Stop Time

Written and Recorded: Early 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Theonlyzheuz
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Intro
If you could just
Stop time
For one moment
Let it all go
Fix everything
Would you do it?


Verse 1
See I’ve been contemplating existence, I’m confused and just existing
My rage has turned to sadness that is fueled by this worlds sting
I wanna take control, but I just continue falling
My minds at a break point, I know God won’t be calling

We were thrown in this world, now we fight for ourselves
Some were born at the top, or some are stuck cleaning shelves
I could scream fuck the world, but that won’t do any help
Yeah, I’m pissed, could you blame me? Man, it’s all I ever felt

If I could stop time, and take eternity to fix it
All my problems all your problems, make them gone in an instant
Man, I’d do it, it's not because I wanna be the hero
But when you at the bottom you will always take the free throw

To fix anything and everything, I wouldn’t know how
I’d take everything and anything, and burn it to the ground
Then work up, because that’s just the way it has to be
The world needs a restart from all these corrupted beings

Yesterday I met a man, he looked to be almost 50
I could only pay in cash, so he paid my $6.60
Maybe one day if I see him, I could give his money back
But that’s a good person, and we need more of that

I could go on all day, but no one wants to hear a rant
(Stop)
Talking ‘bout the problems will never make all them drop
(Nah)
I got problems stacked and I wish I could give them back
(back)
But I caused all these problems, so I will pick up the slack

I see time is running on me, I see how life is ahead
If I worry now and fix it, I’ll be happy when I’m dead
Its just time has run too fast, and its getting to my head
If I could only stop time, I will do what I said . . .

Verse 2
There has been consequence to actions, and they will not fade away
All these people, they're complaining, but their actions seem to stay
There's reluctance to the change, but they know it’s the better way
They won’t look you in the eyes, the only motives better pay

There's a hypocrite in all of us, ‘cause humans are the same
The only difference is the character, and those who point the blame
But if we admit our errors, we can learn from the pain
We can move on from the cycle of the tears, blood, and shame

There has been sick children who are suffering on the spot
Nearly dead old men, stay comfortable at the top
I can’t speak for all the broken, ‘cause their battles were worst fought
But let me say this, when will this finally stop?

My own problems are so minuscule, it’s like I’m playing games
I’m surrounded by great people, and so I’m asking for the same
But I got what I got, and that will never change
I’ve been living this so long, I got used to the strange

The ambitious kid inside of me is locked in his cage
If I could only open up, and bring ambitions to the stage
But it’s like I’ve been fed up, I decline with the age
Now the motivations gone with every turn of the page

But the story will continue, ‘cause this is not my place
I’ve been running from my problem's, it’s like I’m on the chase
If I could only stop time, and go at my own pace
If I could only stop time, to make this world a better place . . .

Stop Time (Demo)

Escape the Struggle

Written and Recorded: Early 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Mixla
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Verse 1
Never seen a rich man care for price tags
Never seen a poor man care for clean rags
And I’ve never seen the light in the Yin Yang 
Yet I’ve seen the dark hit like a big bang

And in hind sight everything’s okay
Life’s the same, could be worse, fuck don’t say?
Life’s written in a riddle, hit replay
Understand, but you don’t, so you go play

‘Cause we all need something to cope 
Some think, some smoke, drink lean, or snort coke
Yet it’s always the same in the end
You dug a deep hole? Look for the hand someone lends

But, I don’t want to rap to sit here and preach, no!
It’s what I think when I’m quiet, don’t you see? So
I’ve been relying on the chances, see my life go
Simple reminder to the promise, now I gotta show

I live my life in the struggle, but it’s not interesting
And when I rap these lyrics, there’s no one listening
This ain’t a song for the listener, I’m telling ya
It’s a letter to myself: “Get your shit together!”


Hook 
This ain’t no way to live, keep climbing ‘cause we struggling
You a lazy ass bitch, get hustling 
Life’s shit, so what? We’re grinding then
Pick yourself up, you gotta escape the struggle man!

