Substance (feat. Lee Brown) 

We used to keep a lot of sleeping tablets on us
Pharma pushing products and the Xanax on us 
Fall asleep and wake up on a different planet 
Follow me I’ll take yis on a trip down memory lane 
Where the dishonesty can grip 
And everybody trying to kill their pain 
But all I do is sip 
The moment lost again like tears in rain 
We’re feeling strange when gathered on our loved ones graves 
But why not question why they died
Its like we’re brainwashed by design 
And that sleepy feeling, I’m awake and dreaming 
I can see the ceiling, all my demons leaving 
And my feet lose feeling 

I’m feeling weightless on a cloud I float 
Windows down the sun is blazing 
While I’m driving barefoot through the thickest cloud of smoke 
Drugs are powerful 
They’re how we cope with sorrow 
How we limp into impending doom tomorrow 
Fall asleep and wake up on the other side of the galaxy 
Or fall asleep and get lost in the dark side of reality 
If you can’t see the fallacy 
If you weren’t born in palaces 
Then how are you supposed to manage this 
This pain, this sadness, 
These memories harboured like a ship without its ballast 
Its a madness how we’re blasting pills and lacing blunts, its savage, 
Animal inside me and she ready to do damage 
Go out on a mad one, shoot my soul out of a canon 

I’m haunted by the ghost of nights out 
Fear flows when its lights out 
Last orders, boozers closed, looks like your lucks out 
We ducked out the back of the pub 
The lads are locked in the snug 
The moneys dry its high time we got the fuck out 

Chorus Repeated

Lee Brown Verse 

We used to keep a lot of sleeping tablets on us 
But that won’t kill the damage or the badness in us
Fall asleep and wake up on a different planet
Follow me, I’ll take yis on a trip down memory lane…

Substance feat. Lee Brown

Written & Produced by Arbu & Nealo 
Lyrics by Nealo

M00nBird
Everybody’s stuck inside their phones
I’m the same, I put it to my dome
I just want to say its getting weird 
Technology is sentient its here 
 
All I want to say is that I’m lost and 
I just want to dive into my coffin 
I just want to burst another bottle 
I just want to take a train get lost in 
Costa Rica all I see is miles of beach 
and all I want is burning heat, Pacino, 
my whole life ahead of me,

I was born in 1985 in february 
At the epicentre, belly of the beast 
The western world begins to feast 
The population flees to east 
Disease incorporates technology 
Assimilates the human being

The news they want to keep us all in fear 
I’ve had the strangest feeling through the years
That I was born to maybe speak my mind 
An older spirit channelled the divine 
Smashed my higher self with drugs and wine 
Thinking it will find its voice in time 
Praying it will come before its late 
Linford Christy running from my fate 

Linford Christy running from me fate 
Mo Farah I’m running from me past
Usain Bolt we’re running out of time 
Maybe we're just running out of time

Everybody’s stuck inside their phones
I’m the same, I put it to my dome
I just want to say its getting weird 
Technology is sentient its here 
 
All I want to say is that I’m lost and 
I just want to dive into my coffin 
I just want to burst another bottle 
I just want to take a train get lost in...

M00nBird

Written by Neal Keating & Will Goldsmith 

Produced by Arbu & Sugi.Wa

Amaretto Lime

I just want to waste my time yeah waste my time with you 
I just want to spend some, time perceive your point of view 
Because all we got is time baby, but I don’t have the time lately 
I heard it through the vine lady, amaretto with the lime maybe

When we’re stuck we blame the luck 
In darkest ruts the sun come up 
In troubled times I’ll be your crutch 
We take for granted all we touch 
We fall asleep and wake up on the other side of galaxies 
Or fall asleep and wake up on the dark side of reality 

But there’s a darkness under everything 
It follows me around and casts a cloud over the better things 
And I’ve been looking into everything 
I’ve been tearing through the books on mystics 
Drinking words through straws
I’m clutching onto anything that talks, maybe take a walk 
Because Autumn colours nature like an ancient painting
I see the beauty of the forest as the day is breaking 
I think the day is breaking

Amaretto Lime

October Year 

Written by Neal Keating & Sugi.Wa 
Produced by Sugi.Wa & Arbu
Post Production by Arbu 

Lyrics:

I carry scars on my soul 
I carry weight on my own 
I carried you to my home 
I carried winter alone 
But all the dread that was ahead of me 
Dragging me to the end of me 
You were nothing but the best of friends to me 

