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You left your home in New York
To sell your gold in California
And I sold my soul
So I could sing about leaving Chicago cold
It’s not like I need help to find you
Already fallin’ like a fool
We could both use the reminding
The one connects the two..
I can’t define it
No reason to get excited
Give up and help me feel guided
And maybe in time we will find
Just a bit more gold
Looking far away for what’s right in front
Don’t need sunny days for this light to jump
We got ski masks and hoodies but wouldn’t hurt flies
Real men apologize
Goodbye to the bulletproof gluttons
And cocky kings
We rock for the love of it
Just to sing is enough
Blessed when the melody carries
In the wind like pollen to the bumblebees hairy
I’m home in the moment regardless of place
With a dream universal regardless of face
Smiling cause the gate’s unlocked, Kevin picked it
With calloused fingers tickling the infinite
Making god laugh Satan is giggling in the flames
Saw you in hell and it started to rain forgiveness
Storm plus sun equals rainbows
Needed the pain to understand these halos
Who turned off all the lights?
I keep tripping on the wires
Don’t know when to fight
Or when to lay down I’m tired
Of these of these games
I see ghosts and they all point to change
The gold is inside you side you yeah
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If you think screaming from a soapbox could save them
Imagine dreaming from the garden of Eden
A complex problem with a simple solution
Hopefully it’s the illusion
One time for the cutthroats
Two times for the bank notes
Can’t blame them baby
Cause them halos are invisible
But I keep finding rainbows
Inside of black holes
Waiting for shadows to come to life
If you think screaming from a soapbox could save them
Imagine dreaming from the garden of Eden
A complex problem with a simple solution
Hopefully it’s the illusion
These thoughts like the river
You can never be sure (never be sure)
Still drowning
Signed sealed and delivered
The future’s at your door
(Future’s at your door)
But you ain’t open to that real life
It’s coming for ya
Mind might explode I warned ya
Pre-flight your wings ain’t ready
Storm winds get heady
So tired of the run around, face me
Chinese water torture till I’m crazy
Psyche ward no shame I was just a baby
Cocoon to a caterpillar hurricane raised me
Bulletproof wings my beautiful friends
We defending the muse
Slow motion again
Like Neo but no hero
All one, right?
Zero tolerance for anything but elevation
If you think screaming from a soapbox could save them
Imagine dreaming from the garden of Eden
A complex problem with a simple solution
Hopefully it’s the illusion
I came home for a couple days
A couple days ago
Ain’t much around here but the radio
Got a chateau
Chill by the beach
Can’t sleep
These days cause I wonder if you hate me now
The days rain pass by then the sun comes
Night falls as I’m watching the sun run
The sky look cool as a sun bum
Ukulele drums and the sun goes
Down down down down below
It was not that long ago
Got sun out in Monaco
Now we all just chill for a call to go
I find it funny that
I get insecure about the stupid things
Like why you don’t appreciate the stupidest things
I do and hope that you notice
I just needed a change of focus
Let it run
I was trying to fit into a circle of people that are square when I’m lethal
Weren’t there when I needed em
Making music I’m healing them
Threw a peace and now I’m breathing well
Hope you find peace in your own little hell
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Ripples (Interlude)
01:36
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Why rewind the tape
When we can burn it up
Make it all ashes
To flower again
Don’t apologize
When it’s the pain that got us here
And it’s all magic in the end
I wanna stop blaming the clouds
Nothing’s gonna block these rays from coming down
I wanna stop blaming the clouds
Nothing’s gonna block these rays from coming down
No rainbow
So patient
So much rain
Still waiting
So many stones
Left to skip with grace
It’s heavy child
So worth it
Imperfect
These ripples
Change surface
But they go much deeper, child
Born again
Eye of the storm pinch of tobacco
Winking like a wacko
Singing like my shadow
Ink is like my ammo
Itchy trigger finger
Aiming pen at all the macho
Nuclear piano
Wars should be settled over poetry battles
Throwing paint
Gasmask don’t faint
Half ass get spanked
Hazmat now anxious
Stripping you naked
Mother Nature bear hugging her babies
Why rewind the tape
When we can burn it up
Make it all ashes
To flower again
Don’t apologize
When it’s the pain that got us here
And it’s all magic in the end
I wanna stop
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Why would I need three more things
