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Waves and Graves (Deluxe)

by Mort Vivant

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WTF 02:58
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What the fuck can I do sitting in empty rooms What the fuck can I do evil shit got me spooked What the fuck can I do overwhelmed by the gloom What the fuck can I do now I want to undo What the fuck can I do no longer want to play What the fuck can I do just want to get away What the fuck can I do tempted by what they say What the fuck can I do angels don't let me play What the fuck can I do this life don't lead anew Gut feeling thought that I knew that I'd be breaking through Hyped im fresh out of school my life was made a new Life's catechisms are what I must get through My verses are overdue its time for my debut Musical curse that I give to you Straight from my mouth I spew Grimey beats stuck in your head like gum to a shoe Lyrics tear your mind to a shred like jujitsu One night I wake up puking, devil sown inside of me Admit that I was at first, spook ever slightly Crisp wind in the air whisper in my ear nominee of bier Devoted to the craft of his subtleties But the new power is one not to take lightly Reminded of that between every diastole But is fear stemmed from a case of hyperbole Or is it that absolute power corrupts one, absolutely What the fuck can I do sitting in empty rooms What the fuck can I do evil shit got me spooked What the fuck can I do overwhelmed by the gloom What the fuck can I do now I want to undo What the fuck can I do no longer want to play What the fuck can I do just want to get away What the fuck can I do tempted by what they say What the fuck can I do angels don't let me play Power has consumed me, now I must get away Feelings that I once had replaced by the color gray Many nights spent astray money in the ashtray Spending everyday hoping that I will get away Mind full of regret and remorse over the deal of evil right from the source Devil in the details par for the course, soul trapped in my eyes cloudy like a rose quartz Undermine me, eyes red like a sharingan Soul sold on the internet and given to an evil man Sent a blood letter of love, awarded for my sin Received a bible of tabs and two angelic beings I wanted the power but not 3, I had my reasons Angels don't let me pray, until my prey is screaming One on each shoulders telling me the different meanings Wishing I wasn't greeting these feelings but now I know i'm never leaving
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Material 03:50
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Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me Life got no value to me Life got no value to Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me but I am still buying Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me but I am still smoking Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me so why am I crying Life got no value to me Life got no value to me so why am I trying Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me but I am still buying Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me but I am still smoking Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me so why am I crying Life got no value to me Life got no value to me so why am I trying Money no value to me but im buying The fluffy flip it satisfying the client Study up, cause all you junkies reliant On the suppliance, of walking gas giants You should take the advice from a goliath Who should seek the guidance from man whos so vibrant And mystifying, I spend my time smiling While others are hiding and paying for silence Silenced because you're compliant to mary Viewpoints behind bars when you taking the xanny Commentary temporarily blurry as i Deliver a flurry of aid and dissuasion Trepidation be creeping in On the lesser kin who be reaping And sowing till their head be blowing Because they're not knowing Of the higher beings that creeping on you when you're sleeping Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me Life got no value to me Life got no value to Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me but I am still buying Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me but I am still smoking Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me so why am I crying Life got no value to me Life got no value to me so why am I trying Money no value to me Cloths got no value to me but I am still buying Xanny no value to me Mary no value to me but I am still smoking Sex got no value to me Love got no value to me so why am I crying Life got no value to me Life got no value to me so why am I trying A man who's seen Azathoth in his dreams Is the same man who saucin without the supreme Rags to riches while deflating my self esteem While you others are running a fraudulent scheme Because all of your wishes, nothing but pipe dreams Clouded by falsified knowledge of mainstream Ideas something that's not of episteme Looking past physical and the unearthly Go and be free, travel beyond our seas Look behind what you see, senses hidden subliminally Pigmentation, and language are trivial Signed when you're born, densely woven