i’m listening while consuming something

this is honestly my favorite album of 2021

This whole albumn needs more love honestly 

man, your music is strange but I love it. it's fascinating, almost like looking at an intriguing art piece 

track 6 of middle of the stage

lyrics:
I'm never easy
Your love could never bring me out
So I'll complete me
I'll seem real good to be around
Put on my first paint
and let my most sincere one drown
This is my worst play
I am the king but still a clown

I'm never easy
Your love could never bring me out
So I'll complete me
I'll seem real good to be around
Put on my first paint
and let my most sincere one drown
This is my worst play
I am the king but still a clown

I'm wishing myself goodnight again.
I have too much pride to admit
that everyone who feeds me rage
just wants to wants to see me
change

Why is no one paying attention to m-

middle of a stage

surrendering

track 1 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
I've been working several months now
To make something of your praise
I don't know why I feel so rushed now
But I'm counting down the days
I can't really put this lightly
Maybe life was made like this to spite me
But I can't praise you
Cause you're a little bit too much like me

And
No one told me all my
Idols were just faking
All of it to seem more
Super can't I-can't I
Lie? There's no perfect
Guy. How upsetting!
I would at least just
Like a guide, but

There's no guide, and I
Still wanna praise
I feel like I'm in
The middle of a stage
The middle of a stage

And all around me, there are lights
They surround me like the night
Is this real? Is this life?
Is this what purgatory's like?

No one told me all my
Idols were just faking
All of it to seem more
Super can't I-can't I
Lie? There's no perfect
Guy. How upsetting!
I would at least just
Like a guide, but

But when you come
To a conclusion like that
It's like
You feel like you're on the wrong side. You know?
Um. But yeah, that's more recent
If you want to listen to something a little more...
Dated
I got this
I made it like a month after it happened
No point in not playing it
Here

track 2 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
Pause Pau 
Oh my god
Can't even play simple audio without doing the wrong thing
Okay wait
There

I can feel my ego leaving
That's a telltale of departure
Line is flat: we hear no breathing
Truth is crackin' at my armor
I run to my mirror and say that
I can make reality cause
In these times it's sad to see
But I lose rationality

Stiffness in the hands: another sign that Rigamortis kicked in
Lack of any fervor, any storm. His tendons weren't lifted
I admit that in persistence I predicted he'd be with us
In the couple minutes when the hotline said they'd bring assistance

At this point, I wasn't sure if I could lie for any longer
I would have to be the stronger man and try to not preserve
My awkward nerves were telling me, "He didn't die. He's not a martyr"
What a crazy sentence starter. Didn't get me any farther though

You ever knew a man was dying
Ever seen the skin get colder
Ever seen the droopy eyelids
Ever had to lift the boulder off your
Chest knowing your childhood
Wouldn't ever be the same
He won't ever see me older now

Well, I answered your initial question
But, um, looks like we got more time, so
I could play you part of the extra if you want
This stupid thi

departure

track 7 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
I don't let my past impact me. Thinking bout it justs distracts me
Never leave my office cause my wife and kids just love to nag me
Interaction no longer attracts me. I'm an engineer so
I've lived to learn that code's the only thing that will not attack me
Tech and code are like my second mode of living life
The television shows I watch have given mine protective nodes
They depict the life I want to live, but record shows
I'm making way more money sitting & watching news segments, though

I don't need anti-depressants.
They don't make life pleasant
All they do suppress my presence
My own health is truly irrelevant
I own a company. My whole
Position is eminent
My whole position as president
and as the owner shows off that I'm truly intelligent
Look at my regiment. It is so elegant
Some call me humble and some call me heaven-sent

Hard to stand out like an elephant
Kidding! I love it. I'm truly just pleasant in element
People say I'm an oddity enveloped in
This whole celebrant persona & delegate
They say my tegument holds up what's resonant
What I should truly show off. What's not elegant
What is redolent of the person that I was years ago
You know that I'm not accepting it

veneer

track 5 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
Break all I have
Cut my bones in half
Let go of the paranoia
Inclination never changes so you might as well enjoy it
In the morning there's tobacco in my chambers and
By afternoon I'm wasted off the finest in my basement
Where I come from the rich men did cigars
And drank every day so I know I'm going far
What can i say? I'm just a product of environment
Designing kids to be at boarding schools until they're ninety-six
And you expect them to be bright at socializing
I assure you that they're not unless they've poisoned all their vitals like
Me

Can you stop smoking every morning
I understand that you want peace
But I am scared for you and
Right now it is too soon. I just want to
Sleep

I know it's hard but just keep
Pushing because, oh man, I just wanna
Sleep and i know that your intentions
May be perfect, but
I just wanna sleep

And
You know deep down that I'm right
You just don't wanna change
These substances will catch up soon
You'll never be the same
You'll never be the same
You'll never be the same

