"Glow in the Dark"
A 6-track EP presented by 
Josh Parker & NoshOnTheBeat

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat

Glow in the Dark

"Dialect"
Track 1/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:

All piled in
To a new lil thing, no mileage
Curating the cure, no stylist
We be speakin
With just our eyes and shit
No dialect

Here's what my eyes detect
Its just a Rorschach test
But my words work best
When I'm deep off purple
Otherworldly disconnect
Turn to Virgil, if I switched to fashion
Teenage Turtle, if I let the rats in
Fillin' in the blanks
I could fill a bank if I'd stick to rapping
But they're always throwin' shades
Like some philodendrons
All the teachers only take what's suggested
And try to build a lesson
Make the kids reach for the throne and
Kill the peasants, get overthrown
And follow in the footsteps
Of the misdirected
If she keep it her purse, I might get possessive
If I digest it, I guess I'll get obsessive

All piled in
To a new lil thing, no mileage
Curating the cure, no stylist
We be speakin
With just our eyes and shit
No dialect
All this love you said was mine
Then hit the vinyl scratch
Add it to what you lug
In them designer bags
Don't want us to forget
Drop a reminder then
You really think you it
Show us your finest then

All telepathic
Feel like my minds been hacked
Bring it back
That resurrection wasn't my final act
Go and grab the stylus, take a stab
Let me re-etch the Hieroglyphs
It's like a Kamehameha
Versus a Spirit Bomb
Good and evil ain't what its appearing
Nah I fear it's all elusive illusions
Seen you in mirages
Miracle to keep the route
When I'm really veering often
Clementine-eyed, keep 'em peeled on us
Bout time I started spittin' out
These seeds for thought, watch 'em drop
Spill into the soil to
Go and build some more
When your plans foil
You'll find what it's really for
Or you'll find why
You keep the good ones
Moving toward the reservoir
Spillin' out oasis' when we hit record
Fuck a Dayshift
Hop up in this 2 door then
Come and get a tour
Of what I'm living for

All piled in
To a new lil thing, no mileage
Curating the cure, no stylist
We just speakin'
With just our eyes and shit
No dialect
All that love, love
You tried to shy against
But if you fuck up
We could try again
Rearchitect the style
Go and can climb the fence
Go back to a place where
Our time began

Dialect

"Dilation"
Track 2/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:


This life goes fast
Let tonight go slow
Unknown paths
All these winding roads
We gon’ fight to the death
Out on tightening ropes
Rat race, cat chase
They're recycling souls
Ain’t a thing gon’ last
Once this time grab hold
Stamp it at the recap
Watch it unravel
Shaking at the kneecap
But now you’re unshackled
Are you brave enough to be there
When things go cold
Or you only seeing my cup
When it overflows
Or you only needed my love
When it didn’t show
Strip me of my sunlight
How am I supposed to grow
Fast pass, damn, I can’t go at it alone

And I would but this
Dark cloud overhead
It follows everywhere I go
Dark signs, but I won’t listen
Won’t be what I manifest
Heart eyes keep me lifted
Imma shine, be the light
Through this darkness
I’m always trying to fight against
In the twilight, you tried to clear it off
It’s like you opened up the board
Refused to play the turn
I’m in the grave-shift, up late working
Feel my fate lurking
Mages burning sage
To eliminate the page-turning
Storybook rhymes in my head
Throw myself a raft in my age
Making sure these thoughts
Stay surfaced, cave lurking
Not a phase, hop up in the radio waves
Because we on the way
I can’t even see you off
I can only see you in the dark
And now I can’t even see with my heart
All this blood on my hand
While you bleed yours
I don’t really understand
Why you need more
Tryin’ to stick to the plan
Tryin’ to keep course
It’s lookin’ different on the map
But I’ll see it soon
I’m hydraulic with the peer pressure
I won’t fall in when things settle in

This life goes fast
Let tonight go slow
Unknown paths
All these winding roads
We gon’ fight to the death
Out on tightening ropes
Rat race, cat chase
They're recycling souls
Ain’t a thing gon’ last
Once this time grab hold
Stamp it at the recap
Watch it unravel
Shaking at the kneecap
But now you’re unshackled
Are you brave enough to be there
When things go cold
Or you only seeing my cup
When it overflows
Or you only needed my love
When it didn’t show
Strip me of my sunlight
How am I supposed to grow
Fast pass, damn, I can’t go at it alone

