too soon
to find you a place in my heart

You got me in my feelings
I can't believe it
Can we keep this thing going on? 

You're vibing up all on me
I'm touching on your body
Baby girl show me what you came for
So in love when I'm...

Lost here in the bassline
Lost here with you
Cause I'm feeling your waistline,
I wanna see you move.

I'm not not the type to rush into things
But I don't wanna be the one to blame.
So every night you wanna call it quits
"He's just a friend" that's what we're calling this?

I had you in my bedroom,
you told me to come and get you.
Got you leaving just as fast as you come.

I was vibing all up on you.
Touching everywhere you want to
Now I know girl what you came here for
So in love when I'm...

Lost here in the bassline
Lost here with you

I just want you to be calling my name
If it ain't you, it just don't feel the same
Ou darling I feel so dumb right now
It's crazy how you're breaking me down

Lost here in the bassline
Lost here with you

Lost

PART ONE: The Club

Written by Denis Po & Matt Pham

Samples used:
Flame - Plucky/Che Winters

WTFID

if you stay
please don't take away my pain yet
i still want to feel it

dont pick up 
all my broken pieces
i still want to keep them

its taken some time to go and
take the road up to these cold novembers
just to leave the unattainable

but I have to know
if i go 
will i be someone i recognize
if i leave this behind

2015

written produced and performed by matt pham september 2019

samples:
Romance by Young Fathers
Connect by Drake

i just wanna wait till you're ready, 
dont care about the pretty girls when im looking at you
ever since you left him to tell me
things are just too messy to start on something new

in light of all the things we did when you were with him
I understand how you feel
but you're just scared of how they'll feel
when we know the deal that what's between is real

what's between us is[are] the details 
of those things they'll never relate to
the places we've been, the patience we give
there ain't no love that's better than this one

this one is only mine and yours
the type that i try to leave and ignore
and always end up loving you more
i'm always loving you more

am i idling by the times between the days i get to see you?
I guess I just don't know how to prioritize
it don't feel like there's a lack of hours in the day 
for me to feel like I'm wasting it
the placement of things on an agenda erases what today is and what i make of it
I could save for a rainy day or play in it

prepare for tomorrow to say i came equipped 
and if i leave there's someone to babysit
a way to split what i made and saved amidst the paying rent 
and school and vacations that are as good as my bed when i lay in it
i paint the pic so i can go ahead and frame it on a wall in a house that i paid to get to sustain myself...

...waiting for the days I come back and kick it with you
and just like that I forget everything cuz you and me wit' it, it's true
could give a fuck about life when it's just you and me in it, i do not.
time well spent every minute, with you.

Ivory Monks

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