The Slip EP

The pursuit of independence
The truth can start to mess with
For some it's just a long, dark, and dusty road to Heaven
The belief that we are greater
We just fell until it faded
With traumas that have bonded
The once loved now is hated
Karma makes a man accountable everywhere his heart is
Unless you don't believe in karma, that's even deeper waters
A fistful of the wishful thinking, simple's not an option
A lifetime of it all now there's a pistol in your pocket
On the corner there's a light that's shining brighter than the rest of em
The fight that's in your spirit not the night for which it's tested in
Lesser men have rested, in death to get what's destined
Left the men behind with a debt to pay the rest in
Blinded by the pride, now confined to limits penciled
Afraid of truth and time, until it finally gets the best of
The street he grew up on has been leveled by machines
For profit in the pockets of ones that made it green 

Can you tell me
When it will stop robbing them dry
In the deepest of the water I know
How do we know
Can you tell me
When the tears start to fall from their eyes
In the deepest of the water I know
And I don't even know what I'm doing here

Well from a dude that’s got a death wish
Nothing to prove to pass the test with
The anger that’s inside from every contusion he was left with
Every bruise that makes his head spin
And the dues that rake the debts in
Every fool that’s ever messed with
Never lose cuz never messed with
Just the booze that he was bred with
The abuse from every direction
Heaven should knew he had a future
Taken his truth and made it different
He could choose to change his shoes but too many miles they’ve taken steps in
With a slew of thoughts had crept in
Turned it from two up to eleven
With the news the wake of destruction
Rather choose to stay in anger
With a crew cut and a stone wall 
The abused is now the breaker
He’s more comfortable in danger 
Want to just stay where he’s been raised in
Cuz the world that burned around him
Gave him the flame that came in blazin'
Now the fire in his eyes has taken him places never dreamed 
Never gone but never here 
Never change and never seen
Never will know what to do
Only adapt and learn to be
Well that man you never knew
I think you know that man is me

Can you tell me
When it will stop robbing them dry
In the deepest of the water I know
How do we know
Can you tell me
When the tears start to fall from their eyes
In the deepest of the water I know
And I don't even know what I'm doing here

The Stranger

Here’s the truth about this album
I wrote it while I was poundin’ shots of whiskey by the gallon
Left my family wondering how can I be living life without em
These songs meant more to me than my commitments that I vowed em
Didn’t want to be around em
My head was dark and clouded
I’m not proud of it
I spiraled out and thought that I just want to do my music
Go get high and just abuse it
Wanted to choose to just be through with everything beautiful
And lose myself to do what I want to do
But here’s the truth I wish I knew

That nothing I’m doing has ever been darker then everything happening right now
Since I was I child I hideout, under the covers turn the light out
Don’t know how to fight, that might be the reason why I became an addict
It was the world that I was mad at
Blame my brother, mom, and dadda
That’s when I turned into everything that I hated
Disrespectful rebel that got a shoulder chip and labeled I don’t give a sh*t I’m faded
Underrated, give me baby at 16 so I can raise it
Just so later she can turn on me and sabotage and hate me
Just rewind it back to prison
And the trauma that I lived in
And the God that touched my heart and
Said my crimes have been forgiven
And my soul found rest right inside of that broken mess
And I think I’ve been broken since
Cuz the other way don’t make sense
And then I paroled and wrote my first real album
I’m singing I HAVE A DREAM
Until I can’t speak from shoutin on that mountain
Is it loud enough??
I found a way to heaven
If I can stay right outta my way
I swear that I’ll make it past the clouds
Cuz now I’m ready