perfunctory Once over slightly, I mention casually that we are bred for the regime We are all part of a bigger machine To keep the world running corrupt but so blind Enshrine, unconscious mind Leaving behind all those that have aligned Their minds, to the thoughts of the sanctified Don't try to reach it if you're not their design Instead you're Inclined to hold onto that lifeline Until you find reason to break through your outline Chance to outshine, juggle landmine, pigeon foot dance foot working on fault lines How do you reach it, improve life See goals, climbing day at a time Keeping them in sight when discouraged from spite Dunderheads in a thought loop of accomplishing quickly It never happens like that Know first hand i've witnessed the brats Brand name arson mask make a copycat Thus they'll never reach the true status of a technocrat
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Skygates 02:19
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My head is spinning luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it my head is spinning Luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it Woke up at the pearly gates Nights are full of broken ways Pain withheld with frozen gaze Let me rot away my closing days Cup full of dirty sprite So far gone cannot see the light Must Concentrate on what is right Must prevail and win this fight Instead you should lay me to bed Infect my brain with loads of lead Seeing red on the bedspread Misled now hanging from a thread Now i'm dead my life fled Rope enshrouded around my neck Parlay with death Feeling smoke creep up my chest Put to rest im feeling blessed Dreaming see a silhouette Of a boy who can't see death Getting swallowed whole by a wave Never seen again probably rotting on the sea bed Boy did nothing but pled Woke up in the morning bullet in his head Now his life is full of dread Inveterate for his deathbed Ponder thought of the untread Wanting to become undead Braindead but resurrected From the grips of an acid head Formally thorobred Tainted now the fire spreads My head is spinning luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it my head is spinning Luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it my head is spinning Luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it my head is spinning Luck bucket I kicked it Caught a case said fuck it my head is spinning Everyday just spiraling while holding back the violence Rioting inside his quiet dome while spitting out the sibilance Rap sciolist who'd rather be a quietist Slit wrist nihilist never see his righteousness intent to reach enlightenment While offending the shrink Never give the consent to hearing any opposing arguments Ascending inside of my head don't pay attention to dissent While im sleeping see the unilateral descent Visions coming to me in the dark of night make a malcontent Wake me up I circumvent in my dreams it's no different I'm a Pernicious plague Of swarming virulence Created to infest There's no defence Curse of the verse pretty pent up the case of ambivalence I cannot correct this even with cannabis So do not dismiss this i get pissed and slit wrists When I give you a swift kiss feel the bliss, embrace the abyss
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Tatari Gami 01:43
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Pray for the day, I take my life and see my grave Feel the waves in my veins, I grab the knife and misbehave All the same im depraved, no afterlight after doomsday No gateway until I say, and end the strife and blow my brain Pray for the day, I take my life and see my grave Feel the waves in my veins, I grab the knife and misbehave All the same im depraved, no afterlight after doomsday No gateway until I say, and end the strife and blow my brain Cold morning wake, hands of destiny I must shake These be the hands that take leaves, chill the breeze killing every spring In front of me see the path of trees, gotta feel the breeze when you're chilling in the shade Dont get betrayed his meetings bring unease, see the corruption dressed in masquerade Finally face to face, flames engulf our space Shaking your hand with grace setting the pace, stepping up dais Dynasty passed to me, that was his mistake Left him defaced in his throne I was placed Pray for the day, I take my life and see my grave Feel the waves in my veins, I grab the knife and misbehave All the same im depraved, no afterlight after doomsday No gateway until I say, and end the strife and blow my brain Pray for the day, I take my life and see my grave Feel the waves in my veins, I grab the knife and misbehave All the same im depraved, no afterlight after doomsday No gateway until I say, and end the strife and blow my brain Pray for the day, I take my life and see my grave Feel the waves in my veins, I grab the knife and misbehave All the same im depraved, no afterlight after doomsday No gateway until I say, and end the strife and blow my brain
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Missed Calls 02:12
