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The 510 Blues

by ADG.

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1.
Hello 02:58
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Hello, the first word I say Tell a summary of this life Show them what you want To portray Hello, my skies are feeling gray All I ask is you stay and bear With my strife, this is a cry I hear the wall of notice Stretching high, trapping me Into this tangled web, giving more than Less, who do I have to impress, messages To send and wait for reply, I comply when mystery ain’t a favor, I want A taste of something sweet to savior Hello Hello Am I addicted to the faces in my book I never met? Hello Hello Do I follow wherever one tweets in hopes they can know me Hello Hello I want to change my life again, tell me where you have been Hello Hello I’ve been typin Up tonight Just searching for some life Just searching for some life Just searching for some life I’ve been typin Up tonight Just searching for some life Just searching for some life Just searching for some life For you my fellow drug I consume your info for me to get tame For you my fellow drug I rely on the resources you provide Hello, how did I get so mellow?
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Hologram 03:28
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You wouldn’t even notice if I was there Acting silent, not present this moment Don’t phase me much cause I am ghost Invisible to you cause you keep on passing me by I see right through your lies I know you think I’m not enough But give me a chance and tell me what I am Hook: See me Feel me Touch me Hear me Breathe me Love me Fuck me Leave me Chorus: Hollow, hologram That’s exactly what I am I don’t give a damn I won’t give a glance Because I’m too hollow A hologram Bridge (2x): Stand by Can you, can you stand by Stand by Can you, can you stand by You wouldn’t even know about what I think My thoughts alone, acting full grown I hate enough cause I am toast Burnt to a crisp cause you keep on passing me by I see right through your lies I know you think I’m not enough But give me a chance and tell me what I am Chorus: Hollow, hologram That’s exactly what I am I don’t give a damn I won’t give a glance Because I’m too hollow A hologram Breathe me
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Playboy 05:04
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My house is not home I’ve been out to roam Got no one to call my Own (So you think you’re so cold Why don’t you find someone different) My talk was smooth But now it’s forward, can’t help Trying to find happiness For myself, I don’t share My wealth, but I can’t decide If I want to be intimate or for You to be my play date Check mate I don’t think you’ll Understand how I operate But I’m not out of the woods yet boy I’m not out of the woods yet boy Am I just a player? Am I just a player? Am I just a player? All I see is names And numbers on my phone, I Don’t have a picture To connect with on my contacts I ain’t easy to forget, but I know girls play hard to get Now who can I call for needs That I can satisfy You don’t want to ask why It wasn’t meant to be this way I can’t miss another act To improvise and barely rehearse I’m on that spontaneous life For every new verse I get a product Of my experience to write I can’t correct my past mistakes But I don’t reject my honesty Find out who’s gonna be fond of me When I know what to write for my wrongs And put it all out into these songs And you play on playa to the beat of this song Don’t you know what you’re doing wrong here? Don’t I know what I’m doing wrong here? Don’t I know Don’t I know Don’t I know what I’ve been? Don’t you know? Don’t you know? Don’t you know? Don’t you know? Outro: Play on playa I can’t help but fall into The life Well I just play on and on And I like to play on and on To the beat of this song And I can’t help but to play I’m not a playa On that 12 play I just question my reputation That Your body’s calling me I don’t see nothing wrong I don’t see nothing wrong I got to get out what I put it now I got to get out what I put it now But I got to get out what I put it now Just got to get out now No I got to get out now
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Far Away (Interlude) 03:19
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Far away Are distant memories I bury deep within Far away Is the childhood I never Got to have, always Growing up and looking Beyond the past Never could say I was at peace But at last… My dreams will never be far away, far away, far away Imagine all my dreams come true but is that far away, far away, far away I wouldn’t be homesick if I was far away, far away, far away I’m not sure if I would miss a thing I don’t want to miss this thing Small town Big dreamer Catch me Running on The beat, Hope I’m Part of the new elite This record keeps Playing, and my Reverie keeps me going Shooting the latest video Then they find me on tour And I swear the angles with Their lens gonna make me Look flattering, These looks can Be deceiving and then I still push To have the music for a living Even when it ain’t in town Looks like I’ll come home to the city Pretty lights welcome Stars on the rise but is this Dream impossible for me? Is it really possible for me Or is it far away Far away far away far away Will I dream of this fantasy Far away far away far away Far away Will they come to me or Are my thoughts in a trance Are my thoughts in a trance Are my thoughts in a trance Are my thoughts in a trance
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Too Short 03:48
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Zealot comes up to me As I work the register Tells me have you ever thought of Heaven, if you died today what would Be the percentage You make it up to the great blue sky Is it a lie to I say 70, 75 percent but then I hear Words that almost sound like an insult But does it apply? Do I comply? I’d rather have a spirit that wanders when Heaven may not be what I expected Hell if I know the Devil, he could Please the heat inside of my bones Hook (2x): If we all come up too short Too short, then why should we stand Tall, If we’re feeling too short too short Then who is there to call I dreamt of everything I encountered But I came up too short on my flaws The wrongs I wrote I can’t forgive How will I live? If I wrote an apology as an ode What will they expect if They can’t forget the outcome As I sing it on my album Sing it on my, sing it on my album Sing it on my, sing it on my album Hook (2x): If we all come up too short Too short, then why should we stand Tall, If we’re feeling too short too short Then who is there to call
