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(My City Glory & Jordan Bink)
Read and return here
[Read and return here]
We say what we see and talk sick daily
[Maybe it's time we take you back to the basics]
(My City Glory)
We used to bleed out..
Nosebleeds on the playground
Teacher teacher, high school shakedown
Eager senior, trapper keeper, reefer breathin' sleeping lay down, slow.
Bask in dreams and flux and flow
Looking back with a touch of growth, yo
Now I'm grown with nowhere to go, no
(Jordan Bink)
We used to bleed out
Nosebleeds in the back yard
Play soldier lost in the war ground
Acorn bullets got tossed at my best friend.
A neighborhood divided, trapped in the west end.
Street lights pop on, hop on my bike rush.
We use to love more, now all we love lust.
We used to bleed, slow.
Now when we bleed, gush.
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My city, my city
(My City Glory)
I was going 60 in a 35, I was 25
Looking for a life worth living, not a live and lie
And yet I had a brief case of paradise; dressed to the nines in a suit and tie
But that got wrinkled with time, it lost all it's magic I guess
The nightlife meant more than my mattress ever did
It's nights like this, I always reminisce
When my life was a mess, yeah my life wasn't sh..
It's hard to get through
And find some headroom
It's time to improve you
Got you feeling like it's,
So hard to get through
And find some headroom
When you're stuck missing moves
It's time you put your best foot forward
For now, you know the choice is yours
As you toe the line, line oh
It's time you put your best foot forward
For now, you know the choice is yours
As you toe the line, line oh
You always take a step back and toe the line again (x4)
My city story started on the day I left
Locked in and loaded up all of my sentiment
Trapped in a car with nothing but the memories
Of the people that I left and what they meant to me
Listening to Black Balloon, I was waving goodbye
Racing towards the afternoon, with a tear in my eye
If you feel the magnitude of your feelings inside
Well here's a fact for you about being alive
(Some of this)
Shit's hard to get through
(You gotta) find some headroom
It's time to improve you
Got you feeling like it's,
So hard to get through
And find some headroom
When you're stuck missing moves
It's time you put your best foot forward
For now, you know the choice is yours
As you toe the line, line oh
It's time you put your best foot forward
For now, you know the choice is yours
As you toe the line, line oh
You always take a step back and toe the line again (x4)
Take your two steps first
You can rest in stride
It's all about the way you run your mind
Take it two steps first
With your left and right
You're not about to stay and toe the line
You always take a step back and toe the line again (x4)
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(My City Glory)
Damn, I don't know what it is
Out of all the women in my daily life
She get's me every time
(My City Glory)
It's a Sunday mourning morning sun is forming on the cusp of today like it's clockwork orange
In this brainstorm, it rains and pours
The pain is coming in waves, let it wane and score
Rain ride away on that mounted force with reins, saddle, and all like an engine horse
Power be in the mind and downer be in decline
And never be in remorse and seek the outer of lines
Sunsets on her blue eyes
She's a Bella in the night time moonrise
My god, I'm a deer in her headlights though
She must be thinking I'm someone from the twilight zone.
(Fuck it.)
Got no time left to walk you off
Got me spinning out in circles round your icy lot,
She's an icy hot with a mind to back it, got me shaking in my boots with this winter jacket on.
(My City Glory & Jordan Bink)
I peel apart in the clockwork orange
That feeling you get when it rains and pours, never again
When I catch my breath bet I'm moving forward
(Got me feeling like)
Will I get like this
Will I get like this?
Oh, never again
(My City Glory)
My heart is skipping a beat due to infatuation
Here's a bright white rose and a palpitation
Slip on my words, I salivate, recalibrate the mind and de-complicate them.
I wish I had the brawn to say this,
Saw it coming from a mile I'd be saving face and
At least I got a smile and praise but
I was bracing myself for some actuation, now
(My City Glory & Jordan Bink)
I peel apart in the clockwork orange
That feeling you get when it rains and pours, never again
When I catch my breath bet I'm moving forward
(Got me feeling like)
Will I get like this
Will I get like this?
Oh, never again
(Jordan Bink)
It’s a 2 late night, with a beer stroked ego and AM eyes.
Heavy breathing fogging up his vision.
