BLISS (2024), by Evil Key

BLISS (2024)

by Evil Key

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1.	Calm 03:34	lyrics	buy track
I just wanna be calm, high and rich. I don't wanna still give a shit. Don't wanna react like this, wear a mask like this, dwell on the past like it's all I am and shit. Like to stop myself from choking. Only loosen myself, humbled from smoking. Let me go for real, practice what I preach Bet you won't stay when I get and keep clean I quit drinking then I quit quitting 'cause I get stuck thinking I'm not shit. I'm my problem but I keep it legit. What's a buck worth if I waste all of it? I just wanna chill and create my shit I just wanna be calm, high and rich. I just wanna be calm, high and rich. I don't wanna still give a shit. Don't wanna react like this, wear a mask like this, dwell on the past like it's all I am and shit. I just want to be calm. Be calm. Didn't wanna change, couldn't make a plan Years go, flip a day kept the money in my hand, what cost? Wishing y'all would pull up and get me mad, keep me lost it's not the real me, less tough love from the family Didn't want to grow, couldn't see. So young and dumb, this is where I'll bleed. Big fish, little pond. Dead garden. Bottom of the rung, this is where I'm starving. What a thing to try to prove, it's alarming. Big fish, little pond. Dead garden. Bottom of the rung, this is where I'm starving. What a thing to try to prove, it's alarming. I just want to be calm. I just want to be calm. I just wanna be calm, high and rich. I don't wanna still give a shit. Don't wanna react like this, wear a mask like this, dwell on the past like it's all I am and shit.
2.	Falafel 02:22	lyrics	buy track
This dumb, bullshit old kid been living dead, depressed and bed ridden JID said stick to the vision, so I'm living the truth, fuck 'em all, fuck indecision I'ma cut out the fake, talking excision My moment is coming, breaking out of my prison No owner or labels, lovers and haters keeping me driven Walking mystery, full of honest history. Rhythm like playing Riven, "He's a genius, I think. I'm with him, I like his music, but I don't get him." I'll take it, but I confess I hate this self duress, thoughts in my space of giving in to the mess. Well, elevated sense of self got me feeling low This weed got me humble, stable and free though. Feeble. Damn, these caps got me in my hell, deep Evil This drink got me numb and able to sleep, so this shit got me sated each day of the week, bro this shit keeps me strong while it makes me so weak... oh. I get too high, and then I get the spins. Rich in life, and that shit left me spent. Wanna get to know me, no odee here's an ode to see slowly Running the world with the brodies, the music and crazy got cozy skirting these feelings like they police Still I let 'em in, I'm floating fall in love, can't run free or be lonely I run game, I flipped in the doldrums Richest I ever been, lowly Turned a new leaf, kept it honest Realest I been, no phony Broke on the road full of love is what I live I don't miss the grind, violence, the clique I was better then and I'm better than this years of this and my vision is crisp count my blessings, I'm living so lit my prism was cracked but I'm back on the shit my rhythm unmatched, my raps fluid, I drip... uh I get too high, and then I get the spins. Rich in life, and that shit left me spent.
3.	Doldrums 02:02	lyrics	buy track
It's just like I told ya, a kid stuck in the doldrums selling bites of the cobra to the old ones, the snake that'll taste you for doing what they told ya, the knights of the Table at big pharma sniffing gold dust. Getting riches and causing global erosion Able to bring all the pain of some real four horsemen Let it reign on the people, no ascension stuck in the doldrums, told to say no to Green Heaven blind said it's the devil but I know they meant it kind was the devil when he said it could get better kind was the devil when he said it could get better get better. Who's watching over me? No one. Hold me over until it's over, they're watching, no blue collar with the cold ones, an old soul in a young gun stuck in the doldrums 'til I'm full coma, saw no other option fuck your composure, moreover, glazed or sober every step closer to something of substance felt like a horror, nothing important. Riches, blank slate tipping negative risky living, drugs and bitches was a half-baked life predicate. What I mean is in the doldrums nothing really happens ever, even when a friend drops, old or young, or escapes to a better level It never mattered, you were stuck matter of fact, good luck this is what they want Divide and conquer, they on to you and me printing money so it just repeats and it just repeats Who's watching over me? No one.
4.	Walk Slow 02:23	lyrics	buy track
