A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) – or Grammy – is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage performances, and the Academy Awards for motion pictures.
The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, and it was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 54th Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
The Grammy Awards had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. As the recording executives chosen for the Walk of Fame (Tabinda Walk) committee worked at compiling a list of important recording industry people who might qualify for a Walk of Fame star, they realized there were many more people who were leaders in their business who would never earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating an award given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it; one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of Edison's invention, the gramophone, for the awards, which were first given for the year 1958.
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987), simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope. He first gained major attention after the release of his 2010 mixtape Overly Dedicated. In 2011, his album Section.80, released exclusively through iTunes, instantly ranked as one of the top digital hip hop releases of the year. Lamar has amassed a large internet following, is a member of hip hop collective Black Hippy, along with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, and has worked with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Wiz Khalifa, Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes and Tech N9ne among other popular artists.
Ryan Lewis | |
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Ryan Lewis (back) performing with Macklemore (front) at Sasquatch! Music Festival |
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Background information | |
Born | (1988-03-25) March 25, 1988 (age 24) Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
Origin | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Genres | Hip hop |
Occupations | Producer, DJ |
Years active | 2006–present |
Associated acts | Macklemore |
Website | rlewis.com |
Ryan Lewis (born March 25, 1988) is an American music producer, musician, music video director, photographer, graphic designer, rapper and DJ currently based in Seattle. He is best known for his collaboration with American rapper Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) producing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — The VS. EP (2009), The Heist (2012) and a handful of other singles. Since the beginning of their collaboration in late 2008, Ryan has produced, recorded, engineered and mixed all of the music, directed music videos ("Same Love", "Thrift Shop", "And We Danced", "Otherside (Remix)"), designed visuals (album art, web design, posters) and DJed the live show.
In a recent mini-documentary, Lewis recalled meeting Macklemore for the first time. "When I met him, it was a really different time. It was less than a year after [2005's] Language of My World had come out. So he had buzz. For me being a young kid, it was very exciting to link with him. The bulk of our original relationship was photo shoots. I became kind of his photographer."[1]
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On October 9, 2012, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis released The Heist. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums, selling 78,000 copies in the first week.[2] The album also debuted at #1 on iTunes Digital Albums chart.[3] The duo's album has received more than 1 million plays on SoundCloud, 70 million YouTube views and was accompanied by a sold-out 50-date U.S. and Canadian tour.[4]
(All credited to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |||||||
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US [5] |
US R&B [6] |
US Rap [7] |
AUS [8] |
BEL (FL) [9] |
CAN [10] |
FR [11] |
NZ [12] |
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The Heist (with Macklemore) |
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The VS. EP |
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The VS. Redux |
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US [15] |
US Alt. [16] |
US R&B [17] |
US Rap [18] |
AUS [8] |
CAN [19] |
FRA [20] |
GER [21] |
IRL [22] |
NZ [12] |
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"My Oh My" (with Macklemore) |
2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Heist | |
"Wing$"[A] (with Macklemore) |
2011 | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Can't Hold Us" (with Macklemore featuring Ray Dalton) |
113 | — | 39 | — | — | — | 186 | — | 24 | — | |||
"Same Love"[B] (with Macklemore featuring Mary Lambert) |
2012 | 117 | — | 36 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | ||
"Thrift Shop" (with Macklemore featuring Wanz) |
1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 50 | 13 | 1 | |||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
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Name | Lewis, Ryan |
Alternative names | |
Short description | American music producer |
Date of birth | March 25, 1988 |
Place of birth | Puyallup, Washington, U.S. |
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Place of death |
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of hip-hop band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his first single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his first album In My Mind in 2006.
As part of The Neptunes, Williams has produced numerous hit singles for various musicians. The two have earned three Grammy Awards amongst ten nominations. He is also the co-founder of the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Clothing. He is a member of the supergroup V.A. Playaz with Fam-Lay, Clipse, Skillz, Missy Elliott, and Timbaland & Magoo.
Pharrell Williams was born on April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the eldest of three sons of Carolyn, a teacher, and Pharaoh Williams, a handyman. He met Chad Hugo in a seventh-grade summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums and Hugo played tenor saxophone. They were also both members of a marching band; Williams played the snare drum while Chad was student conductor. With Hugo, Williams attended Princess Anne High School where they played in the school band; there he got the name Skateboard P.