Like Rose and Jack in the back of that car,
If you look you'll see every scar.
Let her down the whiskey.
He’s looking in the mirror with too much esteem.
A New Breed, New Year, New Me. ahem.
But he missed his chance.
Let’s go back for a second,
Let’s recap where we’re at for a second.
Back outside of her car.
Stands a man with his heart on his arm.
Concerned face but his smile is warm.
He walks up kindly taps on the glass.
He's not the man in the mirror but his vision is class.
Sorry miss but you’re making me ask,
Are you safe to drive?
I see you’re hurt, can I hop inside?
Wanna talk?
Can we take a ride?
She said yes but her voice was course
He drove her home
His little clock work orange.
(My City Glory & Jordan Bink)
I peel apart in the clockwork orange
That feeling you get when it rains and pours, never again
When I catch my breath bet I'm moving forward
(Got me feeling like)
Will I get like this
Will I get like this?
Oh, never again
Got me peeling apart, yeah
Got me peeling apart
Oh, that clockwork orange
Got me peeling apart, yeah
Got me peeling apart
Oh, that clockwork orange
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Brighter Aura
04:02
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About two years back, my heart went black and blue
Now I'm living in the aftermath after cupid.
I'm only lightly lucid
In a life illusion
Spending time aloof and it's..
It's like I'm half as human
Living life on a pass
Feeling twice as stupid
Suck it up now pass the fluid, past in ruins
Pick it up, fuck, put your back into it
Dear God, help me slay all the demons
From my fall into evil bring me up to the season in mind
Spring to life, free the beacon inside
Use a little tongue and cheek when you speak and be bright
I oughta laugh until I cry
And never rest until I die, never waste a breath while I'm still alive
And be the best in the eyes of those close to me
I guess better get my ass on back to the, back to the..
Brighter aura
Cause I'm not alone
I'm not a ghost
Healing light bring me back to a
Brighter aura
Oh, I'm not alone
I'm not a ghost
Healing light bring me back to a
Let her coffee brew in the kitchen
Gotta let the pot stew and forget it
Gotta tune in and listen
To a drizzle turn to downpour, listen to the static of the cloudburst tapping a rhythm it's like
A sightline for misty glasses
But your sitting on the sidelines and feel so average like
You lost a little Disney magic
When you found another weekend of whisky sadness cause
You want, you want love
What you're looking for is missing, it's tough to find her
If you want, she'll want out
You can feel it burn a little bit when caught up in the thick of it now
You want, you want love
What you're looking for is missing, it's tough to find plus..
If you want, she'll want him,
You can feel it burn a little bit it's best to get to living with a
Brighter aura
Cause I'm not alone
I'm not a ghost
Healing light bring me back to a
Brighter aura
Oh, I'm not alone
I'm not a ghost
Healing light bring me back to a
(Bridge)
Will you take me under
Bathe in water
Rain wash over me
with grace and honor, my brighter aura
Is what I wanna see (x2)
Will you take me under
Bathe in water (cause I’m not alone!)
Rain wash over me
with grace and honor, my brighter aura
Is what I wanna see (bring me back to a)
Will you take me under (brighter aura)
(Oh I’m not alone!)
Will you take me under
Healing light bring me back to a...
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(My City Glory)
We are the strangest of things
I feel like our universe is upside down it's
A nightmare I'm thinking, to much to stomach.
We're lost in our introverse, strung up like puppets
Oh will you wake me up (will you wake me up)
From this night terror, from this night terror
(Jordan Bink)
Drag me back to my wakening.
Cover me in comforters shakily, wake me please.
It’s hard to be.
When you realize everything you do could be a dream.
When you fall a sleep hungry to become a king.
Rule a world so perfect
It’s too divine
To be ripped from reality by morning light
Every time.
Wake me up. Wake me up inside.
Wake me up. Wake me up inside.
(My City Glory)
We are the strangest of things
I feel like our universe is upside down it's
A nightmare I'm thinking, to much to stomach.
We're lost in our introverse, strung up like puppets
(CONTEИT & Jay Wetterling of Manhattan Blockade)
Oh will you wake me up (will you wake me up)
From this night terror, from this night terror
(Jordan Bink)
From head to toe my nose is as cold as snow
It’s dark.
