Anodyne

Stillfire

Chorus:
Lonely
It's like nobody know me/
can you tell me who I am?/
with my name written in your hand/
huh
I ain't gotta be lonely/
sometimes I gotta get outside my head/
my head my dread my mind
I'm just icy for the winter/
I'll see you summer time/

Verse 1:
I'm in my way/
social anxiety keep me at bay/
family and friends I jus keep em at length/ yeah I can trust em but what will they say/
will they see me or the blunders I made/
mountain and plain/
drop from the vein/
lot on my back I should walk with a cane/
they think I'm lesser well I feel the same/
when I pop out its like I'm up on stage/
my lines are missing I'm lost on the page/
what should I say/
the look on my face/
I promise I like you but you feelin shade/
never occurs that I might be afraid/
cause I'm on display/
inspected surveyed/
jump out my skin/
dodge and evade/
minor mistakes be on replay for days/ 

Verse 2:
why you so quiet u should be more sociable/
bro you ain't sayin much/
so unapproachable/
just be more confident don't be emotional/
constant comparison be more like so and so/
I was drinkin potent potables/
just to get comfortable/ 
I need to relax/
peeping through the crack in my mask/
find out what I really think in my raps/
cause that's why I do it/
you probably wont know me if not for my music/
recording my heart with some Jesus influence/
approve it or not I am simply a human/  
had this since pampers I wont let it ruin/
the rest of my days/
I'm just like you/ I'll prove it/
"why did I say that? It's stupid"

S.A.D

Hook:
GAMES
This is not a
GAME
We ain't playin
GAMES
we ain't playin
we ain't playin we ain't playin
we ain't playin

Verse 1:
Games/
The Doom Eternal flames/
we reaching for the Halo Master Chief he broke the chains/
I'm a free man I was living a Half Life 2/
now if I Die in 7 Days I will just pass right through/
was a Dark Soul in a Dead Space now I keep a Kingdom Heart all up in my head space/
you think you Mario but you really Luigi/
you want that top spot cuz you feeling too greedy/
I feel like U Be Soft and the status you after is a Far Cry/
when you live in Arkham City on a Dark Knight/
Diablo is blasphemous and he ain't ever stopping till he murders the last of us so we ain't playin/

Verse 2:
Messiah will fly ya from Oblivion to the Skyrim/
He been in the Elder Scrolls that's where you can find Him/
A link to the past/ He's an Apex Legend/
blood on the door/ that's why death passed JEVN/
alpha and omega man/
ain't nobody greater than/
came to kill the evil within us/
yes he's evicting Evil Residents/
you should listen before Days Gone/
the Dragon's Dogma got you twisted got you way wrong/
its time to Wake like Alan avoid Max Payne imagine/
you knew your Journey really didn't have to be so tragic/
your Final Fantasy could be your Destiny/
if ya stop actin friendly with your enemy cause these ain't/

GAMES

Hook:
had to pick a side/
pick a side/
vilified no alibi I'm just sick inside/
lucy tried hitched a ride told some wicked lies/
hypnotized by my pride couldn't see the signs/ 
Jesus died/ He's alive/
sit beside Him/ lift Him high/
Jesus died (pick a side)/ He's alive (pick a side)/
sit beside Him (pick a side)/ lift Him high/

Verse 1:
Jesus got me feeling no shame/  
rappers out here talking crazy gettin no plays/
I'm not fancy but I'm keepin my Gabbana Dolce/
you wont find me walkin funny like my name was Soze/
unless you catch me on a cold day or its a snow day/
cant smell the flowers better go and get your Flonase/
and skip that cocaine/
the bible cut like close shave/
says I'm a killer cant deny it like I'm OJ/
its either His life or yours you cant have it both ways/
do what the Holy Ghost say or burn like propane/
rappers over act like Nicky Cage you don't say/
OK I don't like hockey but you bet I go Flames/