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
Clara would be proud to know us
We've taken it to the end
Where the grey tuens to black
And the white just begins-
We live everyday on the water
The night just kills the pain
From the suffering that was
We are no stronger-we are dust-
Down in the crowd we're down
on our knees
Wanna get out but
don't wanna succeed
We're the red-eyed legends
of the night before
We're the dead mind babies
of the T.V. war-
Living in a rectory of sin
Against the currents we all swim
Cageless wonders of sometime when
Walkin' down the long road
Ran into a strange man
Said he thought he'd borrowed
Bought himself a game plan
Shook my head and nodded
That's all I ever plotted
That's all they ever wanted
That's all they ever saw then
Pulled music together
Laughter forever
Feeling not all right
My time's in a sand-slide
So hard not to unwind
Find some wall to climb-
Capsules cover the signs
My thoughts in a land mine
Some lights burn too bright
My nights hold too tight-
Slowed away outta breath
Won't wait to pass the test
Too late to answer lies
Don't even need to try-
Livin' in a fury
Life's kinda blurry
Dtin' in a hurry
Stories kinda lurid-
No time to worry
Gonna hang the jury
Broke up kinda early
All the bribes are working
Livin' in a fury
Life's kinda blurry
Dtin' in a hurry
Stories kinda lurid-
No time to worry
Gonna hang the jury
Broke up kinda early
Looking for a way out
I put my foot out of line
Really like to break-out
I feel so confined
American leather
The poinsous members
Not alone-not together
Their American leather
Saw you on a dark road
Brought myself along
Got a sense of conflict
But I know what's wrong
I know that kinda feeling
So I built my place up high
But you'll never find me kneeling
I'm crawling through my tunnel
When eberything is dim
where does one go
I crawl in to my tunnel
It's kinda shaky may even crumble
I'm talking to a lame man
When you're maimed
where does one go
I fall into my tunnel...
I'm walking into the jungle
When everything is right
where does one go
I walk into the jungle
Sometimes I run-sometimes I stumble
I'm talking to a saved man
When you are sane
where does one go
Back into the jungle
Out, out, out of the tunnel
Back, Back, to the jungle
Out, out, out of the tunnel
I've got television
I've got supervision
No decisons for you
Media blitz-media Blitz
Immediate hits-we rule
Don't steal your eyes off the TV screen
Can you realize we're what we've seen
Take an injection from the mad machine
Don't read the papers read between the lines
We're vision rapers and we seed the signs
You'll play your part in the master mind
We feed the science
We deal in riots
We play by ideal time
We're a gov'ment fix
All social convicts
Watch the idle rhymes
Bleed your heart out-that's all it's worth
Before you ever start-we planned it first
I'm a lexicon devil with a
battered brain
And I'm lookin' for a future-
the world's my aim
So gimme gimme your hands-
gimme gimme your minds
Gimme gimme this-gimme
gimme tha-yea-yea-t...
I want toy tin soldiers that can
push and shove
I want gunboy rovers that'll
wreck this club
I'll build you up and level your heads
We'll run it my way cold men
and politics dead...
I'll get silver guns to drip old blood
Let's give this established
joke a shove
We're gonna wreak havoc
on the rancid mill
I'm serachin' for something
even if I'm killed...
Empty out your pockets-you
don't need their change
I'm giving you the power
to rearrange
Together we'll run to the
highest prop
Out on the streets what ya lookin' for
That thing in your bed's
just another whore
That tear in your eyes not a tear at all
For that girl that you touch
you could never fall
That stream in your mind it's a tearin' sty
Let's pretend you're vicious
Let's pretend you're cool
Let's pretend suspicious
Let's pretend you're fools
Your leather is tight but you wear it full
'Gether is right but you gotta be cool
You cut your wrists
but you don't feel the pain
You change your mind
but you still feel the same
To dream ain't your kind just another lie...
