1. |
OTW
03:57
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Hey baby, you coming over tonight?
Yeah, I'm on my way
Alright, see you soon
Hey, Hey, Hey
I be on the way
I be on the way, ay, ay, ay
I don't got nothing but you
You don't got nothing but me
If you ever get here
I know you'll never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
So where the hell you be?
Like
Where the hell you be?
Just the other day I met this stoner girl
Wasted my time but she changed my world
Asked her if she wanted all the finest pearls
She said the Earth is so full of perils
Took her for a spin and she called that shit a twirl
Took her to the park and called the rabbits squirrels
Living in the moment, so I let the amber burn
Baby grabbed my hand, oh you got so much to learn
My vision returned
The years that I burned
Waiting for signs
Too immature
Trust the divine
Touch is so pure
I don't need answers
No, I just need more
She's taking me back
Making me laugh
Lost in a daydream
Get lost in the past
Desperate to stay clean
She rolls in the grass
I know I just met you
You're all that I have
I don't got nothing but you
You don't got nothing but me
If you ever get here
I know you'll never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
So where the hell you be?
Like (You told me you were leaving two hours ago)
Where the hell you be?
I know I got this issue, man
I get attached too quick
Hold on to the moment
Cause I'm worried it'll slip
She said she had fun
But then she went and dipped
So I hit up Oscar and went to go and spit
Ambition's a facade, tired of the mirage
I just want to kick it and get a back massage
I just want a crib, with a small garage
I just a want a kitchen that neighbors call large
Never want to win, then I start to lose
Know I'm so late, still hit the snooze
I just hit her DM, I ask her what's new
Never hit me back, well what's new?
Story of my life, man I'm always out of place
I just wanna wife, who strokes me on the face
Used to have a girl, but I had to go escape
So all I got left are my rhymes and my tapes, 'cause
I don't got nothing but you
You don't got nothing but me
If you ever get here
I know you'll never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
I know you never leave
So where the hell you be?
Like
Where the hell you be?
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
I just left my place
Got no time to waste
I hope I never make you wait
Don't got much to say
Know I'm not too late
Don't count the time it takes
I promise you I'm on the way
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2. |
LO SIENTO
04:00
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Lo Siento, I'm resentful
Get my cup, my mix is special
Channel waves into this vessel
Run it back, just like Memento
Taking clothes right out the dresser
Poppin' tags to impress her
Wounds that fester, feeling lesser
Swear I wish I never met her
Mama says to take your time and let it come to you
I say trust the process, but I'm forcing the issue
Good advice she gave it, now I'm trying to make it true
One night we'll look back on the days before we blew
Ain't feeling that way, but these lyrics they spray
Showing up great, now I'm showing up late
Showing up hate, turning the page
Burning up sage, earn for it days
Earnest mistake, murk up game
Dirt on my name, never my face
I just embrace life is race
Solace in soul, I get taste
Laced with some lace
Hand on her waist
Told her to wait
I need a break
Dropping a ball
Like I drop all the hate
Dropping a ball
Like I drop a mix-tape
Dropping the knowledge
And wisdom to polish
Dropping the bar, life is so lawless
Dropping my number, you can go call this
Dropping your class, this ain’t no college
Mama says to take your time and let it come to you
I say trust the process, but I'm forcing the issue
Good advice she gave it, now I'm trying to make it true
One night we'll look back on the days before we blew
Mama says to take your time and let it come to you
I say trust the process, but I'm forcing the issue
Good advice she gave it, now I'm trying to make it true
One night we'll look back on the days before we blew
A watched plant, never grows
Lyrics drip, never flow
Empty chamber, all echo
I'll take you where wanna go
Most these folks, no they don't know (They don’t know)
Point me towards their cars and clothes
They try to fly, but dive like nose
And no harm done, just stubbed their toes
Ash I rose, I stash these prose
Like crowds at shows, I hope they grow
Know it's slow til shit explodes
I'm Counting Crows with Mr. Snow
Reap and sow the weed I blow
Traverse the earth the path I chose
Don't know quite where but know its close
Don't know quite where but know it's close
