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Features lyrics by Shoshin, iCON The Mic King & David Ramos

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Hangman

chorus:

hang in there hangman
swinging from a gallows pole
that dust from your bones
will help the flowers grow

Ceschi:

try to die with a smile on -
your final fighting defiant song.
long gone
are the worshiping fans and entourage
messiahs lost
in a corporate sanctioned holocaust
falling off
is more than slipping from buildings or rocks.
we'll remember the classic records forever
those moments before hopelessness choked your focus and left you severed
we can smell the death of winter
it burns out our nostril hairs
and tosses the frail
fossils from here
dropping entrails
over yellow brick roads
that are now covered in piss
not gold
riddled with potholes
so rot slow
with the rest of the apostles
god knows
what the world could have been with you
before the mighty monster chewed your sinews
and spit you into
something so cynical and simple.

Shoshin:

There is a terror that plagues the bearers of veins barren of blood, but for the bitter fetor of liquid love.

Oh child, undone, your time has come.

In absolute awe, we stared as you fastened on to your fears fearlessly;
peering into the mirror, then crafting songs from your experiences there.
Such searing sermons on the self, delivered from an impermanent pulpit, built of heartwreck, regret, sex, bourbon, and bullshit.
The crashing down was catastrophic; the sadness sounded from some seven hundred thousand heartbeats halting.
Oh, entire cities retired to pity this liars departure.
The fires it sparked were but sires to quiet hearths where aspiring authors made I and Irony mired martyrs.
Sirens sang from the swells, secrets you swore you’d never tell.
A closed casket to cloak your gross cadaver; bloated. Throat: rope ravaged.
Your rigor mortise riddled corpse. This empty shell.

MiC K!NG:

They teach us pull ourselves together in a game of hangman
firing blanks and empty the clip now hang in the balancing act - uality
that the honor we have is not about us but the collars we sla - shhhh!
....and there's a hush over the crowd
hanging heads holding the crowns unload silver cloaking the clouds
while clothes make the mantra affix ya face to waistband
take chance, risk inconsiderate vow(el)s
line your liner notes by the throat, cuz this is a noun
win lose or draw, go through withdrawals, perform to your credit
be deified by the palindrome at the speed of life by pawning your ethics
rise or fall in this life sentence by applied grammar
talk is cheap til they hang on your every word like skybanners

David Ramos:

Give it up for once last time,
yes,
one last hurrah
one final round of applause before our hero dissolves
and when the clock hit ten
there was no opening act
no one to heighten impact
the stage was fully intact
for the one man band to react
to the sold out crowd in his mind
in 1999
no one could have ever thought there would have been a possibility of such a well adjusted wannabe celebrity to ever come to utter culmination like this
so there wasn't any total bliss
an imaginary pussy fest
cause there's no outlets left for the one man band
as he stands on the stage half naked covered in sweat
so let backup tracks on your discman blast
as you revisit the past
and reinterpret the laughs.

credits

from The One Man Band Broke Up, released June 27, 2010
lyrics by Ceschi, Shoshin, iCON The Mic King & David Ramos
produced by Dj Scientist

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Ceschi New Haven, Connecticut

Ceschi (pronounced chess-key) Ramos makes his own version of progressive hip hop spliced with elements of folk & indie rock. Although he has almost "mathy" technical rap abilities he's first and foremost a singer-songwriter at heart. Although one Ceschi song may consist of punk influenced machine gun fast raps, the next may be a quiet folk ballad played on acoustic guitar. ... more

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