1. |
Come Down
03:30
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My tether’s end is evident, everything is vomit
Lacking disciple, it is crystal things have gotten
Way beyond chaotic, catastrophic Pollock
Narcotics have me palmed, out of hand, out of pocket
Sun rise, descent, wrong side of the weekend
Exemplify the feeling, diary of a ‘feces'
Expire neath a ceiling, serotonin depleted
Creature out of reach, scared, broken in to pieces
404 sequence, ellipsis in parenthesis
Lip spill illegible, unequipped for sentences
Skeleton’s collecting for another swift with pegasus
Post haste, amputate my face from the premises
Loneliest of exodus, roaming in the nescience
Coping in a nebulous attempted grope of present tense
Essence slowly festering, petrified the evergreen
Nestling attention, to the detriment of everything
Said I wouldn’t get this way, experimented sparingly
Regiment has levelled up from rarely to a therapy
Legend’s what they said despite its common regularity
Tyranny has iron willed this friar into heresy
October of my discontent open up for ogre love
Rota's coming to collect, happiness I owe is up
Every thing I couldn’t see reflected, I was known to judge
Poker faced rejected by the joker time to sober up
So I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
Straight edge to the whetstone, acute to the nutrition
Shredding of 'Depeche mode’ deducing own opinion's
Fasting of the heart, brain scrubbing out the system
Suddenly I find my self, the subject of suspicion
Prefer you to conform, help affirm in our position
Deserters put to sword, for perverting our traditions
I’m sorry but I’ve dropped it all for optimal cognition
This abacus a matter where subtraction trumps addition
Anxiety the giant that sidles up rather quietly
Silently inside it speaks, denying my proprietary
Societies advise, no assignment in sobriety
Prioritise imbibing inline with designed propriety
Consumption didn't progress beyond an adolescent
Culture where excessive indulgence is termed impressive
Potential day to day, where wasted is the preference
Not only never questioned, Its What’s to be expected
Not to be invective but this doctrine of ingestion
Intoxicant's embodied in the spirit of possession
Near impossible ejection with identity invested
Promoted, only remedied contempt for my reflection
Crossing of the threshold, sequestered from all friendship
The solitary exit, was not in a rejection
Pretentious as an enemy who’s never there quench with
I know I did but no offence had ever been intended
I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
I’m going Monk
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2. |
The Howling
03:34
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Beneath the harvest moon's reach, far from the heavens.
Darkness loom's deep - heart full of penance
Dread at his zenith, pedigree behemoth,
Who's sentencing condemn's every enemy as present
Effigy of men's strength fed into its whispering
Sophistry at length, pledged endless inner bickering
The monster eating ‘Thenn’s’ treads foggy due’s mystery
Gremlin’s in the temple, disassemble into entropy
Wolf pelt’s busting through the sheep skin, summer…
Wane’s - wake deep stark beast from his slumber
Concerned with opinion's nothing kind is uttered
Night king of Arcadia calling down the thunder
Pray to a hunter, troublesome hyena
Vexed by the silver, apex arena's
Savour every femur, lycanthropy and hellish scream's
Part man, part fang - banishing this self esteem
No love
No trust
No hugs
Bone crunch
A howling
x2
Wretched is the ever present itch to demoralise
Contradict peasant niche, fresh flesh to mortify
Cauterising demon- credence beat to pieces,
Yield no thesis, peel seam's at there weakest.
Deepest keep a fantasy, grandeur and majesty
Briar rose strangling, sleeping beauty’s tangled dreams
Galavant gallantry, chatter of the ladders peak,
Belief pattern's shatter we gather where adder sneaks
Active disengaging from displays of your affection
Abhor J’dore, disdain pure, latent with depression
Loathing holds me closely to the point of violation
Ogle doubt, holding out for tot’s annihilation
Self destructive, cower in the shadow of obscurity
Vomiting behind veneer and swallow insecurity
Yearn to be a better man but petty rests internally
Seven circles deep merging the infernal ‘we'
No love
No trust
No hugs
Bone crunch
x4
A momentary mindfulness reflects a truer nature
To syphon pride from ivory bind's humiliation
The bull it is a china shop, thats why there's no escaping
Abide the shit, good boy don’t sit, bite the hand that changes
Idolised pious lives, high light's in a manger
Envious of stranger's, just to spite them with a failure
Disguised as a saviour enlightened by the sabre
Heckle every Jekyll hiding ‘Hayden’ in a Vader (innovator)
Internal is the skirmish rarely rises to the surface
Night lit the circuits curse of hibernating circus
Kindness is a purchase, biding time till I return it
Could I yearn in service, smile and never let a word slip?
