this nigga did the song + a sick cover art

I carry all of your words on my back like sunburns.

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Cemetery-drive-sunburns-lyrics

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Vocals (In order of appearance)
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@chriswright
@kyaruok
@atwood
@milespowers

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Production
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@whyandotte
@bbluknight

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Artwork
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@wetdaytimetable

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Mixing & Mastering
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@3astman

SUNBURNS

Spotify

D.M.T. are Dahm., Miles Powers, and teeawgo

https://soundcloud.com/dahm-the-rapper
https://soundcloud.com/milespowers
https://soundcloud.com/teeawgo

🎶why your dogs play dead when I come around?🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/whyandotte

Lyrics: https://genius.com/dmt-play-dead-lyrics

SPOTIFY etc.

PLAY DEAD

second single off of "closed eyes & open ears"

featuring @teeawgo
produced by me and @dustbunnybedroom
illustrations by me w/ help from @duckirubb3r on twitter
twitter.com/duckirubb3r

[Lyrics]:
Muh fuckas wanna act like they got no more passion
Allotta yall putting a front all up on the cameras
But deep inside, I know you stuck and it's why you lackin’
I see a lotta me in all of yall, it’s time we’re passed that 

No time, but you keeping up with the pace
See the shit that they be fishing for, tryna make it a race
But that's the issue everybody dealing with like it’s okay
No more capacity in making all this shit you wanna make, but listen-

You don’t got the vision, you don’t got it clickin’, you don’t got the cards collected plus it ain’t the right edition
You don’t try to think about it, why’re you think they’re gonna miss ya?
Why’re you living like it’s all okay with all the lies they feed you?

Got you backing up into a corner, try to block, and now you’re looking feeble 
Hide from what you love, you keep on smiling, but you’re feeling evil
Try keep it golden, but the truth is still ain’t tryna reach you
Shit is so exhausting, with my mental rotting 
Man I need to- 

[teeawgo]:
Read into the reasons I'm like this
Shoutout to Adam, in my atoms how I keepitinside
And this shit don't add up, skewing data, want a piece of pie
Been getting fatter, running laps until I reach for the sky, been praying better

For myself and for my mental, is that selfish? I don't give a fuck
All this time, I've been last in my line, now I'm finna cut
Everybody off that rub me wrong i do not feel your touch
If you don't build me up then you tear me down, the dealin's done

I'm taking all my earnings and investing it in me
I'm reflecting on my learnings, passing tests for this degree
This is ain't a song, this shit a sermon, life a blessing, on your knees
You gotta set yourself free, you're the warden with the key

Been at war with myself and now I'm storming on the beach
When it rains, shit'll pour, but the torrents got a breeze
Living bored, what for? now the story skipping beats
Sometimes the reward's not sweet but it's gotta be complete

PASSION feat. teeawgo

The sixth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream At My Expense: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/atmyexpense

With https://soundcloud.com/plnetgirl
Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@UrbanNerdBeats
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-at-my-expense-lyrics

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At My Expense is a love song about abandonment and accepting the limitations of what a romantic partnership can offer. A partner cannot transcend your life or relationship with yourself, nor can they take your inherent beauty and power from you. When we experience loss, the void is overwhelming, but the fullness of our inner and outer worlds will always return with time and allowance.

I'll live to live it again, and give and give till I can't.

at my expense

The eighth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream Lurkalot: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/lurkalot

Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@BeatsByEmani
Additional vocals by PC Pete
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-lurkalot-lyrics

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Lurkalot /lərk·ə·lät/ Noun/verb: one who lurks frequently; to lurk frequently. "Tell me by the look of me, does it look like I lurkalot?"

lurkalot

Reductive prod. https://soundcloud.com/quincy-851222960

Stream: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/reductive

Featuring https://soundcloud.com/crittersbythewindow 
Mixed & mastered by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers
Cover art by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-reductive-lyrics

Reductive (feat. Malik Elijah)

Hunnid

First track off my first full project, thanks to everyone who gave me feedback along the way, proud with how this came out and hungry to keep making music for you guys so hit me with a follow if you tryna hear more!

