1. |
A Kind of Ghost
03:21
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All we wanted was our space
By now that's an old one, so ya
Erase your facebook, recognized by no one
n' yet cha, history's getting engraved
In the air and the crystalline sand
Still throughout that,
Don't define the person I am
All we wanted was our space
By now that's an old one, so ya
Erase your face but, recognized by no one
n' yet your, history's getting engraved
In the air and the crystalline sand
Still throughout that
Don't define the person I am, that is
A kind of ghost
Another suggested reality
A kind of ghost
Don't take it for bad or for good
Just know
said just know
All we wanted was our space
By now that's an old one, so ya
Erase your face but, recognized by know one
N' yet yah, history's getting engraved
In the air and the crystalline sand
Still throughout that
Don't define the person I am, I am
A kind of ghost
A spirit caught in reality
A kind of ghost
I don't take it for bad or for good
I just know,
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2. |
Who Knows
03:28
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Quiet nights left alone
Sleeping in n' your home
Your aching heart has paid the price
No that feeling won't suffice
When you take a trip, to the land of the laying
Ya may not care what everyone saying
But your dreams are the type, that they could spy on
Make yah out to be the one they can lie on
Who knows, what is real
This is word to the wise
C-C-T-V
Who knows, what is real
This is word to the wise
C-C-T-V
Gettin' in tune like an infinite being
Pushing past what cha' knew
To escape what ya seeing
Their tryn'a distort your reality now
Living a dream that you made from the cloud
Deep in the chatter of internet data
There is a ghost and that's what their after
A fake chatbot friend for you to confide in
Pretty soon she'll be wearing your skin
Who knows, what is real
This is word to the wise
C-C-T-V
Who knows, what is real
This is word to the wise
C-C-T-V
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3. |
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My time is tic ticking tuck,
to these back streets
Confused by how I’m living
Is something out to get me
Mental overload got me wishing’
I just didn’t think
Gotta clear my vision, clean it off
In the kitchen sink
Im with you, your in me
Ignorance is bliss
So we can’t see
But I’ll walk through
this harsh sea
If it means that
Your a friend of me
Are you an angel
Sent from up above
Or are you the devil,
w/plans to f* me up
Tryna’ find life’s work, living
Try to do your best
Get whatever you’ve got to give
And put it, to the test
Though the end maybe near
We’ll survive through the fear
And live to stretch it out
One mental note
And that’s all that’s she wrote
But the meaning ain’t clear
When we both meet again
We won’t have to pretend
That we both can’t hear
The birds and bees
Say get on your knees
Know what I’m talking’ bout
I can’t complain
I’m not the same
And I don’t win em’ all
At least we’re here alive
Try best to survive
As we witness the fall
As we witness the fall
As we witness the fall
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4. |
The Shine
03:48
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It’s the shine
It’s the shine
It’s the shine
It’s the shine
x2
My mind’s tripping through the stream
Sittin’ here as consciousness collides
Oh god what a time to be alive
All the days have become one
I know it’s truth cause I’ve seen the sun,
But with the moonlight my mind still runs
Seen you manifest from a dream
Can’t discern the inside from the outside
to tell the voices that god is you and I
My mind staring into the screen
and throwing chance w/this spinner thing
Till I learned that the secrets in the eyes
It’s the shine
It’s the shine
It’s the shine
It’s the shine
x2
Letting go or coming too
Would you consider the point of view
Our reality has just begun
False to you but true to me,
In the balance reality
Seems to be apart of the design
Of the shine
Of the shine
Of the shine
Of the shi-ine
Of the shine
Of the shine
Of the shine
In your eyes
It drives
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5. |
Letting Go
02:46
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Letting Go
When it happens
The mean of feeling maybe
Anxiety and fear
What your expected
May come to pass as
The furthest from the near
Thoughts come crashing
Like a tidal wave
into the minds ear
That’s when you’ll remember
A compassion that you
Once held so dear
Recalling what you
Asked to yourself
When there was nothing
left to say
Now our thoughts are
fused as one
Help us find in
A new way
Searching unknown traces
and finding without faces
There’s a lot more to today
Than could ever be known
But you gotta let it go
Sometimes you just can’t know
And I gotta let it be known
No one of us knows just where to go
But you gotta let that go
Sometimes you just can’t know
And I gotta let it be known
No one of us knows just where to go
When it happens
The means of feeling maybe
Anxiety and fear
What you expected
May come to pass as
The furthest from the near
Recalling what you
Answered to yourself
When there was nothing
left to say
Now our thoughts are
fused as one to help us
Find in this new
Way
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6. |
Cold Moon
03:06
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My inclination towards you
Is like a supernatural thing
Or at least that’s how I once
Had perceived it
Like an auditory glow
of gamma love rays
How I once believed
that you could call out
to me
Looking at the way
I thought it might be
You loved me
Attempts to draw a relation
Between you and me
Really thought I’d uncovered
The source of the ringing
A story of you and me
Wrapped up in
Mythology
Sometimes I still hear you voice
When I’m singing
Standing by letting me know
This is still the way
Maybe we’re just waiting
On a scene where
We start livin’ the dream
Maybe time will show us
How to seek out
The answers
Have you heard that sound
That comes from
Nowhere around
Just a chiming bell struck
In your mind
Buzzing on
What I would do
To share this notion
With you
Hear your shining aura
Speak with compassion
In time
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7. |
Precedence
03:24
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Initiate the rollback now
I & I can make a change some how
Set a precedent to let them know
Be the seed of what jah hope to sow
We need a precedence to set us right
No capital made out of fear or plight
Gotta bring the law to even sight n say
Let this important thing be decriminalized
Today
We’ve got to
Set a precedence
Set a precedence
Set a precedence
Set a precedence now
In the crooked building that laws call home
There are a lot of things that’ve got to go
Our experiences will shape new truths
And what we write about them we’ll put to use
We’ve got to
Set a precedence
Set a precedence
Set a precedence
Set a precedence now
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Royal Smith Los Angeles, California
jamopi
is an artist hailing from Los Angeles by way of Houston TX and Madison WI
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