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Break The Chain 02:30
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Feels like one of those nights We rise, then fall to sleep Browse through life Searching, mind keeps wandering For the answer until it gets drowsy But these nights keep getting later Not working in my favor It seems I keep sleeping alone Making the same mistakes The cycle goes I tune in to the positive Then tune out all the negative Try to ignore my father’s crystal ball And predictions of what he called right Right Chorus (2x): Break the chain History repeats Break the chain History repeats This is all you know, know, know This is all you know, know, know Rap: You can go your own way And find your forte If this is all I know, then What do I suppose If I try to fight for control, the goal For this life I live is not to give up Rough, I did too many past mistakes None so criminal, I can name drop shit no subliminal But I can’t prove the past wrong, presently I write This song, the future got me grown Colder feelings so young, how do I own the scars That don’t heal with me, let’s keep it real for a while And it’s a new style when the stakes are raised We’re just lazy with setting up these paper plates Time can’t erase memories that go too deep Now I got to take a leap A leap Break the chain History repeats Break the chain History repeats This is all you know, know, know This is all you know, know, know Break the chain History repeats Break the chain History repeats
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510 (Don't You Kerr) 05:23
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This is where you left me Touched by the bitches I see And by the time that I leave You won’t care to retrieve What we shared in the moment Together, I thought it was more Than I could bare to expose Even with the doors closed You still open me up Cause I know some shit will never change Never gonna be the same cause I’ll break the pattern I made Chorus: 5-1-0 (I’m beyond this bullshit) 5-1-0 (I’ll run my mouth with this) 5-1-0 (I’ll seal it with a kiss) If you know my name then I still hold the reign I’m doing something right so you can’t play this Game, this is the core of what I feel Got to keep it real when I sing these blues, blues (Don’t you care) Blues, blues (Don’t you care) Blues, blues (Don’t you care) Blues, blues (Don’t you care) Got me thinking about 510 And all the memories that lie within Don’t you remember what happened then Wondering where I have been Cause you wouldn’t notice if I was there, will I break The pattern I made, hopefully I can make that change 5 10 blues, blues (Don’t you care) 5 10 Blues, blues (Don’t you care) 5 10 Blues, blues (Don’t you care) 5 10 Blues, blues (Don’t you care) ... Can’t even find my place And ooh I cannot erase This pain to suffer Just trying to find my grace Amazing they say If I could do it over Don’t you care don’t you care don’t you care These blues make me wishing For more money less problems Hopefully they can solve em for my sake, my sake Cause petty problems grow pretty When you’re missing the goddamn city I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold I’m so cold And alone out here And alone out here And alone out here And alone out here And alone Loneee Ohhh Yeahhhhhh Oh na no no no
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O Laconia 02:48
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I am no slave I am entitled To what’s right for My kind tonight I have been oppressed Long ago and practice The skill to reject your fragile feeble Closed minds Don’t take us back On board to the mother ship We are still living for opportunity And you will hear us sing This hymn chanting our freedom For the rest of our days You don’t need to confine The defects we possess This desolate history don’t make Us blessed, no reparations can Fix the damage made In the institution O Laconia O Laconia Am I a slave amongst The humans I fight For tonight O Laconia If you knew my story You would understand Why I have this right Outro: Kumbuka maisha ambayo sisi walikuwa mara moja funge. Kumbuka changamoto ilichukua kwa sisi kupata hapa. Kuwa huru. Ya maandiko. Ya taasisi. Ya matarajio. Uhuru! Uhuru! Uhuru! Remember the life to which we were once confined. Remember the challenges it took for us to get here. Be free. Of the labels. Of the institutions. Of the expectations. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
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Second Chances 03:04
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Second chances We don’t get that many Better recognize what I got here How I fucking got here Yes I recognize I’m in this life I roam and I recognize this ain’t enough I don’t care what anyone says but I’ve been wasting time For too long too long, I’m depressing for too long I’ve been sitting too long, back in my parents’ home Working jobs I pretend to like, do my life over right I experience the heat, pressure’s burning up life I can’t settle down these urges and I don’t feel wanted enough Ooh but until then Been withdrawing Yea you feel me slippin And man I’m out, for better or for worse That was two years ago I don’t care what I feel but I’m reminded of the Northeast for too long, too long, too long Yea, I’ve been regretting this long I’ve been waiting too long, tryna write this fucking song To experience my peak, even as it comes to me Opportunity disappears, and I have too many fears Like singing about these bitches that got no self esteem Yea I talk about my issues but I hope you don’t leave Just listen as I sing this final note Oooh but until then

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Finally, it is here. My revised refined vision of an album I despised. These are the blues and where they have left me. I touch on many topics in my existentalist quest. Please enjoy listening to everything you are hearing and enjoy these blues.

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released August 12, 2014

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