Verse 2:
tryna keep my centric Christo/
flippin through the pages need to read epistles/
no faith is like Doordash without utensils/ cant stomach it
enemies my LORD says I must forgive those/
His foes on skid row and at strip shows/
kill the instrumentals I gotta flip those/ 
changed and not the same but I'm still a sicko/
try to make some inroads and maybe win souls/
some hearts have been closed to it really it shows/
I feel it in my lymph nodes to my shin bones/
this body's just a rental that's just how it goes/
just make sure when He comes back you're wearing his clothes/


SIDES

Chorus:
You can find me in the background/
You can't see me move but I'm following a Black Cloud/
and I don't wanna back down/
skatin in the whip and my windows ain't blacked out/
If you don't know you know now/
that I can't hear the haters cause the music is so loud/
I'm thinkin you should slow down/
check your GPS for the way to your home town/

Verse 1:
I'm cruisin one hundred on a 90 yeah yeah
I don't like to speed don't get behind me nah nah
my tank is full on the regular/ with regular
accelerating past my competitors/
my metaphors go heavenwards/
JEVN got a better sword/
this Power Ranger's in a better Zord/
I hope my messages are gettin outta pocket/
you cant profit off a prophet if you don't acknowledge/

CHORUS x1

Verse 2:
Zoom zoom zoom zoom Jesus got the wheel we cruisin/
takin views in/
the realness make this music soothin/
ridin round the city tunes loud keeps the metro boomin/
hey roll the windows down/
road trippin to a different town/
its a twisted road we slippin round/
but we know just where we gettin to/
you could find your way to it man I'm bettin you/
pushin on the gas man this traffic better let me through/

CHORUS x1

Hometown Hometown
that's where you can belong
and if you don't know you know now
Hometown Hometown
that's where we can belong
and if you don't know you know now

DRIVE

Hook:
life change Christ reigns/
whole new price range/
new driver switch lanes/
skipped school missed grades/
cant explain rent paid/
lift weights make gains/
quit playin get saved/
quit blockin get saved/

Jesus at the wheel/
tower like Shaquille/
this is how i feel/
boutta open up the seal/
recognize the real/
take the deal before its...over...over/

Verse 1:
feel like its time to celebrate/
this is not a sinner's way/
serve you like a dinner plate/
demonstrate that God is great/
He already settled that debate/
sin conditions chronic like we're Dr. Dre/
we think we're god like Charlamagne/
or Cassius Clay on 808s/ hah
devil would keep me on E/
figuratively and literally/
with no Calvary/
I would be cooked to a different degree/
just check the decree/
you ain't even seekin so why would you find Him/
king Jesus a treasure like finding a diamond/
He's older than ancient/ so capital H Him/
get out of your basement/ a different environment/

Verse 2:
Not just spiritual/ 
I'm religious/
Jesus made me witness/
and my gift is/
pull you out the fire and try to bring you with us/
pumpin iron repetitious/
you can choose the sin can't choose the consequences/
I'm a nuisance/ I been new since Jesus cut my noose/
it's/
pretty basic He's like keep it simple stupid/
kingdom business suited/
since an infant seeking sin I been polluted/
you must be trippin if you think you different/
and what you keep hidden is none of my business/
becoming a Christian He'll hundred percent blow the hinge off and open your prison/