I’m standing in a place I know that light has never been
11 am.
Eleven I am.
Alone in a world to dark to ever meet a friend
In my life time.
(All I need when it's night is a friend full of life
In my life time.) x2
(CONTEИT)
We are the strangest of things
I feel like our universe is upside down it's
A nightmare I'm thinking, to much to stomach.
We're lost in our introverse, strung up like puppets
(My City Glory & Jay Wetterling of Manhattan Blockade)
Oh will you wake me up (will you wake me up)
From this night terror, from this night terror
(Jordan Bink)
Pull me out of this upside-down right side up
From this plane I’m on.
Plain disgust.
I might throw up.
Help me close my eyes
Rock me back to sleep.
Make my peace while I'm counting sheep till I flat line. (Wake me up!)
I swear to god I'm only awake in the night time till I flat line. (Wake me up!)
I swear to god I'm only awake in the night time till I flat line.
(My City Glory & Jay Wetterling of Manhattan Blockade)
Wake me up, oh god will you wake me up
Night terror, oh god will you wake me up
Oh god will you
Wake me up, oh god will you wake me up
Night terror, oh god will you wake me up, night terror
Oh god will you
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Monophobia
03:43
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In times like this
When I’m fleeing, feeling all alone
I'll lock myself within my bedroom walls
It’s a curtain call to arms
To grapple monophobia
The light outside still burdens me and more
It’s the story of my year
Feeling so withdrawn, it’s clear
I need to take all of this
And unpack the lot of it
Cause I've bottled up my fears, this year.
Ohh, ohh
This year..
Mmm, mmm
(Whistle Solo)
This message floating in
A current sea of nervousness
I’ve lacked the will to be more than I know
Like what’s the purpose of
A talent cornucopia
If I can’t leave the comfort of my home
It’s the story of my year
Feeling so withdrawn, it’s clear
I need to take all of this
And unpack the lot of it
Cause I've bottled up my fears, this year.
Ohh, ohh
This year..
Mmm, mmm
(Whistle Solo)
This year..
Mmm, mmm (x4)
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(My City Glory)
This braggadocio track,
So supercalifragilisticexpeaili-that
We marry pop in our music with flack that we rap
It's not the stacks that we lack or the crap we never had
That made us rap in the first place,
I'm just an addict for the rhythm of a wordplay
Call it a symptom or a birth trait
I'm at my work place, writing in the back as the verse plays
Hoping I can finish up this track by my birthday
(hah)
I've come far to far, it's far to hard for me to run far from the sound of this music
It's like I'm trapped in a musical illusion
Playing at my heart of hearts for your amusement
I've got nothing in this world to lose
It's a beautiful ability to share it for this world to view
Ain't got nothing in this world to prove
To you, or you, or you.
It's just bad business
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling hurt
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling worse
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling hurt
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind, in the back of our mind
(Jordan Bink)
I’ve never finished in the first place.
I’ll never finish thats what hurts me.
I needed rap in the worst way like a drunk when I'm thirsty on a Thursday.
On My first date.
Palms are sweaty.
Walking through a mall she wants me to buy her toms already?
My knees weak, all spaghetti.
The stress is heavy
I’m shook.
I always feel like I feel beaten
I had a dream, wish I was still sleepin
Cause the close I wear are still cheap and
The shoes I walk are still squeaking.
And the bills I have are still needing.
To be paid I know I’m late by like a month
But I’m still breathing.
That’s what this music has instilled in me.
I'm just praying people still feel me.
I'll say nothin but the truth even if it will kill me.
Kid Cudi still illy
With the passion and pain.