Mama says take to your time and let it come to you
I say trust the process, but I'm forcing the issue
Good advice she gave it, now I'm trying to make it true
One night we'll look back on the days before we blew
Mama says take to your time and let it come to you
I say trust the process, but I'm forcing the issue
Good advice she gave it, now I'm trying to make it true
One night we'll look back on the days before we blew
Lo Siento I'm resentful
Get my cup, my mix is special
Channel waves into this vessel
Run it back, just like Memento
Taking clothes right out the dresser
Popping tags to impress her
Wounds that fester, feeling lesser
Swear I wish I never met her
Heavy traffic reported ahead
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3. |
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Ayo Shtumper, turn me up man
Left a message in a bottle
Saying I'm the one to follow
Rejected by Apollo
What a bitter to pill to swallow
Slyly grew my IG
Got a like from a model
Told all my homies
And it made me feel hollow
Lonely around people, social on my own
Tryna go global, hopeful for a home
Boastful that I'm mobile but I’m tired of my phone
Know the bills pile up, when you start to roam
Smoke and dust, cans I bust
Time for you to fuck with us
Climb is rough, in rhymes we trust
I'll never be the runner up
Bronze or gold, my soul is sold
Ride the tide, break the mold
Die inside if I fold
Summertime getting cold
Take a pull
Feeling full
I just want more
Lauryn Hill
Pop a pill
Settle that score
Me and goals
Man, we got great rapport
If I said then I meant it
Kick down the door
MIA I've been looking for you
Dreaming of things, we didn't do
Hoping that you made it
Spread your wings and flew
Let you go free
Cause deep down I knew
MIA I've been looking for you
Dreaming of things we didn't do
Hoping that you made it
Spread your wings and flew
Let you go free
Cause deep down I knew
They just read my message
Stopped after a sentence
We a generation
That ain't got no attention
Grew up in recession
Fantasy reflectin'
A vanity direction
I know it's a projection
Can I get a mention?
Speed up my ascension
All I really want is success, no concession
Can I get a mansion?
With some woman dancing
Couple million views
Even more reactions
Surpassing all my classmates
I’m following my passion
Nowitzki when I'm spitting, never miss I'm a maverick
Smoking mad Cubans cause I've always been an addict
(Smoking mad Cubans, cause you always been an addict)
Feeling so fantastic, never went scholastic
Eyeing a new gadget, God I gotta have it
Verse is all elastic, I just went and snapped it
Words are all magic, make insane happen
Big heart, often breaks
Big dreams, I call fate
Down bad, made mistakes
Turn around hope life gets great
Big heart, often breaks
Big dreams, I call fate
Down bad, made mistakes
Turn around watch life get great
I always knew
l always knew
I always knew
You did too
(Yeah just like that)
I always knew
l always knew
I always knew
You did too
MIA I've been looking for you
Dreaming of things, we didn't do
Hoping that you made it
Spread your wings and flew
Let you go free
Cause deep down I knew
MIA I've been looking for you
Dreaming of things we didn't do
Hoping that you made it
Spread your wings and flew
Let you go free
Cause deep down I knew
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4. |
BRB (skit)
01:00
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Remember when you said you were gonna take me ice skating
And I got so excited
I did my hair and everything
And we were on the way there when you stopped the car
You pulled over on the side of the road
Looked me in my eyes
And you told me that you loved me
You couldn't stand the idea of seeing me fall
So we turned the car around and went home
Well, I think I never really let that go
And last weekend I took my niece to the rink
And she had the time of her life
She kept falling and falling
And each time she'd get up she’d smile at me
She begged me to join her
Come on Auntie, you gotta try it's so much fun
But then, it was too late
I was terrified
I couldn't stand the idea of falling
I guess that's funny because now
All I want to do is fall
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5. |
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Nothing really matters
And nothing really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
With all these faces
All-all-all these faces
I just wish to connect
With all these faces
Four leaf clover, pounds of reef
I’m blowing smoke and so much grief
Mama says she's missing me
My whereabouts a mystery
Knowing if they notice me
Then I'll have a soul to free (Yeah)
I just dropped burnt CD (What?)
