Cathartic- Yellow Metal Lyrics
Heres where I am with the lyrics, I referenced @25Goldenn on twitter for some of it that I couldnāt comprehend.Ā
*music*
0:23
Dark matter, like painted splatters, they fit better, the old saying, the way it goes, better the devil you do then you donāt know. I hit pedals and switch levers, my heart metal, I can't settle, im part trouble, they are not subtle. I fuck good so fuck cuddles, burst bubbles the thrist levels at new heights, i down doubles, and got baked til I felt high, my face puzzled, felt muddled, far strung and your floors woodent, the thought might but the fit wouldnāt. A fortnight
0:46 - 1:00
And I thought right, itās all bark and no bite, Iām Tony Stark still embarking on a dream, took a bit of time to take darkness from the team. Seen what I saw. Heartless on the sleeve. Tried to burn my wings, so I put them in a piece on my chest , at peace no rest.
1:00-1:15
Flipped this on itās head. Rip the script up now, flip it donāt pretend, slipping shit again, Fakers all around me, Iāve been living in pretense. Fake friends wonāt make amends. Thereās no need, these mean comments control the scenes. Attentionseekers, the spine is weakened
1:15-1:24
This family needs, what a family needs, and the planet bleeds, the damaged trees. Itās never leaving til we ascend so fuck the fence, and until they stop killing colour itās fuck the feds.
1:22 - 1:44
You must be off it, I mean it, you know you aināt never get with the judging and I used to dread growing my beard too long, never felt I belonged, but it's really long like a minute I aināt looking to no mans for the limits, Theyāre feeling timid, Iām telling them who they mimic, why they don't look like a clinic ā¦. Why they don't get no women, Still, weāre just fucking girls, Lost in the wrong world, Jurassic, now to this vermin
1:41- Ā 1: 50
Kicking the game Iām serving, these losers are never learning, my fire is forever burning, adding it to my fuel, seems like Iām always focused on never becoming you, These locals that rob us feeling ⦠was for a reason.
1:52-2:02
Iām seeing my new beginnings, watch out this loserās winning, and no water is too deep to swim in Like Iām about to see a killing, Iām all the way that and living, flawless and feeling lawless, the prison now to the gimmicks, my vision is set to something,
2:03-:2:20
Iām watching you bitches plummet, no matches here for my cunning, you rappers are feeling done in, switching your genre, running and Running your jaw, stunting, pulling at straws, something Ā I think youāre a poor effort, deaf and tone deaf and I aināt treat you separate. Living, Iām in my element, riding it like a ⦠never lose me to fentanyl, scared when I take a benadryl. Keeping it green in general
2:20- 2:46
Think that you remain irrelevant. Look at yourself with reverence, hoping to always elevate. Celibate of these thoughts, killing themselves with sedatives. In comparison to eminem, youāre feeling feminine. Impolitically correct, still dropping on my dick. And I never gave a fuck about what they say abt my shit, Iāve been moving things in my mind like itās this mountain dew Memories have made me wonder if one day Iām after you. Whatās the purpose that you do, is what you're hoping that they learn, iād like to say iām done but itās getting up on my nerves
2:46 -2:55
Iām looking at my life, saying what do I deserve. Itās hard to say I know when Iām walking through the dirt. Talking while youāre nothing I can see for what itās worth. Iām tired of feeling hurt and Iāve tried enough but nothing works.