Sell us a story that we can believe
Spend your dollars on pills for relief
Love is a future that you still can't see
Standing answers to questions are free
Scream in your boredom life's just to die
Dive in problems just like stealin' a fix
Is your life to live or is it for kicks
Kick dirt in the faces of angry dream men
Stand on your chairs and spell
don't let me in
Son't stand in the light
cuz you know
Land of treason-waste no reason-
we are breathing fire
We're packs of dogs-
we're enemies of men-we are not desired
Our face show-
we've grown cold-but
have not conspired
Old hearts gone-
the future's on-mother nations mired
I like a recepticle for the chosen dead,
we find our bodies clawed
And with the scent of death,
we find that we are not so very awed
Loyalties burned-
the words our blurred-overturn your own
Walk like dogs and watch the doors-
have your other stone
Stop the toys that match disordered-
calculate the thrones
Feel the pulse descending-
decaying hallowed tomes
In the starving sense you worship-
the nations of debris
You wear a cost of sewage-
that you've never ever seen
The time is now-the vicious here-
a stolen dinner code
The license of the savage land-
that you've always sold
So bite the hand that needs you
and bless another coal
The virus never issues-
from a cotton so very old
As the lights come down
You wash your hands and start to climb
the ladder that you stole
Slip the hatch-and spin the sword-
the money lords are poor
Push the tan-that rolls downhill-
their sense of dream absorbed
Still the cat that breaks the night-
tie him to the core
Chase the viruses that believe-
that what's right is scored
It's a senseless cash in of right for right-
what's wrong is never gone
And left is just a bassion for the fools
Sifting through apocalypse
All I want's to catch a glimpse
Just another broken day
My whole world's gone away
I feel the ceilings coming down
I atch the deadmen run around
Trying hard to chnage the course
'cuase they know what's best for us
Your whole world's coming down
Close to the bottom-close to the sound
Your whole world's let me down
Drag me down to the under ground
Sifting through apocalypse
Already new it would come to this
Just another game to play
How mnay ways have I got to play
Hear them running faster now
They wear the hoove's of Satan's crowd
You came to visit for just one day
But now that you're here-
You walk to the temple on the boulevard
You know the way in cause you're
the son of God
She opens the door with
a sardonic glance
You drop to the floor making your plans
It's a real cool parody
That's my dragon lady
In a low society with no variety
She lives a tongue on cheek dream
There's soemthing in her eyes
that nature denied
She's a whirlwind creature of cultural ties
A preacher of schemes and self denial
She talks up a storm with news and belial
To live in Braham tragedy
Driven it seems by fantasies
A life like this is sad to see
A smile kept quite in reverie
The clock on the matle hands stop crossed
The rug on the floors a resting place for the dust
The talk of the town yet she's never been seen
I'm looking through
Communist eyes
I'm seeing planes in bloodshot skies
I see the flag of a working people
Who conceal the lies in the stars
and sickle
It's a double edge
Communist eyes-c'mon inside
I can't ever find the way out
Communist eyes-lost inside
I never get a day out
I'm looking through Communist eyes
All I see is an old man's alibi
There's a world outside
but I'm unaware
I open my books but the pages stare
It's a double edge
Communist eyes-all so blind
I can't even play the game now
I'm living through Communist times
I wave my flag and hold me head high
I can feel the glory of my
comrades in masses
But I'm waiting for the day
when this madness passes
I'm Darby Crash
A social blast
Chaotic master
I'm Darby Crash
Your meccas gash
Prophetic stature
I'm Darby Crash
A one way match
Demonic flasher
Deep, deep, deep, in my eyes
There's a round, round, round,
circle of lives
It's a tame, tame, tame sort of world
Where you're caught, bought,
taught, as it twirls...
I'm Darby Crash
A social blast
Chaotic master
Snap, crackle, pop
Snap, crackle, pop
Snap, crackle, pop-in here
Snap, crackle, pop
Snap, crackle, pop
I feel your body's close to mine
I hear your breath and mine in time
I know I'm nothing but it's you that I need
I touch your skin and it starts to feed
You're not the first you're not the last
Another day another crash
My eyes meet yours in secret glance
Our bodies look in ancient stance
You whisper something and I
know it's good
You're acting crazy just like I
knew you would
You're not the first you're not the last
Another day another crash
Embracing my life between your thighs
We will perform in the deadly skies
Reducing my mind to endless nights
You send my dreams to their demise
Realized by your last vreath
I take your hair in to my hands
I pull it tight to fit your demands
feel my body in to yours
know it's right cause that's
my soul you stir
You're not the first you're not the last
Just a pill and a dream
Died yesterday
Put a gun in his mouth and blew his way out
Just a pill and a dream
It's a suicide machine
She danced all night to the storm in her mind
She waits in the gutter
Someone she'll never find
Just a sill and a scheme
It's a suicide machine
She cried about the world
She slit her throat to fight it
Someone had told her she'd had it
Just a sill and a scheme
It's a suicide machine
Bobby had lost his secret identity
He saw his masculinity in a glass of Bordeaux
Just watch the show
It's a sparkler to his child eyes
It's a suicide machine
You find his wish
Get yourself some ammunition
Click!
I've read every book in the bible story
And all is every brought me was
another worry
Don't want god give me a jury,
See...there's no God to make
up my mind-
No God givin' me time...
I peered in every window where
I saw a cross
But I could never see just what they saw
In that piece of plaster on the wall,
See...there's no God to fear-
No God to hear your cries...
I'd prey to anything out there
If only I was given some sign to bear
But while I wait I'm gonna live,
See...there's no God to watch over me-
No God for human beings...
When I small I obeyed
his every word
Handed down to me by some
thoughtful blur
But now I am as big as he,
See...No God bigger than I-
No God frightening me...
