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Slippery People

by Scuare x sow

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1.
The Price 03:02
I just don't sleep I just don't lie as well I just don't buy it still See I just been tired as hell I just been tryna find a seem How can you lie to yourself How can you pretend that you're free When you so tied to yourself Strings color my intonations Pardon me if my heart is broke I got no love for imitations Manipulations of honest folk Everyday they feed us all despair Everyday they feed us all this hope Everyday its in the conversation Ramp it up until we all implode Black holes Sucking all the energy out Of every path forward Need to make belief Like it ain't really what you ask for Nothing left within but all the hunger So you just snack more Snack More Eat it up, Eat it like Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down I still don't sleep I just lay wide awake My love is not a token For you to buy then take I feel the heat Been burned by my mistakes I will not blame myself though Least not this time this place We cannot do this alone I feel in my teeth, in my bones Fight for we weaken our fight til we own A slice of our own If price is no option No options at all Tighten the strings It's like tightening their guard Til we take down these titans No gods Its never the price its the cost Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down Send me down, send me down, send me all the way down Send me down, send me down
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I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it It's a profession, they getting lost in they're wars Words only have meaning when they prop and enforce Tanks doing battle never dropping a corpse Turn a blatant lie into a confident chorus These fools, go to school, spend a life, pay the dues All to learn how to pull all the fight out of you Gotta know every punch, every strike, every move Just to prove some common sense end up exhausted and confused And it's still not enough Gotta teach people how kill all the love Or gotta feed hope and hope it heals all of us Instead of something real to undercut the wheels on the bus And it's round and round Never gon' find where we might get out And it's round and round Rather let us die then incite shit now I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it It's an obsession, they've forgotten whats real Desperate for attention never stoppin to feel Less deliberate, it's just as toxic concealed Talk is cheap, just a tool to open options and deals Love bombs developed for defense, maybe Become a new weapon to test To infect safely Who to impersonate Who to invest in Finding someone open to suggestion Then they take Not a lot at first, they wait Need to find a better balance need the time to build a case Manipulate Because the look that's on they face If guilt is not enough you feel the violence in their wake Make no mistake Its a perpetuated system Where they take cover in grays between your empathy and wisdom All been fake Green pastures meant for cause They pretend look for solutions to some fabricated flaw You can't escape I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it I gave you time to earn the trust you misinterpreting facts My circle's tighter than your circle I ain't circling back They tell you this is what I believe in, but the truth don't speak it It's so easy to pass a promise but who gone keep it Which side are you on Which side are you on Which side are you on The vanity to think We all revolve ' round you
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Skin Deep 03:15
Worn out on a Monday Get down on a Tuesday Every day is mundane They've got nothing to say I can feel in my skin Got no spirit their eyes Got no reason to protect Really feelin it this time (They never tryin nothing new) Go on you wear disguise The sentimental lies (Nothing really ever due) You're up you're down You run in circles all your life (They never tryin nothing new) Go on you wear disguise The sentimental lies (Nothing really ever due) You're up you're down You run in circles all your life So much For the oaths you took For the home you made So much For the trust you earned For the hope we saved So much Keeps on getting confounded Confuse and replaced So much For the lies you share For the lives you take Manipulate Manipulate Got no reason to protect Mindin' my own damn business They just want you for the moment They just want you for the second Like they here to show you love But they don't really respect it Only coming for the neck When ain't no one to protect it Mindin my own damn business You can act like you don't know me You can guess at my intentions I'ma get this off my chest That's enough of my attention You can twist up my whole sentence Every word, I fuckin' meant it Now Ima end (They never tryin nothing new) Go on you wear disguise The sentimental lies (Nothing really ever due) You're up you're down You run in circles all your life (They never tryin nothing new) Go on you wear disguise The sentimental lies (Nothing really ever due) You're up you're down You run in circles all your life I can feel it in my skin
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Maybe I'm wrong Afraid to be on my own Maybe it's different out there Then I could ever know Have I been livin in a Have I been livin in a hole I dig in every direction don't know where to go Maybe I'm blind No connection to the truth Maybe the lessons learned Just don't reflect what I've been through But when I'm with you I don't feel I'm well But when I'm with you I can't be myself You push me through these paces You keep telling me I'm not enough Well why are you stayin now So what the fucks an us What the fucks a me to you if me you do not trust What is it you see if you just dreaming we combust I'm fillin' it up Even when I feel I'm not feeling the love still feel I'm enough So what the fucks an us What the fucks a me to you if me you do not trust What is it you see if you just dreaming we combust I'm fillin' it up Even when I feel I'm not feeling the love still feel I'm enough I've been fallin' I've been fallin' I've been fallin' I've been fallin' Fall away, fall away way way I've been fallin' for so long, long Fallin', fallin', fallin', fall I've been fallin' for so long, long Fallin', fallin', fallin' I've been fallin' for so long, long I've been Fallin' For too long I've been fallin', yeah I've been fallin' for so long, long Fallin' for so long, long I've been fallin' Fallin' for this Fall away, fall away, fall away Fall away, fall away, fall away from me Fall away, fall away, fall away Fall away, fall away from me Fall away, fall away, fall away Fall away, fall away, fall away from me Fall away, fall away, fall away Fall away, fall away from me