This ain’t no way to live, keep climbing ‘cause we struggling
You a lazy ass bitch, get hustling 
Life’s shit, so what? We’re grinding then
Pick yourself up, you gotta escape the struggle man!


Verse 2
Broken promises don’t fit on a tombstone 
Promises I only made, but it was never known
Promises I gotta keep ‘cause I’m all alone
Promises that I won’t say ‘cause it will be shown

And I don’t want to accept your hand outs
I suggest you retract go back out
I’ve been drowning in the ocean of my own doubt
Read the lyrics and you’ll know what it’s all about

Mother said that I’d be something when I grow up
Father would’ve been proud no matter what
Big brother played a role, I thank you, but
Life fucked us, we’re in it together huh?

Every story is one in a billion
But this story got me dreaming for millions
This situation got me staring at ceilings 
Get the fuck up a “real man” doesn’t care what he’s feeling


Hook
This ain’t no way to live, keep climbing ‘cause we struggling
You a lazy ass bitch, get hustling 
Life’s shit, so what? We’re grinding then
Pick yourself up, you gotta escape the struggle man!

This ain’t no way to live, keep climbing ‘cause we struggling
You a lazy ass bitch, get hustling 
Life’s shit, so what? We’re grinding then
Pick yourself up, you gotta escape the struggle man!

Escape The Struggle (Demo)

Tomorrow Will Be Better

Written and Recorded: Early 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: chillimadebeats
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Hook
I don’t wanna leave this world
But I keep hiding all this pain
But who is there to blame . . .


Verse
Yo, and I can think of thousands of reasons not to be here
But honestly, I'm avoiding the thought because of fear
Of the 132 others of my brothers and now they gone may they rest in peace this year

It’s a dilemma, I’m grinding on my own, but conscience says could be better
And I’d be lying to claim not down, that’s a pretender
I’m holding in the feeling, but let me say I’m unleashing
The tears when I can and I’m still a full man

You got some issues building in your head, bro spit it
‘Cause every day we turn down the talks to get our wrists slit
I’m holding in the thought of a better future but honestly when times are rough, it makes it tough

But, I’m not one who looks forwards to the end
So I've been having fun writing feelings with a pen
Well, if you listened what I told you it’s a ballad of dead soldiers, situations arbitrary, 
But I’m taking chances going on ignoring all the weight in my life that there is to carry
This the product for the plenty, lyrical obituary still we all be feeling empty, but at least on the contrary,

Tomorrow will be better, I promise

But fuck man,
Am I fine with this? I never wanted this
Can we talk ‘bout this? No one's heard ‘bout this

I’ve been squandering
I’m pondering
I’m wandering

I’m-
I consider life a lesson, back and forth like pendulums
This justice for the cause is one that no one comprehends with them
A bullet for us all with our initials and we carry them
We all got ‘bunch of problems but we swim in the aquarium

‘Cause what? I find myself thinking ‘bout death a lot
Woah, But I don’t know what happens when our bodies rot
No, Why am I alive? Is the question that is always brought
Should I be alive? Is the motive that is always sought.

I’m not suicidal, if I said, I’d be a liar
I promise Ima live long ‘till my soul retires
But I dedicate this tribute to those lost in the fire
A special moment of silence is all my song requires

1-2-3-4

It’s a tragedy that infects all nations
Seeking escapes, we kill ourselves for different sensations
2020, America hit the 36k
By 2030, that number will keep on going long ways

On the average, a brother lost every 13.7 minutes
A gun held then shot taking his future with it
We the 49%, but we make this 80
There's a plague going on and we living it daily

Now, I’m not worthy to be the one speaking on this topic
This a problem that needs attention there's no way to stop it
A man looks happy on the outside, but theres never any telling
Take a look on the inside another soul is yelling . . .


Hook
I don’t wanna leave this world
But I keep hiding all this pain
But who is there to blame . . .

