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Notebooks
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Spilling my soul into the pages of these notebooks/
No shows booked, still writing my own hooks/
I've known crooks, had my hope shook/
But I'm still screaming fuck the world like I'm supposed to/ x2
Spilling my soul into the pages of these notebooks/
Mou tanoshimi ga nai, I had hoped to/
Take over this game, bringing back the old school/
But this depression got me asking the fuck am I supposed to do/
I hate it demo mada rappa ni naritai/
I can't step back, I just fucking love rocking mics/
Suicide or success, kono ending ga wakaranai/
And this great divide ha chou bakudai/
If I fall in, can I climb out/
Are riches and bitches all life's about/
If I can just get some success, then I'll die proud/
Do I even wanna be normal, if so Christ how/
My mind racing embracing these pages/
My aim is to be extraordinary, done with time wasting/
Upscaling my pride, if I die I'll die saying/
Fuck this industry, on my own terms, I'll make it/
Spilling my soul into the pages of these notebooks/
No shows booked, still writing my own hooks/
I've known crooks, had my hope shook/
But I'm still screaming fuck the world like I'm supposed to/ x2
Let me remind you I'm the anti-paradigm/
When words and rhymes combine, I visualize/
A new era of phrases that incite/
A well time revival, refining the idols/
Hype you up like strychnine, there ain't no stopping me/
Subconsciously auditing all the thoughts of snobbery/
Building this animosity preks up this monstrocity/
Inside my mind, fangs enlarge with this ferocity/
And I just wanna rip someone apart and watch them bleed/
Sharpen my tongue and cut them to pieces with this techinque/
Fuck all who impede me, ore ha saikou ainiku/
Kono kotoba ha ganchiku no aru/
So you can call me a nerd, and say I can't rap/
Blast back with an attack that knocks you flat/
On your ass so fast, won't have time to take off the mask/
And show you my face, until your vision turns black/
Spilling my soul into the pages of these notebooks/
No shows booked, still writing my own hooks/
I've known crooks, had my hope shook/
But I'm still screaming fuck the world like I'm supposed to/ x2
So we've established I'm a sucidal diciple/
Gun to my head, hand on a bible/
Just praying for a savior to take away this homocidal/
rage, caged in my mind, straightjackets and asylums/
I'm losing my faith, and my sanity daily/
Feels like I'm just another pawn in this grand scheme/
Demanding that I give more, as my days sneak/
Closer to the end of my line, am I going crazy/
Just maybe, I can make it to the end of this game/
And obtain my fame without becoming ashamed/
Of who I am inside, and stop the complaining/
But I really don't think that this music can sustain me/
Tired of the stress, and this gun can take it away/
Done wasting space, it's in my nature to way/
The pros and the cons it's a dangerous game/
The lord may have giveth life, but I can taketh away/
Spilling my soul into the pages of these notebooks/
No shows booked, still writing my own hooks/
I've known crooks, had my hope shook/
But I'm still screaming fuck the world like I'm supposed to/ x2
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[Verse 1: Granyte]
I remember back when I was a child, thinking about blowing up/
Little did I know after Nas the game was all about going dumb/
I still sat in the corner with a pad, I would go for months/
And just scribble the words down, notepads my devotionals/
Hope you know I kept going, here I am, rebel without a cause/
Mask on, penetatary for these thousand bars/
Finally in the Mile High City, scream it from the mountaintops/
I keep expecting to wake up, all I can hear are these loud alarms/
The countless storms are weighing heavy, just wanna make it out/
These voices keep tearing me down, just seems to make me doubt/
That I can ever get out of these pages, all the cliches about/
Being stuck behind these bars, or raps so hot they could blaze an ounce/
The monster in my mind is knocking down these doors, I'm fading out/
I'm another white rapper with daddy issues, I'm hardly breaking grounds/
But this is my story, can't change the channel with a lost remote/
Fuck it man, I can't see the end, but that's just how the story goes/
[Chorus: Eli Rebich]
And that's the way the story goes/
It lights the open road/
It's all or nothing and it's time to leave/
Your introduction to the next big thing/
I'll be the frequencies that are frequently in stereo/
When I get home the world will know/
About lights, fame, and fortune/
[Verse 2: Granyte]
Trying to live in the present, but my past overwhelms me/
Started this life on a full tank, but now I'm so close to empty/
Just wanna get it over with, hope to open new endings/
A hypocritical cynical bastard, just kill me/
Wish I couldn't feel, never dealing with this broken heart/
I could change the way I was perceived at a moment's prompt/
I just wanna keep on drinking then screaming till my throat is hoarse/
Can't be too real on a track, otherwise I'm showing flaws/
But if I don't explain why I'm here, then I'm just a poser/
Give a man a mask right, I guess I've become the poster/
Honestly, given my heart right now, there's nothing colder/
Just take everything away, wondering why we're becoming smokers/
Thought this music would make a difference, be the young composer/
Call me what you want, but you can never cut the motor/
This is my story, can't change the channel with a lost remote/
Fuck it man, I can't see the end, but that's just how the story goes/
[Chorus: Eli Rebich]
And that's the way the story goes/
It lights the open road/
It's all or nothing and it's time to leave/
Your introduction to the next big thing/
I'll be the frequencies that are frequently in stereo/