We flip that shit like currency (Huh?)
Missing Noah when I'm sober
Push a pack, man
Game is over
Robbin Batman, I just told her
Heroes never meet the quota
Papa says I better rush more
I be out in South Dakota
They don't know what I blush for
I just know I need to love more
So much shifting man (Man)
It don't make no sense (No sense)
Evident my pain comes from sitting on the fence (Yeah)
Sediment in my brain (What?)
Hitting up the game (Yeah)
Hidden from the frame, cause I don't look the same
Nothing really matters
And nothing really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
Nothing really matters
And nothing really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
Taste your bud, I taste your love
I taste your hug like it's drug
The grave I dug is made for us
I hope I never made you run
Made a pun, to play is fun
Now I wish I had a gun
Fully loaded locomotive
Loco if I pull a stunt
Only used to hit the blunt, and then I tried a Xan' (Xan')
Mind be in the sky, God I just pray to land (Huh)
Trends with friends and ego bends
I know my soul and he transcends
I justify the means with ends
I trust the process, never men
Four leaf clover, pounds of reef
Blowing smoke and so much grief
Mama says she's missing me
My whereabouts a mystery
Knowing if they notice me
Then I'll have a soul to free
I just dropped burnt CD
We flip that shit like currency
Flip that shit, we flip that shit
We flip that shit, I flip the script
Flip that shit, we flip that shit
We flip that shit, I flip the script
Flip that shit, we flip that shit
I flip that shit, we flip the script
Flip that shit, we flip that shit
We flip that shit, I flip the script
Counting all the hours
Since I kissed you in the shower
Called you a damn coward
Now you blooming like a flower
Should've bought you flowers
Oh I should’ve bought you flowers
I wish I got you flowers
Oh I wish I bought you flowers
Roses and some columbines
Are all you need to be mine
Feeling like a concubine
Wish I could just hit rewind
My clock unwinds on borrowed time
I'm sorry that I took your time
I wish I had some flowers
Shit, I wish I bought you flowers
Nothing really matters
Nothing really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
Nothing really matters
Nothing really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
Nothing really matters
Really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
Nothing really matters
Really changes
I just wish to connect names with
All these faces
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6. |
REMEDY (feat. TONYG)
03:17
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You need a remedy? Take a hundred
Told my chick I'm up, up for something
Took one sip, was prolly just bugging
Pulled up late to the fu-function
Froze on sight I been so impulsive
Door wide shut, ey don't ya go touch it
Vibe all night, the buzz is compulsive
I'll go off, I'm high on indulgence
What's a conversation if it doesn't have some pot?
What's a destination if it doesn't have a stop?
What's a good vibration if it doesn't have a drop
Once I take it out the basement then I'll sell it at the shop
My mind is too complacent, god I hate it like a cop
And all I see around me are things that I don't got
Do I really need em?
Man I'm living with that thought
Will I whip a European
Should I settle for the shot?
(Shot, shot)
Never settle for the shot
(Shot, shot)
Never settle for the
(Shot, shot)
Never settle
(Shot, shot)
Never settle for your shot
We ain't go gonna back
All I want is the wax (All I want is, all I want is)
We ain't gonna back (Either you give or you take it)
All I need is a plaque (Hey)
Look
One move, one destination
Which is a move I gotta take ‘cause everybody hating
But watch me make it, I’ve been waiting on my time to shine
Popping pills just to stay up because I’m on my grind
I’m just trying to get my money right
You can’t see that?