Dilation

"Glow in the Dark"
Track 3/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:


I don’t know which way it’ll go
Cause I done fucked up so much
I’d rip a page from my own
Book of history for spliffin’ it
And savor the smoke
Geronimos ain’t paying off
But I’m still taking them hoes
Pontiacs and dominoes
Insomniak on max
Got all 4 speakers blown
Trying to get my diamonds back
Stuffin' cotton in their mouths
Fuckin' coughing up a lung
Don’t know what happened in them clouds
But you lost all your doubts
Saw the stone, yea, pulled the sword out
All alone, yea, cut the cords out
Too electric, I bet that this don’t short out
I’m just projecting all this shit I’ve got to sort out

Enslave my time, cold in the dark
Form my thoughts, yea I’ll wipe that fog
Off the window, see all them flaws
Open up
Yea, I’ll take my time cause we're going far
But I’ll wave my wand, pull up this rug
Stains and all, let’s peel them off
Cause I ain’t gon’ lie
You glow in the dark
Yea, I ain't gon' lie
You glow in the dark
Like some of them little bedroom stars
And fate don’t lie, at least so far
So open up

I'm sorry, I just had to get
this shit off my chest
As if a venomous snake had bit
Through my snake-proof vest
Had to shake him loose
And found out it's the same dude
Selling me the vest
It was like three snakes in a cape
Bars sickening from far sickness
Mixed with being carsick after a bar crawl
And carcinogens in the car with him
It started shifting with his aardvark
With a sharp pen in his top pocket
Corner pocket, double parking
Young Arthur with some Benjamins
Going back and forth, and forth far enough
To get sentenced with these sentences
Don’t want me settling in
Go over my lettering
And get lethargic from all this adrenaline

Enslave my time, cold in the dark
Form my thoughts, yea I’ll wipe that fog
Off the window, see all them flaws
Open up
Yea, I’ll take my time cause we're going far
But I’ll wave my wand, pull up this rug
Stains and all, let’s peel them off
Cause I ain’t gon’ lie
You glow in the dark
Yea, I ain't gon' lie
You glow in the dark
Like some of them little bedroom stars
And fate don’t lie, at least so far
So open up

"Adjustments"
Track 4/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:


I'm washin' down these red pills
With blue kool-aid
Tried keeping it to myself
But I knew I’d cave
Never knew I’d change
I’ll jump through rings or whatever
But it’s hard to keep your
Head still and move through phases
Squashing up these red pills
A new blue face rolled up
Tight enough to keep me arms length
I’m bending spoons, new strength
But like my shoes been laced together
How can I keep my legs still
And do this charading

Squash it up
Wash it down
Talk me up to talk me down
Off the ledge
Chalk it up, he’s not around yet
Cough it up, they'll jot it down
It’s common sense
No common grounds, we're on the fence
You knock it down just to build it up again
But then again, on the other hand
Why don’t you and me give this a chance

Washin' down these red pills
with blue kool-aid
Tried keeping it to yourself
I knew you'd cave
Never knew you'd change
You'd jump through rings or whatever
But it’s hard to keep your
Head still and move through phases
Squashing up these red pills
A new blue face rolled up
Tight enough to keep me arms length
I'm bending spoons, new strength
But like my shoes been laced together
How can I keep my legs still
And do this charading

Flushing down these pills
They caught in the drain
All flush without your medicine
You're blue in the face
Cussing out myself when I see you again
To prove I'm flesh with some substance
I need to refrain
You live within oraculum and had it comin'
Made my way up out of there, I had to run
See it from another pair
Change your assumptions
Said I won’t be back again, but here I'm coming
With an underabundance of comfortable budgets
It ain't enough for what they call love
They'll throw you under the bus then
When summer starts, I'm summersaulting
Off of my shirt, lose all of the buttons to
All their adjustments