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Day has arrived i wish for you to join my side Follow me on my endeavours and we will be purified Wait nevermind turn of tide when I mention the suicide I will be your guide, wide eyed meet the sky Hold up wait a minute rewind, this be a sign Although our paths have aligned i wont leave behind human kind Even though you so divine, simply put it ain't my time Moved county lines, past unfeigned Heard bout you through the grapevine Dip school sip wine, second guessing on your mind You're a nuisance, missing blessings, leaking leavin on your bind Not to mention its my time, i've been waiting for this night Nevertheless my influence will leave you tying nooses Was this a message on my voicemail, missed call Oh no hope that it aint real Death kiss, you'll miss the void that i was filling Timeless, curses when the rituals completed I got your call now i'm on my way over Speeding, swerving, lane switching for her Fear on my mind that your life's already over Contemplating why i waited to tell her i loved her Pull up to your place, not a single light is on Burst through your door, turn on every single one The smell of blood in the air is so intoxicating Time is moving super slow it feels like i am dreaming Find your door and burst right through Hide the knives that you have used Find the drugs that you've abused Why didn't you just use a noose Body lifeless full of scars Boudoir looking like grimoire I was close but yet so far Find a note of our memoirs
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Eye Drops (Intermission) 03:13
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Raven Visits 04:31
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Lately kept up from visions that I've been seeing Wide awake hallucinations, lucid worlds while I be dreaming Waking nightmares I be living, baking to begin the healing Retreat to my room, on blue moons, to reflect what I be feeling Reject all of my demons, keeping temper from overheating Primal urge to be a heathen, salut my problems with greetings Mushrooms and meditations, side effects be never eating My duality be meeting, in flew a raven window sill be seating Hmmm.... i look at it, it looks at me Odd... hit with a sense of familiarity Reach for my cup of tea, and enjoy this rarity In temerity, ask why it cause this hilarity To bring you clarity All of a sudden my mind is racing, asking again for my sanity Mind lost in the esprit Listen carefully, for if you dont, you won't live to tell your story Lately been having visions Been having visions Wide awake hallucinations Manifest what i be thinking Mind sharp like steel of nippon 3rd eye on fire like some napalm Learning through introspection My reflections bringing lessons Lately been having visions Been having visions Wide awake hallucinations Manifest what i be thinking Look into the eyes of the wolf and see the souls reflection But don't let the sin of seven cloud your perception Lone wolfs journey ahead is full of treachery The path to victory, laced with snakes up in the forestry The seasons will change, cold will kill those leacheries If you fall, rage and run or dead under the snow you will be buried Don't know what is to be said, the crow seems to be in my head It's because i am, didactic poetry for the troubled man Am I really tripping? shaman mushrooms sink me into my bed No second guessing, doubt yourself and you'll lose faith in your plans I came to you tonight, cause I knew the time was right Don't mean to instill existential fright Shit you just might Heed what I said before, these words you must not fight Howling wise to see my doleful plight, i offer future might Lone wolf of your journey, author of lives book to write Do not fall to the benight. cursing life Or live miserable, lonely, repentant and contrite! Regardless if you hide, you will only fall to your own knife You'll be tempted to sin, to be lead astray by the evils These forces be primeval And my mindset known to be lethal As true as that maybe, i've seen your fears painted up on an easel Carving your own path, they are revealed with every diastole Although vision may grey, effort feeling futile every day Keep paving your own lane, cause you'll be looking back at it some day Your past efforts giving way to your ascension day Aka the turning point of which the world you'll have to repay Lately been having visions Been having visions Wide awake hallucinations Manifest what i be thinking Mind sharp like steel of nippon 3rd eye on fire like some napalm Learning through introspection My reflections bringing lessons Lately been having visions Been having visions Wide awake hallucinations Manifest what i be thinking Look into the eyes of the wolf and see the souls reflection But don't let the sin of seven cloud your perception Wow, dropping heavy shit up on me, wild Dropping heavy lessons on this, child How, can i process all this, hear and now When I barely got my shit, up in a pile Pause, and just rest here for a second Admit this is alot to take in, i see the sweat up on your brow Make no mistake, came to you now, knew these lessons you won't disavow A new chapter in your book, time for your revival Okay, understanding on a new basis Youre right, got a lot of new problems im facing But im feeling lost, ego left without any traces Feeling like i'm running circles, mask on acting faceless Patience, you'll wear your feet to the bone with all that pacing But i leave you till we meet again at your next stages Keep your 3rd eye clear, mind never cloudy from acts of heinous Find all your faces, make your mind an oasis