Tomorrow Will Be Better (Demo)

Hotbox

Written and Recorded: Early 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Mixla
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Verse1
Look, I ain’t got no life and there’s nothing to look forward to
Ever since I graduate there’s nothing I work towards to
Yeah it’s sad that’s the position I’m in
My life’s not great, and I cannot pretend

But I’m planning on something, can’t live my life as nothing
I only see the dark and miss the sunny and sunny
To plan my escape, I need the money and money
But this life's a big joke, it’s not funny or funny

Got all these stresses and their building up
If I were an alcoholic, man I’d fill my cup
But I’m not, I’m young and I’m stuck in routine
Mental issues stuck around for all the things I’ve seen

See, I don’t run from my problems, just don’t know how to fix 'em
I’m confused by these problems, but this can make me forget ‘em
Bag up all these issues and then roll 'em up
Put em in joints or blunts, then we smoke ‘em up

There’s a Ford Five Hundred down in Marway trailer park
The whole crew packs in we bouta spark
Got the car nice and heated, you know I’m on aux
Rowan got something rolled, now we bouta box

Only got like a few friends ‘cause I can’t even socialize 
Quality not quantity glad to have everyone one of these guys
But oh shit, don’t want to get sentimental
But I won’t pretend like that line was wrote accidental

It’s 12 AM and now everyone sleeps
Though we on a different schedule, so I sleep in my seat
We finished one blunt now we on to the next
Liam pulls out the bong fuck that shit hurts my chest

But fuck it okay, I guess we packing that bitch
You gon’ need some of my water when you hit that bitch
Take your hits take your breather and then pass it when you can
Can I take another hit ima need that breather man

We’re nice and concealed, and there’s no way to be seen
But a cop drove by as we’re taking our greens
That pig will get his drug bust sooner or later
It’s ‘cause we low income, they just some big haters

Well anyways he gone so there’s no reason to trip
But it’s 1 AM now and Emma said she gotta dip
That means it’s time for Rowan’s temporary leave 
Will we pack something else? He gon’ have to wait and see

They open up the door and let out all the smoke
Fuck the dogs are barking they gon’ wake up all the folks 
I’m hoping we will toke, but there’s a reason for no hope
‘Cause will he take long? That’s just good ol’ BurOak
 
It’s 3 of us, my boy Jorgen up front
He’s requesting dead wrong? You know I love that song
When it comes on, we gon’ pack the bong
Oh shit we gotta wait for Rowan so a chillum if it’s long

Liam’s tapped, it’s like he always is
I’m high as fuck, but see, there be no reason to quits 
Jorgen’s good, it’s like he keeps me on my toes
But we smoked up so much zaza that it’s plugging up my nose

Rowan came back right at 2 AM
Fuck the car hood exploded, not this again
It’s okay, that’s a simple fix
Just let it cool off, I can drive it by 6

We still smoking and there’s no end in sight
Rock bottom came on I guess it’s that time of night
Gotta turn it up 'cause this song always hits
I relate to Em story of my life and shit


Bridge
Yo, wake up wake up, it’s your inner thoughts 
Ay man soon will be a year ago this one hotbox
Times flying by and you do nothing to grasp it
Your future’s saying by like white t-shirts in dog shit 

Chilling back then it, was all fun and games 
But let me tell you, it’s gon’ be bad if we acting the same 
You can smoke with the homies, but don’t cry when you lonely
If the past is where you stay, watch your future go away ‘cause


Hook
Nah man! I’m not lose it
Ra da da
How can I prove it?
Ra da da
All this time I’ve been wasting all my life 

Yeah man and look
And I’m gon’ do this
Ra da da
How can I prove this?
I can’t pretend like my life’s all okay

Yo . . .

