“The Ruse of Booze” is a raw, unflinching ballad about addiction’s grip and the battle to reclaim the self. Through gritty imagery and soul-baring lines, it paints the bottle as a sly salesman, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and a devil at the door — seducing and destroying in equal measure. With each verse, the narrator wrestles with guilt, memory, and fleeting moments of clarity, only to be dragged back into the cycle. Dark, bluesy, and haunting, this song is a confession, a lament, and a fight for redemption.

Booze Blues

[INTRO]
If I got it, you can get it— 
No, I don't mean "If I can do it, so can you." 
Don’t know what it means to,
If it’s even wanted by, you.
What I mean: if I have it, 
And you need it, Once I've fed my children, I'll give the rest to you.
Right now, mostly just beats
Reminders to breathe,
I got to offer you.
Don’t know if that’s enough,
But sometimes that’s everything
What we needed…never knew. 
[VERSE 1 - Nocturnal awakening]
When the people sleep, 
I awake, no longer counting sheep
Their turn to sleep, inverted world turn inside out— closest I get  To remember what it means To be me.
Moonlight reducing the viscosity of air, I breathe deep Til I feel fully alive— The day-lit world, I survive,
Twilight, the place I revive.
I've been searching for the skeleton key, It opens everything.
The spine like a lightning rod Grounding God, remembering There’s no difference between me And eternity.

[HOOK - Abundance mindset]
If I got it, you can get it— No, I'm not bein condescending. I can't know what you can do, And I ain't conceding.
What I mean: if I have it, if you need it, Once I've fed my children, I'll give the rest to you.
If you still hear, these words
A gift for you. 
Thank you for listening. Consonants, reverbs, and beats— never sound as sweet as sharing 
Them with you.

[VERSE 2 - Time theft]
Take a minute— A measure of moments. Sometimes you notice, Sometimes time traveling,
Like you disappeared and now coming to When you check the clock,
How you gonna measure time like
It stays the same, and ain’t relative to
Each of you? 
They taking the most time—
Hours drag by, waiting to feel alive.

They took the water, the land, the food.
Only way to survive?
Working for what they stole from you.
 Day cooked, like I’m asleep, dreamless. Now the main thing that comes between us— We ain't got time, Too busy, Can't find time to share between us.
Do we measure ourselves by the calendar Or by what we create and in sequence?
The minutes that are missing—
Where'd we go?l Where'd we hide?

[VERSE 3 - Life cycle, the gift economy]
If I got it, you can get it— Every rhyme, keeping time, Giving life to your listening.
Every time you listening, Give life to the rhymes. Somehow we both existing In and out of time,  Come together, sharing life.
They lied— Only way to keep growing, Keep your crop giving life, Is to let it give life.
It ain't grow to be locked away with the dead. Grains riddled with rot
For Centuries ain’t left the storage shed. people starving, harvesting 
Plastic like it’ll quell their hunger,
Just added fuel to the fire,
Anger now where there once was wonder. 
[OUTRO - Returning to the question]
If I got it, you can get it. What you need? Who am I talking to?
Sometimes I still wonder
What wonders we forgot we knew?
Wonder where humans
Still feel like humans,
In this digitized fugue 
(fade on question)

If I Got It

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Leave that, baby leave that
You too bad to be stressed where you at
Leave that, you don't need that
Come through, I can show you better than that
Leave that, leave that
Why you holding on to what's holding you back?
Leave that, leave that
You deserve more, that's a fact

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