II, by LiLa

II

by LiLa

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1.	Avalanche 04:47	lyrics	buy track
The first flake fell Who falls last leaf Lake already froze, like a frigid flash heat As I gather my clothes for the golden ass sweep I can see every breath in the cloud that I speak I look up to see that the sky is my peak The cold true lie just a white canopy Keep trying to climb as the air gets thin As I start to see signs of precipitation There’s no question that we’ve got thick skin But the cold-hearted souls get frost-bitten As the light gets dim and the night sets in The full of the freeze is an invitation To meet the snowflake that covers the scape Cascade from the shape of the chasm to make A clean escape from the place and the sparkle and grace To traipse in the wake of the mountain and face Chorus No you can’t beat, you can’t join Though our blanket always keeps you warm There’s no way you stand a chance In the way of the sound of our avalanche Inch by inch the world is entrenched As we circumvent hazardous elements It gets more intense to prepare the ascent Bitter winds blow And he reticent don’t show I suppose that they stay below But I know I was meant to expose the cold We the heat in my soul, I will melt the snow It’s a whole different world that I’ve yet to know So if you want to go, you can follow at your own risk Take it tippy-toe, but be cautious on the surface. Slippery slope can get you caught up in the turbulence Tumble and roll Get lost up in the turbans Glacially, spatially, ivory, masonry Footprints on the path holding vacancy Pearls and curls of the hills unfurl With softness, but it’s an ominous roar Over and over again Pressure inside just the blink of an eyelid Whether it all builds til the measure is highest Or settles and tills like the crash of a pilot Just a crack of the sheet when the crowd gets highest So profound that the people, the sound- You can’t sit down when the beat is around Don’t stand still waiting for that anvil Cause when it drops, life plans get cancelled
2.	Out With A Bang 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Life is a round trip ticket Back and forth and side to side That might come with it For types that’s driven I might go hitch it in the bed of a truck And get robbed by a bus I got to bet on my luck Fishin for a way to beat these odds Cause this will be the day that I hop at the fish pond Dish one to the homies thinking its gone I bring it back even in this song Belongs to fine memories Beyond energy, beyond the cultures To times gone To realities that are hopeful I wrote the penpal of my metaphor Little hoarse So I speak in a low voice No choice but to see that The world can’t be beat The word of my dreams is the word on the street. Chorus Don’t stop moving. Don’t stop grooving. A many moto, totos, pilotos… Got a million stories so I wrote’em in photos. Can’t speak, but I show how I go though Reach each peak til I flow the volcano Hitchhike where the rain grows. Land grows everything that the man knows. Off-land than you go through the mangroves Off-hand another place that I stand for Ayudarte Please come quick the tectonic plate might shift. And the next step I take, be the last one I get But at last as I sit Take a glance this is it. The transit terminals stand as my gift. Passenger passing both hands As I wish for the ride of my life. As I admit, “A life left stagnant ain’t worth shit.”
3.	Group Therapy 03:18	lyrics	buy track
When the solitary life has given you all it can And you’re too afraid to note if you are your only friend, There is always strength in numbers letters and soundwaves too. Hope that you don’t mind but wrote this song for you. Everyone in this world is an instrument it’s the gate and the soul of our sentiment spent time tryin’ to find how I enter it came time so imagine all of my astonishment then we fit together just like some continents, me and J-La meant and then so on, on and we went until we honor with our on monument collaborate like we making a conglomerate originally the ten-speed gained speed provisionally the roots of the tepee an MC in the NC Dirty D we celebrate a free thought revel on a level like a skybox therapy at a high cost ‘cause applause is exchange like the scraps that we made for the movement that’ll never be lost CHORUS When the solitary life has given you all it can And you’re too afraid to note if you are your only friend, There is always strength in numbers letters and soundwaves too. Hope that you don’t mind that we wrote this song for you. Solo, we leave it up to you To leave’em all alone until they decide to choose Poor boy, there’s nothing left to do. If it can work for me and E, I’m sure it can work for you.
4.	Neo Soul 03:59	lyrics	buy track