I will wait for you
I will wait for you
I will wait for you
I will wait for you

There’s a monster underneath the bed, in my head, and in the closet space
So I fell hard and it cost me everything except an arm and leg
Cuz if you asked me what the last thing on my mind had been
A part of me would say “just keepin it hard man, I’m bored again”
This tug of war has got me luke warm and I’m too torn to get used to any new norm, I’m a rose bud with a huge thorn
It’s my duty to soldier on with every new war
But my shoes torn, I’m tired of looking at blue skies with new storms
That’s why I wrote this EP
So I could walk away from this relapse with a CD
To remember every feeling
To lie there dead and bleeding
To come to life again I’m breathing
If you ask me yes it hurts cuz there’s a fight to get to this healing
I don’t want to even cry about it anymore
And anyway
It’s history
I don’t know why it still feels like a mystery
It gets to me
Just listen to the gist of it, just picture it
And leave out all the rest
Cuz it will all make sense eventually

I will wait for you
I will wait for you
I will wait for you
I will wait for you

I Will Wait (ft. Cadence)

Song from the upcoming EP.
The Slip EP

LYRICS:
Lying and trying to put up a front
Nothing makes sense
Slippin up give in again, just to repent
Simple again, til it was not
Small town with a ranch
And havin a family it was the plan
But tendancy hinder the way that it panned
Isn't it sad? Just to withstand
Knowing that the bottom isn't the end
Get to the top just to visit a friend
Figure out that the biggest doubt
Was the trigger that had entered in with the gin
Luck stopped with the buck shot
Trust not for that one spot
Bumped out of the club now
Slump down to that truck stop
Fun is the game, andrenalain
Bringin pain to a world that is already wounded
Refusein to change remaining with the dead, then be excluded
But truth is who is gonna be suited up when it's time
Or get booted uprooted to the place you been headin to the pine
You flew the coop, to the point there's no return
Sure, you're feeling the burn but nowhere to turn but where you don't belong and don't deserve
A learning curve
hoping there's room in the future to beat the verdict that you earned
just burn down the curse of the past and be rid of the hurt for the terminal work that you learned

[Chorus]
For the last time
It got me for the last time
I swear I did it for the last time
You know I did it for the last time
I swear it got me for the last time (like the first time)
I know it got for the last time (like the first time)
I swear it did me for the last time (like the first time)
I know it got me for the last time (like the first time)
Yeah

Smile,
Even when no one's around
Learn to be holdin it down
Don't go with the crowd
Wow, how can you pout
When nobodys choking you out
Drip
Sit down for you flip out
Git down for you trip out
Slip out of the spotlight
Went down to that strip house
Wishing that the itching coulda
Given something different but it
Didn't I admit it I'm not kidding
From the beginning
It's been a mission
Driven to gold and anything that could hold up my interest
Always try to be bold individual, plus all the things I stole from Pinterest
I wasn't always in a pinch
When it was a sinch
I never would flinch
But when I was given an inch
I figured I'd give it a mile before I turned into the grinch
But to this day, to my dismay, nothin has panned out
The old ways that I grew up, blew up in my hands now
Truth is that it stands out, who says that you can't shout
Bruce Wayne in the skylight, two face in the town now
But I ain't a joker I been in the ditch and know what deal is
I give it all that I got now, to give respect to the realness 

[Chorus]

The Last Time

Song from the upcoming EP.
The Slip EP

LYRICS:
[Chorus]
Good for nothing, introverted, burning up and living bad
Cursin' at the world, it never will get back, and getting mad
It's just the thoughts inside my spinning head that hold me
Just get me out this place
Staring at this at this empty bottle wishing that it took me out
Voices in my head I follow all the way look at me now
It's just the thoughts inside my spinning head that hold me
Just get me out this place

Cherish the good
Memory setting me up I'd remember if ever I could
Selective it stood
Forget the bad in the conditions
It never will change as it should
Grab onto one word that made my life bitter
Rejecting the 50 that made it all better
Shed all the fat that was cloggin the pipes
More people gone from my corner than ever
Satisfied never, have a nice weather
Black Friday type of mind to find treasure
Time is just whenever, never want to measure
Giving up the precious seconds to not feel the pressure
Whiskey bottle
Or a anything else that could fit the model
Forget tomorrow, never follow, gravity isn't a factor soon as you're in the water
Outlook not so good? What does that mean? Shake it up again, follow whatever you choose
Whether win or lose, Mr. Destiny knocks at the door when it's time for the change to be introduced
When the chess piece moves, lest we forget when we checked we move
If not than at best we lose
Looking back easy living it hard in the debt we choose