Casually man or beast no better than the other
What I drag beneath my feet contender for the rudder
The chapters that I feed can be a bastard or a lover
Shadow asks of me, as over sow's the under
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3. |
Chrysalis
03:08
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Resigned from the hive, minding my own bees wax
fly intertwined, inciting a slow relapse
Detach "No fap",‘Misogi’ in detox
Entry not permitted, without intermittent three knocks.
Noticeably absent, oxytocin chosen slump
Holding Interaction's hostage in a cove of books
Sewing up my chrysalis missed text's over looked
Missed you at the last ’syndicate’, chap, hope your good
Control; "incoming message a deaf omission
Disinterested signal, block inept transmission
Proficient in every answer omitting my addition
Sick intuition, of Inkling that scripts a prison
Trojan horse whispering, 'old 'timey', cadence
Guilty hibernation - versus - pride of isolation
Steady meditation, diamond dilation
Ego inflates, with each posed annihilation
Try escape from, discrepant predicament’s
Thinking it equips you with ambivalent certificate’s
Living with the citizens, unhinging and dissonant
Equivocating stigmatist, gimmicking "don’t give a shit.”
Inner lip a battle ground, shadowy antagonist
Abandon ship and cannabis, haggling for amethyst
The catalyst, misconstrued even to you, while
Searching for yourself in tiny pieces that you lose
Absconded to a quandary, Longing for camaraderie,
Laundering of consciousness,’Abaddon’ has swallowed me
Apologies, for ignorance I'm plotting trips across the sea
I walk between the waves, airy ferry balsa piece
Caller bleeps, un qualified for vibe incited
Dial every Friday, deny that your in a hiding
Sizeable giants testify to worlds colliding.
Then every other weekend till the line goes silent
Compendium of Zen, Dao of how to find him
Requiem for then, gouge the eye’s of the horizon
Spirit guided spider weaving dream life undeciphered
Try and try and try only finds you none the wiser
How comforting, summing up existence in a drudgery
Humbled beast succumbing to the luxury of suffering
Crush and guzzle mulberry, stumbling recovery
Annulling, any pull between the push of self discovery
Monkey trouble shooting brain fumbling from DNA
Mumble, affirmations juggling a PMA
Need to say, personal improvement, turns gratuitous
Luminous truth’s grew through mulch to chew us up
Pursue the dust, raise the flag, chasing down the rising sun,
He’s never coming back, hardly recognise who does
Never felt alive, Medusa eyeing Midas touch
Excel at temple life, sky breathing, troop's of flying dove
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4. |
Hosenji
03:35
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Kameoka west of Kyoto,
Western hobo, guest entrance from ‘Osho'.
He said throw no punch, head is ‘dojo’
‘Hosenji’ Zen of tatami toe touch
Comfort’s, home, crutch, descend from old bus
The centre's chants (Chance), let go of the roads dust
Shoji opens, paper thin this huger grows.
Have you had your breakfast? Yes. Scrub your bowl.
Humble throne, sit's low in the undergrowth
Stone 'Tatagatha', one who comes and goes
Farm your piece, intend no harm, utter koan’s
Seed, sow, sow, seed repeat, bow, mutter NO.
Rise, sit, eat, sleep and come to toll
'Ta’chi', clean, chant, breath, if summoned - go
'Daruma' robe ironed neatly one must fold
A hundred years told, yet none had touched the goal.
Thumb to scroll, each letter was something gold
Keeping score, each thorn, pulled from the soul
Cut the moat, gate bolted, undisclosed
I couldn’t know, buddha come’s to unbeknown
Come the snow’s, wind's blow the chill exploits’
Polish mirror, that reflection you still avoid,
Why have you come? To summon Sigmund freud?
Restless child, still looking to fill the void
Lotus of blues, in a lonely pursuit
Oblique tutelage, dude the ‘Roshi's' aloof
“‘Sumimasen’”? boney digit motion's the moon,
Glare suffer's not, the slightest notion of fool’s
Not noble or shrewd, feeling close to vamoose
After openly issued a holy show of recluse
Bloated ‘egoic’ buffoon’s only moment of truth
Intruding from deluded phoney hokey cocoon
Faux yogi un-groomed, mosquito biting the bull
Uniting pios nihilism in leviathans hull
Hydrogen skull, dive inside Poseidon's occult
Blind leading blind every idol is false
Open eyelid’s recall, empty vibe's in the hall
Advice from the wall’s … falling silent and null
Wind chime's tides of violence, denied to a fault
The hammer drops… Trident diamond assault
Molten rise of the throat, only serves an obstruction
Presumption and distrust, obscuring the ‘nothing’.
Rinzai’s there,there, time kicks the bucket
Thirty lashes bludgeon, impermanence interrupted.