Hotbox (Demo)

No Way Out

Written and Recorded: Mid/Late 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Mixla
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Intro
There’s a way of life
That has never been told
The wise man said
But he never really showed well,
I can’t tell you, the ways of this life
The man with devils fists somehow went like this


Verse 1
Yo, pick a tragedy: my life or yours
It’s the same sided coin cuz we suffer in our cores and 
We’re forced in this world for extortion 
Of money and it’s power living life full of torment

Listen here, I see the story in your tears
All your wishful thinking won’t make it disappear 
Make a wish and I can answer your hoping
Proposing the hope isn’t often so chosen 

Stop

Go analyze your life, are there fantasies you want, but reality is not?
What it seems, all the worlds extremes 
Were only made extreme ‘cause the average man dreams 

What he can’t grip in his hands
Twists in’s and the ands won’t meet but they can
If you follow me, my ill philosophy 
Your interpretation will be the secret to you finally becoming free


Hook
There are many ways a man can live this life
All the hardships and moments will make your life
Just know, the human beats hearts of stone
They will fight for the throne with blood, flesh, and bone

There are many ways a man can live this life
All the hardships and moments will make your life
Just know, the human beats hearts of stone
They will fight for the throne with blood, flesh, and bone

Verse 2
It’s a white mans world and we living in it
Who you are won’t matter when you’re judged by pigment
And how the fuck can two balls and a meat shaft have the planet?
God’s Adam wreaks havoc

Over everything, but money and the power isn’t everything
There any way to escape the game?
You’ve been stuck in the maze you were born in
Searching for days until you sleep without snoring

You're dead.

Now tell me what was accomplished?
Caught in the agenda, free will vanquished 
We’re all pawns on the board by the hoards
We’ve been lied to believe 1+3=4

And who am I to say? I’m no wiseman
But there’s a different way, hell if you can
Ever figure it out, so just live without
I’m telling you, no way out


Hook
There are many ways a man can live this life
All the hardships and moments will make your life
Just know, the human beats hearts of stone
They will fight for the throne with blood, flesh, and bone

There are many ways a man can live this life
All the hardships and moments will make your life
Just know, the human beats hearts of stone
They will fight for the throne with blood, flesh, and bone

No Way Out (Demo)

12 Labors

Written and Recorded: Late 2023

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: chillimadebeats
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Verse
Yo, to remake myself through labors there is gonna be some fighting
Skin of steel, after I kill, I’m gonna skin, take from this lion
His Hide, while the hydra seemed to put up a fight
With some help and some burns, I put what’s dead in the sky

Track a deer for a year, back the foots of the hind
Behind the sacred deer, so I brought it alive
But a boars a different story, it didn’t have that luck
It was stuck in the snow, now it’s life’s in the mud

(Woah)

Rerouted rivers so I could clean some stables
Accepted cattle as payment and put my efforts under tables
For those stables that I cleaned, and left seen with the payment 
Well I would later regret for even accepting that payment

(Yo)

Now I heard that there's a nest full of birds, a simple rattle did the trick
One by one I would pick
But then the next was a bull, whose not easily picked
I found another trick, and I choked at his skull

Next task was to bind up the man eating horses
Fed them a king and I bound them while they chewed up the morsels
Retrieve a belt from a queen, who was impressed by me
No violence was necessary, I got it for free

There are tales of a giant with some magical cattle
Well I stole them from him, after some radical battles
And after many long years it's been a journey I’ve had though
Yo I wanna right my wrongs, but I’ve had it with battles

(*Sigh)

Now for the eleventh to make up which didn’t count for the second
And for the record, the next task isn’t anymore pleasant
Although the sound of fetching apples sounds nice, but I reckon

A simple task is not made for immortality
So next step is to interrogate the man of the sea
Find the location, find the one holding skies of creation
Swap places, get the apples, trick him back for the handles

(12th for the 5th)

The land of dead holds a place with a 3-headed dog
I asked the lord if could take from the gates that he guards
3 watchers and a fight, with no weapons in arms

It’s simple rules but while I wrestled stunned my head like a lobotomy
I’m limp, although it’s cool, I hear the dead down from the bottom of me
It’s a hustle for a fight to wrestle dogs, they hate the light
But don’t you take this for a loss, I’ll choke the heads and keep him orderly

Hook

12 labors
I know this world needed a savior
My 12 labors
I repented and became the creator
My 12 labors
To start anew is what they have said
But the actions of my past still live in my head

12 labors
I know this world needed a savior
My 12 labors
I repented and became the creator
My 12 labors
To start anew is what they have said
But the actions of my past still live in my head

12 Labors (Demo)

How Am I Wrong?