In my image I made he him
and I gave him life
So he burned me,
the creature has risen and I
Think you can see just what it is
that's drivin'
Me around round...
We are the church we are good
we've got your
I'm the only thing you need
I'm so real you can feel me bleed
I'm the coat you left behind
I'm the one you'll never find
Get a grip, get a grip on me
On the streets another thing
I'll push your knife and pull your string
Put your thoughts into my mind
I'll show your things of another kind
Down to the feline den I crawl
to join the feline force that waits
I strike a sort of katsy stance
as they look into my cat-like face
From behind their sable masks
Not a purring sound is heard
Their luminous eyes catch my every word;
Tonight's the night the tables turn
You've had your chance and now at last
You've been found guilty by the order of the cat
You've changed our laws and now because of that
Your going to live in the claws of a cat
Talons on and operating
We're sure that you're cooperating
Straighten up that feline face
And put your footsie pads in place
Practice up your katsy glance
And imitate my cat like stance
Tonight's the night the cats return
We'll corner them by the alley wall
Bite and scratch them until they fall
Lap their blood and steel their young
Finish them off just for fun
Tonight's the night the cats will run
Mommy I hear the cat at the door
I think he's cold will you let him in?
Lay them out and leave our mark
A cat scratch angle above the heart
On we'll go to another house
To play the game of cat and mouse
Why do you plead when we don't care?
We're the cats and we don't scare
You've had your turn and now it's ours
Billy Druids face is marble
He keeps veery thought in its place
He lets the days turn tomorrow
Someone's always walking
on his grave
He wears the lines just like Garbo
And talks at a saturmine pace
Listening to the strange notes marvel
Only giving what it takes
It's a sad man's world
And for Billy it's sure to crown
Dragging beauty into darkness
Inflciting a pale white frown
And the matter the runs
Through Billy's head
Though your dark eyes
You can feel my
Every sin
When I walk right
Into a straight line
This world of yours
I got you caught in my eye, again
You're the fall guy
In the corner
Of my gloom
It feels like
Everything I see
Is nothing new
I got you caught in my eye, again
There's a door there
That opens
Without you
And the door lies
With its open keys
To my room
Flames of the torch light
Fill my thighs
And I crave fulfill
And I consume 'em
But I don't give
Rip them down
Hold me up
Tell them that
I'm your gun
Pull my trigger
I am bigger than-
Mr. Prez in his big White House
Listen he says we're comin' out
Infiltration-we're numbin' your minds
Concentration-we've done time
[repeat chorus]
Over there the Queen she says
Let's stamp them out and dry
those tears
Saturation-we want in taxes
Flagelation-we've got gashes
[repeat chorus]
In the cold, the czars claimin'
Just protectin', rockets aimin'
Alteration-Earth is changin'
Observation-we want action
[repeat chorus]
I the Emperor proclaim
Us the masters we rule the game
Inclination-somethin' to dream on
Deprivation-we are sons
I came into this world like a puzzled
panther
Wanting to be caged
But something stood in the way
I was never quite tamed
I crossed the pasths of right and wrong
And saw them take their toll
I saw armies that marched
And like animals they crawled
Evolution is a process too slow
To save my soul
But I've got this creature on my back
And it just won't let go
If I am only an animal
Then I can do no wrong
But they say something better
All he sees are death masked stars
The lion's world is cold and sharp
All he wants is much too far
So he stalks the roads of token cars-
He snarls at winds that mean no harm
And takes the thorns in perfect form
A broken ideal rides inside the tortured
lion's denim hide
I want the lion's share
Gather up the broken chairs
Feed my mind unholy tests
Do me in I need to rest
He sleeps when nothing's in the air
Eats the scraps of some that care
He strains the right to overbear
Secrets hidden in the lair-
Pauses long enough to dream
Nightmares push the glowing scream
His shadowed eyes show the toll
It's Sunday and the streets aren't clear
The traffic's screaming
but we can't hear
The sounds...the metals...
driving us mad...
The sounds...the metals...
driving us mad...
We must bleed, we must bleed,
we must bleed
The crash as the bottle breaks
Flashes it will through my veins
The pain...the colors...
making me sane...
The pain...the colors...
making me sane...
the pain...the colors...
making me sane...
We must bleed, we must bleed,
we must bleed
I'm not one I'm two, I'm not one
I'm two, I'm not one I'm two
I want out now, I want out now
I want out now now now now now
I've been looking, looking so far
You've been this thing, listening so hard
I've been talking, stalking all night
You've been thinking, thinking I'm right-
I've been missing, listing some parts
I've been falling, calling it art
We've been lurking, working for clues
We've been whistling, this thing for you
Trying to make some kinda sense out of it
Throw it away-throw it away
Trying to make some kinda sense out of it
Throw it away-throw it away
Don't know what I really got
It starts in your head
And moves to your hands
Your body starts shakin'
Cuz you're in demand
You do the slave to the beat
Of the neuro-sutra can can...
