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Verse 1

Topsy Turvy, point of life, got there early,

I thought it worthy, probably won’t be locked til thirty

Remember no top sheet, knock knees,

And your being still got me surely

My mind’s a pimp in the business of tricks

Reclines and sits because the sales is pitched

Hold twine in fists, grown tired still I exist

Kick through the piss and shit, tell my story like I’m the snitch

Hook

And I lay to fall asleep another lonely night

I know it’s mostly in my mind

Keep the featured partition in sight

I know the truth will show in time

So we sleep together holding so tight

Because we peel through the rhinds

Known in rhymes, I hold my lines as I die

The wind blows so cold in chimes

Verse 2

I’ve been the man pushing miles

Never had big responsibilities, no home no child

Just filling my goblets with tears crocodile

Heated drunk and seeking that cool kitchen tile

Aisles walked down so I could make you meals

I give freely so you’re left to take can’t steal

I love to share, I share to love, we’re scared to feel

So we make pacts, we pack bowls, carry conceal

That rubber cement holds us to come apart

meant, I stay, do my art, you go do your part

We walked and took a talk by lake park

It’s a few more stitches for me, but you’re really going to break my Mom’s heart

Tough call Blake, she said to my stalled fate

I remember her mutter something about Gallway

She dipped, left a note on the fridge, salutation read “love always”

What a trip, I guess I’ll most miss, the sound of her steps, coming down hallways

Hook

And I lay to fall asleep another lonely night

I know it’s mostly in my mind

Keep the featured partition in sight

I know the truth will show in time

So we sleep together holding so tight

Because we peel through the rhinds

Known in rhymes, I hold my lines as I die

The wind blows so cold in chimes

Verse 3

I hear there’s a smoke stack looming in the distance

We hold hands tight, planning to cruise until we’ve missed it

Maybe let ourselves build something new out of the rivets

Give our bodies to science, nice for the applied love

Knew you cared about me and then paired up

Still this highway will not spared us

Guess we aren’t that scared, huh?

Guess we might not care, huh?

Maybe too much as our eyes well up

Try to understand each other still seldom

Do we get the Ouija board bouncing without the devil love

Horns poke to horny, mad never got your voice treble up

Choice level grub, with a moist beveled mug, chose death separate

At a distance I didn’t care to mention, knowing it’s better then

Not the comparative, but the time passage, growing immune to arsenic (princess bride)

Hook

And I lay to fall asleep another lonely night

I know it’s mostly in my mind

Keep the featured partition in sight

I know the truth will show in time

So we sleep together holding so tight

Because we peel through the rhinds

Known in rhymes, I hold my lines as I die

The wind blows so cold in chimes

Verse 4

Hey look, there’s your eyes boring through me

Speak like, we’re from different foreign movies

Stay hooked, off the chore list like you do me

We light, the way in our adventure for the viewing

This is my eulogy to the kid I could have been

Eat myself from the inside like only a cannibal can

gaunt face, dark eyes, I’ve always been mad lean

Logic over instinct, I try to beat back the animal plans

Travelling Man, using Defense Mechanisms agaisnt the 300 miles

Calvary can’t, show me much I haven’t seen in the hunter’s smile

Adaptation, I’m all three in one, so I face my own Columbo guile

I fumble through my logic for traces of you

Like the changing nature of a case when it’s viewed

I’m that film director long plot making you choose

Do you watch the train slowly wreck or courageously move?

Hook

And I lay to fall asleep another lonely night

I know it’s mostly in my mind

Keep the featured partition in sight

I know the truth will show in time

credits

from A Shapely Sign of Things to Come, released July 3, 2012
Produced by LC Slack
Recorded and Mixed by Justin Urness
Mastered by Matt Olson at Ghost In My House Studio

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Hyphon Columbus, Ohio

Hyphon is more Henry David Thoreau than Gucci Mane. More likely to aspire to fill the shoes of Eugene V. Debs than Warren Buffet. Using music to deliver an urgent cry for people to wake to the life that is possible for us all. Hyphon’s music thus takes on a uniqueness not found in both mainstream and independent hip hop. Genuine emotion and passionate delivery make him impossible to ignore. ... more

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