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Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

by Billy Pilgrim

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1.
speaking to myself tho at times can't recognize the voice i was read between the lines before I learned to filter out the noise.. met w choices I make in turn light matches off of the path I burn and I lost my way looking for trust i'll never have another chance to earn and I'm so spent daily anticipating maybes.. frontin like it cost too much savor the hush as if the flavors a rush they all goin up burned w a dutch ends and friends are never enough just breathe.. still gone off the fragrance it's been a couple days since we last spoke got a pressure on my heart impatient can't really cope and it's that basic i ache because I'm sick places that I've been flashback yesterday couldn't face it today it's congratulations no time wasted well i done gave up counting sheep sounds of silence keep me from sleep and it's the same song kept on repeat so I throw it all in the backseat hit the gas on a search for words I can't speak when I lost my peace i found you.. now I'm on the other side when before I couldn't see through yeah.. and I don't look at the skies no more nor the front door i know the score and know exactly I'm here for so till next raise a glass for the rest cuz I ain't done yet til the king is undressed can't suppress the crown i've been down only up now cuz when I heard the sound this time I said yes..
2.
apathy personified and entropy is imminent specified victim but always spitting indiscriminate reckless, you pretentious tuck your necklace fuck a guestlist we in the building like asbestos feckless restin on the rafters chapter next and put your best out to pasture i have to spread is similar to magma hot stepper off the bench to championship jeff hosteler.. outdated no reference for relevance cuz even after melle mel they stil failing to get the message hailing from a section of pitt where willie pen rhymes bent thick as the sickness to be collected from spit collectively ripped as a nation direction headed to the skids and burn it all down on some, 'fuck it lets do it for the kids..' and they on some fuck a wall cuz we building a bridge.. no limits and none given so get it how you live bad medicine equal parts mescaline pestilence and adrenaline gentleman of leisure with melanated features a mess behind the demeanor here to embellish on your speakers and they eager to tell it! got the fear and I can smell it want it all not a percentage people dying from thirst, we da refreshment eating rappers for breakfast str8 out the mess kit behind enemy lines we fortified live unbreakable from the wreckage cuz when it all goes down we fall in like tetris, ready aim from staying connected guard your headpiece steady hand elegy thought he got ahead but pulled him bak like a felony.. and the pedigrees evident from my chemistry respectfully, they'd rather have dependency i leave you breathless and then teach you to breath in empathy you mite b what it is but I represent what its meant to be
3.
roll up 03:56
its time to roll up.. chorus: good got-damn I can't wait x4 felonious drunk known for a melodious thump funk fresh, nothing less puts it blunt like roll up and got the flavor of the month like you can either kiss it or kick dust sho nuff whether sending suckers to the canvas or letting ladies kno my spliff is thicker than the average im foggin up yer glasses callin up the masses and they can tell by the smell and they askin me to pass it we hazmat for asthmatics but refuse the package like no need to be wrapped in plastic you kno the status so turnin heads is automatic but i understand and cant even b mad at it so please pass the apparatus and grab the hash from the stash for the sacrament i smoke extravagant as an advocate adamant bout my cannabis and been a graduate way before i stepped on campus advanced no matter the circumstances analyst who breaks it down like an abacus we the catalysts the spark plus the fire taking you higher than your average supplier more than adequate provider of the vibe just to keep em reachin for the skies i coincide others strive w/out knowing its in their clutch feelin stuck like fuck its time to roll up
4.