As I sift through the crate of the greats buried in the bones skeletal remains I feel it just the same in the song that I sing like I relic of the past that at last I obtained can’t do the forager never was a borrower thinking of the long haul kinda like a corridor if it started with a play scape stuck it through the landscape searching for a place and the sounds that the hands make can’t cancel this man who was sampled but next to our torch, man, they can’t hold a candle these rap scavengers act like amateurs picture us forever and they never need a camera they well-done at the end of the day And I hear’em advertised, well the legends won’t fade got my own skeletal if they coming of age if you just came in then you way too late Chorus You take the best of me and leave me with the rest of me they rollin in their graves when they just want to rest in piece It’s just so plain to see that you ain’t who you claim to be You take the best of me and leave me with the rest of me FEAT. Jeremy Rist Fix it up nice make it ready for the mic gotta do some shit that the people gon’ like maybe do some old soul looking for that old gold make it look like a sickie they go out of control so pack up a fat bowl bumping sax records Hayes, Belles, staples writing kingdom something wicked and I’m checking for that one note something I can throat throw it on some drums add bass and its dope the beats like a potter always spinning the wheel it goes round and around til it gains an appeal and really gets that feeling that I am trying to reveal when the final product’s done ain’t no need to concealing it the pains concealing it your brains are screwing’em then I grab a mic and I really get to showing’em FEAT. Sammy Feldblum And it’s dopeful years like hope for them Keep the flows coming so that means I’m overdosing ‘em referring to the past, son, I’m going toe-to-toe with them keep the music chill and mental smolders in the row with them well I hoping I’m prepared ‘cause I’m lucky to resemble even them much less what those chose to share and then I represent but then they got a little respect chop it and on top of it and I maybe throwing snares and I sent it to my buddy just to see what he thinks well he’s acting like the Sphinx trying to work out all the kinks Until the music synchs and the whole beat links. And damn it’s just perf’ fellas I’m not trying to jinx It’s always more practicing back to the lab again this old Blues, nah this time, the sentiments straight African had a game too taken all the best leave the rest but understand it’s because I am on the quest to progress And then I’m making nesting I guess its speaking fresh I get it off my chest so I never have to stress I’m blessed. The track will pull back intact he just took the best of me. You’re better than that. Chorus You take the best of me and leave me with the rest of me then only leave me things and that leave us with the rest of things It’s just so plain to see that you ain’t who you claim to be You take the best of me and leave me with the rest of me
5.	I Got The Flow 03:10		buy track
6.	Girls With Glasses 05:30		buy track
7.	The Collector 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Smell like It never been used came shrink-wrapped in the pack brand new never did come equipped with the tunes and the sharp son of a dude spaces wasted notebook pages plain white canvass never been painted all chances never got taken missed opportunity boat is sinking I think I’m gonna take it and make it like my pride and keep it sacred not to hide and keep it secret ‘cause the world is my guide and I need it to try it’s the will to survive believe it there’s no other reason why Just like the old days collecting the dust it becomes staid coloring gray and all that you knew faded and used losing its worth and falling out of time Trying out with the beats intact and basically the face feels so much alike some with that to the point of fact surely its built with the word’s impact limited tender can’t sustain it racks and stacks it’s all the same with kingdom that the clock is faded innocent for just a day and felt naw let yourself the point of this bitch is to get your health only tips will help life the hell it’s been in itself antique speaking me frame of colony complete all I see is primitive peeps simply ran around with me kicking back like action figure busting out of the pack is picture I’m leaping through my years of service Keeping up Mom’s got me trippin’ Kept her in the perfect world of chronologic talk shorn of all the logic but recorded Instructor, cue the tempo You to say goodbye to the house that it feels like eyes your demise And you compromise When stuck in the same your limited you just collect, yourself, yourself, yourself collecting your dust It becomes staid coloring gray and all that you knew faded and hues losing its worth and falling down mmmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm
8.	Oh No, Control 02:46		buy track
9.	Ole 02:03		buy track
10.	Mother Earth feat. Isosceles 03:41		buy track
11.	One More Song 03:27		buy track
12.	BeatBreaker 14:51		buy track

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released June 13, 2010

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LiLa Durham, North Carolina

Original Hip-Folk duo from Durham, NC.
LiLa:
Eli McDuffee-Emcee / Jon LeSueur-Production & Vocals.

All Original Material Recorded at Playhouse Studio.

C/o ODDcrew