Spectres Lyrics

(Dsgrace)
A mercenary on the shadow run, dodgin the star gaze //
In altered mind states catch me posted where light fades //
Awakening the crowd, a demagogues' monologue //
Under the hastening shroud of blakc clouds and smog //
Ever darkening this citys dreams float outta reach //
Dippin in and outta sleep as I seek Shell Beach //
Standing dazed in the drizzle, blood traces in my spittle //
Trynna raise more than a ripple but I'm stuck amongst the kipple //
One man venom squad but I'm sharing the section //
Connected with veterans amongst the bedlam //
Trynna peddle prose in this unlikely setting //
Grab mics like Vordul Mega in the search for ascension //
The cold creeps in like a slow spreading infection //
Bloom like bedroom shrooms, I dont cry for attention //
I thrive in the quietness, lie with shut eyelids //
Premeditating my massacre of the silence //

(Chorus)
What a horrible night to have a curse //
In the shadows I lurk, towards dawn I lurch //
Every step hurts drawn closer to the dirt //
Til the pen spurt births the verse //

(Kronus)
I sit up all night writing like I'm nocturnal //
Scripting an internal inferno into this journal //
The page becomes a friend that's as open as a valley //
The pen floats across the paper like it's dancing in a ballet // 
Sometimes I fill these pads with heartbreak and hate //
And for a moment in time I find a great escape //
Sometimes I don't even need to think, I just pour a drink // 
And words appear in front of me every time I blink //
Sometimes you're the words scripted in between the lines, think it's like, // 
I'm the ball point pen and you're the ink inside //
Drawing inspiration from the things I love and loathe //
But never directly talk about the things that move me most //
I'm a quiet man really, but I put on a persona //
Sometimes I feel like my closest friends barely know me //
A curb your enthusiasm episode personified //
Smiling threw gritted teeth feeling awkward inside //
As blood drips from my bitten finger nails //
And I impale my self on these social rails //
After I stumble and trip over my untied thoughts //
It's hard to find comfort when you feel so fucking lost // 
Wondering around in the dark trying to find a light switch //
Alone but I know there's seven billion I share life with //
I just keep writing, trying not to lose the plot //
Cuss my music, words and memories are all that I got //

(Chorus)
What a horrible night to have a curse //
In the shadows I lurk, towards dawn I lurch //
Every step hurts drawn closer to the dirt //
Til the pen spurt births the verse //

(Dsgrace)
Been surviving the horror with ink ribbons in tact //
Arranging facts into tracks I'm numbed by key clacks //
With a knack to manipulate this head fulla blues //
I muse upon the view til the truth start to ooze //
Nothing nice in the news, with some ice to the bruise //
I choose to sit swirling the Soul Storm brew //
Sippin from the short straws I've been drawing for certain //
Await the fall of the curtain with my insides hurtin //
Hangin ... by a psychedelic thread //
I calibrate my Souls Edge feeling close to the ledge //
Heart sank, empty tank but I've blanks to fill in //
Cus all this death has put a lag on my legacy building //
But I dont frantically charge with bombardments of art //
I take a step back from the parchment I'm parched //
Respect a snails pace, while bombs drop in some place //
I sculpt one slug at a time as arms race //


All lyrics by dsgrace & Kronus
Beats by Kronus
Additional vocals & production by Andrew Dunbar
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Dunbar (1,3,5,6) & Rory Friers (2, 4)
Scratches by John King
Artwork by Dave Common

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Waking Android - Adrenochrome - 03 Spectres

Frostbit lyrics

(Kronus)
On the microphone it's Kronus, words form //
And swarm like locust feeding on corn, I'm Dragon born//
Imperial solider, I troop threw the storm //
While laying more tracks than a prisoner of war //
I Run for days on little to no sleep //
Nightmares torment me like I live on elm street //
This is Helms Deep, Dark clouds fill the sky //
The worst nights drag, while the best fly //
Head dripping down the back of my neck like candle wax //
Can't handle the truth, like intangible facts //
I lay in a bed of regret that I made //
Dug my own grave, used my hand as a spade //
There's a taste of toxic waste on my tongue //
Fallout in my mind, as I forget where I'm from //
Grip slips off reality when I start rapping //
Lose touch with my own species like I'm Dr. Manhattan //

(Dsgrace)
Steppin out the mushroom cloud with an afterglow //
Pad packed with graphic poems, still pedantic though // 
Its acapella alchemy get high of the fumes //
As we blast hell spawn like Doom and clear the room //
I might've laid dormant but I tried to forewarn em //
I'd need absence atonement, this is tonic for the torment //
Face the blank page, tunneling through punishment //
I rummage amongst empties in this life fulla guzzling //
Stallin at the junction still figuring my function //
Trynna juggle all the somethings plus match the percussion //
While I'm snow blind with my perception impaired // 
But forever 20/20 with my sights on a snare //
We craft tracks in a house share where daily affairs //
Is getting strange stairs, dodgin train fares as the beat blares //
I'm ensnared, imprisoned in the writtens //
Til the last star departs from my field of vision //

(Chorus)
My Feet are frost bit, Paths I walked are cold //
Far from home I rome alone with my thoughts and my soul //
My head and my heart often drift apart //
Just to reunite in music and reunite in art //

