This song describes infatuation, catching feelings, and the feeling not being reciprocated. Sqwd (Paint) produced the track and used samples from Splice.

Cinematic Soul

Cinematic Soul (Prod. Sqwd)

A beautiful collaboration between Sqwd, Jacob Glancy, and Prof Z. Produced by Sqwd. Featuring vocals by Sqwd and harmonies/piano by Jacob Glancy.

***Prof Z****
*Blue* is a like a rhythm homie
I am like its testimony
Feeling like a cancer growing
*Sweep me up* in matrimony
Til I'm paying alimony
Undercurrent always flowing
Sails up the wind is blowing
*Stowed away* and easy going

In I go when I'm all *holed up*
Making me impossible to get ahold of
*Hold up* wait cuz I got no escape
Never with the *fire ladder* hero with a cape
Sink in feelings not tryna run away
Not like you did abandon me to run in place
Spent too much energy numbing out the bad 
It's become an irremovable *lidocaine patch*
Now I'm tryna let it in
Let it seep in *through my skin*
Let it flow from out my tear ducts
But it's dry like drought with the levy stuck
Oh my my could use a change of pace
I have been getting too much space
I Need to find myself a place
Not reminiscent of your face

***Sqwd***
Can't make sense of the acronym
Prof skeleton what's happening
Rhe past ain't worth reminiscing 
The future's right now, isn't it

Sipping on the Hazy
Ready for the day-Z
Gonna pop off on you lazy
Half-ass rappers
Noonday nappers
Kyle's writing lyrics in his sleep
Downloading the beats

Sqwd is gonna ink
Put it on repeat
Put it on repeat 
Sqwd is gonna ink

I'll hype you ans you hype me
Who knows what we're gonna be

***Prof Z***
Got stuck lingering on coulda woulda shoulda
Grasping in the past nothing to grab ahold of
Inked by sqwd beat back on my feet
No shoes no clues good company
Blast away the past like *bye bye baby*
On our own wavelength go away *ladies*
Maybe just a little but of *positive attention*
You'll never the power to sway our *intentions*
I can hear em thinking *challenge accepted*
Channelling to keep my life a little more *eclectic*
Here is what we're gonna do
*Paint with music different hues*

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Rhythm Blue

Rhythm  Blue

Rhythm Blue (Prod. Sqwd and Jacob Glancy)

*** Beat by Sqwd***
I Know what I Know and I Learn and Grow and I
Sumble and Fall and get Up and I Go and I
Dirty my Face in the Puddles of Mud but I
Lather it Up with the Soap and the Suds

Sink under Water like Aquatic Compliments
Peace in the Rhythm that Wavers on Top of it
Cleansing the Spirit like Ripples of Harmony 
Within the Cells of my Body that's Part of me

Part of the Beauty is Drowning out Noise while I
Float on my Back as I Stare at the Sky
Head in the Clouds like I'm Looking at Jupiter 
Humming the Tune of a Song in the Universe

Squeak in the Spoke of a Wheel of Time
Tick of a Clock... Hourly Chime
Making your Mark when the World is your Oyster is
Nearly impossible Try to be Boysterous  

Rather Be living and Losing my Innocence
Echoing Chambers re-Iderate Ignorance 
Comfort is Fickle like Middle-school Friends
my zone is expanding like It never Ends

Living alone in my salty environment
Burning with purpose like logs in a fire pit
Kindling Energy Ignition Synergy
Fire and Water are Equally Balancing

Shadows are Cast in the Presence of Light
Stars only Show in the Veil of Night
Rain only comes when there's clouds in sky
Water and oxygen how we survive

Black and the white and the gray in between
Under the microscope living unseen
Limits of knowledge are always unsettling 
Reverberate with the truth as it resonates

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Feeling my power like castles in sand
Making my mark like a sharpie in hand 
Feeling okay like the breath in the breeze that 
Caresses your hair as it scatters the leaves

Content in the chaos of wind and waves
Content on the road when the path isn't paved
Content when I'm wandering lost in the woods getting 
Snagged on the branches way more than I should

Pray to the sun and the moon and the goddesses 
Playing with fire forgetting what modest is
Rise to the challenge like battling elements 
Feelings of failure becoming irrelevant 

Improvising like it's Rhythm and Blues
Multiple choice and I'm having to choose
Cut to the chase like a knife on run and I'm 
Locked and I'm loaded with verbs in my gun

Battling demons inside of my consciousness 
Ignoring compliments undermine confidence
Uproot the moments that planted the seeds that are
Sowing their doubt in my moments of need

Crippling grip on my skeletons past
Skip to the beat just to loosen their grasp
Skipping on class, pull up the mask
Skipping the track when the tempo too fast

Missing the moments and gaps in between when
Distracting irrelevance pops on my screen 
Missing simplicity slip by unwittingly
Waiting and wishing Like chasing infinity

