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Bullet
03:41
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Bullet
I must admit what’s done is done
And I’m relieved for that
I’ve got a bullet in my lung
And pull the safety back
Expel projectiles in the form of notes
I wrote in rhythm to words
(That you never heard.)
One in the chamber
All you need to make it personal
You’ve got a bullet in this gun
Disarm this arsenal
Can’t forget the threat
These thrills possessed
I must confess It in words
That you never heard
Aim it at your mind
Sights are all in line.
Threats of misfires
You can discharge
At the slightest flinch
You’ve got a bullet that’s been sprung
And it won’t budge an inch
Well on the way
You hedge you bets
Forget your vest
won’t handle these words
That you never heard
Aim it at your mind
Sights are all in line
Hell of a time to weaponize
the breathing apparatus
To turn the gun upon itself
No matter what the status
I’m glad it’s in the holster
So I’m calm, whatever that is
I find a way to bolster
Confidence and fight the baddest
Anxiety will it fire again?
Wondering if a man is ever gonna spit that fire again
Retiring them jersey to the rafters
Thinking about the now and thinking about the after-
Shocks
got me on lock
I’m taking stock
of all the skills I am commanding like a tablet out of rock
Held up by Moses
I Count to 10 and blow this
Spirometer is lacking with incentives so I flow this
Ill health, ill skills ,ill will
Ills still feels real
It’ll kill when it sicken us
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Run and Hide
A mind's a terrible thing to waste
At this pace we’ll use it up in haste dear
Too much in this life’s dramatic
Had to pull back from this static
Automatic systematic
Hold us down and it’s all emphatic
Shelter in, but can’t stay in place
So you think about changing states
Of matter going from gas to liquid.
Vapors got me on chase.
Can we talk about it?
I never thought there’d be the day
You’d pack and leave and go away to, I feel,
A place with greener pastures
I admit we’ve been disastrous
All along I thought we’d pass this
But I guess you don’t share this last
Assessment of this place and time
So you’re all about face and I’m
Caught up keeping up chase and time
Is tick ticking away.
You can run and hide this time
But you’ll find
She may not let you back into
Her arms again, so just be smart my friend.
They say it's never coming back
(To what to whom? Too late too soon?)
That glam and glitz is in the past, dear
(For what for whom? For what for whom?)
How about these streets that write
Stories complete with no fleet no flight
Energy feeds with that beat so right
You can’t compete with this feat in light
Of what was taken away from us
People calling it dangerous
And now it’s finally estranging us
This change in us, it won’t fade.
So let’s talk about it.
Remember this wish list
When you render this?
Reminisce, dismiss
when you tendered this
resignation that we face in under 2 weeks
notice, flow this like it’s Unique
Ason - based on
how you’re feeling with your raison
d’etre and your maison
Exhausted nearly lost it, offset the losses,
Tossed it at cost and I’m all set
Don’t it matter bout the memories we made here?
Won’t it matter when the inspiration stays here?
I’ma stick around getting ready for the comeback
When the day comes, hit us hard like a
Drum track
You can run and hide this time
But you’ll find
She may not let you back into
Her arms again, so just be smart my friend.
You’re late to state that you just lost belief
Hate the fate that you were called to leave
and I’m…. blind-sided by your lack
of faith, no turning back,
foundation’s bout to crack
and I’m about not keeping track
of where we head from here
separate ways for separate fears
Every day ain't coming unless you’re here
You can run and hide this time
But you’ll find
She may not let you back into
Her arms again, so just be smart my friend.
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3. |
Galaxy Girl
04:15
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Maybe if we wanted
Particles of disco lights
Photons of the funk in this world
Ultraviolet burning up and out of sight
And turn you into Galaxy Girl
Wield a power equal to stars
Lady, that is just what you are
Take your light and break all these hearts
And so far I’m yours
Baby if your orbits
Out of sight and out of mind
How can we all be so sure?