2:55-3:40
Iām racking up excuses while Iām slacking off on work. Chit chatting is the usual, talking to this clerk, i beg you donāt include me. I might write it on my shirt so everytime they see me, the oldest know to swerve. SWERVE Life is potent, bits of fucked shit⦠till they took notice werenāt Ā no hocus pocus, it was hard work that got me heard so i put in the graph like google maps but the whole earth
⦠around my door mat, taking over like the drones, rolling dirt up in miles like the water, and exploding like Annas hematoma. Don't need to see a slammer to know that I don't want to go man
Iām a showman. Iām just focused on the drama⦠like iāve got my own insurance, show myself the pain, like i boxed it in the frame, if weāre about to talk greatness im great, the way you have to say my name like beyonce
āSay my nameā
4:00-4:46
Just a bum with a cigarette, sun coming up, all my thoughts on the internet. Feeling deep, Iām just bored with the silhouette single sec, Ā get fucked up for the thrill of it . killer streak playing Pacman. Like I came from the Philippines vanilla bean still a thing for the thrill of scene,
Theres a beam, UFO, Leave it well alone Ā I aint moving, stood still on the peloton, telephone and its always on the dial tone, Ā it's been a while since iāve smiled at a milestone, seen a big pile in my mind stone, me against the world on my Jack Jones, Like Iām John Jones, With pictures in the condo, far from John Doe, in the ___, like I'm Johnny Bravo, got pravado, with a small dick sitting in golados, feeling far gone, cuz that last hit was the good shit, was that stay lit
4:48-5:02
You can never take my shit come and get me. On the top floor, Ā cloud 9, fading, never bailing, felt amazing, inhaling, til my lungs two guns blazing. Overcome all the stunts that I pulled. A suit of just skin and then wool
5:02- 5:17
This life doesnāt give you no armour, a lot of myself can harm ya. I swear on whatās good, that Iām here till they take me. I pray that Iām wrinkled, at least over 80, and start moving like a ruler, ?damaged? Like a computer going fast, bars from the jeweler, bring the songs to the beach in hopes of finding tuna
5:18-5:36
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5:36- 6:16
Grab a bat, lose my rag. Couple things got me mad, a couple people got me wrong and now Iām changing up the swag. Coming in and stealing it, I might take the whole bag. Feeling undefeated, Iām a beast with a reason, and imma lead the whole pack. Fearless like Iām Caesar, Iām just waiting for a chance to fill it up with diesel, and all I've been achieving is clocking miles in its region, moving like a legion.
Promise that I made to myself an allegiance. Do you still believe Iām a fool for ever leaving, staring at the ceiling, can never put a cap on achieving. Iām just here for the rap, then Iām leaving.
Iāve had about enough of being my own enemy, itās time I grew up, Ā a long way from 17. Always went against the grain, struggles in my life. Got some things to say when I stand up on a mike.
6:16-6:32
I aināt dropping this for fame, I need this time, like therapy, itās just to keep me sane. The truth is on my medicine, canāt put that on your plate.
Speeding into everything, bout time I fixed the brakes. Donāt say I canāt communicate , you know I conversate with you in several different ways. And I know you know itās references, looking at your face.
6:33- 6:53
Canāt justify mistakes, like every man that made them, seems I ain't Ā the one to blame. Lying to myself, only had so much to gain, so now Iām switching up the plate, see if that affects the place, im at on most days
I aināt going with the usual so they looking at me strange. Confused, I can feel it all, Ā Iām here to make a change. Itās cold at 3am outside, Iām walking with the dog, thanking god that you donāt talk at all, my mind is switching off
6:54-7:12
Driving down to find myself, cuz Iāve been getting lost, lived this selfless life and found I can give a toss. Lessons that Iāve learned Iāve tried teaching to myself. What Iāve learnt from certain people is that theyāre better than myself.
So I surround myself with real ones, and you feel the plastic melt. Like burning toy soldiers that used to go up on the shelf. Recycle the ideas, conveying on the belt
7:14-7:29
.. circus, always hurting the way we felt? Embarrassed that we dreamt of bigger things and letting go of notions till we feel them in cement
Tired of only hoping, we feel broken men. Cuz the gravity is weight and has kept us to the ground, see the only people speaking with favors in their mouths
7:46-7:58
Got killer rhymes⦠no fillers, like godzilla, eating clouds cuz my smokes thicker, throat licker, my dope sicker, bringing people their hope like im the pope slicker, Ā i hope youāre getting the point cuz i walk quicker
I thought my city was shit bcs I want bigger like my zipper couldnāt zip up fed up with theā¦my love is fickle.. Residual age has a primitive face
I see demise for your limited ways, Left it to simmer, simmer awayā¦a fake glimmer in the haze
8:09-8:11
Feeling trapped this industry is a cage
8:34-8:50
Nobodyās speaking the truth, Iām offended by the State. Look at the state of the news, Iāve decided the argument, reciting my views, while theyāve been sat in their chairs, Iām feeling pressure to choose.
Standing here as one man, how can I do half when youāre half the person I am. If it wasnāt in your life, you didnāt choose it. Itās the funny thing about music. Itās the pain and beauty of it.