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OVER

I ain't a rapper/ too ugly/
Fat boy got some weight on my tummy/ 
in my 40s so outdated/
I can teach you to Dougie/
but I'm reaching above me/ 
somewhere there's peace and it's sunny/
the Prince of Peace had to stun me/
He had no reason to son me/ (it's funny)
sometimes I feel fake but I'm not though/
I never fit in but I'm chillin like Gazpacho/
you don't like me that makes 2 of us/  
well no one likes me like Yeshua does/       
I said, you don't like me I don't like me either/
if this was a diss track yeah it might be Ether/
I held myself under water I needed a breather/
I woulda never reached the surface if not for Easter/
I'm a dreamer/
I never accomplish lack of motivation stays my accomplice/
used to be on some nonsense/
now I'm good with my conscience/
road ahead says caution
heading north is what it says on my compass/
my life like my career, I need work/
I react without thinking, a knee jerk/
gotta die daily/ this act I re-hearse/ 
everybody know that death wont let none of us re-verse/
honestly/ if you heard Jesus was callin thee/
you probably would ditch that bodily autonomy/
he'd undo your lobotomy before you finish Deuteronomy/  
wholeheartedly you'd rather colostomy than apostasy/
I can sound real zealous on a track/
it's easy/
but I bet I never call you back/
apologies for the pity party/ 
I'm better off than many men/ 
He paid a pretty penny to pardon me(cough pardon me)/
this probably look dumb to you/
I don't mean to trouble you/
but say J took the W/
he knew if he skipped the second death he'd do well/
or he would forever be followed by two L's/


FLAWS

Hook
So how you like me now?/
prefer if I was crazy see you raising up a brow/
it's ok/
you looking at me strange/
my heart is not the same/
I'm just looking for the day
for the day when/ when/
When nobodies gotta leave again/
Always there when you need a friend/
yeah we between two worlds/
we floatin in between two worlds/

Verse 1
if there's no God above us man this life is absurd/
might as well blow our brains on the curb/
forget a legacy cause everyone else will/
or else we'll/
quote unquote self heal/
go ignore our little hell spiel/
and just choose whatever else feels/
true/
and give in to all that tempts you/
ooh/
and wonder why you made a mess/
dude, shoot/
all respect due/
but the universe cant hear you that's a place not a person/
since the day the King James was my version/
I knew that life was worth it/
when my self worth here was doubtful/
now I'm face to face with the surgeon/
got a spiritual scalpel/
my weapons of warfare/
my soul goes to heaven/
I hope to see yours there/
yeah
yeah I hope to see yours there/

Verse 2
Every day I see reminders that this isn't my home/
and my hope/
is that my listeners remember my quotes/
before their death beds when its time to give up the ghost/
they'd confess that they need Jesus the most/
they wont believe us but believers can boast/
that Jesus leaves the demons leaking like He's squeezing the toast/
we gave no reason to redeem us now we just preach from His notes/
He came to set it straight/
so as you hear this record play I pray you meditate/
trespasses premeditated we medicated/
this is our present state before we get regenerated/
we can't make the payment or become the architect/
our sins can be forgiven once they are confessed/
trust Him/
don't put yourself above Him and love Him/
cause He first loved us enough to take the Father's judgement/
learn to live in light of His love/
it was good news that He shed His blood

TWO WORLDS

Intro:
(Jay Biggs the first member of the crew)
Paradice
(my mind state is looking for more so what comes next?)
Talking bout that Paradice
(the old get wiser that's what I been told)
Let's take it back
That Paradice

Verse 1:
Didn't grow up on hip-hop/ but Dice was like dude, stop/
he made me a mixtape/ that Wu-Tang and 2Pac/
I played it front to back like it was my soundtrack/
the bass was like a kick and the snare would just slap back/ (so dope)
started making music bout 16/ no big dreams/
I just kinda liked how it fit me/
shout out to Phaze/ He taught us to make beats/
I chicken scratched my raps upon the blank sheets/
my Mom supported us/ she bought us a sound card/
the Casio keyboard with the soundfonts/
skipped class just to do our first show/
it was me, Flint and Fixxa, Dice up on the mixer/
the show went good but it was the last time/
that I'd ever hit the stage but wasn't my last rhyme/
big up to G-Del and Dizzy/
403 Cal City Paradice Records/
we do it gritty/

Chorus:
(Jay Biggs the first member of the crew)
(my mind state is looking for more so what comes next?)
(the old get wiser that's what I been told)
(stay rappin til I'm mile high)
(they say it's God's plan)