People say we’re
out of touch and out of time
So take us to your Galaxy Girl
In an atmosphere that's too cool
Find we’re running out of your fuel
Follow gravitational pull
And we’re surely
Home
Cause there’s nothing else I’d rather do
Than watch you interlaced
On the monitors and amplitudes
Gone funky in this base
Want to jump in antimatter suits
So hyper in this space
Cause there’s nothing else I’d rather do
Than watch you interlaced
Adjust the monitor
Rhyme about my moniker
The Sulu and excelsior warp in supersonic
Lights into the lines
While my feelings intertwine
With the interstellar lover Valentine
So divine
That’s cool if I had to play the fool
Rocket fuel running out
Dials on the E no doubt
and I’m about
You rocking that superhero flyness
Your highness, queen is rocking
Hyperspace shyness
And I wish
I could stay cool with that
Stay plutonic
But the universe fools with that
Changing rules and facts
And what we do enacts
The theory relative we gotta head
To school for that
And I’m a fool for that
like I’m a fool for you
Ms Galaxy Girl
took the cue and flew
To my orbital coordinates
set to rock the cranial
Locked into my mind
Like a falcon to millennial
Maybe if we settled on a path
To distant light
We can find a funkier world
Need a leader stronger than
The need to fight
I’d follow you my Galaxy Girl
Maybe we can come to balance
All the charge
Of positive and negative we give
To you at large
Yield my heart to you
With no guards
From the start
I’m yours
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4. |
Penny for You
03:45
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5. |
Get Up Out
04:52
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6. |
Harder to Hear
04:13
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Got troubles on your mind
And so do I
We stumble on each other
No denying
Self centering just like
A squared off frame
Just hind’ring conversations
Share the blame
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work now
Get it?
It’s harder to hear you
When we’re speaking to the mirror
Unplug that line jacked in
The wishing port
Straight to the Id
It makes you wish for more
Not satiated with
Just getting by
But sometimes we’ve gotta call
An audible
And just let it fly
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work
Gotta make it work now
Get it?
It’s harder to hear you
When you’re speaking to the mirror
Pause for a moment
See stars when I’m zoning
Got bars for opponents
laws for atonement
Get broke like a
Jaw then disown it
47 ronin
Years to a samurai
Exposed so we sanitize
But the dirty words tantalize
Sugar walls vandalized
Graffiti of the heart
Starts to get romanticized
We can’t decide
Which way we go
Amigo or Amour?
We wait no more
When we flow out the door
Freestyles like bullets that
shoot from the hip
And the grip on reality
Soon bout to slip
Lip service, too nervous to capture it
Getting all rapturous
So I should chapter this
Sorta like a book or a memoire
Repertoire gets dark like its film noire
Gotta make it work
Gotta take the quirks
Each of us are bringing into this
When tackling what lurks
In the darker part of shadows
Do we get scared?
Hell yeah, but together we can get there.
Lingering questions still complicate matters
We should discuss it, no cussing, but rather
We get into bickering, getting all sickening
Stop with the blaming and start with the listening
It’s harder to hear you
When you’re speaking to the mirror
It’s harder to hear you
When there’s six feet in between us
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7. |
So Ends the Honeymoon
03:57
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Rue the day
On the 5th of June
Took a trip away, they say
So ends the honeymoon
They would never know
How we often said I do
All of a sudden
Suddenly it’s gone
We passed the day
With a fifth of Boones
Do you recall the ways we played?
So ends the honeymoon
All we’d ever want
Just got passed into the hues
All of a sudden
Suddenly it’s gone
All in all we said it’s off
And on
And off and then on
Foot on the brakes and turn the keys
All of a sudden we’re gone
We’re throwing down
And back, then throwing it out
A game of throwing’s getting played
All of a sudden you’re out
It’s been a brief
Belief that we were far gone
Now it’s a foregone conclusion
And suddenly it’s all gone
We’re hot and cold
Then hotter, but let’s just keep it warm
It’s a sign that changing climate
Suddenly makes us gone
Another day
On the 5th of June
Take that one way trip to stay
So ends the honeymoon
We don’t ever know
Where we’ll end up at the day’s end
Suddenly it’s gone
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8. |
Your Reverie
04:07
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9. |
Button Up
03:37
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10. |
Wait for You I Can't
04:11
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Wait for You I Can’t
Maybe you forget
I’ve got my reasons
I’m willing to bet
You’ve got them too
Ever since we met
I’ve been believing
All this time
I’ve been waiting for you
I can’t wait for you this time
I thought you were fine
With what we’re doing.
