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Taolity (feat. namebuddha / prod. August Fanon)

from Depressed Joy by Time

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lyrics

[namebudda]
inexpressive
in reflection
disconnected
from the flesh is that a sin or blessing
trick question
it’s all subconscious
ghost in the shell
more than a vessel when the god spit
i just wanna bezel and some bomb piff
i just want my mental on some calm shit
swim daily
live wavy
poster child
for those prone to drown
lift me up
hold me down
split the hairs
mold the crown
fuck a punchline they keep the pole around
that’s polarizing
it’s hard to prolong demise even when you know the timing
feel like the darker donnie darko
they gon george floyd me
everybody dies alone
weep softly
tread lightly
my psyche fragile
to cope is costly
pass down trauma
or hold it tightly
what the fuck is karma
they was catchin bodies nightly
this can’t be life on repeat
seek peace
we on the surface
quite when the deep speak
every bar a gram i think i’m chief keef
2 ounces a day
hard to keep count of the pain
sky is the limit
in the mountains a cage
the tides risin
ima drown in the flames
call it duality
my shadow self
shadow me
hopin that the gat’ll squeeze
dinero in taxi
repair what was fractured
despair cause we captured
run out of papers ima tear up the rapture
fear what you do know
what’s today’s science
i ain’t talkin pseudo
kill ya top five
with two flows
one i call war one i call peace
one i call sword one i call sheathe

[Time]
Working construction I was doing drywall with a drunken monk
He said with a slur, measure twice and cut once
I was getting paid minimum wage but getting jewels
The professors looked right through us they treated us like fools
Dinosaurs never went extinct they stayed alive in our minds
Eyes like stagnant ponds, death is the opposite of time
What if every thought the ocean has makes a wave?
And trees speak by sprouting leaves the wind lets us hear what they say
I cried when I watched Yasiin being force fed
Close the prisons and Guantanamo before more are dead
Trying to find myself humming the lullabies of the lost
What's hope but chamomile blooming under the frost?
What's courage but showing your heart knowing it's imperfect?
What's love but giving someone it not sure if they'll return it?
What's the meaning of duality but living conflicted?
Maybe tao's just finding flow within the contradictions?

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from Depressed Joy, released November 3, 2023

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Time was deemed the future of independent hip-hop by VICE and URB Mag. He has been called the Radiohead of rap and the love child of Neil Young and Andre 3000. He was named one of URB's next 100 artists in alongside Drake, Kid Cudi, and U-N-I. Time's worked with Mick Jenkins, Jake One, Che Noir, and Common. ... more

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