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The Persistent Transition of Being

from Dead Therapeutic by Stuyvesant

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A track about the constantly shifting nature of life and about awakening from a lifetime of anxiety and depression.

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HOOK:
When Darwin theorised survival of the fittest,
He never meant the strongest, smartest or the quickest.
He saw that life is ever flipping the page,
And the survivors are the creatures most adaptive to change.
‘Cause things are never gonna stay the same.
Time’s a fickle beast that we can never tame.
All we can ever do is ride the bullet train.
‘Til it brings us to the end of the line.

VERSE 1:
As a kid I landed awkward on the tracks I was hurled,
I just never fell in synch with the rest of the world.
I was a different breed, with intricate needs,
And even my creed found me to be in a language they could never read.
So I wrestled with things I didn’t understand.
Fear and loathing and shame, but on the other hand:
I had this way with my words, an overwhelming desire to be heard,
It’s a fire that still burns.
A hyper kid that just couldn’t be still:
It didn’t matter the amount that they fed to me I wouldn’t fill;
No matter how much they soothed me I could never chill;
As life administered pill after bitter pill.
And just like Sisyphus in many ways,
Resigned to spending my remaining days,
Pushing a stone up a hill until my muscles blaze,
Just to cave as it rolls back down again.

HOOK

VERSE 2:
As a student I was wasted on the lessons that I learned;
I just never had the patience for the facts that were churned.
I wasn’t easy to reach and harder to teach;
And came with a mind set on default to defiance that they could never breach.
While they were battling me, they didn’t understand;
Though I was struggling then, I hadn’t played my hand.
I saw a path was beyond, I never heeded their guidance, it was wrong;
Raised a riot, never played along.
But Neitschze said it and he said it well;
That when you split from the tribe, you’re alone and you’re an infidel.
The path you walk is unknown and it can be a cell.
The weight of holding your own can drag you down to hell.
No guarantees of ever finding wealth;
There’s constant pressure on your mental health.
But here’s the thing that shadows everything else:
I’d pay anything for the privilege of owning myself.

HOOK

Verse 3:
Now as a patient I was gracious, left my fear at the gate.
Just wanted peace for a change and found this empathy state.
I never stuck to the straights and struggled to wait.
Troublesome traits that brought me endless blockades to circumnavigate.
But now I walk through the world, the forces on my track.
A current floating me on, blockages at my back.
I found the path to beyond,
Now I deliver it's lessons in a song.
Never messing, with truth you can't be wrong.
So here's the thing you need to go and learn.
That when you cherish yourself, you're divine, you can suddenly spurn;
All the injustice that spills out of the devil's urn.
No longer fearing the sight of the point of no return.
No guarantees of ever finding fame.
But fame and happiness are not the same.
Pursuit of riches will just kick up the shame.
"I want them all to be happy" and that's what you will proclaim.

HOOK

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from Dead Therapeutic, released June 15, 2017

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Stuyvesant Liverpool, UK

Stuyvesant - a.k.a Stuart W. Bedford - is an emerging Hip-Hop artist and filmmaker based in Liverpool, UK.

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