Move On

In the Morning I'll

For Cypher VOL 7 on r/makinghiphop.

I still suck at this recording thing.

Family

Make Good Art or be a good dad
Stakes and Bars low to be better than I had
But should that slow start finish with me always doing just enough
With kin it's less acceptable with art that’s just the way it does

Either way I’m guilty. Either way depressed
Neither way fulfills me fully like my brain would have guessed
And i’m stressed by their tensions pulling me asunder
Got my medications though so I curb the strain I’m under

Never really got around to moving to LA
Seemed cleverer to roots the ground and buy a house for they
Who’s to say if they fruit art they won’t be doomed as much as me
Cycle will go on and on. Artists lack autonomy.

But can’t I just be a Norman Rockwell fella
Rocking lawn care, cleaning gutters in a sweater
Sweating mortgage payments knowing I’m no Rockefeller
Like I’ll never be an artist so give up those endeavors

Make Good Art or be a good spouse
Parents set bars low to be better than their house
 But Should that slow start finish with me always doing just enough
With love it's less acceptable with art that’s just the way it does

Stand up was fulfilling, but so is getting fucked
So is getting held when life is killing you too much
I’ve a feeling that with healing there's no ceiling on love
But art’s appealing when the pain just won’t let up.

When I was little Art was always fun
Now my brittle stability Is always under gun
Label fragility as simply me and never self atone
admit if you don’t want to change you deserve to be alone

But I can’t just be a Norman Rockwell fella
People like my parents found his early career stellar
Honest problems we all live with should be locked up in a cellar
But that’s how you get a pedophile as a pastor who’s stopped never.

Make Good Art or be a good son
Should I lie to the world about the fucking shit you’ve done
Or let art heal me and others you’ve undone
You deserve to fucking die
And I’m not your fucking son.

Good Art Binaries

Me messing around with the guitar and stuff. Recorded in a half hour or so just to get it down.

Joy Knight

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