Gold leaf, empty fist, quick wit desires duel
Breath deep, shit, sleep, eat, piss inspired fool.
Persist in this folly existing a melancholy.
Sit and listen to the wind till the epiphany calls me.
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5. |
Liar
03:10
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Liar, preaching to the choir.
Conceited by achievements, reaching through the briar.
Editing a remedy for everything defiant
Convenient how redeeming the beliefs beating Goliath.
Bleating by the bias, abiding the traditions
Timely justified positions, verify existence,
The essence of a deficit, the pestilence of luggage
Resting heavy emphasis, resenting empty dungeon’s
Dismissive and uninterested, populace of hypocrite's
Just because they listen in, does not mean they give a shit
Grimace to the disconnect, window of this discontent
Living fingered in cement, amidst the drifting silhouettes
Liquorice sipping up, shit eating grin of Icarus
Still rigorous embitterment, population prison bitch
Waiting for the day I feel shame for feigned indifference
Trekking through the wilderness with empty zen of ignorance
Chemical reactions grant access to climax of
The worst kind of pain sustained through bad attraction
The bastard of attachment, groping in the black
Live disjointed in this disappointed satisfaction
I’m stumbling, solitary coven's leads to humbling
Coveting a buddha shedding blood against what shouldn’t be
Each uttering, an underworlds worth of shovelling
Lesson being, confess necessity of suffering
Coward, preaching from the tower.
Skive behind the ivory, ‘Metatron' has soured
Wilting of the flower, relentless is the hour
Potential reached decent, dreamt deeper into dour
Solace of the unloved, indulgent to amuse you
Wallow in the undone, Dao has been reduced to
Comfort of conundrum’s slump towards a use to
Function kept a numbskull plunging for seppuku
Opus expiration, magnum snipes the temple
Otiose creation go unravel, disassemble!
For the entertainment of the total unessential
No one knows his pain till he puts it to the pencil
Destiny a fiction, pass on what is meant for me
Each path's affliction, bastard of the entropy
Faith self sustained self replenishing allegedly
Whats the fucking point? The Void will claim everything
Shedding to a skeleton, pendulum of Benjamin
Time’s grinds’s events fine renders rhyme irrelevant
Effort’s dressed up, as a fungus of ‘rupicolous'
Ineffectual quest desperate for significance
Selfish only ever is that drive for omnipotence
Getting by your self, timeless this predicament
Harmful Ignorance no bliss grew in spite of it.
Submit to darkness, lit, true enlightenment.
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6. |
Lion Prince
03:20
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Alpha waves to beta, terraforming zeta
Sigma sits ignoring that poor rapport in data.
Taken pages cant quite make the equation
Brain lays the reigns to inclination's you get laid with
Trivial engagement, its considered dangerous
Social isolation fright ignited by a cavemen
Communicate through rudimentary abasement
Till its safe to resume luminous self- effacement
Destiny - adjacent, politely fucking smiling
Get her next time, right, denial is vile thing,
Attempt at representing once essence a defiant king
Passing for apathetic adolescent lion prince
With a fraction of the passion, life deprived of niacin.
Bias in the alibi and spying from the cryogen
Your cycle pedals sceptics to cite you as the rifle man
The obstacle your conduct's not possible of violence
Your silence, not quite exciting her curiosity
A safe bet's not what she’s seeking between odyssey's
At best an oddity, not capable of audibly
Expressing what you want, beyond the odd cacophony
(Cough) Ee Ee! Whats a convo- between sparks
For a self styled Iliad I’m kind of a…
Idiot, if its the wrong word I think of it
Babbling equivalent of infant dimwit scribbling
Scored some solitude, sorry dude, nobody followed you
Obvious you wallow in a positively hollow move
Social engagements, I'm prone to stay away from
Emotions like a vacuum, floating in open space.
Could be, loves just hovering in the unseen
Wonder should we subtly, stutter up and come clean
Scrubbing up try to look my double as he could be
Last minute rethink, button up for a hoody
Matters of the heart induce savagery you can’t undo
Attractive paths and avenue, that you simply can’t pursue
Easier misleading and feeding a feeling that is doomed
Romanticising unrequited plight of a man marooned
Love potentials fester, with actual held credentials
Pit against friendship, ephemerally sentimental
Confidential exploits, disjointed and resentful
Mental being pretzeled, calendar uneventful
Only time of day I gave, affection that had gone astray
Left at intersection, right, destiny has got away
Always notions lingering, maybe somethings meant to be
Solely prone and uninvolved I'm loneliest at the interweave
Think I’ll leave last train waves out of the station
Self preservation - incentive to stay away from
Aching cause no real risk was ever taken
Combination bogus faith, patient imagination
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7. |
Stand Tall
03:05
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So April came to conclusion, the illusion
Being shattered, what you knew was a delusion.