another day another dollar another cigarette and now i'm feeling like a shot caller popped collar with the slick back business fly and i'm fresher than a tic tac five on the sly cuz i'm cool like dat rules don't apply act fool to facts.. no reason to ask why just get it while you can nobody makes it out alive.. exercise my right destiny manifest whether fight or flight reasons why mr officer shoots on sight and i kno they got my bak cuz white, iz rite polite, despite the spice have a slice.. its nice! and the price iz your life no games so, don't ask twice i can't hear you places to see and people to do then drive away until you're smaller in my rearview.. feel it welling in my guts a swelling of the nuts from the pressure, disgust! bust pipes like falling down with michael douglas i touch ground but can't trust it.. more than dust up on my shoulder this boulder finna drop smolder getting colder and i'm staring at my watch, composure suffering exposure and its getting hot! it don't, stop.. break my phone over the brick stomping down the block and looking to start some shit spot a bottom feeder on my 6 but as I'm getting closer the stench of the city's making me sick almost hit by a passing taxi distracted by the ads in my face that nobody asked me for a pass on my planet? got me feeling vigilante palms sweaty eyes deadly calm and getting glassy.. classy? pick up a lead pipe window pane to the right getting smashed for being a gaslight napoleon in a past life its complex.. been waiting a millennium to get this off my chest yes! lest we forget making every step count keeping my feet pressed to your neck my privilege is blessed and its feelin like my right, or is it reich? no matter cuz i do just what I like flashing lights, all in my head all i kno is if you press they'll be another one dead more sound killing but i've already gone deaf if you the first ones here i'll be the last one left grab the gas, pass the spark the rest can catch the backdraft for moving past their mark at last as if that was the plan from the start the irony of a world burned to match the black of my heart.. play your part.
5.
billy: a ballad before the bomb drop the long shot loaded and cocked if they the walking dead then we the alarm clock rock steady, serengeti hot black as the berry strange fruit who got the juice? up from the roots buried under but only momentarily covered cuz my rise you can't smother stil gutterfly thru your city in every color live conductor rain, hail storms, and thunder only here to build and that's winter, spring, thru summer.. fall while they look to the skies wonderin why (why?) never seeing the cause until it looks em in the eyes find you starin at the mirror some live it while others signify so keep it dignified no need to mystify stigmatize my pride til we living a lie and cuz I got no alibi iz why they keep it classified reasons we speak to power while others seek to pacify.. chorus: from the stars to the sands the composition of man in a land before time expand to withstand hand over fist we climb up til we out but leaving something behind so they kno without a doubt! ras: Man a Rebel with a cause . Me burn out Santa Clause . When the Binghi a Chant seat up round the harps. Watusi a Dance and the fire Man a walk. When the Chalwa deh passing me noh skylark YOW The Natty Congo the Blakker Blacker dark. Empress and my Children kanaka kanaka Man a Zulu unu fi seh Shaakka . Masai jump soo High me goh see thi Trespassers Colonizer / dont come pass here . Poison dart Ak come into my crosshair Unite me People you noh see we lost here Many Mc's them gone for the past year. From disease bad foods and the false hair. Bleached Cloth Black skin a fime software. Deep thoughts metu netar a Ma_at (myheart) I meds on the past ancestrally fall tears. Many pills ano Benadryl (Ben a Drill) Instead of Lean Juvenile unu fi (Y'all should) Get many skills Higher than me say many Hills Back to the Start Herbs a natural medicine .
6.
ikarus 03:43
on a seldom trodden path thirsting feet hurting asking if i had the truth why would i continue searching? steady turning while the page is burning in my hands tryna separate the grain to find the secret of the sands i began to retrace my step every breath appreciated like fine wine i still wasnt able to taste it yet but felt refreshed so now when they ask who's next? i always raise the ante and place my bet ikarus heaven bent cloud kicker but sent here to replenish similar to the nile river got spirits like inspiration in a bottle passing gods flask around down to the last swallow as for tomoro? i really cant call it.. i gamble w/ the chances cuz i cant afford a forfeit.. im all in so its time to take flight and slap on my wings to seek beyond sight too much to give too late to turn away or not enough words and too much to say finally a place i may never reach again and we could never be at a better place to begin.. piece together my purpose to break the surface of the skin an attempt to hug the sun to stop the burning from within it started w/ a dream plus a feather and some wax but i dont think im ever coming back relax.. keep em reaching for the skies for heading toward the clouds and never telling them why he gives no reply its just time to go.. as most are scared of heights sometime you gotta fly solo.. so now im waving goodbye, and feeling high the wind is underneath as the season is on my side and i got a mind to try and why was the reason the lesson is the question and the test is in the seeking nobody would believe him and now they sing his song on constant play whenever the day is long so was he wrong? ikarus died by the flames but if he never tried would you ever know his name? too much to give too late to turn away or not enough words and too much to say finally a place i may never reach again and we could never be at a better place to begin..
