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Black Market Karma - Aped Flair And Hijacked Ideas

by Black Market Karma

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1.
Got no motion Dead trajectory Others fake out yet they beat me to the top Of this board game I’m on Churns my gut Everything is wrong And every piece out for themselves Against the grain I excel I know it’s who I am There’s nothing I can do You take my place Perspective all skewed Your soft accent Use it wise and you’ll beat me to Lay it all on the line Paint your dreams Slip and slide It’s for sure a strange life Tied unto but trying to fly It’s all in who you know Not what you can do Role reversal Vice Versa I hide my feelings down But eat my heart out Heavy load every day Trade it out for a way Just a temporary fix It’s a bold necessary risk I don’t think that you are quite aware Of how much you can do
2.
In my child mind I would like to reside Find true love It’s the way But it’s always soured by adult brains You’re blinded smiling at the start In the end it eats up all your art Laughing in circles when it’s new But the sadness always grows in you You grow and you learn on your way You twist and you hurt with each day Finally find and we mend Have a good run Then it bends You’re blinded smiling at the start In the end it cuts up all your art Laughing in circles when it’s new But the sadness always creeps on you
3.
Carve a hole out in which you will play Write your mantra It’s all in a day Upset the state of usual affairs Cut like butter through all in your way Moving planets It’s all in a day Flex in sync Mind and heart It’s some kind of lost art
4.
Kodama 04:29
Wherever you’d like I’m back in that mind frame Conjure it up in my brain Imagination games A journey of magical scenes and spiritual denizens The greens and the browns and the hues Acquire a new sense Kodama reside in the mist as one and serene If you’re to make it through with them you must convene And when you meet be sure your heart is clean in side If bad intentions are sewn they will always find If they endorse your soul and embrace your nature All that remains is one task A sincere offer A liquid of gold and white that twists perception And though it might seem out of place It’s lifeblood to them
5.
Everyday I fight the clowns to my left and right Infecting the place where I play Hollow in all that they say I’ll be sure to recall their acts in times to come I’ve grown sick and tired of being under admired When I get what’s coming to I’ll railroad right over you Rid myself of frauds All that’s phoney and plastic I will breeze on through Steady and minus you I can’t wait for you to see what’s to become of me Reverse and answer my taunt when we have something you want Where there was once my warmth to you Frosty vibrations I will breeze on through Steady and minus you
6.
Cadet #2187 04:26
Is this my lot in life? To get placed behind Stuck in the undertow of insincere minds It gives me such a fright Loose fickle ways I think I just might leave the human race I’ll live in outer space Wear a brand new face Find a cosmic place I’d best be gone with haste Everyone I know puts honour groundward bound With just a fleeting sign that fame is coming around They all treat it so light but it’s in such bad taste I think I just might leave the human race Move to outer space Grow an exotic face Set up as cosmic place I’d best be gone with haste
7.
I have found my other She’s been here for some time Drawing life with her From the strife to sublime And until recent we were in the aforementioned But things are looking brighter I think it’s almost our turn Afflictions of a so-called adult life tied our hands Screaming then embracing like only lovers can My one’s left the nest now Flown into the sun I can only join her once my work is done I won’t let this hole in my heart turn me insane Sculpting with the noises that grow inside my brain Sending them out to her Hope my intention cuts through Filling up her heart until I can make it back to
8.
Urchin 03:20
I have all these bright ideas Followed with doubts in my ear I run by your soothing tongue And then I’m sure it can be done You’ve got all of the answers babe Even if you don’t know it Orthodox is not my way Questions all over your face Present my heart to you in words Masked for us and aimed outwards I’ve got all of the phrases babe I’ll hide them plain for you
9.
Kong 06:04
There’s a radio inside my brain where ideas are born And for years I tuned in by myself All alone I searched far and wide for people by my side to join on in One was always so close The other distant more But my tune did bring Now they’re on my team Honing in and starting to find the frequency that’s fuelled my dreams all this time As the days pass the broadcast hits more clear Growing bold Making waves of their own Pooling all our love and producing gold
10.
Sitting with myself Sometimes you gotta just let it stew Mull it over slow in the back of my mind I had it all designed Started out so hot and now it’s cold and you’ve resigned It’s all circumstance and a crying shame Only myself to blame Sitting with myself Sometimes you gotta just let it stew Mull it over slow in the back of my mind Started out so hot and now it’s cold and you’ve resigned It’s all circumstance and a crying shame Only myself to blame
11.
I had a friend less than half my size But lead twice the life just taking his time And you may ask how can that be? He had a shorter run but burned so bright Now he's loose from constraints of time Free to fly through the ether’s web I know that he's in a cosmic breeze Back to the ease of his younger life I'll be sure to commemorate his nature and his iron will before the great divide But he has everything he needs to make his way through the wild blue

about

The album title is a self deprecating, tongue in cheek jab at the idea that nothing is truly original. People often get hung up on the idea of some kind of total originality that doesn’t exist. It’s the unicorn of the art world. It’s all in the blend baby!

Lyrics cover topics like: observations on the sycophantic circles that leach from the arts, desperately trying to stay spiritually close to a love that is geographically far, Japanese folklore and the deep connection between man and beast. All wrapped up in an aquatic psych pop bedsheet.

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released September 29, 2022

All songs written by Stanley Belton except for Kong & A Crying Shame, co written with Finley Belton

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