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Letters For A Ghost 04:08
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Last fall with you, thought I had it all Downfall I knew, you had let others make the call Year of my life, spent in sorrow, and strife Resisting the urge to end it with a swift slice of a knife Year later hair color still amber, seasons same Seasons changed, didn't know you were playing games until today You had ghosted me I'm still left in disbelief An avalanche of emotions draw near Leaving me flabbergasted and instilled with the fear from the Trust issues that you burned me with so severe 3rd-degree burns should have learned now it's all so clear But that's another day another topic as to why you're toxic Under rain recovering trying to forget About when you ponder act astray And the craziest thing is I... hope you're doing ok Even tho... you hurt me every day I just hope... that you're doing ok Even tho... you don't feel the same way I just hope that you're doing ok Even tho... you hurt me every day I just hope... that you're doing ok Even tho... you don't feel the same way I just After some thought see what I have sought Not looking for a friendship to be bought, nor have you be a thot Even though it's both our faults, I moved on like I forgot But I can't... because the craziest thing is That I will move on forgiving all those that have scarred me Even though you cut deep breathing slow you steal my heartbeat Ghost living in my art, amber hair haunting my dreams And a tongue that cuts like razors and the craziest thing is I... hope you're doing ok Even tho... you hurt me every day I just Hope... that you're doing ok Even tho... you don't feel the same way I... hope that you're doing ok Even tho... this ain't the first time that you've been this way. I just Hope... that you're doing ok... even Tho... you hid your true self-everyday
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Heads Up 03:32
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Sitting back relaxing while i'm about to be relapsing Into these feelings they're taking me back, still snacking on my salad days Before my mind was a haze, debating on whether or not i've been born this way Before i've been known to bend with waves, following trends not mattering in the end Once you lose a friend, your family sanity Holding onto time you've spent, humanity lost in the regret Deadbeat dad you know the life, so momma sought to raise me right Still i got lost to the night, cursed to happen eventually But this ain't no luck, no DnD or Astragalomancy Just the pain of tragedy that is growing up in this day Torn between burning Os and bumpin to old cassette tapes From the times of my football games where my loved ones would spectate But bleachers turned to a crowd of my missed ones They vacate as time has done its thang, pools we once swam now they stagnate At a depressing rate hit with malaise as i've watched their final days Telling me to keep my head up smiling never forgetting your ways Heads up Rise up blessing loved ones You'll remember these days when you grow up Heads up Rise up Missing lost ones Wishing life had gone a different way when it's all done Heads up Rise up blessing loved ones Telling me i should never grow up Heads up Rise up Missing lost ones Write us into songs so we stay forever young Since i'm sitting back i'll take the chance to reminisce about my past Chilling chewing fat, feet in the grass feeling bliss with fam Grinning doing fine, healing sublime gleaming like Prince again Fearing no lies in day time when it is night i feel my prime In daylight pinewood forrest my enclosure Adventures that never sour with dusk to dawn being the hours Hope we forever traversing these trails stopping to smell these flowers Forts for future generations building we the founders Sun shining on sunscreen soaked kids Clay covered souls leave the cracks to mend Forever feeling like a lifetime, but only being the weekend These are the time where i didn't have to pretend Or attend any funerals families their burials Started losing them young, agonies unbearable To cope im getting herbal, so high im feeling aerial Keeping my head up never hung, making our past forever sung Heads up Rise up blessing loved ones You'll remember these days when you grow up Heads up Rise up Missing lost ones Wishing life had gone a different way when it's all done Heads up Rise up blessing loved ones Telling me i should never grow up Heads up Rise up Missing lost ones Write us into songs so we stay forever young
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Bright Lights 03:12