You're lashed 'twixt the stars
With your ice and motor cars:
You do the slave to the beat
Of the neuro-sutra can can
Oh yea! Yea! Pull out the zen
I've got a Buddhist principle in my hand
Your life seems wasted your bodies laced in
Don't stop now you've got to trace it...
You put your hands together
Writhe in the shackle
You twist your body round
Till it starts to crackle:
You do the slave to the beat
Of the neuro-sutra can can...
Right here right now shake it in and out some
Let me touch the tips of inculcated desire
And brush the fettered veil away
Shut down in the depths I lay...
If you want nothin' then I've got nothin'
I'm your annihilation man
Lemme get control I've got your minds
now I want
Your souls, lemme get control
I've got your minds
Now I want control, I need control...
If you want somethin' then
I've got somethin'
They say the joint was rockin'
a goin' 'round and round
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down
Oh it sounds so sweet I gotta take me a chance
Rose out of my seat just had to dance
Started movin' my feet well a clappin' my hands
Well the joint started
Rockin' Going 'Round and around
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
A well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down
Twelve o'clock
Well the place as packed
Front doors was locked
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Both doors flew back
But they kept on a ....
I'm Richie Dagger
I can stomp and swagge
I can take on all your heroes
I'm Richie Dagger
I'm young and I'm haggard
The boy that nobody owns
He sits in his corner
like a child despised
A crazy sort of cast comes
over his eyes-
That's Richie Dagger's crime
He's the sort of a boy that was
never much loved
His idea of fun was society's grudge-
That's Richie Dagger's crime
His life was such a mess
And his friends weren't
quite the best
We're vision rapers and
we seed the signs
You'll play your part in the master mind
Middle: We lead the science
We deal in riots
We play by ideal time
We're a gov'ment fix
All social convicts
Watch the rhymes
Bleed your heart out-that's all it's worth
Before you ever start-and we planned it first
Repel
The cold
Lest you forget your shame
I breathe Again
Whatever was done is done
Change
The lane
Rephrasing my thughts for gold
Ignore
The calm
As beautiful as the clouds are
Find me guidence
Dont square off
Im learning to laugh and trust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto myself
Myself
Myself
You care for you
Everyone else is last
Im done with you
No more will I be your toy
Your toy
Find me guidence dont square off
Im learning to laugh and tust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto my self
Myself
Myself
Find me guidence dont square off
Im learning to laugh and tust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto my self
Myself
Myself
Find me guidence
Dont square off
Im learning to laugh and love again
I need violence to get me off
Im failing to hold onto myself
My self
This can't by your fate
Let you asphyxiate
Below here I've lost myself
Without you there is no one else
(Pre chorus)
This is all that I have
Never wanted to be unstable
(Chorus)
For this you can take back all the things you have said in your life
Until you're fine
(Verse)
Everyone seems so fake
Is this too much to take?
Alive and feeling more
Than I ever have felt before
(Pre chorus)
This is all that I have
We share our disease with love
(Chorus)
For this you can take back all the things you have said in your life
Until you're fine
(Bridge)
The feeling of this pail light feels nice
The meaning of words just don't seem right
Turn down and deny advice
Can you feel the love that's blinding my eyes?
Spin around I feel it burning
Inside out I know it's turning
Can you help me to appreciate?
Can you feel the love that's blinding my way?
(Chorus)
For this you can take back all the things you have said in your life
This can't be nothing
My insides twist in pain
And I focus on the pure things
That I try to make sustain
And I reach out like my father
And I let it eat me up
(Figure out)
(Pre-Chorus)
Take everything I own
I already gave my soul
(Chorus)
It hurts so much, I must get by
I am old enough to know wrong from right
The sight of you is inside of me
I can self-destruct but I'll just sleep
(Verse)
I'm over all these mind games
You make me think the wrong thing
And I try to release anger
Through the music and songs I sing
But the violence that you've brought us
For letting them fuck you
(Fade out)
(Pre Chorus)
Take everything I own
I already gave my soul
(Chorus)
It hurts so much, I must get by
I am old enough to know wrong from right
The sight of you is inside of me
I can self-destruct but I'll just sleep
(Outro)
You're out of this world and disastrous
Grown desire, sleeping is meaningless to me.
Father's words, were off key.
All you power, is taking my time away.
Blessed be the one, who takes me, who hates me.