I was deep in a rut 
With a feeling of nothing that seems appealing 
Staring up at the sealing 
Until the morning comes breathing 
Until the weight of the seasons 
I felt the weight of you leaving 
I felt all emotions grand spectrum 
Fall, devotion, cans, bedroom, 
Walls, emotion, hands met 
I’m going to get up and be gone 
Out of the hospital bed and I’m gone 
Get my deposit I’m up and I’m on 
Finally open to people from where I’m from 
You don’t cry you don’t say nothing 
You just swallow all the shit til’ you can’t even function
You just swallow all the tablets, codeine for the lunch and 
You just bought a gaff and now the bank are on their bullshit 
Miss the mortgage payments and get hit with an injunction 
You just hit the bookies, then the boozer for the function 
United jersey on so you can just swill pints and judge them 
I know that may sound harsh but I’m not really one for judgment 
You just want to fly away escape from all the…

I carry scars on my soul 
I carry weight on my own 
I carry you to my home 
I carried winter alone 
But all the dread that was ahead of me 
dragging me to the end of me 
You were nothing but the best of friends to me 

I carry scars on my soul 
I carry weight on my own 
I carry you to my home 
I carried winter alone 
But all the dread that was ahead of me 
Dragging me to the end of me 
You were nothing but the best of friends to me 

Sunshine on my window pane,
Pain follows me all winter yeah,  
Maybe just walk with me, 
Maybe just walk with m, 

I carry scars on my soul 
I carry weight on my own 
I carry you to my home 
I carried winter alone

October Year

Lyrics:

Well I can fall asleep making plans 
I’ve got angels take them for granted
I’ve got strangers shaking my hand 
Now that I’ve seen the lay of the land  

And I was touring in vans
Since I was a younger man 
I was shaking the worlds hands 
I was bright and full of the plans 

But this life can steal your soul 
My wife and kid they give me hope
a young nipper just fresh off the dole
I was broke and unpredictable 

Driving one way through the city spin the wheel like marty whelan
got my angel face on I’m sacrificing all the demons 
flying straight through the glass ceiling willy wonka seasons 
october year getting blasted even me oul lad start believing  
and before i get too sentimental, crayons markers, pens and pencils, 
i could use them all to vent about the days I used to head to 
leisureplex in blanchardstown, 
or xtra vision mark it down, 
Soapbar hash lets spark it now, 
its dark out now 

But I got a question from or ya 
I did my best I’m okay 
I got a lesson for ya 
I am not stressing for ya  
this is not the best environment  
to raise a child the politicians hide the violence
but i’ll do me best I’m okay  

Called to tell you I was lonely
Called you from Arizona
Called you from California 
but now I’m on the way home 
In Dublin streets I’m alone 
And I’ve been up and down every road 
I got questions only god knows     

I’ve been through love and loss 
and hate and remorse so much I’m exhausted, 
drip tears like a faucet, 
I drink beers til I’m nautious, 
I switch gears til I’m lawless. 
I live in fear I’m far from flawless, 
mental scars I be haunted, 

But I got a question for ya 
I did my best I’m okay 
I got a lesson for ya 
I am not stressing for ya  
this is not the best environment 
to raise me child the politicians hide the violence 
but i’ll do me best I’m okay  

Called to tell you I was lonely
Called you from Arizona
Called you from California 
but now I’m on my way home now 
In Dublin streets I’m alone 
And I’ve been up and down every road 
I got questions only god knows

Questions (feat. God Knows & INNRSPACE)

Just My Luck (feat. Molly Sterling & INNRSPACE)

You Can’t Go Home Again Feat. Uly & Adam Garrett

Xanax

Let Your Dreams Collect Dust Until You’re Desperate Feat. Jehnova & Molly Sterling

Heart Food for Hard Times is out on Friday 15th May 2020. 

Track credits: 
Nealo - Vocals & Lyrics
Adam Garrett - Music 
Uly - Trumpet
Adam Shanahan - Production 
Marcin Ciszczon at Diffusion Lab - Mixing & Mastering


For more information please contact: 
Sheena Madden
+353 87 245 8046
sheena@amplifyagency.ie

HEART FOOD FOR HARD TIMES

Friendship, tragedy, emigration, drug use. Not just lyrical themes but all also catalysts on the path to Nealo becoming a Hip Hop artist. Having spent 10 years in the Dublin Hardcore Punk scene singing with the band Frustration, and after their split in 2015, vocalist Neal Keating found himself at a creative loss. “As Dublin changed and bandmates emigrated I found myself creatively stifled, I knew the words were always swirling around in there, I just needed a medium to get them out and hip hop has given me that”. The next 10 months, Nealo spent writing over 50 songs. His debut release, ‘October Year’ is a sample of 4 of the favourite and most cohesive of the last few months work. ‘October Year’ is both the beginning of an artists life, and the culmination of a years work with friend and producer Arbu.

Nealo

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