But Chance killin the game when he says
Money saved me, so I’ma do the same thang
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling hurt
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling worse
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind that we rap all the time when we're feeling hurt
We all got a little verse in the back of our mind, in the back of our mind
(My City Glory)
And I can feel it in my soul
(Yo but that's just my business)
And I can feel it taking hold
(Yo but that's just my business)
And I can feel it in my soul
(Yo but that's just my business)
And I can feel it taking hold
And I can feel it in my soul
Feel it in my, feel it in my soul
Feel it in my, feel it in my soul
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Visualizing
03:07
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Have you ever just locked
All your thoughts in a box and threw
Away all the keys
For a chance at release cause it's
A little bit of peace, a piece of peace with no pain, no shame
Not a single f given, not today and no way cause it's just
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'm alive and well
(Visualizing)
My time and my rise to this moment
Maybe I'm fine, in control
(I'm in getting lost a vision)
Sometimes when you're beat to hell
Realize all you need's yourself
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'm alive and well
(Visualizing)
When you're lost and and you're beat to hell
Realize all you need's yourself
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'm alive and well
(Visualizing)
They caught me visualizing
I guess I forgot
All my thoughts in a box when I
Threw away all the keys
For a chance to be free from me
A little daydream, a place of peace with no pain, no games
Not a single f given, not today and no way cause it's just
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'ma love myself
(Visualizing)
My time and my fight for control and
Maybe I'm finally whole
(I'm in getting lost a vision)
(No, ohh)
Sometimes when you're beat to hell
(No, ohh)
Realize all you need's yourself
(Oh)
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'm alive and well
(Visualizing)
(No, ohh)
When you're lost and and you're beat to hell
(No, ohh)
Realize all you need's yourself
(Oh)
Me, myself, and I, don't need nobody else
Me, myself, and I, and I'm alive and well
(Visualizing)
(Ay Ayo)
They caught me visualizing
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Slave
03:32
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VERSE 1:
There's a fight in me that you'll never know
If you keep letting me go
There's a part of me that can't understand
Why you won't give us chance
Like we're the end of the road
Baby girl, you got my heart on a rope
Pull me up out of the cold
There's a part of me that can't understand
Why you won't give me a hand
CHORUS:
I'm like a slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
Slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
VERSE 2:
It was hard enough to see you in town
I guess we took a different route
There's a part of me that can't understand
Why you won't give us chance
We're going round and around
Baby girl, you got my love here and now
And yet you keep letting me down
There's a part of me that can't understand
Why you won't give me a hand
CHORUS:
I'm like a slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
Slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
BRIDGE:
I'm a devotee of progress
If I move on I'll be fine
Cause the time for being wanted
Got tangled in your eyes (X2)
I'm a devotee of progress
I'm like a slave to your heart
CHORUS:
I'm like a slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
Slave to your heart
What's mine is yours
If only you bought it
(I'm sold, oh I'm sold, I'm like a)
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Happy Place
03:18
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(My City Glory)
I cover my thoughts and I buffer them well until nothing is left to feel
But I find some sort of comfort in knowing I’m walking alone at will
And I picture myself in a different light, it’s another reality
You see I know that I want, to be what I want to be
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
Sometimes I feel, like the whole damn world’s trying to drag me down
But I still take part in happiness
Show me where happy is
Lost in this happy mess still
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
And I’m still in my happy place and I’m as happy as can be
And I’m still, in my happy place, in my happy place, in my happy place and I’m still in my happy place and I’m as happy as can be
And I’m still, in my happy place, in my happy place, in my happy place
(Jordan Bink)
And I cover my tracks as I pass cause I know you, I know you don’t want to see
Cause our past is our past, it’s the last thing you’ll notice before you pack up and leave
But I’ve changed who I was, it’s time to think of myself
Is it too late, too late, my fate I hate because, oh because
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
Sometimes I feel, like the whole damn world’s trying to drag me down
But I still take part in happiness
Show me where happy is
Lost in this happy mess still
(Jordan Bink & My City Glory)
And I’m still in my happy place and I’m as happy as can be
And I’m still, in my happy place, in my happy place, in my happy place and I’m still in my happy place and I’m as happy as can be (I’m floating away)
And I’m still, in my happy place, in my happy place, in my happy place and I’m still…
(Jordan Bink)
Floating away (x2)
Is it too late, too late, my fate I hate because, oh because (x2)
(My City Glory)
Sometimes I feel, like the whole damn world’s trying to drag me down
But I still take part in happiness
Show me where happy is
Lost in this happy mess still
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Read & Return Burlington, Iowa
Read & Return is a underground hip-hop group consisting of Jordan Bennink (Jordan Bink) and Stephen Coleman (CONTEИT / My City Glory)
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