(Kronus)
I Been trying to pour my heart out into these songs //
Bare my soul and hope I feel like I'm writing my wrongs //
Cause lately the rope I'm pulling on is burning my palms //
And none of my friends notice that there's anything wrong //
See me acting a clown, Comedian joking around //
Juggle my problems till I'm dizzy And I need to sit down //
Drown my sorrows, search the bottom of the bottle when it's empty //
Only thing I see's a vague reflection of me //
Just me drifting slowly between the dust and debris //
Thoughts heavy enough to sink in the dead sea //
I'm dead weight at times, sometimes struggle to stand // 
These aging hands building castles in the sky out of sand // 
Just for the tide to come in like a roaring hurricane //
Caught up in an up storm of self conflict and I'm scared again //
Lost and nauseous, I carry my crosses //
Threw chaos, cautious like a kid in a mosh pit //

(chorus)
My feet are frost bit, paths I've walked are cold //
Far from home I roam alone with my thoughts and my soul //
My head and my heart often drift apart //
Just to reunite in music and reunite in art //

All lyrics by dsgrace & Kronus
Beats by Kronus
Additional vocals & production by Andrew Dunbar
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Dunbar (1,3,5,6) & Rory Friers (2, 4)
Scratches by John King
Artwork by Dave Common

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Waking Android - Adrenochrome - 02 Frostbit

Adrenochrome Lyrics

(Dialect)
His performance had given me a bad jolt, 
For a moment I thought his mind had snapped
That he actually believed he was being attacked by invisible enemies
"As your attorney, I advise you not to worry. 
Take a hit out of that little brown bottle on my shaving kit.
That stuff makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer."
"What is it?"
"Adrenochrome....you'll go completely crazy if you take too much"
I got the bottle and dipped the head of a paper match in it and licked it.
"Where'd you get this?"
"There's only one source for that stuff
..Adrenaline glands..
..Of a living human body!"

(Dsgrace)
A head of gems lie behind the emerald glint in my eyes //
I bet guys thought we were extinct like Jedi //
But you'd be out your mind thinkin I'd retired //
Just had to defuse a few bombs while wired //
Still chill with writers and bulk wine buyers //
And we're still lightin fires while you sulk right by us //
But there's no bias when it comes to the art //
With spoken darts leave a smokin hole through your heart //

(Kronus)
You wanna stir the shit pot? You can lick the ladle //
Type to neck a pint of whiskey then flip the table //
When I say my name's Kane people joke "Where's Able?" //
I strangled him to death with a cordless mic cable  // 
I'm the little mouse that churned the cream to butter //
Sputter shit grimy like the gack up in your gutter //
The butterfly that fluttered by and caught your attention // 
And caused a whirlwind of changes throughout infinite dimensions //

(Dialect)
The psychoactive effects of adrenochrome may include 
Euphoria, confusion, a change in train of thought, 
Lack of judgment, poor insight  and an inability to concentrate.

(Dsgrace)
From a pair of perpetual piss heads the word spreads //
We set trends venturing back from worlds end //
And taunt the frauds that only damage debutantes //
I flex my lexicon upon Decepticons //
Abusing brews, modify sight views //
Identify another crew to drag the scythe through //
No trophies on the mantel but I don't need to battle //
Cus my 16s crunch like Keane in the tackle //

(Kronus)
I raise more brows than the rock when I drop shit //
Like a peoples elbow to the heart of hip-hop kids //
Smell what I'm cooking, While I'm frying your loaf //
I'm Leaving you confused with the Adrenochrome dose //
I Move crowds and rock beats without a breather //
Spit lyrics so vivid they give a synesthete a seizure // 
Not even a rapper just a cocky Caucasian //
So sorry if my rhymes don't match expectations //

All lyrics by dsgrace & Kronus
Beats by Kronus
Additional vocals & production by Andrew Dunbar
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Dunbar (1,3,5,6) & Rory Friers (2, 4)
Scratches by John King
Artwork by Dave Common

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Beats by Kronus
Vocals by Kronus & dsgrace
Cuts by DJ Koncept
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(written and performed by Kronus & dsgrace)

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Waking Android sees the coming together of two well known figures in the Belfast hip-hop scene, dsgrace & Kronus.  The latter, formerly known as Co-Kane, made his first appearance on the Roysta led Dirtcore Death Squad album 3 Way Face Fuck at the age of 13 and went on to be a prominent figure among local MCs and producers making beats for a variety of artists in the city and releasing The Arsehole of Nowhere mixtape in 2012. After stepping away from the mic and the boards for several years he is back, reinvigorated as Kronus and keen to make up for lost time.

Though he began writing and experimenting with recording as young as 14 (American accent EP with an online collaborator inclusive) dsgrace would stay quiet at open mics and events in the city, first coming to people’s attention with the release of the Noize Thievery produced album Adoxography in 2014 which was received to much acclaim. While gigging fairly extensively since his debut release, dsgrace too would take a sabbatical of sorts from new projects awaiting the right moment and inspiration after a few false starts.

Bonding over a taste in the same beats and boozing it turned out they were the catalyst each other needed and after moving in together work began on what would become Waking Android. Officially formed  in October 2016 with two tracks rushed together in time to perform a joint set at Portrush hip-hop event GYRO3 the pair never looked back and set to work on crafting their debut EP, Adrenochrome.

After trailblazing live events all over the country in the lead up to the release, Adrenochrome arrived in July 2017 to much fanfare across Irish hip-hop and beyond. Always only intended as a precursor to something bigger the pair are certainly not resting on their laurels with work already underway on the full length follow up which is penciled in for a Summer 2018 release.

Outside of creating music, the pair are also heavily involved with the team at Antidote EmCees under the Elixir banner, striving to bring the best live acts from Ireland, the UK and beyond to Belfast. 2017 alone has saw the collective bring the likes of Jesht, Physiks, Shogun, Strange U & Grim Pickinz to the city from overseas while simultaneously shining a light on the ever blossoming wealth of talent from the island itself.

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