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Many nights, spent awake, never sleeping Many lights, in the sky, stars aligning Since a kid, never knew about this feeling Now i'm grown, and I know what it was meaning In my dreams, felt like more than deja vu Thru tearing seams, see that my dreams are coming true Even though, life love hitting me, from the blue Going with the flow, cause pressure makes a diamond Bright lights, bringing the attention Never let, anyone know about my intentions Bright lights, Palm trees for protection In my head, megaton of plans just like inception Bright lights, bringing the attention Never let, anyone know about my intentions Bright lights, Palm trees for protection Get that check, money over bitches rarely flexing Don't flip bricks no more, needed a better pay Cashing checks now, 3 jobs a better way Don't flip shit no more, keep my cool, palm trees where I lay Since a freshman been this way, making music everyday Moving fast, barely a, year out of high school, by the way Skipping class, smoking grass, flying like a bird of prey That's the past, different ways, freedom granted time to play In your lane, you should stay and pray I don't take your place My dossier unfair like foul play Your naivete, rot your game like tooth decay Raised booksmart, good start, for learning the street traits It was fate, learned the art from a childhood of purple hearts Now i'm grown, all alone, only proving to myself Artistic abstractions of what has molded thyself Fallen apart so many times, no longer made of my old self Death creeping in my peripherals after manifesting my visions Many nights, spent awake, worried about my health Many lights, in the sky, it's looking like hell Since a kid, been this way, from the cards i'm dealth Now i'm grown, and I know, it's caused by oneself Very well, hard to admit, it took time to tell Hear deaths knell, in passing my ego will yell Where my problems dwell, in my dreams, painted with pastel Showed my destiny, roads of treachery, and to my hands I fell Bright lights, bringing the attention Never let, anyone know about my intentions Bright lights, Palm trees for protection In my head, megaton of plans just like inception Bright lights, bringing the attention Never let, anyone know about my intentions Bright lights, Palm trees for protection Get that check, money over bitches rarely flexing
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WUOTSOLS 04:00
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Woke up, waves crashing around a rather torn and tattered sailor Shooting stars in the sky, probably from the crummy chemmy paper No neighbor, nor house for acres party forged out of thick vapor Like the swell, my memoirs come back to me sharp as a razor Atonal weekend, we turn to beachheads in our final summer As seniors before we can no longer see each other, bonfires at Lake superior secluded by michigan's black forest One last trip to orbit, spirit journey before the call of august So you gotta do it right, mother mary got the trippy stool cap, a classic to avoid the manic Smoking, toking, choking down a little canna butter brownies, bout to feel the magic Our journey into the timber, romantic songs emanating Forest kind so charismatic, now this trip is really starting, and Warping our awarding effort through thicket make our exit The charming woodland fellow we follow as the sky turns velvet The treeline is present when he tells me of a fabled party He's gone before i can thank him, turn and see a sight so heavenly Hidden behind the crimson glasses, ethereal doorway, portcullis To prepare I grab my backwear to enforce the aphasics, 1-upping slick Since the paper licks, still trippin, shit gets overridden with Blessed brownies that kill the fear, lumpish drawing near Neon lights, saw xenon sights through hazy dreams and glazy eyes Leading on to form solid ground, my energy dawned as the party gleams Assessing the tension tightly confined to these walls and their schemes Lucy influencing the lucid stream, I embrace my foreign body Extra to endure when I welter through the door. reacquaint my mind, lost feint time to the waves But i have saved myself with the cure, energy from ephemera enliven my veins Mind, body, drugs a trifecta, feel electra so pure, no restraint I unchain my brain Reach higher planes than before, when the sun, shone high now only stars remain Before I attained the sewer cup from a shy temptress that loved to test my luck And caused my falter a minor slip up, a break of my saunter feet got a little mixed up When i let the mix of the influence and the music with producing endorphins Let me lose my shit a little bit when losing time to the trip, gotta get a grip so I dip Composure from trees lit, smoke a bit to combat the dyspepsia Combine with the divine rush like morphine with the fresh pine air Mind analyzing the energy rising, body on autopilot door is opened The sounds of the waves crashing Fill my ears once again

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Full Re-edited, Re-mixed, Re-mastered release of my 1st tape 'Waves and Graves'

Featuring 4 new songs and full reworks on a handful of other tracks

Instrumentals and bonus tracks exclusively available on the CD

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released December 21, 2018

Written, Produced, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Mort Vivant

Cover Photo by Ghost Multimedia

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