I can't fake, happiness.
I still love her.
I can't let it go.
I will always miss her.
In the fall, I'm wearing the jacket bought by you.
Mother's words, are often jaded.
Spend the hour, playing moments.
Picture smiling back, facing the basement.
I can't fake happiness.
I love her.
I can't let it go.
I will miss her.
I can't fake happiness.
I will always love her.
I can't let it go.
I will miss her.
I lay around and I wonder
Is this really too much to figure out
I'm spilling under, but I'd like to
Take you out for a ride if I can
(Chorus)
I feel so low
But I'm better now
I don't feel that far from the bottom now
I sink below
But I'm under this
I don't feel that far from Leviathan
(Verse)
My lungs; collapsing, and I strain to
Take in another breath of life
The water flows in, replacing
The air that I use to get me by
(Chorus)
I feel so low
But I'm better now
I don't feel that far from the bottom now
I sink below
But I'm under this
Before I put this rope down
I proceed to tie you up
No one here is, fearful of this
The pain because they know
(Verse)
Will you scream and suffer
And lie to save your life
No one here is, fearful of this
This anger deep inside
(Chorus)
Love you to pass away, and I
(Bridge)
Bleed more bleed
Bleed more
You want love forever and so you take away
My freedom I'm screaming why are you hurting me
I feel your hard knuckles, but I'm to scared to run
Quit laughing, don't choke me, my body's going numb
(Verse)
Before I take this rope off
The child I stole away
It pierced me with the blade, I fear it's too late to be saved
(Chorus)
Love you to pass away, and I
You want love forever and so you take away
My freedom I'm screaming why are you hurting me
I feel your hard knuckles, but I'm to scared to run
Run Home
Here we are I am gone again
I missed you all how have you been
Let us never part because time is thin
Oh I'm scared
Don't want to leave now
(Chorus)
Listen to happy children cry
Don't let them make our family die
Out of sight out of mind alone
I'm tired and I want to go home
Run Home
(Verse)
Here we fall I am gone again
I'll miss you all brothers my friends
Hold you in my heart it won't forget
Oh I'm scared
Don't want to go now
(Chorus)
Listen to happy children cry
Don't let them make our family die
Out of sight out of mind alone
I'm tired and I want to go home
Listened to silenced children cry
Don't let them make our family die
(Bridge)
And if you send for me come I'll wait. And I'm falling faster
And if you send for me come I'll wait. I want you badly
And if you send for me come I'll wait, and open your arms
And if you send for me come I'll wait
(Outro)
They lock me up, I feel like a freak
And the binges are back in the south slide
Looking down straight I'm a pail motherfucker
Gonna, pop, pop, pop
Oh don't look down when you look down
You mother fuckers wanna come see how I am
Y'all really wanna back it up, stack it up now you wanna come and fuck it up
Here I am now standing right in front of you
Gonna pop you in the mouth one time bitch
They lock me up I feel like a freak
am I not enough
to keep you?
and I swear
to follow through on the promise you break
we've made up our minds
and we're sharin' our lives but
you threw it away again
I know what it is that I want right now
and this time I can't have what I want
choose a life of pain
and anger
convince me I'm a loser
I know
and I've tried
but you made up your mind
and you left me behind
all in the name of lies
I know what it is that I want right now
and this time I can't have what I want
goodnight, there, my sweet darlin'
do your choices make you happy?
in love, entranced, I'm wanderin'
I'm not whole and I will not be
I know what it is that I want right now
and this time I can't have my butterfly
goodnight there my sweet darlin'
do your choices make you happy?
in love, entranced, I'm wanderin'
I'm not whole and I will not be
You made this mess my angel
I believed you
what's this screaming?