Back to the moment - back to reality ⁴
Steady and grounded standing on my own two feet
Eyes on the rise as they meet the horizon
Becoming the person I'm visualizing

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation (Prod. Sqwd)

***Beat by Sqwd***
UFOs and oogie woogie boogie man 
Sasquatch is actually a Wookie man
He came from outer space long ago and so far away
Liked the woods so much guess he decided to stay
Maybe he's the missing link in human evolution
But either way in any case I won't be disillusioned
The earth is flat the sky is a dome with projected images
The pyramids were constructed by ancient aliens
Laser precision and alignment with astrology
Feasible only with lost Atlantian technology 
Startling discoveries of these ancient anomalies have gotten me pondering on the origin of everything 

Adam and Eve is more than just a kinky website
Gave birth to mankind while dinosaurs were alive 
Joseph Smith is many things but he is not a phony
Stuck a tablet in his hat and called if macaroni 
Santa Clause lost a bet with Jesus 
Got stuck in the North Pole where it's freezing
The Easter bunny met up with Moses at a potluck and hopped in the back of Muhammad's pickup truck
Drove it to go fishing for the Lock Ness Monster 
After stopping by to pick up Odin and his little brother
But No messy with Nessy cuz she's besties with Buddha
Drinking henny and sangria with their other friend Judas
Durga and her many hands drinks for all eternity
One too many Mary's getting tested for paternity
Uh oh Joe, better get back to your carpentry
Cuz child support is about to get the best of ye

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God is a white bearded man in the sky
No He's a brown bearded man in the sky
Maybe we should kill each other, prove it who is right
Killing is a sin but in this fight it's alright
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I'll have you know that my beliefs are institutioned
I know I'm right I know you're wrong I won't be disillusioned
Reality check bounced - I got mine on loan
From a preacher cuz it's easier while my mind roams
I won't let facts inform my beliefs
That's why I'm not vaxxed like those other queefs
Hopped up on those Bill Gates Nanos
Radiating 5g like Elon satos
Sure the internet connection would be better whatever
I saw a guy on TikTok magnetic through his sweater
Why would let Fuaci ouchie keep feeling fine
When Ivermectin is lettin me feel equine
People are dying but I'll ignore my co-morbidity
Why listen to the doctor I get better from Sean Hannity
They're handing me the answer that I want so I'll believe it
Even if it comes around and it's the shit that I'll be eating 

I feel this way because I am a Cancer
And my Tarot reading gave me all the answers
 But none of it matters because none of this is real 
We're living in the simulation coded how we feel 
Free will is a concept invented by the patriarchy
Hiding underlying matrices within our hierarchy
Cognitive dissonance, misconstrued confusion
But either way in any case I won't be disillutioned

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Chorus
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UFOs and oogie woogie boogie man
Sasquatch is actually a wookie man
I'm afraid of what's about make crop circles from the sky
Afraid of what's below my bed while I'm asleep at night
Afraid to believe whats considered verifiable
Afraid to disbelieve even though I'm the one they're lying to
It's too much work to do my research on my own
So gobble the buffet of misfit answers to unknown
As long as those around repeat misguided idealogies
I'll reinforce misinformation circle jerk befallen me
And I'll keep it coming immune to other points of view
If you knew the folks I knew you'd believe it too
They took the sheep inside my brain cottled and abused it
Maybe this explains why I'll never be disillutioned
Click bait generation hype level infinite
ADD like 1 2 3 on Twitter while I'm scrolling it

Won't let needs of the future influence my lifestyle
Lift-kit pickup ignore the shit that I've defiled
The consequences of my actions are part of God's plan
It ain't climate change, it's His burning of the West
Sit back and idle by cuz it's meant to be
Everything on earth God created for me
I'd better have a bunch of kids spread my progeny
 So my ideas will live forever as a sanctioned memory

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Chorus
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UFOs

UFOs (Prod. Sqwd)

***Beat by Sqwd***
Soul in my eye as I bioluminesce
Stoking the fire like I'm trying to express 
Sitting in the back, spanning the gap
Goals on the rise - I try to acquiesce

Go with the flow gotta change with the cadence 
Switching it up gotta stay in good graces
Silent alarm while I embody patience 
Wander alone in the corn stalk maze

Stand in the back drop while the top notch sing
Ground like a bad dog when it comes toppling
Feather in the wind gone bury the sin
Settle in the bin come carry the win

Stare in the mirror reflect on reflections
I Care to be here now inspect imperfection
Stick to the pavement, slick when the storm hit
Gavel in the court room sick with the same shit

Fly on the window buzzing in the back
Lunch unattended sitting in a sack
Glitter in its red eyes waiting to attack get
Shit on your tastebuds when your lips smack 

Recklessly fluttering wings
Begs to be feelings that sting 
Chop sticks hit with a swing and a miss
Sit back sensei leave it to the kid