Plaques on my wall, when I ball they won’t believe that (Uh)
They say its levels and I’m trying to reach the top
Self-medicating for the hating trying to make it stop
But look, I’m all I got so I’m soldier to the end
Mixing syrup with the soda, put the weed in the wind
I see once again, that devilish look
Feeling nervous, take a hundred, now it’s leaving me hooked
Little money for what I need and it’s leaving me shook
Good kid mad city, now I’m labeled a crook
My remedy is weed and liquor
Don’t want to fall behind
Shouldn’t smoke but I gotta cope
With what’s running through my mind, like
Pills and some powder was feeling so vacant
The way that I’m moving, oh lord it’s the strangest
I’m hoping and praying I never do take it
Been waiting and waiting but where is my spaceship?
Fly too high, I almost touched the sun (Almost touched the sun)
Where are you going and baby can I come?
How can it be ending when our trip has just begun?
Who says take a hundred, I can’t even handle one
We ain't go gonna back (No, he ain’t going back)
All I want is the wax (All I want is the wax)
We ain't gonna back (No, he ain’t going back)
All I need is a plaque (All I need is the plaque)
We ain't go gonna back (No)
All I want is the wax
We ain't gonna back (Hey, hey, hey)
All I need is a plaque
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7. |
MAC
04:29
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The older you get and the more you see
You start to find out that the things you love aren't so simple anymore
I don't really know where you gonna take us
Nights are full fights, mornings full of makeup
Our clock does reset, every time we wake up
If I brick my shot, will I make the layup?
Fantasies dreams change after dark
Jaded cross-faded, my aim is to spark
We not prepared, often impaired, hit it in pairs
Hop on that ark
Passion distilled it got killed like Stark
Subdued with it booze
To get loose when you're not
Nothing to lose
Still lost your heart
Baby I'm looking but looking is hard
I don't want smoke
Less I'm provoked
I don't want love
Take off your robe
Blessed from above, I just can't let you go
We were so far til the weed got us close
I gotta know
I’ve gotta know
Where do you think
All this can go?
Take it so slow
I can't say no
Till I feel boxed in
And need room to grow
Let's get in the car, I'm ready to drive
Grama is waiting on the other side
Wants me to fly, at least I'm alive
Things will be better, once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
I just need to find to myself
Lord wonder why I hide?
Obsolete I’m copping beats
No stopping me, I'm coughing heat
Planted seeds I'll never see
Blowing trees with our enemies
If you find a place, I'll sign the lease
I'll trade my chain take a leash
Kill a man, or hold your hand
My only plan is ease your grief
Grandma told me bout birds and bees
I think cash is our missing piece
Bump rap CDs, keep my wrist on freeze
I don't sneeze
Hoping and coping my thoughts are so open
Addicted to sinning my pot is so potent
I'm sipping my potion to ease the commotion
Get tossed in the ocean, I'm so good at floating
Gloating showboating, I know that I wrote it
Stumble be humble, my ego eroded
Hone it, bemoan it the point is to own it
Ay pass me the joint, my turn to smoke it (what?)
Yo Ben
I thought you were staying off this stuff?
Yeah, I am but some nights I just need to get away
Let's get in the car, I'm ready to drive
Grama is waiting on the other side
Wants me to fly, at least I'm alive
Things will be better, once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
I just need to find to myself
Wonder why I hide?
I don't really know where you gonna take us
Nights are full of fights, morning full of makeup
Our clock does reset every time you wake up
If you miss your shot, who will make the layup
I don't really know where this gonna take us
Every single fight always ends with makeup
I just caught a flight, you were shouting wait up
Then I turned around, you were mouthing breakup
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
Once I arrive
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I just arrived
I can tell you this man, you never end up where you think you’re going
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8. |
AM$TERDAM
04:08
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Never had a home, wanna go back
I just need to make mil’ so fast
Lately, I've been thinking bout Colfax
Back where I learned all the cold facts
Do you believe in me?
