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initially this project was gonna be called "fishy".
i didn't really want to change that part of the song after i decided the project would be called something else. whoopty doo.

lyrics

(Verse 1)

ayo
return to the Eden
Hermes please
slow down god, you speedin

get a job, custodial, sweeping
you're in love, only you, weeping

....on the weekend riding in a Lincoln with
the seats draped in sheepskin, fresh, still bleedin

my family gotta problem with the company i'm keeping
my dad still get at me but the lessons never sink in

he said "go to school, graduate, and we even"
i'm sorry, pops, i can't hold up my part in this agreement

still operating off theories we don't believe in
still debilitated when insecurities creep in

swinging the sword, master foil, as i crash the soil
that's my toil, raps that boil cats in castor oil

just wanted to put it in a rhyme to file away
i got your number, i'm a dial away

(Chorus)
Something fishy here, get the engineer

(Verse 2)
your sense of entitlement ain't built on a survival instinct
or on some kinda internal tribalist sciences

it's built offa
them shitty teachings that i peeled off ya
yo shitty parents and their shitty marriage

ditto for me
i feel a bit embarrassed
spinning like a pinwheel or a ferris
at the topic

but clarity in optics
don't match the kinda therapy
that's gifted from catharsis
i'm grounded like a partridge

so when i feel disheartened
don't look for me to pop a clip or cartridge
in a weapon for assault on several targets

ii'm grabbing pens pencils or computers or some markers
paper envelope napkin cardboard index cards
even the palm of

my hand, as a starter, yo i can
be a father, a lord, important author reporting
the states of those of us succumbing to the darker

places in the mind we'd choose never to remark on
so if you gotta spark one, do it

i ain't gonna stop ya
but don't expect me to look out for the coppers
either

speak to me deeper if you wanna touch the teacher
i see issues of crushing speakers in usher/bieber

credits

from Only RRRappers Will Like This, released July 1, 2013
written & produced by ILLingsworth

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Illingsworth Detroit

EMCEE + PRODUCER

stuff i make = music with @rufiojones @seanuppercut, beats, raps, videos.
born & bred resident of Detroit.
smooth due to alopecia.

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