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Runnin Man 03:30
This is not about a point of view yea This is not about a disagreement aye Everybody got a path to choose Some of you just wanna act a fool Liking all the Instagram posts With the vague shit, all the scandals Givin' you the right yea you demand those Cause the truth is hard for you to handle Wolf in a sheep skin Wanna creep in What you believe in You wanna seek ends On a pretense You ain't really friends Lies turn to motivations Find something for the hatred Blame everyone you betrayin' Always find justification Can't stop for a second might drown 'any self awareness reckoned right now Thoughts like a broken record by now Feed for the fuel don't let it die down The cops use it The banks use it The law refuses To bake truth in It's all excuses When no shoes fit Make new sense To hang you with Runnin' man You can run it man You can run it all for show Got me feelin' down, got us feelin' down Don't know where to go There's no hope Hold it down Hold it down Needin all this control There's no hope Chippin' off the top til you hit the coffin All for profit No goal Then you ghost Use the government to stay rich Then you lie about it makin' statements Talkin' about fuck all these taxes Like our taxes don't pay your rent Like you never asked from the people round you For that seed money For that greed money For that "I'ma make it one day please" For that "why cant you believe in me" money But forget as quick you can ditch em Cause your trust always come with conditions 'Less they bend the knee to you they competition Lessons been defeating you but you don't listen Can't admit You don't offer shit Do the opposite Always seek control In the meantime Anybody tryna live an honest life Need to be opposed Pay no mind, break em down Take the soul Make em fold, til they think they all alone Heart is cold Warmin' up to cynicism All to turn a fighter back into victim sold The cops use it The banks use it The law refuses To bake truth in It's all excuses When no shoes fit Make new sense To hang you with Runnin' man You can run it man You can run it all for show Got me feelin' down, got us feelin' down Don't know where to go There's no hope Hold it down Hold it down Needin all this control There's no hope Chippin' off the top til you hit the coffin All for profit No goal Then you ghost
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Finger grips gettin stronger I will suffer no longer Holding onto my conscience is More important than your honor Wasted time around toxic shit Circular like their logic Usually I'm so cautious Like to know all my options Never one to be plottin Surrounded by liars and conmen I just wanna be like Common I just wanna leave it honest Say one word through your cheeks, I'm out Well informed in my peace, I've found I don't need to please right now huh Y'all are dead to me right now huh Its that narcissistic streak there's no empathy Never understand to me you're no centerpiece Its that narcissistic streak there's no empathy Never understand why we got no sympathy When you take for so long you must only feel mistaken now baby When you take for so long you must only feel mistaken a lil bit Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Y'all been made Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Y'all been made, I'm done playin Watch 'em slip into the water til the well run out My hand ain't never touched the mat but still the bell rung out Cause you got cuts beside your temple that you bladed for the color When the kayfabe under fire, how much faking can you muster? Like for real But we ain't really being real, cause I'm not real to you, I feel It's all diversion, just a smokescreen that I'm feeling through Let's count that "1, 2, 3" The stinger stuck, you bumblebee'd Don't give a fuck on what you need if I'm the crux that you perceive I'm not the one Teleport me to a time when this was fun You hella noided and that's fine but shit I'm done Just hold that gold around your waist you never won When you take for so long you must only feel mistaken now baby When you take for so long you must only feel mistaken a lil bit Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Y'all been made Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Apply the pressure to them quick, I'm done playin, playin, playin Y'all been made
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They always take advantage of you when you're low When your pride's on the floor And you don't have no more I think it's just the standard of who's in control Cause when they see you get more Then they just move the goal And there it goes again Taking from your hand All part of the plan And they always win In the end There it go goes again (Ooo shit) Taken from you hand (That bullshit) All part of the plan And they'll do it again And again Till they win The real shit is when it's happening slow You let it creep and it inhabits your soul I remember back when I was I still broke Shit was more expensive when I didn't have it in bulk It's costs money to need money to lose money Cars gone, bus late, works pissed, who's coming Nobody They always got praise like you're essential We couldn't do it without you, you're important you're the tentpole But when there's a paycut you take them be grateful And where the fuck are they? Vacation, in space though Can't quit, only power in the faithful Pray to god for miracles, guess miracles get made slow It's funny how we all see it It's less funny how y'all deny it I know it to be deliberate at this point I know that y'all not trying to help You see the problem and you're defining them well Just to twist it all inside of itself Fake something that makes money, but nothing else Take advantage of people looking for something real You're lying to them You keep lying to them They're lying to you They keep lying to you If they're so rich and good at making money WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO EVER TEACH YOU There's no fucking way they're being honest with you They don't need you Unless Maybe if you give them some of your money, you'll get to the top of the pyramid I can tell you to work hard I can tell you to be smart I can tell you that everybody around you lazy for no charge Who the fuck you think is working at the businesses that you invest in You fucking idiot If you start from a conclusion guess what you gon' find That's how pretty simple math gets so undermined That's a billion dollar industry to run and hide This is the greenest that it gets there is no other side Everybody know hard work is essential Meritocracy