What dull heaven is this? I can't even get high anymore. One more set of letters to send, that you burn. Why try anymore. Fall from grace, what a waste. Hard to face it all has changed. I'm coming back to the level of feeling incredible none better, Evil weather all that ever came, forever type 1 vendetta All this space, one day chase left to wait, one push is all it takes to fall from grace take all the trace of all the fake feelings I wasted time on I know I'm strong, but where all the time gone I got a stranger in these motel sheets wholesale night no real reach but I'm awake. Looking down, it's great. Tripping with a fresh face see it as it is, love and hate Didn't see ties to the Table, Lady of the Lake With her I felt seen and able to bare all, barely was a wait. The clock was not on our side, couple ticks 'til I saw her for the lie Green Heaven in her eye, can't imagine why I fell for a live one I was dead inside looking for a way to climb up the Lazarus pit, back to my shit, flip some real quick put it on record while I get to all of this money and women and joy, real joy indecision, no more bullshit living, the kid from the doldrums gone missing, oh boy. One more set of letters to send, that you burn. Why try anymore. After tonight, I'm making a change and I know it. After tonight, I'm making a change and I know it 'til then we sipping, smoking, fucking 'til we floating Heaven sent this is total bliss up until it's over. Didn't notice what approached us, 'round the block we unfocused Followed my heart like I thought I was supposed to Now she got a cover saying she a loss, should have evaded all this shit, just a game that we played and we lost, found her heaven too early, what a cost big brother said, the Table is set. Had a seat at the table, selling doldrum, busting Heaven and falling more to loving everything. What change of heart is this? What harsh start is this? What new trauma? She didn't tell me nothing.
5.	Closer 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Wake up every day like I wanna be a monster Before the god wads up to pray I'm up walking Cake up and all, make me an offer work 'til I gotta drop it off and fuck like I got nowhere to be, ever y'all minimum wage, I'm entrepreneur, independent I'm withered by graves, but I wanna live and spend every cent and pity the shape of things while seeking the best, stay depressed. Joint in my hand, left is a weapon Right to the blade, everyone's lesson Point at the sky, shoot my depression Another show where I feel alive Another loss I'll deal with when I die Wash over me It's getting closer Wash over me It all repeats, I want up next. Open seat, all I do is run shit. It all repeats, I want up next. Open seat, all I do is function. but yeah I'm up, with bars, no balloons and shit Drop the room, BFG on some DOOM and shit When I spit, that's it, get to know the kid Rhymes every day, high, no mids, know this No opponents 'cause I'm that next it, not reckless Years in the game, underrated clear hits, keep dropping the best shit it's all connected, Tetris, lyrical nexus keep it real is my method, I'm next up. Quit resting. Wake up every day like I wanna be a monster Wake up every day feel like I lost it It's hard to tell what it all meant but I feel I learned a lot in the deep end went and fuckin' turned a hobby into heat and it's like every day the mother fucking weekend I just wanna smoke this weed and find every reason to keep breathing out these wounds, but the waves keep repeating like madness That shit, I'm past it. Space cadet bat past average, rap savage, capture the sacred as is, call it Sanskrit Less preaching, more practice Am I back yet? CHAR. Joint in my hand, left is a weapon Right to the blade, everyone's lesson Point at the sky, shoot my depression Another show where I feel alive Another loss I'll deal with when I die Wash over me It's getting closer Wash over me It all repeats, I want up next. Open seat, all I do is function. It all repeats, I want up next. Open seat, all I do is run shit.
6.	Crossing Over 02:33	lyrics	buy track