Written and Recorded: Early 2024

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Chxse Bank
Engineer: Jakob G/Mock Studios


Hook
And It goes like
How am I wrong? 
When I’m blinded but I know the answer
All these facts pointing different ways
I’m hearing different things, but I don’t ask you

How am I wrong? 
When I talk real quiet, but I spit real loud
Lay my emotions up in front of crowd
But no one asks you, how am I wrong?


Verse 1
Yo, I can’t breathe but you let me breathe
Although, I can’t see what I couldn’t see 
Unseen low, let you know what is unbeknownst
I should’ve known that you would’ve just done the most

It's in my pocket, and now I’m being buried with the locket
Try to scream in a closed casket, but they locked it
Well knock up ‘cause I got open eyes
And when I talk with Satan, I’ll come back alive

If I clot, and bleed from my wrists
Would I breathe all the rot from the shit that I spit?
If I spit every single lyric 
With a plot or a script to be fixed on my crypt

Stop!

Same difference same song but a different meaning
‘Cause what are lines if you don’t fucking hear me?
And what are rhymes if they don’t fucking rhyme
When my time just ended, pay attention


Bridge
And I just ask
How am I wrong?
How am I wrong?
How am I?

Split ends I’m feeling narcissistic
I’m by the edge bouta go ballistic
12 shots down when you finally realize 
Your personality would be better if you finally died
It's-


Hook
How am I wrong? 
When I’m blinded but I know the answer
All these facts pointing different ways
I’m hearing different things, but I don’t ask you

How am I wrong? 
When I talk real quiet, but I spit real loud
Lay my emotions up in front of crowd
But no one asks you, how am I wrong?

Post-Hook
Y se dice, el que quiere no puede, quédate ahí con la más de la gente
Dime, el que puede si quiere, ven para aquí y veras que te envuelves
Dile, el que quiere no puede, quédate ahí con la más de la gente
Dime, el que puede si quiere, ven para aquí y veras que te envuelves 


Verse 2
Envuelve me, devuelve me, dime algo, recreating me
I tiptoe down to the show te necesito yo, like you created me
I- I know this life ain’t been easy, si me voy loco please don’t yell “crazy”
I got a bunch of eyes all up on me, pero te miro de aquí in front me

No recuerdes el tema , olvida el tema pero escucha mi letra, lo que dice mi letra:
All the important things I’m not on stage but its like im being forced to sing
I get it, out of breath I’m climbing a mountain 
When Im spitting shit at this mic, like a human fountain

What you know of double entendre
Si no entenderás cuando rimo con nada
Ven escucha la estoria, nada, una pregunta? Nada
Ya llegaron al fin de la canción y que agarraron de mi letra? 
Nada 


Hook
How am I wrong? 
When I’m blinded but I know the answer
All these facts pointing different ways
I’m hearing different things, but I don’t ask you

How am I wrong? 
When I talk real quiet, but I spit real loud
Lay my emotions up in front of crowd
But no one asks you, how am I wrong?


Post Hook
Y se dice, el que quiere no puede, quédate ahí con la más de la gente
Dime, el que puede si quiere, ven para aquí y veras que te envuelves
Dile, el que quiere no puede, quédate ahí con la más de la gente
Dime, el que puede si quiere, ven para aquí y veras que te envuelves 


Outro 
Listen,
How am I
Who are I
We are I
You are I
I am I
If I were to die
How would I come by
Live a lie
How would, how would I
How am I
Who are I
We are I 
You are I
I am I
If I make it by
Don’t cry
Now am I, now am I
How am I
How am I wrong?