is just a myth to take your money Meritocracy is just a myth to keep control It's just another way to use instead colonize a country You don't think it's fishy that people with the power Are the same ones that keep telling you that they deserve to tower And you're just like them But you're not quite them If you could just learn To be less like you Then you might just get To be more lied to I see the way things really are Y'all try to cover up the scars The world is full of cruelty So what if i abuse it when It's suiting me It's human nature Everyone hates you Everyone's dishonest Even if they don't hate you Females won't date you Unless they get paid to Unless you get your money up they got nothing to relate to Broke dudes jealous The rich rule fellas I never get emotional but I might get overzealous I might get into an argument to demonstrate my wellness I got no insecurities, don't pretend to hate the realness Y'all could never feel this Y'all could never feel this I'm so in control why you always he interfering All of your emotions Getting wrapped up in my fearless Ego, we crush weak foes And thus we grow When I get all the money then None of yall be funny then Cause numbers lie, numbers don't lie Numbers don't lie, numbers don't lie Numbers don't lie, numbers can't lie These numbers don't lie Numbers don't lie, numbers can't lie Please don't let these numbers lie I'll get it then, I'll get it then, I'll get it then I'll get it then, I'll get it then Why would they lie to me
9.
The Cost 03:37
So wrapped up in a point of view You cant see the truth that's right in front of you As long as you can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around right So wrapped up in a point of view You cant see the truth in front of you Sideways talkin out your mouth Disconnected from reality there's no one left to doubt Time has never lost Time is always crawlin' Baby's first steps Now he think he ballin' Life is so long, lie for so long How you even know what you really call it You think that you been trickin' 'em All you do is trip yourself when you ain't quick enough You wish this shit was simple now Sitting all alone cause you cant get it down It can't be all your fault They got you flippin' out Trust was not an option how's it different now Everybody change on you Everybody flake Nobody reliable ain't nobody say it Circular in nature Never want to learn Deaf to all your failing You ain't never heard The song sang bout everyone round you Caught up in yourself you never found you So wrapped up in a point of view You cant see the truth that's right in front of you Sideways talkin out your mouth Disconnected from reality there's no one left to doubt As long as you can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around right Sideways talkin out your mouth Disconnected from reality there's no one left to doubt Only asking for advice to hear reflections back I am no mirror on a wall, you think I'm less in fact You think you fairest, and its unfair that I would question that You should be embarrassed that you haven't learned this lesson yet You're too grown to not take on responsibility You're drawn to victims in your path that cant see toxic energy You try control you try to plead you still can't find no inner peace You think it's them, you think it's me, we must be plotting your defeat How often does it happen where it just happens to not be your day You get to talkin then to actin then believe in what you fake You stay blind to it as you bind to it fill the shape Just to walk another circle on display So wrapped up in a point of view You cant see the truth that's right in front of you Sideways talkin out your mouth Disconnected from reality there's no one left to doubt As long as you can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around You can keep 'em all around right Sideways talkin out your mouth Disconnected from reality there's no one left to doubt
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It's just another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Cause it's another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Thankfully I'm free I will never be deceived I don't need to make it scene Livin someone else dream Can't afford to make believe You don't know what wholeness means You just walk this world asleep Way too scared to wake and see Take the light and make it bleek You ain't ever turned the cheek Feeding' on your own deceit You can put this on repeat You ain't ever finding peace You can't tell me what I need All your webs are incomplete All your methods weak All you do is plot It's just another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Cause it's another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Thankfully I'm free Free from awful toxic themes that orbit y'alls philosophies Free from siphoning off a dream no thoughts to reciprocity Free from holdin on to bitter seeds til every thought is in the weeds Lost within infinity, the countless possibilities That never could exists That you can't see for what it is Just reflections of an ego getting pushed off of a cliff Fallin feelin paper light As long as they can patronize Reaching out a helping hand a smile to frame their vacant eyes but It's just another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Cause it's just another sunny day for me If you could stay the fuck away from me And I don't know what you could say to me As if it'd ever change a thing for me Thankfully I'm free Everday I get to be Closer to some inner peace You can't take my light You can't take light You can't take all the things you think ever I need I can tell you don't seem to see me For who I am, for what I believe But it don't matter to me Thankfully I'm free

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"How can you pretend that you're free when you're so tied to yourself?"

"Slippery People" is a collaborative project between Austin based rapper Scuare, and Portland based production group sow. The catchy dark synth pop melodies coupled with a beat scene aesthetic serve to emphasize the themes of the project through their contrast to the subject matter. Scuare's past works have mostly focused on his internal monologue and the way his interactions with the world shape negative feelings about himself and inform his growth. "Slippery People" aims to focus on external his observations of societal trends and mechanisms that seem to all operate on similar principles; leaching off of empathy for personal gain.

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released November 18, 2022

Beats by sow
Mixed by Scuare
Mastered by Scuare
Artwork by: QED @soundsbyqed

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