If you’re giving me an island
Cause I already have more than I need
Even when my hands are empty
I lost it halfway to the irony
When you desired me
I didn’t want to be
And now that it feels like a memory
I wasn’t hiding
I was just practicing smiling
I tried to be all that I could, yeah
I tried to be better than good
But somewhere you misunderstood, yeah
So now I am floating like island
If yesterday was different maybe
Would’ve changed your mind
But now I sleep alone
Tempting fate we hesitated
Couldn’t blame the blind
Nothing to wish upon
I wanted to change this shit right now babe
Pipe down crazy
Said you’re a nice clown
But real life will mow you down
Hands starting to shake
Drop the mic now wait
Might sound crazy
Feeling much closer
Now that I’m far away
City clocks go Iggy Pop
And the time slows like sticky watches
Finding flows as I sit on docks
Like Otis moans and no one watches
Not for clones and not for bots
This music grows out of cold ashes
Feel a change and it’s coming slow
Like stereo full of old molasses
Why would I need three more things
If you’re giving me an island
Cause I already have more than I need
Even when my hands are empty
I lost it halfway to the irony
When you desired me
I didn’t want to be
And now that it feels like a memory
I wasn’t hiding
I was just practicing smiling
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Why does the magic all around us feel so ordinary
What can I do to snap me out this haze?
I fell asleep forgot to tell you you’re extraordinary
And that I see you in all the ways
I walk on your land
Take shelter under skies
Distracted from what is only natural
If I’m your child
Do you recognize me?
I don’t know how to hold it lightly
I can’t lie down cause when I sleep
I dream that I’m losing you and can’t hold on
Like octopus pussy man my ink strange
They said wouldn’t fit into that split frame
I told ‘em that my pencil never potty trained
I’m a father still rocking on my Peter Pan shit
A bandit, declare war written in crayons
This is kindergarten antics
I can’t just sit back idly by
While ya'lll flying too high
Forgetting roots never truce till you open your eyes
To the truth, whatever that means
But somethings we do got me asking..
Is it worth it?
Why does the magic all around us feel so ordinary
What can I do to snap me out this haze?
I fell asleep forgot to tell you you’re extraordinary
And that I see you in all the ways
I walk on your land
Take shelter under skies
Distracted from what is only natural
If I’m your child
Do you recognize me?
I don’t know how to hold it lightly
I can’t lie down cause when I sleep
I dream that I’m losing you and can’t hold on
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No place like home still looking for you
With roots in the sky
Whenever wind blows
Open the windows
To let the storm in your bedroom
Fade out like pain pills same night
10 lives in a minute I’ve been feeling like
An archetype building like an architect
Sending love through satellite
Enemy they intercept, why?
Can’t you see the many in the i?
I am the many in disguises
Realized that the horizon’s inside of me
Take away my pain
Evaporate my shame
Liberate my body
So I can be happy again
I lost touch with my heart’s pulse
Heart racing like clown car
Finish line always inch away
Chicane when the cops came
Switch lane no invent lane
Hit pavement indenting
Like a comet hit
I’ma a dinosaur when I rhyme this shit
Rare to see but stomp you quick
Scales shining in the sun
Weigh my soul with golden feather
We gon’ find that missing piece
Cause no secret lasts forever like..
You try to keep it from the sun
You can’t run that far from your shadow
Erase the paddle from your hands
As you float towards the shallows
No place like home still looking for you
With roots in the sky
Whenever wind blows
Open the windows
To let the storm in your bedroom
Fade out like pain pills same night
10 lives in a minute I’ve been feeling like
An archetype building like an architect
Sending love through satellite
Enemy they intercept, why?
Can’t you see the many in the i?
I am the many in disguises
Realized that the horizon’s inside of me
I want you to see
The fucked up side of me
The place that I try to keep buried
Washed away by the storm in my head
The lunacy that is my mind
It’s hard to find in the midst of this
Storm in my bedroom..
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Zachary Murdock Los Angeles, California
A consummate musical shapeshifter, Zachary Murdock is a naturally gifted creative who embodies the definitive spirit of raw creativity. He creates supreme funk, futuristic soul music that inspires personal revelation through off-the-wall fantasy.
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