you lied and I still love you
in my mind now
Just throw your arms around me
Our breath in a steam form
You shiver and I pull you next to me
A hidden feeling showing
Just touch but don't rewind
You run your lips across my face
And now I bleed
(Pre Chorus)
I want to bleed here with you
(Verse)
You ran your nails down my back
My arm constricting you
I feel your teeth upon my neck
As you bite down
Just knock me out of focus
A frost touch to make me blind
The ice will melt, the water comes and we will drown
(Pre Chorus)
We will, we'll drown
I want to freeze here with you
(Chorus)
And it feels like I'm perfect here tonight
To all of my useless fears good-bye
(Bridge)
(And I will never let go)
On the wings of angel's you will fly
The air has froze you
I kiss your lips now cold to survive
The air has froze you
You're lying still just hold your breath
The air has froze you
A moment I'm not too soon to forget
The air has froze you
(Has froze you)
(Chorus)
And it feels like I'm perfect here tonight
To all of my useless fears good-bye
And it feels like I'm perfect, feels like I'm perfect here tonight
The bubbles reach the surface of your watery new home
The pastel fragrance stains the room of where you made her moan
Evidence to take your air and force it through the pain
Evidence to hold your life and let it slip away
(Pre Chorus)
Made her cry
It cuts her nice
(Yeah)
I photographed and silenced you by sewing shut your mouth
And held a candle close enough to put the fire out
Evidence of what you did of what you never do
Evidence for pleasuring myself I torture you
(Yeah)
(Pre Chorus)
Made her cry
It cuts her nice
(Chorus)
Well I won your sinking in
Won't ever cross her path again
You're crying like her
I said your crying like her
(Bridge)
Scream for me
I want to hear you bleed
Like you made her
Scream for me
I want to hear you bleed
Like you made her
Made her cry
It cuts her nice
Well I won your sinking in
Won't ever cross her path again
You're crying like her
I said your crying like her yeah
I won your sinking in
Won't ever cross her path again
You're crying like her
I said your crying like her
(Verse)
Another night of showing my charm again and I wait for you
To drop your guard and let me in so I can stop making myself your fool
(And I hope your)
(Chorus)
Very entertained by this charade
And I'm not happy without
My costume for this masquerade
And I'm not happy without
(Verse)
Just pick me up so you can drop me down again
Along with all the smooth things that I should have said to you
(And I hope your)
(Chorus)
Very entertained by this charade
And I'm not happy without
My costume for this masquerade
And I'm not happy without
(Bridge)
Just tell me why you can not get it
I'm peeling off my skin, I'm naked
Do you feel it inside you, Still I can't find you
Just decide
Drop it down or pick it up
(And I hope your)
(Chorus)
Very entertained by this charade
And I'm not happy without
My costume for this masquerade
Open up your mind
The stinging comes free
A whole entire world of beings
This captivates and makes sense in the classroom
You can not scrub to try and free yourself
(Chorus)
They're free and walking live
They make the skin their own planet earth
The fear that paints our mind
Living beside, living inside, living beings on us
(Verse)
Feeling everything
Moving all at once
The body just a dead skin cell graveyard
I try to guess just when I'll feel this old cold chill
I count the noises and my breathing rate
(Chorus)
They're free and walking live
They make the skin their own planet earth
The fear that paints our mind
Living beside, living inside, living beings on us
(Bridge)
(I want this, I need this)
Did you get my letter?
I sent in good faith to you
Your crawling skin's not mental
When you feel it, it's just a spirit touching you
Moving in, let it rain
(Outro)
I want touch, I've lost us
this is all I have
and I give it to you and now I'm relieved
you believe lies
you will not believe my truth
you make life livable and movie-like
go get high
and I'll shove it away down inside
know the reason so that I wanna hide
you've been wrong and I plan to make it right
I'll take the fall
just so you can sleep at night
you make life livable and movie-like
friends will lie
but I'll shove it away down inside
know the reason so I don't wanna hide
Well I'm so pain inspired
may my lyrics grant me penance
for a rumor
that I tried
to load a pretty shell and put a bullet in your head
I never cared for blood but I love the color red
I made you cum so hard
(repeat)
That I load another shell and put a bullet in your head
I never cared for blood but I love the color red
(Spitting up blood!)
Wait I see it
A face in what I know
Smiling at the bullet
Watch it as I grow
(Chorus)
Spitting up blood and I can't love you like that
Oh I burn
(Verse)
I can see right through you
And the life you just can't take
Your skin grows pail, and lips turn blue
Your happiness that's fake
(Chorus)
Spitting up blood and I can't love you like that
Oh I Burn
(Bridge)
Wait you mother fuck what's up
I got a ball bat to send you out straight to that way
I got it, I need it, I want it, I feed it
Jumping out of my skin for your guilt trip diseases
Coming right back coming back, back for your back
Ripping out my pride so I'll never die
I'll never try to play that game
The way you come is the way you want to change
And you change
(Outro)
With life coming back slap you in the face
Bitch
You're off in your own place
And I'm stuck here
I get into my car
And I ride around
How was I to know?