*
Ambition is coming they're running from something to nothing 
Boomers are stranding us worse than the prey they are hunting
Ignorant people are thinking that something is funny when
Progress withheld with the promise of making the money
*

Ribbons of fear at zip-tie my wrist As my potential getting closer to bring down the fist
Sit in a chair that split down the  seam
As destiny is getting ready to Rain down supreme

I'm the aphid in the bug beat
Drifting but I can't sleep
Cricket in the background 
Drops with the cold freeze

Spider on the nightstand
Crushed by the right hand
Eyes on the prize
But he cried when he died

Ants and the Beatles are left unencumbered
They're Grand and they're stable they're strong in their numbers
The meaning of life is what they do to survive
The Next meal what's real everything else a lie

Porous like the dirt they live beneath 
Chorus of the work to live and breath 
Conquest of the subterranean 
Promptness working with a gradient 

Opalescent like a tendon as I cut my steak 
Reminiscent of the memories it used to make
I didn't shed a tear about the circle of life
Until it closing on me with all the worry and strife

Mind is unraveling losing its peace
Is perception a parachute is it leash
Keeping me grounded to keep me from running
Or pull the rip chord just to see if I plummet
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Bug Beat

Bug Beat (Prod. Sqwd)

***Produced by Sqwd***
P-R-O-F-Z
looking for that P-R-double-O-F
So I can weigh against my hypotheses
Analyses

Vigil of antes
Placing my bets, reserved, circumstantial
I'm not afraid to be dealt a new hand frantic
I won't panic

Jump on that wagon before I'm irrelevant
Counter the current because I'm irreverent
No stop-go no cruise-control 
Say yes way too much for someone in the know

Serotonin deficient, but I'm awake 
Cerebellum efficient, so I translate 
And I'm dope I mean when I feel it 
On the road I mean when I'm wheelin'

Put my vans in four-wheel when I kick-push 
I am a man with drive so I stick to it 

Under pressure don't crumple or fold 
Wonder whether I'm hot or I'm cold 
Breaking the mold
But I do what I'm told  
Never selling my soul 
Even when I'm scolded

Jack of all trades, well rounded 
Rooted in place, I'm grounded
Diamonds and spades, astounded 

 Spade, slice the dirt 
 Digging for diamond to trade for a heart 
 In the club reserved for people putting in work 
 Forgive my smirk

 Don no camouflage 
 The arms I value the most I write with 
 I practice patience and peace, its no mirage 
 No sabotage 

Jack of all no trade-back 
I call the bluff don't fake that 
I call the pot, ill take that
Cuz birds of prey don't stay back

I'm circling, not vulturing
It's brain cells I'm culturing 
Mainstream surrendering
To rip-tides I'm rendering

Spring up, don't spring back
Cuz Fountains don't hold back
This Mountian spring fresh track
That's melting the snow pack

 The powers in me are the powers that be and this golden approach that is easy to see

 Shine like a diamond you thought you could find in the Ring around rows of opposers that be

Flight of an eagle 
The fight of the real as it is hunting 
Agenda of ascension, wingspan regal 
Not illegal 

It's just natural 
Namesake basis, no peace no running 
Survival of the fittest it's factual 
Contractual 

Time to coast 
time to seaside sunset
Time to grow 
Time fee fi-fo-fum that

Turn you brittle innards into bread
Rattle the skittles inside your head
You've made your bed and I'm fed up 

Sit in a sauna
Sipping a bottle to bring in nirvana
Soon I'm a goner

Head is a split
Throb to the beat of the sweat as it drip
Losing my grip

Immersed in the verse as I battle curse
Terse with the word as I conjur the birds
Two fingers up like I'm flipping the meaning
Having enough of the kicking and screaming

My dynamics scoffs at your statics 
Your second amendment is useless against my pneumatics 

I hope the pneumonia I spit is 
Potent so i infiltrate the mind of every witness 

I'm not looking for facts to back up my beliefs
Even when the truth hurts reality gives me peace
I'm not ass-backwards living in a glass house that shatters whenever I'm contradicted like I'm all that matters

So...

You'll find me Pebble in hand,  a stone's throw away
Wound up and ready cuz I'm aiming for the gray
In between your black and white perceptions, neglected
Like you're in Montessori and you couldn't absorb your lessons 

Your story about as straight as the slithering snake
That gobbled up your courage - you've got the depth of a pancake 

I'm bored with your abhorrent and boorish chorus
I'm floored that I've already exceeded your memory storage

Birds of Prey

Birds Of Prey (Prod. Sqwd)

I'm an alt/indie hip-hop lyricist/vocalist/poet/nerd. I take inspiration from life, current events, science, and social justice. I have a MS in bioenvironmental engineering but always had the hip-hop bug.

Prof-Z

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