You have been my newest one
Additions to the crew are few and far between
But now you're in the stew, and it's too seductive
So I'm spitting like the flu
When I’m comfortable enough around you
Would you accompany me, be my Trinity
I don’t want infinity existing
If it isn’t you with me
It's no assumptions
But I'm following the compass
That's in my chest, East to West
But when I'm washin' down these
Don't get caught around me
Got a lot of heads plotting down on me
Or it’s all in my head, schizophren-
Hit the spread, new teller on bread
Dark thoughts, and they keep infesting
Don’t know where to redirect
Do you care if I ingest just a lil taste test
Eyes are always bigger than my tummy
'Till I'm up to my neck, too big for my britches
Contraindications indicate my contradictions

Adjustments

"Magic Fruit"
Track 5/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:


Probably decompose like styrofoam
Can’t define it, a style unknown
Had silent premonitions
Can’t find a home, opportunistic
When they're stooping to a level they
Said they’d never drop below
For reference
I try to keep the artistry
Hallucinogenic, go ahead and
Look into the properties
It’s food for foolproof thought
You know what your voodoo does
Cause baby you've been gazing
At this crystal ball for too too long
Still got some ways to go
Still got some things
That I can’t change alone
Like who gon’ save my soul
I've been lookin for the method
Like an actor in a cameo
Trying to play myself all the time
It always has me low
Always tryin’ to improv
Like, welcome to the show
Never welcoming myself
Into my own skin and bone
Helter skelter
Unshelter the skeleton in the physical
I’m stretching out these ligaments
Until I’m ripping through

I'm eating magic fruit
To see the fractal elements
Seldom will they tell you
I ain’t buyin' if you sellin' it
I try to track the evidence
Way deep into the sediment
Distractions get so heavy with
My lack of an attention span
Always on the loose
Intentions at a deficit
Been mentioned in the preference
They’d let me live
They’ll try to keep us separate
Cause I might have ‘em drowning
Like they're drowsy off the sedatives
Barbed wire fences, they won’t let me in

So I’m climbing these fences
It’s somethin entheogenic
I know the tunnel well
Already been to the end of it a plethora
With emphasis on lights at the exit
If I can’t find them, synthesize them
With pyrotechnics
Imma find the message
Compromised by the silence
In your deflections
That's why I’m in the studio for so damn long
It's proof of what you’d forgot
Affecting history like Mandela
Still get some shade at home
Still got some places that I hate to go
But Imma face it
Find me looking up
And checking signs of the universe
Can’t go walkin' around all the time
With my head so low
Always trying to lift off
C'mon give me the go
Broke a firmament and got the curse
I've got to wear this cloak so
When clearing out my spirits
The appearance is invisible
Still, I press my limits
To their thinnest until
I’m slipping through

I'm eating magic fruit
To see the fractal elements
Seldom will they tell you
I ain’t buyin' if you sellin' it
I try to track the evidence
Way deep into the sediment
Distractions get so heavy with
My lack of an attention span
Always on the loose
Intentions at a deficit
Been mentioned in the preference
That they’d let me live
They’ll try to keep us separate
Cause I might have ‘em drowning
Like they're drowsy off the sedatives
Barbed wire fences, I’m still getting in

Magic Fruit

"Looking Glass (Outro)"
Track 6/6 - Glow in the Dark EP

© 2025 Nosh Boffin Records

Lyrics/Vox: Josh Parker
Exec Producer: NoshOnTheBeat
Mix/Mastering: NoshOnTheBeat



Lyrics:


I think I fell because
You're like family familiar
I'm thinking I've convinced myself
I can’t find nothing similar
No chemistry, no integers
They're killing off my messengers
So I guess you never get my letters
Whatever, there just isn’t words

I can’t be without you
Name ringing like tinnitus
Through the night
It's only getting worse
I'm left on a deserted
Island with no water
Getting harder just to fight the thirst
I promise when I spot you
Bottom of the dogpile
Right on you first

I saw it in the forecast
That you’re casting a shadow
Overshadowing my shadow work
But I followed the rabbit
Well into the looking glass
And couldn’t get back
Before they patched it up
I didn't lose my hat
I front to backed these inner mappings
Just in case you actually come

Looking Glass (Outro)

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