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Slacks

'Ars Gratia Artis' - by CJ Trillo
Featuring St. South
Produced by Jim I.E.

Had the pleasure of working with CJ for his latest mixtape 'Volume 1: Nostalgia'.
Listen to the full album here:
http://www.suckafreecj.bandcamp.com/
Free Download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/aw23osydd2becgj/Nostalgia.zip

Lyrics:
This is Ars, this is Trill, this is Heavy, this is me
This is how my soul responds when I am questioned by the beat
This is how I feel at night, when I be sleeping by myself
So this is how I base my heart and personality's wealth
My pressure is deeper than depths of space
I've folded too many times and co-existed with fakes
Sounds weak, right?
Like…tryna stop on a green light
All gassed up from this scene might just stop rapping and sing like:
I really need somebody, tell me you're that somebody, 
tell me you're that somebody
One time for my real life, I've died out and dived in
Just to see how that feels like, so my testaments keep piling

Just the very thought of lifting free
Drum this fear out, bring me to my knees
Cross your fingers, change to grow
A wish is all we'll ever know

This is how I live, and this is how I breathe
So this is how I plan on making real life out of dreams
If these were my last words before I passed away
I hope they spell out most of what my mixtapes had to say
So this go'n be that first time that I break off from that
bullshit that y'all may call
Real Raps, hell naw
Real looking like it fell off
I'd bare all and share pay if this trill music got air play
Y'all shank shots from these airwaves but its green grass
on my fairways
Look, enough with the rapping on beats
Let me be blunt, they don't think anything of it when this
shit'll happen to me
So I wanna be, everything me
Anytime anything happened to C
Jaded from everything mapping my being
So anything I become something I need, it's me

Chorus

Old flow but the world feel new
So it's dope when you're rapping and the words still you
Still trill for the letters in my name so I'm tryna put in work
for the better of the game
Got to see it right cause this shit's like agents
Ain't nobody playing ain't nobody got patience
Everybody foul everybody gotta fragrance
Everybody loud, don't nobody know cadence
This is my drop off, my vanity
don't seem to fit where I plan to be
So I plead the fifth to my sanity
This heart regrets a lone path, ain't no architects in my past
Kept this art and thinking I'm good
So never will I fall to thinking I've passed
Speaking of the fall, the leaves have turned red
Represents the trees that spoke in my head
Did it for the pile of hope on my desk
And just a little flower coat when I rest, and everything's good

Chorus

Ars Gratia Artis - CJ Trillo (feat. St. South)

Slacks (Infinitefreefall Remix)

Suzanne (Leonard Cohen Cover)

The Love Club (LORDE COVER)

Didn't Need You

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yD5zqwjjI

Oh, you know me so well
You hold me so well
And I don't forget it.
Oh, you love me so good,
Your love makes it good.
And I won't forget it.

Don't lose hold of me, hold on to me again.
Don't say what's best for me, a blessing I won't tell.

Time, won't stop forever.
My lips won't weather,
as long as you're mine.
Truth is, I'm asking for nothing,
But I do know something,
Your hands are best.

Don't lose hold of me, hold on to me again.
Don't say what's best for me, a blessing I won't tell.
~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
Oh, you know me so well
You hold me so well
And I don't forget it.
Oh, you love me so good,
Your love makes it good.
And I won't forget it.

Don't lose hold of me, hold on to me again.
Don't say what's best for me, a blessing I won't tell.

Hold

Hold (Prod. Infinitefreefall)

Better Days

Didn't Need You (SOAK Remix)

I’m swearing old doubt, with all the wrong words.
I’m worried and wired that this might hurt

Giving up is wrong when you’re in love
Giving up is wrong when you’re loved

I’m crossing old lists, from trees once kissed
Trying to find the old words I missed

Right between the moon and sun
Lost within the tale I’ve spun

But we won’t give up the others,
Won’t give up the others ’til we’re done.
Won’t give up the others,
Won’t give up the others ’til we’re gone.

I’m rolling old beds, and I know nothing more.
Release me from running back down the first floor

Giving in to old when you’re done
Giving in to feeling someone. 

But we won’t give up the others,
Won’t give up the others ’til we’re done.
Won’t give up the others,
Won’t give up the others ’til we’re gone.

And we're gone, gone, gone. (repeat)

Gone, Not Gone (demo)

Available on iTunes: https://music.apple.com/au/album/get-good-infinitefreefall-remix/1611915625?i=1611915626

Stream on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/track/5f51eKOzliTl6wBgBPHzor

Remix by @infiniteff
Saxophone by Ella Wisniewski

Lyrics:
I woke up with the sun in my chest.
New kicks on, shining Sunday Best.
Blanket homes, and tight rope trees.
Dark roads will cool these warm bodies.

Push that Bad down.
Wring that wash out.
Dreading the day that we begin to read into self-doubt.
Steal that gut feel,
and every cold thrill,
Let the salt sink in when everything is downhill.

Snap back to the youth in you,
Feel the done days and you're pulling through to the getting good, oh the getting good.
Close gaps in the winter stoop, when everybody lights up another hoop, that's the getting good. oh the getting good. 

I broke good with every ounce of 'should'.
The Deep Blue rising underneath my hood.
Your subtle shows, are what I don't need. 
I'm watching, I'm feelin'. Make the best of me. 

Push that Bad down.
Wring that wash out.
Dreading the day that we begin to read into self-doubt.
Steal that gut feel,
and every cold thrill,
Let the salt sink in when everything is downhill.

Snap back to the youth in you,
Feel the done days and you're pulling through to the getting good, oh the getting good.
Close gaps in the winter stoop, when everybody lights up another hoop, that's the getting good. oh the getting good.