7.
billy: bak of the eyes burned from starin at the sun when too many never learn like the stories just begun a life is hard to earn make sure its worth your sum and i'm livin every second tryna spend it til its done every line is a clip like my uzi weighs a muthaphuckin ton so they keep me on the run til i'm numb like what have I become? we started with the started with the drum and now we outta tune and the rest are speaking in tongues breathing up the fumes consumed til we succumb they lead us to the feed and treat us like chum spun from slum to #1 with a bullet progress becomes new religion for the foolish conquest subdivisions with no need for pulpits onset conditioning stepping thru the bullshit constant now i guess i got a god complex spread like napalm catch it like a comet palms to the sky! keep it honest. nonsense make you an accomplice wash your thought process white noise scatter the content conflicts the object here to clear it out like a bomb threat ring the alarm and keep it calm in the same breath displacement in stasis doin the most and we've lost the basics baseless faceless listed on walls as the nameless stay wasted fade to the next scene only if you're sleep do you get to see the amerikkkan dream, peep.. keep em peeled bak distort to static cuz this is the feedback shake systems like knee caps or relapse over peoples head like satellite for street maps.. belee dat! chorus (jazmine): the wheel is turnin baby only one place to go.. the world is burning steady ever since since we started the show.. so pass the fire cuz its getting dark and the night is long we keep our pyres high to scorch the skies til the light of dawn billy: submission with the stakes being your sovereignty i'm here to ask the question not to offer an apology the answer isn't politics and povertys a symptom like holding fetish for property and systematic contradiction and we in over our heads all the knowledge and not a drop of wisdom so we on the ledge with hands needed to pledge and fall bak heavy as lead bout as deadly as first contact fine print and contracts for the kill justified by the eyes on the bak of a dollar bill smothered in technicolor til the covers more than real then let it spill like tumblers just another summer..
8.
chorus: long walker, sky talker fly tongue divine sum equal with every part of the sun split the shine and still catch it nowhere to run the last days but i feel like we've only begun verse: for most cats rap is put on like fitted hats like red dawn, like vietnam i throw em bak like.. heineken bottle caps relax or get collapsed like a puppet w the strings cut i'm not only bak for more but i'm rollin my sleeves up pissed once i found there's no just-ice, there's just-us (trust) as this living were given can have you feeling plush i tip my hat to the wind and proceed to shake the dust.. feeling like its my time to go for every way they say today is impossible and break it down cuz i gots to kno bought my ticket for the ride now lets start the show gather round like a circle for the hurt no perch anonymous as the bottle in the bag we choose to quench our thirst keep a fire inside, but not for next time.. i can't abide so i put it inside of every line lay it out so without a doubt i can say its mine the path i've made with paid dues and by my own design a steady chase for the horizon its just another case of demand for what we supplyin and i'm just another peasant facing down the tyrants cuz whatever they selling, i can't buy it no denying the lies yet we keep trying.. off balance in perfect step with the timing.. flashing lights under the spell of the siren sublime as the trope broken by indigo rising.. they can't cope i'm fine spun tighten my belt, as i expel the smoke raise a toast as we proceed to float.. seek asylum between the notes where you can find me residing, no goodbyes needed when you're always arriving..

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a collection of friends both old and new.. mostly old at this point thanks to pandemic!
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released January 14, 2022

lyrics by billy pilgrim unless otherwise noted
production by various
mixed at tuff sound
mastered by jeremy charles
all album art by the miscellaneous department

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billy pilgrim Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Lead lyricist of JunkFoods, Hwite Menace, Killer of Sheep, Mega Def, and his own damn self.

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