8:52-9:11
Donāt give a fuck what my suit is, it looks good so I wear it, better than the shoot that Peopleās wearing, changing the whole narrative for these basics and scarcity
Been facing the racists from back when i were a kiddie .born up in in 93ā. been living in Bradford City..kicked me out of the schools, they had a problem with me hitting the kids that would call me p*** still sitting in the classroom chilling, and i'm angry now that Iām older I see they treat us different
9:12-9:25
got me thinking Iām the problem cuz they never dealt with those issues.
20 years later Iām still in the same boat, tryna treat me like my grandpa, say I came up off the boat. Came to tell you what I stand for, man I think youāre shit, a joke. How can I be civil, when they got me by the throat
9:25-9:35
Pushing my feelings down, you aināt got it like them
āBoy your skin is so lightā, ok motherfucker take my name up on a flight. Try to convince immigration that your bloodlineās half white.
9:35-9:45
I donāt know how thatās acceptable, when life is more susceptible to perception, be the death of them. Iāve been looking at the sky saying whereās that day of reckoning, you had your prophets right when they say that you would speak to them.
9:45-9:55
I need justice in this life and I trust that itās my fight, cuz when Iām writing it feels right to have them focused on the facts again. Focused on the rap again, hoping for the change, gunna put this on the map again
9:55-10:16
Writing in all caps again, the pain, it goes through me so I write the letter. All the shit that could have brought me but made me better.
Iām at home with a pain in my soul , yeh rap⦠cuz you know I was too real to contest it, my time was invested. Now I look at the industry, I see it infested, looking like kids who would write on nesquik.
10:17-10:29
My name aināt on the list unless they label it ethnic.
I aināt never gave a fuck about these jokers and jesters. Aināt no answers for these things, so just save us the questions, man allowed of violence, cuz my silence is deafening, your opinion stinks, somebody get him a breath mint.
10:30- 10:42
Start to understand why they think that Iām threatening, I move in certain ways, couldnāt slow me with ketamine Now they all wanna hear me, got a table at letterman. Direction changed, like I changed up the lettering. Donāt believe the age ,bcs I move like a veteran.
10:42 - 10:47
Raised on the benefit for whose benefit, theyāll never learn shit, man, if the shoe fits.
ā¦no words coming out when you open your mouth
And to be honest, itās insulting, offensive to my wounds that have been salting. Tryna ask me questions that they know I never answer. Iād rather sit online and reply to the fan art
11:00-11:06
Fuck a sports car, coming through when i rapped
tell you what I like, farm life and the tractor
11:06- 11:17
Fake life, 'sup online, suck a fat one. You donāt wanna buy into that, none of that son. Sitting in the garden 98ā in the Datsun, Ā seen some hot summers but I still remember that sun.
*music*
11:51- 12:34
I make millions off of my pain, cause I know a few millions still living that way
Dealing with the hurt, they should know cause they donāt deserve it, it hit deep cause i hit the nerve. Only way that the sheep learn if the street firm, in my ways I donāt wanna change, everything just stay the same
Who you tryna convince you understand, cant maintain, let the lights dim some, Ā get the Chow Mein, flex, get the tape, right up at night
Why these men be nice to my face, be nice, Ā i aināt tryna be a gangsta ruins my vibe
Rather be low-key and on my phone. Never need the trophy or the show piece
Never show peace in a North Face fleece. Show kids this like i wrote my flip
Cause the sign might fit till the start iām sick
12:37-13:05
Now you see where I come from, the world donāt. Only achievement in this life is the Jordans. Committing petty crimes out of boredom, we canāt afford them. So I stole it, need a rolex
Go make sense, get yourself a job, Itās a poor manās game tryna sit and pray to god, he aināt sorting out your problems, gotta sort them out yourself
Used to tell us fables, now Iām writing them myself, Cause we raw like animals we all just need some help
Cathartic, Iām an artist, trying to put my heart in
Felt double crossed like Leo in Departed
13:05- 13:27
For the knowledge iām not charging see I got it all free
But my hunger kept me starving like iām feening for the feed
I just Need a reason to see me bleeding for my creed. Trick you with the words like I keep em up my sleeve. Picking where I fit, I see me sitting with the queen
I aināt doing it unless youāre used to saying please
Let me flow a bit, before I sting 'em with the bees, They tryna kill us with disease
(Music)
13:34- 14:12
Why does it feel like they had the same notebook and the same four looks
Like the rain won't touch on their face, so sus when they lie donāt trust not a minor
Please no fuss, I just move through the game like must
Something in the way i adjust till i stick, Free falling like the ship, free fall till i bust
Remember 21 brother gave no fucks. Trying to project when they give them looks
In the projects, in the objects us
In my own way, never gave me love, shoulda never started this, broken hearted kid
Dried up the feeling till I stole the lid
Donāt wanna relish in the fame but I canāt resist
14:46-14:58
I like the way we feel, I like the way, I like the way
Aināt no mistake, i am a being
I aināt tryna be a leader, been selling out since Jesus
All my rhymes are for the readers, between the lines, like Father time, I fuck Mother Nature
14:58-15:40
Thatās what they get, the connotations. Tell 'em I lived a life, and then I lived a life of adjacent? like itsā¦. and played it patient.