How Am I Wrong? (Demo)

Prisionero

Written and Recorded: Early/Mid 2024

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Instrumental: Unknown
Engineer: OBEATS


Verse 1
I’m imprisoned in my very own mind
What’s the line between evil and divine?
I wish I knew, but I never had a clue
Ah, it’s true, the better of me well it just flew

Away, so I’ve written down some words to say
Lay it on play, explain pain to crowds that don’t pay
Attention, to my loud emotions 
That flood into your ears like the vastest ocean


Bridge 
Soy prisionero ya vengo, puedo ser esto
Padre neustro estas en el cielo?
Pa ser bueno no ay dinero
Prisionero, pero prometo, por que?

Soy prisionero ya vengo, puedo ser esto
Padre neustro que estas en el cielo
Pa ser bueno no ay dinero
Prisionero, pero prometo, por que?


Hook
I’m a prisoner, to regret
I’m a prisoner, that’s what I said
I’m a prisoner, I left what I left behind
Let it flow from my eyes ‘cause— 

I’m a prisoner, to regret
I’m a prisoner, that’s what I said
I’m a prisoner, I left what I left behind
Let it flow from my eyes 


Verse 2
1-2-3-4
I’ve been struggling way down to my core and
1-2-3-4
Counting numbers while I lay on the floor

You know how these bars work right?
Not the lyrics but the ones that hold me tight
Metaphoric in sight, metaphorically I speak
Lyrically I’m free to be the beast I was born to be, with these shackles on me


Bridge 
Soy prisionero ya vengo, puedo ser esto
Padre neustro estas en el cielo?
Pa ser bueno no ay dinero
Prisionero, pero prometo, por que?

Soy prisionero ya vengo, puedo ser esto
Padre neustro que estas en el cielo
Pa ser bueno no ay dinero
Prisionero, pero prometo, por que?


Hook
I’m a prisoner, to regret
I’m a prisoner, that’s what I said
I’m a prisoner, I left what I left behind
Let it flow from my eyes ‘cause

I’m a prisoner, to regret
I’m a prisoner, that’s what I said
I’m a prisoner, I left what I left behind
Let it flow from my eyes

Prisionero (Demo)

For My Father and His Son 

Written and Recorded: Mid/Late 2024

Credits
Lyricist/Performer: Oziel
Producer: Liam Dahlseid 
Engineer: OBEATS Additional Engineer: NALII


I'm not ready to die!

One time for my . . .
One time for my . . .
One time for my father
And one time for his son

When this first started, I'm trying to remember when
I try, but I seem to fall in line again
Why can't I explain what I feel?
If I fall from this pain to be real
Algo grito, de mi alma has visto
Dame agua, dijo, dicho no escrito
'Cause I'm still the same and I never grew up
Ever since my father died, I never smiled much
Well, that kid's lost inside and he wants to get out
I can't hear him, but I feel him, in my dreams he shouts
I can't remember what they're telling me, the parts within
I'm battling my conscience over good and bad I've seen
And so I say, how come I have learned to hate?
If we're all humans at the core, was this not a mistake?
Si lloramos y vivimos con risa aquí unidos
Sin violencia, no violence to take control over the people!
We're killing ourselves, I say it simple as that!
How has my happiness stayed stuck in the past I lived back?
I can't track, it's the back of the mind
Hear these lines through my eyes, for the facts age with time
'Cause I know I, no hay aire pa' mi alma, respira muerte
¡Oziel aguante!
Te prometo esto, el día sera hecho
El niño adentro . . .

There's hate in my heart!/There's no hate in my heart!

When I say, I'll be happy when I finally die
Trust me, I'm smiling way up in the sky
Well, one day, I'm gonna fly away
For I've got ashes of dust, but my soul won't fade
When I say, that my soul has a flaming desire
Trust me, I'm burning inside of this fire
Well, one day, I'm gonna fly away
I'll meet you at the end when I see that day . . .

For My Father and His Son - Single Version

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