Cause I can't see
I know I got a place to be
I know I got a place to be
I know I got this place to be
Got the coldest shoulder in the Boulder
Before I got older
Asked for directions, all I got is a motor
Like this ain't Detroit
I missed the point
Dimmed the noise
Just a little kid playing with my toys
Grew up quickly, so mature
Went Flatbush, met Lucifer
I was using, not conducive
Lost in new shit
Before music
Infused confusion
Into my evolution
My new year’s resolution
Change my constitution
I was weak-minded, blindsided
Thank God, my homies kept riding
I kept rhyming, got thriving
Then vibrant, changed climates
All ladder, try climb it
Hit the top, my assignment
So desperate for answers
Desperate for answers, man
So I caught the first flight I could
For Amsterdam
We gon’ find our way
Always just been on the way
Give me just one more clean slate
I swear it's all worth the wait
Chasing a high
Chasing the love
Chasing a feeling
I know I can't rush
Chasing a childhood
Chasing my crush
A girl named Elizabeth
Made me go blush
Chasing the plug
Chasing some drugs
Chasing some peace
Chasing a dove
Chasing a dream
Hope it adds up
Chasing a team
Know I'm next up
Introspective, disconnected
Mind frequency intercepted
Lost perspective, play some Tetris
Change my setlist, I'm too reckless
Almost wrecked this, mama reckons
Sunshine beckons
Get my head checked
Emotion shift in a second
Spent a sunny in Dam Square
Attitude was devil may care
But demons don't play fair
So I'm never going back there
Cause the father you go
The more you see yourself
And I’ve been running my whole life
Can't stop myself
Put my pain on the shelf
Aim for good health
And gain all the help
From inside
Refine my mind
Define my lines
To find what's mine (What's mine?)
‘Flect on my childhood
Bedroom walls were green
Before I cared about dollars
All I had were dreams
Used to play with legos
Imagine crazy scenes
I'd go back in a second
But I got a place to be
We gon’ find our way
Always just been on the way
Give me just one more clean slate
I swear it's all worth the wait
Never had a home, wanna go back
I just need to make mil’ so fast
Lately, I've been thinking bout Colfax
Back where I learned all the cold facts
Do you believe in me?
Cause I can't see
I know I got a place to be
I know I got a place to be
I know I got this place to be
What you gotta accept, man
Is that wherever you go
You're gonna be there
And maybe you're just the type of person that's always on some kind of journey
You see, What I'm trying to say is that even once you arrive
In one way or another
You're still gonna be on the way
You have reached your destination
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9. |
THE END (feat. MAYA)
03:37
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Hey, I'mma be there in like ten minutes
Yeah, this time for real
No clothes to wear but I don't care
I'll spend the day in my underwear
Close to where?
Wait are you there?
Yeah, say a prayer cause life ain't fair
Met my girl with just a stare
A lust affair I trust the glare
Love, I swear I'm almost there
Can't forget those plums and pears
Ain't talking fruit, need extra room
Perplexed and stressed, I'm coming soon
Abruptly noon I'm stuck with you
Yeah, one kiss and we on the moon
Never wait I'm always late
Refresh our date, with a better place
Need my space I love the chase
I'll break your heart, I'm best replaced
What a start, obsessed with art
Leave my mark, but I gotta dart
Love the park, love the dark
Love can spark the strangest arcs
I'll play my part, but it's best to part
Only me, when we're apart
Off the ship, I disembark
Cue the end before the start
Waiting for you
There's nothing new
Glad that I caught you
We talked for a few
Waiting for you
Done with half-truths
I'm waiting
And waiting
And waiting
For you
Waiting for you
There’s nothing new
Glad that I caught you
We talked for a few
I'm waiting for you
Beggars don't choose
I'm waiting
And waiting
And waiting
For you
I saw you left a letter
That said you on the way
My heart is like a feather
You can watch it float away
Waiting for forever
Forever never came
Forever would be worth it
If you ever came
I know you need a hero, but I just sold my cape
I really wish you didn't, but you always need escape
Tonight I'll be home early, please open up the gate
Oh, it would be my pleasure