Alone on my own spaceship, always tryna find greatness, still defying lines, but Iām fighting in my prime.
Shining light like Kylo while imma kill it all the time. Aging like Iām wine
Asian in my face, but still my race you canāt define. Focused on defiance, imma fight it while itās life.
Started something sick and on my mind is whatās next, just became a dad so now Iām taking all the cheques. Better know Iām staying and paying like itās debt. Imma get it done, if itās taking all my breath, sweat, and down I aināt messing around til Iām the best
Speaking in full sentences, shoulda thought about a strategy before you went at the stratosphere about this⦠rings around Saturn, this aināt a battle, Iām sat, Iām here
15:40-16:22
Catch me doing magic, hired and sounding tragic I think you could use practice and until that you get the blacklist and pull like a ⦠actress? Fooling them like a catfish, schooling like a legend, happy to be the reference, fusing like iridescence, leaving them all guessing, leaking out of my brain like a pipe I aint fixing, shining like a star you can see it from a distance
Aint many of me around p*** Iām just different Certain stages to this level aint here because fame is to the devil fuck a label, imma do this from the ghetto, clean up like Im Dettol
Iām the man to put a bet on, sight smart like a weapon, Ā this is my kind of setting, i write the world Iām sat in, while these others live on hype, i see them fight in how they type, the fruit is ripe for the taking, i think i might
16:22-16:57
Let me take you away from here, Let me take you away from here, Let me take you away from here
16:58- 17:47
Eccentric things are mentioned like a kid stuck in detention tryna escape im just spitting what is written on the next page, spitting image of my dad in his young days
Born sinner when iām livid i say fucks sake
Donāt worry iām too cunning with no plumbing, the waterworks, i sung something that resonates, i thought it first like giving birth to the parrot perch
They see me do it and they know it works
Donāt know whatās worse: the way that you live your life or the way that you write a verse
Youāll be nervous, you donāt deserve it weāll scratch the surface ill leave a crater, lift the dirt up to find the hurting
Canāt know for certain nothing is guaranteed, tryna be a better person than the world deserves to see cuz i see a lot of sharks still swimming in the sea
Cease and arrest whatās the reason.. And these the kinda kids we bringing up next
Distorted reality, all they needed was family, too hard to face, to see what the damage is
17:47
*i donāt wanna be, i donāt wanna be, a part of this, no, i donāt wanna be, i donāt wanna be, a part of this, *
18:04-18:38
Sometimes they ask the questions too deep to form a sentence, to disform, is this the norm, is this the sentence i feel defenseless i played the setlist, and all my sweat blood and tears, forgot to mention feeling lost, going off into different sections i feel like love wrecked it
If itās not a drug why am i waiting for the next fix, affected, i cant believe that you left this
I guess I leave for the best wish, moving on like im fine for the lectures
We see it all from spectrums, cuz if weāre falling down we can fall down together
Staircase to heaven, mirror down the middle like 11, resentment on one side it wonāt settle
18:38- 19:14
Mind fried but taking sense, they aint got a sense of themselves in the rich ends
Need to spell it out for them.. Made for them so witness
I know you feel afflicted but you always love it with me while im laughing at you, ya think youāre laughing with me
I try to (i love you) but im grown so they donāt fit me, my body thrown from the new to this old city so Im sick of sitting on my own, feeling so shitty, iāve been on roads where its cold and the snow hitting
Its okay to be yourself, sit and talking to myself
Iāve been walking for the longest, just need a little rest, know i aināt the strongest, I can feel it in my chest, talking about my feelings and of me, they get the best
19:14-19:59
They aint leaving, seeing breathing in my breath
Till death do us part is just seeded in my heart, like a work of art
Never winning,im just scared
Cant begin from the start, do i play a part in the rhythm of the night
I guess iām onto something cuz the dark is feeling right
Every cloud got a lining, put my own miles Ā in, like moralis, figured that theyāre jealous, that they could just never tell us to change because the weather never made me question whether or not iām not that level
Got rid of all the bullshit sitting in my way, most of them are full of shit i see it every day
I do hearing the same things that i do, maybe that shits hitting like haiku
How much do you pay for them to hype you
Recycle your flaws but they aint like new, leaving and conceded and full of diesel like engines that need a cleaning, the ending will be revealing. Even though we aināt raising the facts, now we been facing.