But I was too scared to tell him that
So, yeah
He just kept doing it

consumption

track 9 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
I'm always inside of a crossfire
I hear it past my walls
There is a war between both of the ones
Who've let me live at all
Can't you see
You're my example of what love should be
Honestly, I thank you for showing me
Everything I never want to be

Well, uh
I think I got enough out of this session
I'm, um
I'm gonna go out now if that's fine
I don't know why you haven't said a word to me since you asked your initial question
But, uh, I digress
Um, alright
I'm gonna head out now
Bye. Thank you
Still nothing? No you're welcome, or
Okay, uh
I'm just gonna assume that I'm okay to walk out
And that you're not going to call me or anything
Bye

crossfire

track 10 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
They say
You're never coming back
You'll never have a dad
Refrain
I'll never give them practice
But the words hurt where they have been
Maintain
I'm sleeping on your mattress
Like I always have been
(Ignore that voice crack)
Okay 
Maybe I miss you bad
Maybe I miss you dad
Oh no

A bit after my birthday
We celebrated for
I was ready for winter
I only wanted more
I woke up to the screaming
Coming from my mom
And that's when I had realized
That something had gone wrong
Oh no

But look at me now
I'm doing so great
Even without
You
I'm making these songs 
And though not for long
It's all been without you
I kind of feel guilty
This computer you built me
I wouldn't have this without you
Sure, I did all the steering
But I wouldn't do a thing
If you never taught me all your little facts about engineering
Couldn't have done it without you

without you

my first released song not produced by me O: 
hope you enjoy it! wrote it about a month ago

prod. stoic productions
extra vocals by ramona abdul

instagram: kevinkempt
twitter: kevin_kempt

lyrics:
Trials and tribulations
Paint this illustration
I lost and then I gained my mind 
I have changed my placement
To a new situation
I'm leaving that old one behind

Full disclosure: I'm a sheep just like the rest of them
I simply use my writing to appear a different specimen
Penmanship has always been my way of best expression and
At this point, I'm mainly posting for rush of adrenaline
The skeletons inside my closet is a bigger threat
Little rest each night cause I can barely get my limits set
But ill still write even if nothing ever gets addressed
See a couple every day. can someone pass a cigarette?
My views change on bad habits as I get involved
Bad ideas consistently with several different men involved
Whether synthetic or ingested raw. it cluttered mind
Barely could make sense when I was seeing through those shuttered eyes
The toughest kind of contrition is recognition hittin'
I was the rat, the turncoat masking with his best intentions
Now I'm not saying I was tryna doublecross
But when I'm looking at my past, I feel I did everything wrong
I swear to god the best thing that I ever did was fall
Cause getting up was perfect. now I'm barely ever missin' calls
Life is a snake and the venom is a big withdrawal
Fortunately, you can strike back to go get them off
Imma wear myself until I gotta go  
Woke up at the time of others who set up some common goals
They don't present me right in media. I'm like a common folk
The profit goal incentive's why my ethics pass the common mold

Trials and tribulations
Paint this illustration
I lost and then I gained my mind 
I have changed my placement
To a new situation
I'm leaving that old one behind
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone

growth

tried my best. one of my different tracks. i will return to the program soon.

production and mastering and lyrics and blah blah blah all by me :D

hedonic treadmill

longest track i've ever released. wow! soundcloud demolllisssheeed the quality. the lyric sheet is too large for this description, so if you want that, dm me or something and i'll put it on genius.

two fictitious stories (alongside mine)

the pageeee

6th song off of Luv Songs for Cats

Lyrics:
I don't know what matters more
The nights or the days?
I'm staying up again
To look for a stray

A lump in my throat
A drop in my chest
A cramp in my stomach
You know the rest

Self-fulfilling maybe
I just miss my baby
It hurts to staple all these posters

I feel like you betrayed me
I guess I'm really crazy
Why did I even expect closure

You're probably doing so great
You probably don't know I wait
You probably don't even care
And I'm unaware

You're coming back
I'll get you when I get you
You're coming back
I'll get you when I get you

So, today I- I laid down
And looked down, and it was kind of
Unusual because usually when I- when I look down
I- Like I'm used to
I would see your- you on me
But- but today I looked down and I saw- I saw my body
I was- I was forced to see my body, basically
I don't know. It was just the muscle memory
It told me, "Look down," cause usually I look down
And you're- you're sitting well- b- on me
Kinda like it's a comforting thing: I look down and I see you
But but t- I had to look down and I lo- so I just saw my body
And it was- it was weird
I- I don't like my body
I don't like my body at all

You're probably doing so great
You probably don't know I wait
You probably don't even care
And I'm unaware
You're probably doing so great
You probably don't know I wait
You probably don't even care
And I'm unaware

Lost Cats

Lost Cat

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consumption

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