Verse 2:
It wasn't too much longer before we linked up with Cane (infamous)/
and the basement's sorta gettin colder/
Tresspass in the bunker now like a soldier (soldier)/
said he got a devil on his shoulder/
started to take this thing a little bit more serious/
imperative that we build a studio and booth and such/
Chalys was a beast/ and Suge was nice on the keys/
me and Dizzy D were dreamin those dreams/
we did a lot of tracks but/
we never made an album/
we put a lot of work in/
without no major outcome/
over time we kinda went our own ways/
we never stopped creatin/
some of us got paid/
some of us got saved/
couldn't spit bout what I used to/
Jesus made me switch my genre now I'm thinking bout my future/
blood and water/ drippin fuchsia/
cutting snakes off/ no medusa/
never looking back/ amazing Grace Hallelujah/


TAKE IT BACK

VERSE 1:
Used to find me sippin something sinister/
blunted before breakfast/
my throat an open sepulcher/ like dog you need a breath mint/
I thought I learned the secret/ I couldn't manifest it
was hella lost now its only Jesus on my necklace/
this verse was practice but I had to put it on the track list/
method was madness/ snatched the gift He gave with gladness/
look at the globe we livin on/ no way He didn't plan it/
Grace has now been granted freely/ you feel me?/
so me and all uh/ my homies are glad YHWH's not allah/
Deus over dolla/
feeling like a son cause I'm adopted by the Father/
tooth for a tooth'll leave you gummy/
touchin taboo topics sorta touchy/ (don't touch me.)
I'm puttin out the dutchie/
I'll spit the truth at ya/ if you punch me in the face I'll spit my tooth at ya/
then apologize/ those old wounds get cauterized/
God can open all our eyes/
I used to be Mr. Magoo/
I'm convinced you'd get the point if I penciled the truth/ 
its easy to receive like a gift to a youth/ 
I laugh at the censors when I enter the booth/
I better not studder when I'm quoting the P-P-Pentateuch/
our sin's the equalizer like Robert McCall nobody better than his brother since the day of the fall/
I bet you heard the Call of Duty answer the call/


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THE CALL Interlude

Chorus:
Oh my/
From day to day I gotta pray/
cause God is great/
you really can't change my mind/
He changed my mind/
I'm ok now/
and I see the changes God has made/
He's making me a better J/
He changed my mind/
you can't change my mind/

Verse 1:
New zone/ new time/
every time I grow it's a new vibe/
every branch cut it's a new vine/
learn the same thing like two times (two times)/
it's a true crime/
wishing I could change but I never wanna do time/
but I have changed/
haven't been the same since that day back in '09/
got a new mind/
lookin through the script every day that's what you find/
He's just too kind/
How He help me coast like cruise lines/
yeah true life/
no longer blinded by the moonshine/
yeah I just I just want that new wine/

Verse 2:
Therapy/ Therapy/
trying to get clarity/
primarily/ apparently/
I need to treat myself with charity/
He making gold out of nothing/
but trust me I'm not who I was when I used to mix whiskey and bud/
I was just living so risky and dumb/
He made me switch and stop hittin the blunts/
it pretty much hit me at once (huh)/
now He is fixin my faults (yeh)/
can't wait to see the results/
I'm changin/ Plead guilty at my arraignment/
got Jesus as my replacement/

Verse 3:
No longer battle on internet (nah)/
people won't hear me/ no disrespect/
bad for my mental had to disconnect/
vision stay clear no keratin/
the Logos pro bono/ no dono/ 
gotta grow so/ can't fall prey to comparison/
can't go Solo like Harrison (nah)/
I don't have nothing if I don't have love/
that's how you impact some/
gotta get a grip so I can fit that glove/
bout to blast off like this is NASA/
breath of fresh like some Tic-Tacs huh? (that's real talk)/

CHANGING

JEVN (JEH-Vin) is a Christian Hip-Hop artist from Canada

JEVN

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