My heart's gone under. Too many times wading through the gauntlet of love and loss, so often. I'm still here but my soul the first one to cross over. Back then it was all just a game, so was all this. You stood the tallest, now you're another awful toll to cry over. At least we don't die sober. I been clear headed lately but losing composure under the weight of it all over again, and it seems crazy to be losing my way when I'm open and stronger. Losing my way, when I'm open and stronger. I miss it even though I know it's not over. Maybe my soul just the first to cross over. My body will follow. Walk with me, hollow. I miss it even though I know it's not over. Maybe my soul just the first to cross over. My body will follow. Walk with me, hollow. My art's gone under. Too many times waiting proof of lazy auteur. Each idea gold, but follow through of a ghost, my soul the first to cross over. I remember every note felt like heaven, now I pour in my trauma and anger for all to upend and I'll continue 'til it's over. At least we don't die sober. I been clear headed lately but all the days flash by so quick regardless and I wish I had time to be someone to all who've been someone to me, mama. Did I live selfishly even though I'm open and stronger? Did I live selfishly even though I'm open and stronger... At least we don't die sober. At least we don't die sober. At least we don't die sober. Die sober. My spark's gone under. Too many lies and cynical motives, light buried under the weight of it all. Hopeless, but gonna live with love 'til my all cross over. I miss it even though I know it's not over. Maybe my soul just the first to cross over. My body will follow. Walk with me, hollow. I miss it even though I know it's not over. Maybe my soul just the first to cross over. My body will follow. Walk with me, hollow.
7.	Colors 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Why'd I spend time with my vibe wasted? Time to move on, liquor to the sky, baby. Why'd I leave the colors out my painting? Why'd I only take a walk when it's raining? Why'd I let the love erase me, blood take me? Why'd I let the numb replace me, or work drain me? I do what I love, baby. I love you, as much as it pains me. Who the fuck we been lately? Take a breather, take a spin, baby. Why'd I spend time with my mind wasting? Time to move on, blunts to the sky, feeling wavy. I was living in the lie, baby I been getting too high, maybe I been living my life lately I was thinking, "why am I crazy?" I was living in the lie, baby I been getting too high, maybe I been living my life lately I been running wild, why try pacing? Like nothing phase me, these lovely ladies no more "fuck you, pay me", I'm spending daily bread like it's a Pastability, impossible problems in me fuck 'em, come get lost but keep it real, no pity. Life's still hitting but I feel like I'm with it, I'm ready to win. The past gone, mask off like it's the MCU Earned my credit like an mcu (the other one) Friends seem to bleed through, the real see through, be true ('til me and my brothers won) Alone in my thoughts with a bone in these thots catching feelings like, please stop. Roam with my top twisted, green in the bone (the other one) every step known on this block, move on to the next one why'd I stop moving on? Living on some bread crumbs, time spent dumb, shut down like I been numb. Next round's on me, off the ledge I see I was leaning on you. This town had me feeling dead but the love could spread with some real ones in the crew Fuck around and we peel red from the hunt, blood seeps from the doldrums, we get you. I been getting too... I been getting too high lately. Lately... I was living in the lie, baby I been getting too high, maybe I been living my life lately I was thinking, "why am I crazy?" I was living in the lie, baby I been getting too high, maybe I been living my life lately I been getting too... I been getting too high lately. I been living too... I been living too loud, maybe. I'ma get it all back. I'ma get it all back. I been living too... I been living too loud, maybe. Put your liquor to the sky, baby. We been getting too high, maybe. I'm the mind that can try and save me. I was thinking, "why am I crazy?" I was living in the lie, baby I been getting too high, maybe I been living my life lately I was thinking, "why am I crazy?"
8.	Nah 01:47	lyrics	buy track
I don't forget about it. I don't forget about it. I take it with me, until it's all Heaven. Little baby bitch boy, running from the cops flipping licks, seen some shit, never snitch, live it all With it was a rich ploy, something from the top didn't get to pick if I sin or love at all Around the streets, just a kid Fake love, no retreat, is this it? What a cut, one I got. Grit my teeth, let it bleed. Let it scar, make it me. I'm high, get the scraps of my party 'cause it's my job, it's all part of motherfuckers' problems being profit margin, that's cash. "Yeah I'm such a man," I said. Sad laugh, let it pass. I was a free agent, no one awaiting payment Drip fed paycheck, hit the strip like it's dead man's way, yeah Bounties out, big boots, dick swing Dodge real love, my struggles, gotta have a thing. I don't forget about it. I don't forget about it. I take it with me 'til I'm all gone
9.	On The Run 02:48	lyrics	buy track
