Bout five years back, I was looking for a haystack of needles, never found it,
looking for the wild and it ain't in the field
and it ain't in the pain and it ain't in the mountains,
waiting at red lights, claiming I deal,
smoking a joint, no O's and I'm out quick,
face in the headlights, shopping for people,
been stopping at trains, and they're framing in houses
I'm on the out of it, dollars and how to get,
making my face in the shape of a novelist,
writing these credos, I keep it all bottled in,
gimme that needle, just filling the bottomless,
I'm not an obelisk, living concealed,
addicts and kava sips have an appeal not knocking it,
shadows in cabinets gotta reveal,
we're living in cons of our confidence
If you wait, can you wait just a little while,
If you stay, can you stay just a little while
I can wait, can you wait just a little while,
I'll be fine, I'll be fine in a little while (x2)
Out here, people come and they go,
and they flake in the name of a hundred or so,
say I made my mistakes, still got nothing to show,
signs been made and they pointing at no,
and I kinda been made, but fuck what you know,
this is my name and I made it my own,
this is my game and I'm playing it slow,
coming for truth and I come by the throat,
References only get deference, never get severance, make it alone,
heaven and hell aren't a separate entity, living in both on a definite globe,
learning to grow without rules and assemblies, earning it all, and knowing it goes,
holding it up with this energy, entropy ended me once and I hope I can love
If you wait, can you wait just a little while,
If you stay, can you stay just a little while
I can wait, can you wait just a little while,
I'll be fine, I'll be fine in a little while (x2)
The excellent Baltimore rapper Jay Royale punches his way through icy, noir-ish production with take-no-prisoners bars. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 15, 2024