When I get home the world will know/
About lights, fame, and fortune/ x2
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Came Out the GateS, then the gates decayed/
Stuck in this abyss, changed to a flaming lake/
I don't see black and white, just a scale of greys/
Real Always Prevails, no being fake again/ x2
You can call me what you want, a faker/
A stranger, a masterbating bastard, or even rap's savior/
An incredible poet with a sarcasm impediment/
Drifting along shit's creek getting stuck in the sediments/
I'm fucking irreverant, irrelevant and heaven-sent/
Got a few screws loose, and my mind space is desolate/
And to top it off, I'm a motherfucking atheist/
Because, silly me, I prefer looking at evidence/
The laziest MC to craft rhymes, not the craziest/
Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm just saying this/
Fuck this depression, it's got me showing my real self again/
Light up these trees, it sounds like it's fucking Christmas bitch/
If you don't know me, how are you gonna judge me/
That's why the mask's on, so I can just breathe/
I just need a place that fucking loves me/
To expell these demons before I end it all to just bleed/
Came Out the GateS, then the gates decayed/
Stuck in this abyss, changed to a flaming lake/
I don't see black and white, just a scale of greys/
Real Always Prevails, no being fake again/ x2
No label for me, cuz they always wanna change you/
Make you into a dude that always stays smooth/
I'm just a big fucking dork, sometimes a straight fool/
A great boom, a dude that was made to break rules/
Maybe to save you, but I'm still broke with no clue/
These strings seem to be gone, but I'm still stuck in old school/
Just hopeful, that one day I would grow to kill vocals/
My moment of clarity: Shit, these beats are better than therapy/
Desperately clinging to the rising melody, steadily/
Trying to succeed when my tendency to quit is my enemy/
Especially when it feels like I'm going on endlessly/
Is it my destiny to never make it up cleverly/
Stay stuck in this abyss until my enemies bury me/
These claw marks got me feeling like mentally/
I'm still just a kid who never wanted to grow old/
So cold, so many people but I feel so alone/
Came Out the GateS, then the gates decayed/
Stuck in this abyss, changed into a flaming lake/
I don't see black and white, just a scale of greys/
Real Always Prevails, no more being fake again/ x2
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Dealt with depression, made it through in the strangest way/
Gave my life to this music, and one day it saved my brain/
So through all the drama, and everytime she gave me vague/
Excuses, disputing every change when the baby came/
I just went back to this other world, but now the gates decayed/
So how the fuck can I get back without staying paid/
And how can I escape back without always making waves/
Move in major ways, keep pretending you behave like saints/
I can't keep this heart if the world insists on playing spades/
Sometimes I feel like a sniper, cause I'm alwaying changing aims/
If you think you can handle this monster, meet me at the station babe/
Some call me insane because I'll play eight days at a vacant stage/
But I have greater aims, than to end all this shit with a razor blade/
Man, I just gotta blow, so every lyric I spit just makes grenades/
Before I'm in my grave, and I take my last breath under slate/
Fuck it, I'm the one I blame, just tell me what's my fucking name/
I think I'm done, can't keep dealing with this madness/
Watch as my life crumbles like these buildings, fear lashes/
This monster inside helps me when all I see is pitch blackness/
Hellfire brought down on my enemies, dissapointing and disastrous/
Thought I could gather the strength to get through this but shit happens/
He who used to only give balance, now solely inhabits/
This persona, there's only so much I can do and still manage/
Waiting for someone to put me out of this misery - sick cattle/
Feel like god in the fucking flesh, but I'm a mere vassal/
Midas bars, cause I spit gold, every line's worth a king's ransom/
Yet, I'm still broke as fuck, and not sure if I can still handle/
All of this stress and this drama, before this monster will trample/
All that's left of the real me, leaving me just a grim phantom/
But my soul's been scarred, it's too deep that shit scratches/
Before I'm in my grave, and I take my last breath under slate/
Fuck it, I'm the one I blame, just tell me what's my fucking name/
Feels like I'm drowning, will I ever fucking breathe again/
I gave my all for this life but it wasn't enough to reach the glen/
So I have to climb this mountain all over just to feel the beat again/
My dreams are crumbling around me but I can't pick up the pieces yet/
I gotta pull myself up and do this on my own to keep from being shelved/
But these people act like this rap shit's such a breeze to get/
Without understanding all of the work put in, I believe no less/
Of anyone attempting to make it, we get equal threats/
It wouldn't be the first time that I've gotten beaten friend/
I just want to understand my place in this world before I bleed to death/
Staring up at the stars with these headphones, let the beats commence/
And maybe I can make it out of poverty, make me free from debt/
But everything that's happened the last few months make me a seething mess/
And I feel like I'm just blowing hot air like some heating vents/
Before I'm in my grave, and I take my last breath under slate/
Fuck it, I'm the one I blame, just tell me what's my fucking name/
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Granyte Denver, Colorado
Proud father, Atheist, Democratic Socialist, Writer, Artist, Rapper. I also dabble in code. Current Projects: Traveler's Gate & The Defiance.
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