20:01-20:52
The cactus with spikes, needing spaces. Different faces, the same story. A full body like straight body direct to your system.
Could never tell 'em we missedā em. Not even with the thoughts, we gift them. Cuz they just take advantage, guess we are caught in a system.
My soul pouring out details of borrowed time, had enough of a fill, this is for sorrow time. Iām seeing visions of Heaven, I seen the severed line, between the gospel they speak and when theyre telling lies.
Remember telling a friend of mine, youād sent of mine, identified like a 3rd eye. Got a habit of knowing now where the dirt lies. So benign. I aināt sober after 9, so I fuck their minds. Why you flipping out, see another
Try to rep it from the city, fuck a chiller crew, repping for the nittys, trying to keep us down, raised on the social, donāt want to let us out of the system. Me, I insist we assist them, me alone putting shifts til I lift them
20:53-21:12
I know itās hard, thatās why I like it, Iām fit to fight it, Iām from the North, Iām backing Tyson, itās been decided, donāt see no light. They needing guiding, just redefining, realizing, Iām realigning, in full finance, they stay silenced.
Canāt be louder, Iām juiced up with no powder. I fix shit like a slick spanner. Gone green like Bruce Banner. So free Gaza on my banner
21:12-21:51
The real McCoy, I aināt nothing to toy with, signifying peace like a Japanese Koi Fish. How did this happen, weāre moving backwards in our timeline, killing us with cyanide, Right up for the freedom 'til we transform like Ironhide
This is bout my feelings, the way that I move affects the fate that Iām sealing. Canāt say nothing, with that something being on the page, kept inside the pen like the bars that have been kept caged. See I always had a plan, since I was young, we had nothing man
Now itās been a few years since I aināt seen the fam, on foreign lands. Bout to climb Everest in the avalanche. Right into the riddles as soon as you were born. Never asking the question cuz itās the norm. See Iām in a questioninā session
21:52-22:03
Like the manner got a method to teaching a lesson, listen to MF Doom, he taught me like Raās Al Ghul. Felt like living in Gotham, the people were rotten. Still we play cartoons so itās never forgotten.
22:03-22:15
Chilling at the top but we came from the bottom. Writing and jottin for them life by, spotting the difference
*Dreams, was growing out of me, sun promising that tomorrow it will rise, time playing games with my mind, I swear it will pass us by
Train goes on the tracks, smoke, Iām tired to hide my thoughts, so blinded in flames, Donāt know where weāre going, I have no way of knowing, only see whatās in my head
Canāt we wait a minute, so we can savour this, Itās on my brain again, these days, It on my brain again these daysā
23:10-23:46
Theyāre hating on Palestine ways, The oh no Palace playing Prince on the Steinway, Sending out mind waves, stop them like crimewaves, Freedom fighter, Yellow Metal is my name
Like vipers, I see the sly ones, the snake thatās called Biden, none of them abiding what they might put in writing
We should be used to it by now, say whatever for the vote and then just choose another route, say theyād never kill another unless that brotherās skin is brown
Iām just telling you the facts, if you canāt take it, the truth naked, to bare bones and my thoughts lately, spitting politics.. Done aināt it, Shit just gets me vexed, and now Iām sitting that I think of it
23:45-23:59
Feeling on the brink of it, whatever it is, Figure out some shit at least it feels that way
talk about my feelings and I donāt feel so strange, finding solace, thatās a promise, in Metropolis but being honest, canāt write a sonnet, without some pain
24:00-24:40
Canāt fade away, away so we can savour this, been on my brain again these days
Can't find a way to be so you can savour this, been on my brain these days
Singing the song for another, singing a song for another