Every human’s tune move's to a certain music
The truth is, blues it, isn’t always protruding
Pen the personal for a purge doesn’t come easy
Word’s surgical, never opened up with the feelings
Especially with grieving go ahead keep believing
Your doing fine, Zen the art of internal screaming
A meteor hit earth, dusted his children
Desolation lay, life remained for civilians.
My brothers face told, irrefutable change
Tangible truth screwed us, never knew it the the same
What pop’s done, washed up, passing a toxin
Once established as the rock, collapse wasn't an option
Cashed in, the ferrymen came to collect him
Right there and then I knew I had to protect them
Don’t know if my logic was solid or just impatient
If I'm strong enough for everyone, father, where not forsaken
Honoured or inflation, courageous or dim?
The view immune to your pain is a dangerous thing
The truly vaporous live, emotion isn’t the enemy
Embrace open abyss, shedding light as a remedy
Devote to total eclipse, quench the embers of everything
Trust in crepuscule instruction, just let it be
A happy chap does’t dash after enlightenment
Pageant act, the faster he fucking hides from it
Olive branch master of solitary environment's.
Expires when a crisis doesn’t buy your requirements.
I abandoned brother’s n coloured it under buddha hood
Shunned woman’s love, as something that wasn’t good enough.
Only when I dug the low’s, was I shown the up and up
Failure to compose, lotta a coulda would a should a done
No divide exists, define what's divine and isn’t
A shining shit, hiding with shield of nihilism
I dared not listen, anguish adopts resistance
Instead of baring witness and honouring existence
Unique wizard, grief, precise, taking time
Wind forward a year shedding tears, waving tides
Cries revered… mother of all releases
Greatest gift I gave me? permission to fall to pieces
I am NOT ok, so be damned pedantic perjury
Worship grief the god of what is certain we
Free everything, your feeling's matter fervently
Caterpillar sprouting wings passing on internal peace
Can not abide alone, disaster the greatest master piece
Letting go control, imposed solo colonoscopy’s
Philosophy of no one, sobered up in the after breeze
Lost at sea, exposed, open to anarchy
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8. |
Clán
03:20
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After collapse of the statutes’s for growing christian infantry
Each house hold slowed its procreating symphony’s
Born is little me, snug amongst his four siblings
The youngest of the twinkling ocular love inklings
Of our father and dear mama's untroubled symmetry
Hugging one another was the sum of our conditioning
Even with us kidling's Quibbling for ‘Kipling's'
Humility instilled in - every single little feat
Little did we see, the road ahead was tread in jeopardy
The depth's of a dark depression and harsh lethargy
Protecting me from everything, from infant to steady teen
Weathering the storm, so can I adorn memories
A treasury, how we stand together has amazed me
Safely navigating, the seas forever wavy
You zany fucking bastards, laughter’s been are A.C
If I’m half as strong as you say, heck, that's how you raised me
Every kind ear, learned words of encouragement
Every meal, every bus fair, all the nurturance
Shelter from the turbulence you decent epidermis
In all earnestness I’m forever at your service.
An orator of Morpheus, always in support of this
Metamorphosis forged in the lore of orpheus
Born a scorpion, scorn norm’s in accordance with
Forfeiting order for the glory of the fortunate
Sceptic the apprentice, trodden felt inauthentic
Machete my direction, eccentric its incentive
Even when this - ambition was meditation
Never dissuaded or suggested a second wasted
Never once persuaded for occupation convention
Any notion of surrender? Nope. Argued against it
Reminiscing chat's when dad could find acceptance
"Enjoy Japan chap, I gather you’ll be my Zen kid."
Could never comprehend it, where his path had ended
Never the less - stay, together, through relentless
Challenges and bends that, threaten our very essence
Half the shit, can’t have imagined it, if we dreamt it
Penchant towards apocalypse, well prepped and competent
Optimists pressing on, the swamps into ominous
Is that all you got? Finger to god with confidence
Winter starts here, Starks got nothing on the lot of us
Bottomless heart's, problem is I feel a stranger
To a sister that I love, cause I don’t know how to save her
The stubborn son, no surrendering, time for payment
To my family, what can I say? your are appreciated
Every kind ear, learned words of encouragement
Every meal, every bus fair, all the nurturance
Shelter from the turbulence you decent epidermis's
In all earnestness I’m forever at your service.
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Leigh Michael County Wicklow, Ireland
Native to Bray Co. Wicklow, Leigh Michael is a diverse rapper who practices a wide variety of styles and collaborates with
different producers.
Today taking a psychedelic approach to lyricism he continues to pay homage to the schools of thought that transformed his perspective on what it means to lead a happy and fulfilling life.
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