But we both know you'll be late
Waiting for you
There's nothing new
Glad that I caught you
We talked for a few
Waiting for you
Done with half-truths
I'm waiting
And waiting
And waiting
For you
Waiting for you
There’s nothing new
Glad that I caught you
We talked for a few
Waiting for you
Beggars don't choose
I'm waiting
And waiting
And waiting
For you
Never really knew
I never really knew
I never really knew
How much it hurt you
I never really knew
I never really knew
I never really knew
How much I hurt you
Waiting for you
There's nothing new
Glad that I caught you
We talked for a few
Waiting for you
Done with half-truths
I'm waiting
And waiting
And waiting
For you
I’m so done with waiting for you, I’m so fucking done
I’m so done with waiting for you, I’m so fucking done
I’m so done with waiting for you, I’m so fucking done
I’m so done with waiting for you, I’m so fucking done
You said it yourself, a watched plant never grows
And if I really want to bloom
I guess I’m just going to have to let you go
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10. |
LOL
03:42
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Oh, oh funny how you never
Oh, yeah funny how you never
Oh, oh funny how you never
It's all so funny
Funny how you never end up
Where you think you think you going
Left home kinda early with the intention
Of returning
I was burning all my bridges, trying to see the bigger picture
I had this little dream
And I mixed it with some liquor
Go figure
It got bigger as time ticked quicker
The thought of being on stages
Was contagious
For my mental
This idea was born in Denver
It grew with each December
Started as an ember
Then in burned into a vision
No decision
It was vivid
I was living on a mission
Turned off the television
Began emitting fiction
That's when I started I spitting
I knew I could be different
But then I got to thinking
Ay who will even listen
I was chasing something
I knew I'd never find
Two steps back
And I left it all behind
Don't be shy
Come along for the ride
Cause the road up ahead
Has never been so wide
I was chasing something
I knew I’d never find
Two steps back
And I left it all behind
Don't be shy
Come along for the ride
Cause the road up ahead
Has never been so wide
Oh, oh funny how you never
Oh, yeah funny how you never
Oh, oh funny how you never
It's all so funny
It's all so funny, I be like lol
Think about you often, I hope you doing well
To talk is complicated
And I really can't explain it
But I smelled some Jimmy Choo
And I recognized your fragrance
I knew it wasn't you, but the feelings overdue
True, I'm confused
Dropping bombs, get diffused
Wrote a couple songs and I'm trying make it through
Wrote a couple albums and I did it all for you
But it had to for me
So I hope that you can see
That it ain't about the destination but the journey
If I could I would rewind
But then I know
There'd come this time
When you and I, we would decide
That all that's left is to say goodbye
Goddamn, I think I just arrived or something
I was chasing something
I knew I'd never find
Two steps back
And I left it all behind
Don't be shy
Come along for the ride
Cause the road up ahead
Has never been so wide
I was chasing something
I knew I’d never find
Two steps back
And I left it all behind
Don't be shy
Come along for the ride
Cause the road up ahead
Has never been so wide
We were in the studio
One of those late nights
When Ozzy told me
Never trade your chain for a leash
And you texted me the next morning
And told me we'd see each other in Amsterdam
But I just couldn't go
It was time for the next journey
So I guess I’ll catch you when I catch you
Catch you when I catch you
I’ll catch you when I catch you
I’ll catch you when I catch you
All behind
Alright, alright
Let’s get started, drive safe
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Benjamin Elias Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel
Benjamin Elias (stylized Benjamin Elia$) is a hip-hop artist currently based In Tel Aviv. Benjamin was born in Denver, Colorado and moved to Israel when he was 13. Having been raised in both places gave him unique insight and perspective, which he channels into his music. His songs juggle optimism and realism, creating a vibe that is catchy and fun on the surface while holding a deeper meaning. ... more
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