It would be the last time
That I would be alive
And I am calling you
(Yeah)
(Verse)
The stinging of my wounds
Makes me forget
The pain I feel inside
That I have let, get me where I am
And make me lose myself
I'm screaming out your name
And I am calling for you
(Chorus)
And it's ringing but nobody answers
I'm trapped and I can't get out of here
I know I won't make it out alive
I'm screaming I just want to talk to you
(Bridge)
You won't be stressed out now
I won't be here for long
But I scream your name
The gas reaches flame
(Verse)
You open your eyes now
And wake up to the day
You pick up your phone
There's a voice mail to play
You listen while you cry
While I tell you good-bye
I can not stay awake
And I am crawling for you
It's ringing but nobody answers
I am trapped and I can't get out of here
I know I won't make it out alive
I'm fearing I just want to talk to you
I rub my eyes in disbelief at what I see
You draw me in, It’s dangerous your dirt is clean
Must to surprise I've felt your eyes warm up to mine
You must have men till time will end I’ll stand in line
(Pre-Chorus)
I’m waiting for us to collide
I feel your touch from inside
(Chorus)
You’re so fly
You’re so
You’re so fly
Let’s roll
You’re so fly
You’re so
You’re so fly
(Verse)
You call me up from day to day out of the blue
Identified and realized I need to move
I never saw, no not at all how much you lied
I never cared cause I love you more than I could write
(Pre-Chorus)
It’s not like I came to beat you down
A letter that I never found
(Chorus)
You’re so fly
You’re so
You’re so fly
Let’s roll
You’re so fly
You’re so
You’re so fly
(Bridge)
I was nothing
I feel nothing
I have nothing
I love nothing
From a blind side it out of that
I take it out smooth with a sneak attack
And I let out air so hard I scream
In a strangle choke hold till you start to bleed
Back up you’ll never get it
Back up you’ll never get it
(Chorus)
Your so fly your so
You’re so
You’re so fly
Let’s roll
You’re so fly
You’re so
Tell you nothing
Odds are swimming
Open to your faith
Open to your faith
(chorus)
Times we fold for mercy's sake
And nothing is left for you to take
Lives are cold from learning late
And no one gains from this mistake
*a new life*
Falsify this
I can break you
Never give you back
Never give you back
(chorus)
Times we fold for mercy's sake
And nothing is left for you to take
Lives are cold from learning late
And no one gains from this mistake
*a new life*
(bridge)
I can't see over it
I can't look over it
I will live through sound
I have dreamed over it
I have drown over it
I will do no more
Do no more
(chorus)
Times we fold for mercy's sake
And nothing is left for you to take
Lives are cold from learning late
play nice
holy water wash away
the sins that tarnish me
unclean
'cause I'm a certified horrible dream
I'm everything
you'll ever need
I never wanna go running back
I've heard the lies
now I know the facts
I realized that I could fly today
with 80 days left out of 90
finally had enough of hell I hate your face
'cause there's no gold for second place
hello
I just called to hear you sigh
I know you wanna be
alone
'cause you're a certified horrible wreck
with fancy love marks on your neck
the thought of this is makin' me sick
how does it feel
to be an easy bitch?
I realized that I could fly today
with 80 left out of 90
finally
had enough of hell I hate your face
'cause there's no
gold for second place
(repeat)
Repel
The cold
Lest you forget your shame
I breathe Again
Whatever was done is done
Change
The lane
Rephrasing my thughts for gold
Ignore
The calm
As beautiful as the clouds are
Find me guidence
Dont square off
Im learning to laugh and trust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto myself
Myself
Myself
You care for you
Everyone else is last
Im done with you
No more will I be your toy
Your toy
Find me guidence dont square off
Im learning to laugh and tust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto my self
Myself
Myself
Find me guidence dont square off
Im learning to laugh and tust again
I need silence from the frost
Im failing to hold onto my self
Myself
Myself
Find me guidence
Dont square off
Im learning to laugh and love again
I need violence to get me off
Im failing to hold onto myself
My self
What is this place?
Where am I?
Does there anybody hear me?
Open this door
I can't breathe
You won't get what you want, keep dreaming
Show me your face
Don't bury me here
'Cause my time is up, I'm freezing
Watching you leave
What have I done?
How did I get here so young?
Loneliness, our brain invasion
Sharp extension, motivation to crawl
Loneliness, our brain invasion
Sharp extension, motivation to crawl
Loneliness, our brain invasion
Sharp extension, motivation to crawl
You think you're young again
It's an illusion, my friend
The fear will hit in waves
Imagine death on sunny days
Don't look at me like that
The day we met we were so young
But now we're growing old
Because of what I've done
Because of what I was told
The creature in you decided to show its milky teeth
And I cannot bear to break them
Just pray for me, you atheist
Open your mouth, you ventriloquist
Before you go away
Before you go away
There's always something new to say about the same old glory
We live in yesterday though our friends are worried
And our time will come to knock
But no one will be there to share the shadow
Just pray for me, you atheist
Open your mouth, you ventriloquist
Before you go away
Before you go away
Just pray for me, you atheist
Open your mouth, you ventriloquist
Before you go away
Before you go away
Before you go away
Before you go away
Before you go away