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Double Down or Double Back

from A Shapely Sign of Things to Come by Hyphon

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Ran tongue down my list of things to do today

Wishing my whole life was hunt and make jewelry

From the bone I just picked the meat off

Look at your iPhone, look at me shocked

jeez scoff, cheese sauce, lean soft, knees knock

been gone, feel off, heed not, speed knots

speech locked, keep glocks, fear God, cheap shot

snear lost, me sawed, three logs, tree dog

Peace out, feed mouth, three clouds, speed down

creeped out, and couldn’t care less how you ride it

deprived is, the type of tummy my eye is

so still it’s bigger fam, my little hand fit inside it

The world collide quick, chew so we divided

Hide it away with each piece of liberty fam

Best to go and get it than wait for the delivery man

I don’t think making you worse off betters my stance

So if I see someone running for it, I’ma lend ‘em my chance

Get ‘em to dance, a reticent cast

I’m better at crafting a meddlesome laugh

Did we dead in the half, met in the lab

saddled with a cramp in the calf, style imagining that

Like what came first, eh, I bet it’ll pass

I chuckle along to the cosmic laugh

Looking at myself through other eyes, wow, I’m tall

Fucking up the meat market, Judas cow, Cattle call

Wishing I could get some closure, that is all

determined but not pre, like G ump Bubba

We flow, from an evil, I call ego, umm robust

Whisper in my ear, inflate it, then scream to come closer

I’ll be fighting for my people’s hunger when luck’s over

Fucked over, sucks sober, life does, misnomer light buzz

Doing what you think is right, does not make it right Dog

Walkers and the talkers can both grow stoney in the dawn

When the feeling to settle down comes on

So do the come ons , Got me in the same tones

saying to your face “Aw, come on!”

(horn break)

Let’s walk this mile, strife is all we got

We will put this, stress, into the pipe again.

(end)

Doing what you think is right, is not always good for you

Check door two, floor it through, land of no porridge soup

lumping, spitting chew, kicking like a bumpkin do

Shit rustle a pursuit, living life in fear of the goose step boot

Sacrifice my acceptance for a noose set view

I was never fourteen smoking sherm

Someone else’s story, someone else’s turn

Surrounded by the world, man made I wanna watch it burn

The monster in me yearns, while the God within me learns

Grew up in cars with N.W.A. playing

We still think “fuck the police”, just have more developed ways to say it

Is it that they’re racists? Populace complacent?

Ready for the phase shift, fake it, like you play it, til you make it,

RRIIIIIIGHT!?!

Lost in the city I was born in, just steps from where my porch ends

Now a bay rolls out, a scene I’d learn all about

She’s digging a hole, to let go of a soul

Everyday I thank my Mom for that abortion

So I could slide into this world, and not have to survive off just a portion

Fork it, birds or paths ‘til its done

This is a hundred years of victims killed in floods

some are shunned and we fear the resulting sums

and wonder can we lift up the sun?

Gave you away, wish it were sooner

Manuever groupers, consumer troopers

cupid loosed ya, for my lucid P.U.M.A.

Whose gotta cage, cougar, like you gotta take, humor

rage, spray face, ‘til we lay waste, type to take mate and

VAY-----CATE!!!!

Chest puffed, chess pawns, as you face fate,

The only snare you’ve been in’s a trap

The only trap you’ve been in’s an act

Ease the fuck back, stinking like weed in a rucksack

Used to record on the thing inside a Teddy Ruxbin

Now I use it to put up fliers in that place you buy your bus pass in

Sadly I feel I’m looking back on a rushed past

But it’s either double down or double back

There is no other way to touch the path

So I’m aiming where the hubble at, humbled jack, doing his best not to

rub it bad.

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from A Shapely Sign of Things to Come, released July 3, 2012
Produced by Brahman Shaman
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Matt Olson at Ghost in My House Studios

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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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