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I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
I remember when it meant something to hold hands
Showing each other and sharing all our favorite bands
Saving spots at the dining tables during lunches
And making plans to meet after school by the buses
Stuck to one another like Velcro
Felt like wow, she’s just took me out the friend-zone
Kept her notes neatly folded as mementos
When we finally kissed, is when my heart crescendoed
I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
Cut to years later, I’m having some threesomes
Swappin’ and droppin’ these women as soon as the next comes
Kiss the legs and neck and get the sex done
And over with, cause we’re now so shoulder-width
Apart and sitting separately on the bedside
As I’m thinking back to a time we were peptide
The years have flown by now we’re at different stages
Can’t help the fact that we’re on different pages
I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
I guess that’s what it means to grow up
But it still feels like it’s all not enough
Like something’s missing
Maybe I just need a new thing
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An Infinite Awe
03:26
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I’m gonna take my sweet time with this
Cause the beat is too fluid to get it over and done with
I’m in my zone, and feeling such a oneness
With the whole universe and all of the wondrous
Things of the human experience so perfected
Like we’re cosmically connected
All the same soul just through different reflections
Different shades of one color, it's all so splendid
So I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts
Blends together and I’m left standing in awe
Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause
I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept
Comes alive, through the midnight sky
And I swear that I have never been so high up before
It’s like Descartes is taking DMT
While he’s speaking with me
About duality
A feeling so freeing with a destiny
Of forever floating atop on an endless sea
A warm presence that’s upholding me
Brings about a new awareness that’s enfolding me
A perfect Potter that is molding me
Out of something so trippy; it’s encoded in my coding
So I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts
Blends together and I’m left standing in awe
Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause
I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept
Comes alive, through the midnight sky
And I swear that I have never been so high up before
Technicolor canvases, all throughout my life
Captured different moments, where I had survived
All of the depression and the outright doubting
That we’re made for more than just for the constant counting
Down the days until the clock runs out
But now I’ve learned the secret to it all; the sun’s out
And shining directly, onto my mind’s eye
Never asking “how?,” and never asking “why?”
So I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything I’ve learned through both stories and texts
Blends together and I’m left standing in awe
Of the things that I’m a part of and the things that I saw cause
I fall back into an endless depth
Where everything my subconsciousness felt as I slept
Comes alive, through the midnight sky
And I swear that I have never been so high up before
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Anthems
03:15
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Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
Let’s go back a bit, and reminisce
Talk about all of the those times that we miss
When we were kids and just trying to kiss
In the high school hallways of the classes we’d skip
Take the city bus to the mall and movies
Where I loved to show you off cause you were such a beauty
Your voice; so soothing, it always moved me
I loved knowing that I had nothing to prove, we
Were such an “it” couple, or at least it seemed
You were everything I thought that I would need
Like a dream came true, it happened through you
But then we woke up and it felt like we knew
That the end was approaching and with it came
All that name-calling and the outright blame
That we cast on one another in heaps and spades
So we split ways for good and I was never the same
Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
So about the time that we stopped dating
Is when your stepdad straight started hating me
But I still waited for the day we’d be good
Like a grown up ex properly should
But it never came, we drifted away
I went off to college, and you didn’t stay
You moved with your mom to a different town
And that’s when my life turned upside down
I got into drugs with a brand new acquaintance
Started living at parties with different occasions
Where I could get smashed and forget the things that
I could never change or ever bring back
So goes the story cause now we’re almost forty
Still remember feelings of a former glory
And all those nights that we spent in tandem
Now these love songs have become my anthems
Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
Darling, my sweet
These memories
Are what I keep with me
When I drift off to sleep
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Infallible
03:28
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Like I said, I’m a shape shifter through time
Finding all the perfect ways to find the perfect rhymes
And I don’t worry about what everyone else is doing
I’m just worried about doing me and I’m doing so fine
I’m getting what’s mine, multiplying dimes
Rapping over chimes, staying dressed up to the nines
You’ll never catch me complaining or whining about life
Cause mine is too good to mess it up with any strife
Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable
It takes the shape of anything cause it is so compatible
Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable
And I will never fail, cause my logic’s never fallible
Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable
Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable
Place it steadily atop the thumping bass-line
I don’t hang with trash, I don’t ever waste time
With problems that aren’t mine, or battles and fights
That weaken my awareness or dim my spiritual light
See the way I back down, it’s called having class
I always have an answer but I don’t answer back fast
I take my time, let the suspense build
It’s about having the talent and just knowing that you’re skilled
Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable
It takes the shape of anything cause it is so compatible
Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable
And I will never fail, cause my logic’s never fallible
Put this flow on any beat, it is so adaptable
Never will collapse, cause it is way too valuable
Let’s go in again, for the final round
Not too many people I know can get away with this sound
I find it calms me down, getting it all out
Better through pen and paper than through anger and shouts
So with that we close out another one
Cause this is all just too much fun
They call me Dre, call me Poet, call me that son
Cause I’m a child of God; and that's no pun
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Dre Carlan Ferndale, Michigan
A permanent dreamer with musical aspirations, whether it's through pop-punk or hip-hop/rap.
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