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Bar68
03:08
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(Verse 1)
How you gonna take me for a
Waste of karma
The summaa cum laude who amounts to nada
Astrological signs say the end’s upon us
As our planets re-align and then return to stardust
Girl I know the ring was small but
When ya tell ya friends, leave that part out
Ya like to point out
That I’m too broke to buy the bar out
But ya boy broke an E string singing his heart out
Dancing in Satan’s waltz
As I betray my soul for
Party favors just to re-accelerate my pulse cause
These sober thoughts make you day dream locusts
In a land that otherwise may seem Roman
Lord knows what goes through her mind
But I know you see these omens
Feelings foreign
Just look around at all these tourists
Unbeknownst to us all, we’ve reached the ocean’s end
Chorus
Welcome to Bar 68
Welcome to Bar 68
Bridge
Verse 2
It’s not the only bar in town
Why is that you love me here and now
Far away in a foreign place
Only to have your memories erased
Chorus
Welcome to Bar 68
Welcome to Bar 68
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2. |
Everyone's Got a $
04:25
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Verse 1
My dear friend has good credit
A career and checks his reddit every few seconds
He seems so pathetically consumed
Most nights he’s just stuck
Passing blunts in a time loop
Riffin’ on and on bout things he aspires to
As I just sit and wait to reply to
They all wait for me to lead the way
Chorus 1
Everyone’s got a dollar sign in their name
Verse 2
My eyes appraise
As they reluctantly pay for this date like’s she’s….
Like’s she’s not worth her weight in treasure gold
Doing as the Egyptian Pharaohs when in Rome
With a new redbone who claims she’s Seminole
Trying to play DJ in my rental
Requesting Curren$y’s new mixtape
Chorus 2
Every rappers got a dollar sign in their name
Everyone rappers got a dollar sign in their name
Bridge
She said….
“Your skin may be light
Your nose may be straight
You may be bright
But your heart’s as black as Cain
You’re just an artist spreading conscious art and
Favorite authors
Favorite martyrs
Still got….nothing to say”
Verse 3
All of the history texts barely mentioned us
I don’t care what the 2012 census was
I can read shorts or any non-fiction
But I finished Trumps book all the same
Chorus 3
Everyone’s got a dollar sign
Everyone’s got a dollar sign
Everyone’s got a dollar sign…..
In their name
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3. |
Money in the Ceiling
03:41
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Verse 1
The woman of your dreams
Would rather you believe
That you gave into the man
Long before she gave you back the ring
She was taught to make plans
She can never love you like your family can
The questionable women in your bed
Were never meant to wear your diamond or relieve your stress
Them Wi-Fi code asking hoes make they demands
Then go bad mind gyal fi dem ting on the gram
You know, my yute, to them you’re just another son of sam
They can never love you, like your family can
Chorus 1
There’s money in the ceiling
That you can never touch
There’s no one you can trust
No I can never force you
To join the family business
Post-Chorus 1
But it’s there if you want
Verse 2
Screaming to the heavens thanking lord of zion
All for blessing pickney with enduring heart of iron
Forged by the heavenly father in his likeness
Yet acts like his earthly more than he’d like to
Just to stay afloat a man gwan do what him need to
Even if him slang yayo like the man that precedes you
Given that you stay broke, it’s unreasonable
To think she wouldn’t stray so and not leave you
Your mother kicked me out the house soon as she discovered
What was above her knowing child support would never be summoned
Especially after having you Alex I would never touch her
Just like the money in the ceiling I would never entrust her
I never did love her
But no one else can love you, like your family can
Chorus 2
There’s money in the ceiling
That you can never touch
There’s no one you can trust
There’s money in the ceiling
When love is not enough
When love is not enough
No I can never force you
No I can never force you
No I can never force you
To join the family business
Post-Chorus 2
But it’s there if you want
It’s there if you want
It’s there if you want
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4. |
Pigs Eat Anything
03:15
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Verse 1
FDA approved hate run in his veins
Black man’s blood in his bacon as he spun to give chase
I slow down like a converted Muslim dangling bait
My Malcom X frames hang as he’s scanning my plates
Peering through my rear view in a state of trance like Zen pose
As heart rate and blood alcohol content rose
Snow White froze sitting passenger side alone
Justified a ticket if my civic didn’t ride low
Can’t remember when I went from poppin to distributin
Hidden zip lock in my sock yet still fidgetin
Cop say, “Pass me the rock” you still give it him
Talking my way out like Miranda ain’t listenin
Chorus
I smoke my jerk just like me herb
Drop a couple ashes in my urn
Momma don’t watch the news
Please just pray for my return
They will burn us at the stake
Pigs eat anything, pigs eat anything
Can anybody else say grace
Pigs eat anything, pigs eat anything
Verse 2
Swore my innocence
Asked my lawyer for deliverance
Telling me his Jewish dietary laws prohibit it
Caught up in the rap….They’re processing my past life
Doing all the math….These prosecutors act like
Readers hustlin palms
Beast of Babylon merely reshuffle him cards
All a man can really do is keep hummin him songs
Trustin in psalms
Nervous as I twirl up the phone and stutter in calls
Fuckin with Mom’s for bail money
Knowing where I am curtails worry
Still she considers hitting ignore like a pale jury
Sacrifice the eldest son
A bastard like the second runt
Of Dell Curry, still you care for me
My pops taught me how to guard my body, not protect my head
Control your temper or patrols will peg you left for dead
Frat boys with law degrees enjoying their success
Bought the drugs I sold them then fucked me over with no consent
Less than human, pray proof rooms make ya whole soul pretend
Came back in this bitch with a flip of script as a sober man
Seeing my ex-girlfriend in visions, trippin with no defense
Make me feel whole again
Make me feel whole again
Chorus
Repeat
Verse 3
Yeah I know the feelin
When you feelin like the son of King Selassie and a white mistress
A slight privilege
For a felon with a light pink pigment and a better diet
Can’t afford no white lean chicken but I know a pious
Rasta man nuh eat swine
Pigs will spill your blood then fuckin
Sip it like it’s cheap wine
Order round of 3 pints
I seek Christ but prefer the old gods for guidance
Drowning in vices I call on Poseidon
He seem the wisest
Weak minds casting they street dice, but I can see signs
Packing for Vegas hoping crap tables let me retry
Jobs to uphold, college loans, leave it all behind
License revoked, hit the 15 north as we drive
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ALJO San Diego, California
ALJO (Alex G. Vega or Vega Number 14, Born on August 17th, 1991) is a rapper and singer-songwriter from San Diego, California.
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