Got caught in a bind
What happens now?
Our shot has been fired
Let’s keep pursuing
All this time I’ve been waiting for you
I can’t wait for you this time.
I can’t wait for you this time
Keep dragging your feet
You’ll soon be tripping
You’re lagging defeats
Us from the start
(So why you gotta do that?)
You lack in belief
That’s why we’re slipping
All this time I’ve been waiting for you
I can’t wait for you this time
I’ll throw you the idol
But you gotta throw the whip back
My trust in you is vital
But I have to take a step back
Timings of the essence
One of us is getting left back
I tried to keep a presence
In your life and face the setbacks
Together as a team,
But seems, we did the opposite
The truth will get obscene
The theme
Is that I’ve waited plenty long
And passed up plenty chances
Man And I got plenty wrong
But now I gotta get advances
I can’t
Wait for you this time
I can’t wait for you this time
Is this our undoing?
Sorry that I bailed
The ship sailed
You failed to keep on assuring
That we could make it happen, nope
All these times I’d wait for your
I can’t wait for you this time
Missed another chance to dance
I can’t wait for you this time
Debated if I’d wait once more
I can’t wait for you this time
I got an eye for the Apple
And an apple of my eye
That I’m following
And tolerance
For swallowing my pride
Wallowing and mired in the swamp
Trying to navigate it
Theyre breaking down the ego
So I keep on trying to inflate it
Overrated - what’s that audience that I’ve abated
I keep on writing lyrics that they say are understated
Or over written I’ve debated
Should i follow what’s been slated
A destiny that’s manifest in business plans that’s jaded (8 measures)
And cynical
We’re doing what we can to reach that pinnacle
Honing on them skills just like a doctor in their clinicals
Surgical precision with my plans I gotta execute
passed up many chances when I’m standing waiting next to you
Hoping you’ll go along with it
Ain’t nothin wrong with it
Gotta play it safe I understand
They passed us on with it
But what if you never all in
And getting close was good enough for you, so you’re just stalling
Father Time is calling!
It’s not my call
And not my fault
We’re distant
Your eyeballs
Are fixed on all
The cons-
Sequence of events
You lack persistence
All this time I’ve been waiting for you
I can’t wait for you this time
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11. |
Paper Chase
05:05
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When all’s said and done
Will you chase what you need to pursue
That dream?
Or will it deter
You from everything that’s worth
The price?
Never will you choose
Again
Let’s mark 20square
In the crosshairs
Lost hair in the stress
Due to lost fares
Tossed snares in the trash
Dirty and brash
Get symbolic with the crash
Weathering a storm and a flash
floods that’ll last a year and a half
Empty or full doesn’t even really matter
Just an algorithm lost in the data
Start the paper chase
but the hustle been neutered
What’s a man worth,
precious like pewter
Not as valuable as platinum or gold
Even silver, take hold
On that paper I lack in the fold
And I’ve been told
gotta make due
Find whatever skills
Use whatever breaks thru
Gotta keep chasing and facing the odds
Getting kinda long, so now you’re reaching to God
Try to turn the paper of the good book
To a good look
Regardless what your neighborhood took
War of attrition- got you moored in submission
Last gasp of air,
Still your sword’s in the mission.
The papes,
paper that I chase
Will always manage to elude
These hands.
VERSE 2: Un-G
Means for the dream remain unseen (so I’m)
making a space that’s in between (this)
9 to 5 shit ain't breaking enough green (I)
got them side hustles to ween the lean
born of that immigrant philippine
multiple streams part of the cuisine (use to)
party and enterprise with dopamine (but my)
last brain said you got to recon vene
what does it mean to chase dollars for a dream
feel like a fiend that needs to come clean
dream ain’t your dream if your ass is in debt (for)
shit to be scene know what I mean?
praise slave owner that's the theme
on these bills that creep obscene
greed into subconscious stream
messing with the human self-esteem
I still dream of the love supreme
by any means necessary is how I deem
need no permission from money regime to
catch the light from creator’s high beam
Let’s mark 20square
In the crosshairs
Lost hair in the stress
Due to lost fares
Tossed snares in the trash
What the boss care?
