Elusive Dreams

By 25th Parallel

On The Dream

Released on October 20, 2017

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[Verse 1: NAT]

With an itch to scratch, wits to cash

Can’t sit chillax, gets to pass, switch to fast

I'm wearing out the masters

Comparing success to disasters

Looking out, take it in, all I can, then I’m turning in

See what’s burning within

Burden spin, revisions in my thirty skin

Subverting plans of everything that was a certain win

Try looking at what’s pertinent

Think it out, work at it, life short-circuited

Don’t need to be the first in, last out

Passed out from amassed doubts, Q’s maxed out

I got to lay the track down, came up in a slack town

Change to my kid gloves, ready to attack now

The last round, the mind has the drive to make

Coalesce in time and take the dream awake


[Verse 2: Jay Zhidao]

Blaring music loud, dreams of rocking the crowds

Thoughts of a young man with his head in the clouds

Full of high hopes, but high on dope

And his visions keep changing like kaleidoscopes

He’s prone to ride the slope, but when it all went flat

He had no inclinations to carry him back

He had to get off his ass and act

Running fast, but direction he lacked

Pops telling him to rock suits

Cock telling him to knock boots

Cerebellum telling him to not lose just move

So he did but no longer a kid

It's time for this man to handle his biz

Grinding 10 to 10 just trying to meet ends

Is he really living? well I guess it depends

Running on the spot, non-stop at full steam

All in for the cream but can't afford to dream


[Verse 3: CFB Flobare]

Questioning my dedication

Pursuits far removed from my true aspirations

Held down by the gravity of reality

Totality of normality, fear of mortality

Ambition of youth, ground to submission

Conditioned to follow a path dictated with precision

A decision to defy, don’t come lightly

Despite constructing new fantasies nightly

Forever weaving my way around square one

Brain trained to not care, remain dumb

Inane fun, keeping creation protracted

Distracted, when ideas are there to be exacted

Fact is I’m my own worst enemy

Impact is never reaching what’s ahead of me

Steadily turning tides, time ain’t on my side

I’m too sick to sit back and take what’s prescribed