Snap back to the youth in you,
Feel the done days and you're pulling through to the getting good, oh the getting good.
Close gaps in the winter stoop, when everybody lights up another hoop, that's the getting good. oh the getting good.

Buy on iTunes

Get Good (Infinitefreefall Remix)

BIG SADS

BIG SADS (Remix)

Lyrics by St. South (apart from the obvious).
Original by Drake.
Sampled from Jaden Smith's version of 'Marvin's Room', 'Starry Room'.

Listen to/download my rework of 'Jungle' here:
www.stsouth.bandcamp.com/

Lyrics:
And I let you down, letting her down, living on less life than we found.
I don't, I see, everything everyone lost in me.
And I'm gonna let this go too far.
Gonna make you fall and 
every day it gets bad.
It gets worse. 
And I can't keep them out no more.

I lost my head, in another bed
I tried what's good.
And how many different ways I could do wrong.
And I did wrong. Fucked it up, broke this all.
Got your hopes up, then we all just fall.

When you think you're on your own.
Lead me somewhere no one goes.
Don't push me out the door, we ain't riding smooth no more.
And you can't keep me 'round no more.

[Cups of the Rosé
Bitches in my old phone
I should call one and go home
I’ve been in this club too long]

And I understand, I'm aware.
I know I fucked up, broke my swear.     
I'm sorry. I see everything I did to damage me.
I lost myself, haven't been all there.
Took your clothes off, rose for air.
And every day you get mad, it gets worse. 
So you can't keep me 'round no more

[Cups of the Rosé
Bitches in my old phone
I should call one and go home
I’ve been in this club too long
The woman that I would try
Is happy with a good guy]

Marvin's Room (Drake Rework)

So Many Places

A Good Year

So Many Places (Yumi Zouma Remix)

A Good Year (Willo Remix)

SMILE NOW CRY LATER

Better Days (imagiro Remix)

Stream on Spotify - https://play.spotify.com/track/50aQ658K4muN3I4d6subsE

Official Lyric Video - https://youtu.be/VC7SOkf0uls

Written and performed by Olivia Gavranich (St. South)
Prod. @weareivol
Sax by Ella Wisniewski
Mixed by @ChuckleSound
Mastered by Roman Vail of Joe Lambert Mastering
Illustration by Zac Wells



Cadence

getting bad again

Stream on Spotify - play.spotify.com/track/2AI5byLjLweZH9yBmOJcRl

Official Lyric Video - https://youtu.be/ByTkVXO9PPg

Written and performed by Olivia Gavranich
Prod. @Yujen
Mixed by @ChuckleSound
Mastered by Roman Vail of Joe Lambert Mastering

Lyrics:

You've got to, you need to.
Or I'm gonna find another who wants to.
You're crying texture tales on your patterned drawers.
I was scared for you, for the kill of the cause.
What you gonna say to me, when I'm on my knees.
Darling please tell me what you know.

You're something better still, you really know how to spin the wheel.
Dragging your arms, through the last of the charms. x2

Pull the dark right over my head,
I don't care what she does in bed,
In the meantime, is she gonna be fine?

Follow you like I lurk in love,
Is there a fail in the woman we trust,
In the meantime, is she gonna be fine?

You're something better still, you really know how to spin the wheel.
Dragging your arms, through the last of the charms. x2

You've got to give, to grow now.
(And you’re not better still)

Better Still (Prod. Yujen)

Cadence (Rad Cat Remix)

Slacks (Urban Dweller Remix)

Slacks (BIGJOY Remix)

Slacks (FVNERAL Remix)

Slacks (Mikk Remix)

Original by Taylor Swift
Rework/cover by St. South
Artwork by Mikaela Kilfoyle

Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift cover)

Furthest Thing - (Drake Cover)

No Other Way (Jack Johnson cover) - St. South

'We Washed Texas' was my winning submission into the Bon Iver Stems Project. It was created using the following tracks by Bon Iver, paired with my own original lyrics and vocals.

Watch the live recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8uiUmbJfjw

'Wash' - piano, strings, autotuned vocals (Justin Vernon)
'Hinnom, TX' - piano, backing vocals (Justin Vernon), drums
'Holocene' - percussion

Lyrics:

Lonely, is how you know me
So here's the journey, of how we slowed
Run 'til your legs break
Love 'em 'til your heart leaks
Never thinking old

We're quick to question
Oh how we're fetching
the last, our rights
And they're lonely waters
Packed full of hoarders
Their chains held tight

Climb, is all we know
is all we know
is all we know
Climb, is all we know
is all we know
is all we know
If all we know
to tell our soul
we're in control

What you wanted
Is what you laundered
Is this treachery?
Break her, with the bleakest taper
Have we any takers
To burn her soul

We Washed Texas (Bon Iver Stems Project)

V1 
It's barely winter yet
you bare your teeth all red
you surely understand
why I can't be your friend
 
V2
I'd barely woken up
to not being strong enough
to withstand your painful love
been yelled at twice this month
 
(pre chorus)
I don't wanna go to work today
is what you used to say
used to say
 
(chorus)
I don't want to spend my life in worry
and no I don't want to watch you smoke a durry
I've got things to do, things to do today
and I fucking hate it when you blow it in my face
 
V3
You have your eyes on red
I might just phone a friend
if you hadn't sheltered me from them
if you weren't so jealous of every fucking thing 
 
(pre chorus)
"I don't wanna see my psych today",
is what I used to say
'cos I was ashamed of how I stayed after how you behaved  

(chorus)
I don't want to spend my life in worry
and no I don't want to watch you smoke a durry
I've got things to do, things to do today
and I fucking hate it when you blow it in my face
I've got things to do, things to do, today I've got things to do, things to do, today I've got things to do, things to do, today I've got things to do, things to do, today and I don't want you to stay

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