Light flares in a flash
Take the loss square
In the jaw, glass Joe take a fall
The house will take it all
Then there’s nothing to withdraw
So take a pic or draw
And do not call me brah
Only brova, take a number
Get in line and then we crawl
To the meal ticket, stick it in the pocket then you scalp it
The chase will turn you to a
lonely bull like Herb Alpert
On the paper chase like
Dunder mifflin Jim Halpert
And Pam
Beasly, not easy to feed you all
Measly with these leads I feen the call
these knees are Queasy I feel withdrawal
Least we are seizing the wherewithal
- Pleasing to hear these I fear these
Will come back and squeeze the
Whole life out I’m wheezing
- In lungs pulmonary in-
efficiency
-And then some-
-Now you got me wishing see
-Suffocating now debating it
While we chasing it
Fully realizing that we all be hating it
-Format the rhythm I’m living in
6/8 and mixtapes are giving in
All beats They fixate and mimicking
- Chasing that paper be limiting
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12. |
Shirt 2 Skin
03:04
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Shirt 2 Skin
Put my heart up on your sleeve
Shirt to skin
If i start to fall asleep
Tuck me in
I’ve been falling apart along the seams
And descend-ing
Heavy eyes and Melatonin
Wallow in the noise so white
Still so tired I felt this morning
Hold me close
And help me breathe tonight
Put your heart up on my sleeve
Shirt to skin
If you’re hurting I won’t leave
I’ll tuck you in
You’ve been strong but it’s alright to weep
Tears descend- ing
All this time you’ve had to measure
How you’ve felt to stay in light
When the darker times come hither
Hold you close
To help you breathe tonight
Little heart’s up on your sleeve
Shirt to skin
Then you’ll start to find the beat
Let’s pretend
That their world will always be so sweet
Never end-ing
Fall into a dream together
Take their hand from prone to flight
When we love it means forever
Hold them close to help us breathe tonight
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13. |
Relativity
04:00
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Relativity
Voice of a future child
Proclaiming what’s in store for us
That sounds its traveling so slow
Can’t hear it in the vacuum of the space.
There’s more for us
If we can wait for words to grow
(All about us today
No time and space)
And we can see infinity so differently
It’s that relativity
That makes the time slow down on me
That makes an emcee out of me
Maybe we underestimated
Just how far we’ve come
Maybe we’re closer than we thought
See past the differences in distances we’re from the sun
You saw it faster than you ought
To have
(All about us today
No time and space)
Relatively speaking, I’ve been peeking far ahead
(All about us today
No time and space)
And we can see infinity so differently, I’ve heard
It’s that relativity
That makes an emcee out of me
now I’m rapping to you
Kinematic cinematic
Studying of moving bodies
Flowing through the universe
No longer static
And are we seeing things
the same way, at the same time?
And is an emcee always squaring up the same rhyme?
Metaphorically I’m speaking
Categorically unique in
Lasting poetry you’re seeking
That’s the low end theory leaking
From the influence
Insurance that we’re living life
In four dimensions
there have been currents
Streams of particles are charged
And moving through the space
Astronauticals at large
And proving you’re the face
A visage of the future,
Mine and yours the pronouns
Time insures we’ll slowdown
My rhyme endures the throwdowns
Time and space will dissipate
A theory relative to you and me will precipitate
Sediment to sentiment
That’s sweeter than an entenman
Making an announcement to the ladies and the gentlemen
That relativity you give to me
That’s from the heart
Light years away from where you’ve been
You have the gravity that’s grabbing me right from the start
We’ll bend the time and start again
(All about us today
No time and space)
Relatively speaking, I’ve been peeking far ahead
(All about us today
No time and space)
And we can see infinity so differently, I’ve heard
It’s that relativity
That makes an emcee out of me
now I’m rapping to you
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Sulu and Excelsior New York, New York
SULU AND EXCELSIOR is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist/rapper/singer Steven E. Mallorca, aka Sulu, who plays all the instruments and vocal performances with influences that span 40s and 50s jazz, 60s and 70s soul, and 80s and 90s hip-hop.
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