[Chorus]

Uncontrolled emotions that will float to the top way before it is even noticed
No time to cope before the explosion destroys any hope of it being restored
Cuz you can't be a man in a world made of gold without bleeding a bit when the fire is forged
The odds are against any heart that is working to better the man in the heat of the scorch
Its impossible
Often feels not
But swimming up river to float to the bottomless rocks
To drop all the locks for the doors you did not have to walk, man it's a lot harder than talk
Get rid of the thought
That even if all
The planets align
And temperatures fall
That God isn't watching
Wishin the wall just wasn't so tall
To get into your heart
Invincible not
Just human like the rest
When dividends brought
The trueness to the test
Flown into the sun, pursue forever rest
Mama bird weeps as you flew into the nest
But how many chances do you have to be lasting
When the devil is chasing and the pastor is asking
And the master is calling your name to the table
So go get your grace, and not wrath of your past, get it

[Chorus]

Read it and weep
I can not sleep
Time is still movin
Days into weeks
I hear the voice
A whispering void
What did you say
Though the blistering noise
Tribulate, turn into given hate
Honestly when did it get this way
I think at this rate we will disintegrate
1968 written in history
See the symmetry
In the way that we just hating the pain away
Day to day getting more numb to the table weight
And it's making me crazy, vacate to mars to wait it out patiently
So go pickup a pickup truck
Lift it up, lower the tail gate and sit back up
And get that cup and fill it back up with love sip it up and then get back up and get unstuck
And the luck might just turn up fore we burn up
And the bus leaves us stuck in an eternal rut
You know what, don't care about a few more bucks
I've put too much of myself here to destruct
So what 

[Chorus]

Get Me Out

Song from the upcoming EP.
The Slip EP

LYRICS:
[Chorus]
Pulled me through
You pulled me through
Yeah you pulled me through
You pulled me through

The ground on which you walk can only tolerate so much
A thousand little wrongs now it's too far away to touch
The borrowed weight of much, knowing partly it is such
A delicate scar that ripped apart (yeah) when the dark became the crutch
The tar to kill the pain at least the part that makes you fuss
The shard to will the brain to cheat the heart, awake the rush
And making this art I hate this stuff
These songs part of the why I'm stuck
They seem to help grieve the pain
But I swear if I could I'd trade them up
A secret deep inside locked
And no one knows the key
And no one ever will
They'll never dare to set you free
The test to keep the secret hidden in the deep and live in a prison that you reap and so you sit and never sleep, it's hard to breathe
But the funny thing of it all
Is what is underneath of the wall
If you're looking past the excuse
As you stumble deep in the vault
There's just a bleed that is small
But the blood has leaked in the hall
Now every door that opens is stained
Nothing can change til it is gone, you clean up all of it

[Chorus]

Infinite the thoughts
That are infinitely thought
Within a minute, listen and watch
As it demands to be the boss of every win of every loss
Every sin and every spot
Every grin and every nod
Every inch inch that you could walk
Gettin a little from giving a lot
Has been chipping away, a little bit every day
Never been to this place of infinite anger and hate
It started from from thoughts that I didn't change
I didn't try, to make em go way they could stay
Now haunt me is the process, and it's haunting every day
And live in the trap inside your mind that in time could just snap and no one possibly would understand the facts of the matter
Attacked with the lack of compassion I'm crashing the faster that they judge, I think the shorter that I'm lasting
And I'm not gonna bend over any more for anybody
And I'm certainly inserting my opinion in this topic
Every thought that tries to stop
Every cop and everybody
Can hear these words again, I swear to God you'll never stop me 

[Chorus]

Pulled Me Through

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I Will Wait (ft. Cadence)

Tension