produced by @cartooniusbenimus
mixed by @therealreeg

Billy and Jimmy Lee (prod by Cartoon Ben)

prod. @ibr
mix. @ibr
art. me

Listen to part II here: https://soundcloud.com/ibr/sisyphus-ii


I've been introducing pick axes to thick granite in patterns/
crack open the earth like it's cast in ceramic/
hack at frozen dirt and permafrost for pay cheques/
fill the cart with feldspar and roll it to the apex/
the days end but work doesn't, grayscale the world's functions/
veins tend to burst up with gems that might be worth something/
no curmudgeons or foot draggers in these monochrome fields/
if you feel lethargic, hit the cabinet, you can swallow those pills/
it all gets revealed in due time/ 
a land drawn with crude lines, inspect rocks by moonlight/ 
the rare hues slide into the palms of upper management/
retreat to the bottom and they come up in the sand again/
I've been stashing gems, although I know it's all for naught/   
let's just say the last who got caught didn't get a long stern talk/
hard stone carved with fossils come up every now and then, 
and coworkers who succumb to the heat exhaustion, sleep beneath the flower beds/
I sleep beneath the thoughts of moonstone and star-corundum/
I've seen my fellow man with noses that were stark and dusted/
in the darkened junctions of the tunnel system/
there's been whispers of a revolution under thumps of pistons/ 
I'm not seduced by the thought, well not yet at least/
my only friends are cymophanes and grains of olovine/
not sure if I ought to be more than a cog in this machine/
blot the sun out with a pick axe, it's a stage of entropy/

Sisyphus I (prod. ibrahim)

feat. @ibr
prod. @abembeats
mix. @ibr

Lyrics:
Headhaunter:
Ax heads glisten in the twilight, chop the guards down/
and whittle them all down to nothing to see the wood chips blot the stars out/
I cough up a dark cloud, heart burns with forest fires/
animals howl at the scene as our kingdom's surely fortified/ 
I'm followed around by organ grinders with some somber songs as evergreens/
are drained of all their color as they fall and fall to frenzied swings/ 
from this death machine, that's hacking at tangled roots/
no conscience barks at me, grab ancient sequoias to break in two/

Hook:

I just chop and chop, chop the forest down to make a living/
under skeletal flocks of vultures and the acid rain that singes/
I just chop and chop, non-stop, won't halt or take a minute/
in the densest fog with mother nature making strange incisions/
I still chop and chop, chop the forest down to make a killing/
chop away the vines that reach towards my legs and break the feeling/  
of being over-encumbered, and not in control/ 
work the rest of my days but I want to go home/

Ibrahim:
I'm kissing maple trees with chainsaw tongues
Watch 'em bleed sap and leave behind a trail of dropped crumbs
And unstitch a million-acre quilt of ivy and moss
I'm an automaton with a hatchet striking a clock
In a metropolis populated by sycamore and hickory 
To rhythms of falling logs and a snapping twig symphony 
And as half-tempo my watch goes by and the sun crawls across the sky 
I chop at pines in the grasp of drowsy Father Time
My dreams are splintered fragments, visions of timber split by axes,
Paths littered with future cribs and caskets
Every swing a pendulum, sever roots till they're cleft in two
'Cause it's all I've ever known and it's all I'll ever do

Headhaunter:
Dim blue light refracts off ax heads from shadows to rainbows/
and leaves your psyche impacted when it glows, it accents the pathos/
I uproot dandelion weeds until they blow the sun out/
oaks are tugged down while eternity still laughs and pokes his tongue out/
and now I cut every hedge into animals, watch 'em come to life/
I daydream an off-world escape, where I live far away on the upper side/
but still unto forever and I'm non compos mentis/
a drop of sweat into the void where the chops chops are endless/

Chop Chop cont. (ft. ibrahim)

https://fanlink.to/LIES-CC
LYRICS / https://genius.com/Cancel-culture-Lies-lyrics

prod. @geo_1022, @masked-man-peace & @akamaruxoxo

hook: @kyaruok
verse 1: @masked-man-peace (@akamaruxoxo backing vocals)
verse 2: @damienbrbnk
hook 2: @kyaruok (@masked-man-peace adlibs)
verse 3: @masked-man-peace
bridge: @kyaruok & @masked-man-peace
hook 3: @kyaruok (@akamaruxoxo backing vocals)
outro: @nicohorry

mixed & mastered by @masked-man-peace

artwork by @kyaruok

LIES

Spotify / Apple Music

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Miles began making music in 2016. In 2018 they became a founding member of punk-rock-inspired internet rap group @staydeadboys, and began their solo career in earnest in 2020.

Miles’ music reflects and embraces the contradictions of life and identity, of confidence and humility, of autonomy and limit, of humor and even joy in sadness. When we befriend our pain it dissipates. When we share our parallel journeys from a place of authenticity and ownership, vulnerability is a strength. Art is a spiritual practice that can be as serious or as lightweight as the moment calls for.

Miles is working on their debut album.

In their early teens Miles memorized an encyclopedia of lyrics while falling in love with the writing, craft, and conviction of artists like Big L, Rakim, and Ms. Lauryn Hill. Like many contemporaries (such as JID and Sylvan LaCue), Miles’ work centers on interpreting the spirit and sensibilities of an earlier generation of hip-hop through the lenses of modern aesthetics and of their own life and experiences.

Reductive (feat. Malik Elijah)

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