Been too long since I smelled the roses Been on the run since I left home and lights in the rear view at every moment How I know myself if I can't be alone with who I've become, turn around I been on the run I been on the run When you saw this, I called you hopeless Win after win fixed, goal was not this Fights in the rear view, I can be honest Now I know myself and I can be alone with Who I've become, face me now We been on the run We been on the run I don't know how we got here It all felt good, until we got here I need my mind clear Running with this heart, it's like I stole it Come and see how far I can stretch the soul and collect the toll of regret, fuck it all in a sense it was all just a bet, stay calm through the mess new dawn, blood fall from his neck I been on the run I been on the run Fuck it all in a sense it's a film, it's a set, it's a plan in my head new dawn, trust fall 'til I'm seeing red I been on the run I don't know how we got here It all felt good, until we got here I need my mind clear Pull up a chair, take a breath, let it pass Get a lighter, get a mirror, get a glass So I can rise up real easy I'm fucked up, come love and please me Everything here to appease me 'cause I been on the run from the pigs, from the work, from the love I been having fun Take me back to real Earth, for what it's worth I can make it Wake me when you feel hurt from a kid's worth, you can blame me We just need a way out, I can wait, I am patient Through the black hole back to myself, all naked I can take the pain of the real in myself rearranging we can make it
10.	Redacted 02:50	lyrics	buy track
I miss your love When it could just come and go like nothing matters like nothing matters I want to see you I want to breathe you Do you ever think of me? I want to see you I want to breathe you Do you ever think of me? Do you ever think of me? Flashback to sitting in the grass by the highway You took me in a while and I watched your eyes dilate Swore to hell we could hear the Earth vibrate Cars driving locked in while I change my fate Hope derived from toxic movements, the kid could never choke Dope how you smile at me while you ready the rope I know it's hard all around, but you left me so broke Most of the time I spend is asking where I lost everything All the while I been working, trying to get better and Over the years I want to try to forget everything 'Cause that rumble was just the traffic anyway. I always thought we shared the same enemy. the same enemy. I'm getting sick of using sickness in songs, it's a lot But it's the only way I can breathe, I don't care who sees I don't care who needs to hate me Y'all just fake anyway like this shit I can't shake I need to move on but my grip won't take Move ahead, clean the blood and bring back the color I feel dissuaded that people really love each other I don't hate you even though they say they come together haunted by the living I shut out everyone anyway, I did it. forever has an ending. I want to see you I want to breathe you Do you ever think of me? I want to see you I want to breathe you Do you ever think of me? I want to see you I want to breathe you
11.	Yellow 02:33	lyrics	buy track
Remember me blind and happy 'cause time keeps eating everything I can't laugh like I used to I can't care like I used to like I used to Full cars, numb hearts, passing under the bridge like we used to Drug runs, nature walks, asking "when do we live like we want to?" Packed blunts, empty broads, vomit on the side of door, plain view Drunk punches, sober loss, fathers watch their sons walk dead and fall For time I felt loved, I was at the center of it all Felt the light of the sun, not a moment was too small Perpetual buzz, the love was a drug, they would always call Fairweather dopamine, I'm clawing at my cages Where did it go to be? Haven't felt yellow in ages Different since you left. The sun feels heavy. Everyone is like an energy theft. I'm real spacey. Wishing I was dead, the love that comes feels hazy like an old script. I've heard the lines, and maybe life's flashing at the crypt. Turns out I'm not special. I wanna feel like god like when it was all yellow I wanna party like my mind was still mellow The burden of feeling has tested my mettle I could show you the ropes when it still felt yellow I could show you a smile when it still felt yellow I could tell you a lie when it still felt yellow I could make you high, I could really sell it. Remember me blind and happy 'cause time keeps eating everything I can't care like I used to I can't laugh like I used to like I used to

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Evil Key VI

I want to feel bliss under the mask.

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released February 2, 2024

All songs written and performed by Evil Key AKA Jonas Reddy-Nicholson
Beats by Evil Key on tracks 1, 5, 8 + 9
Beats by Pepe Carvalho on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 +11
Beat by Wooden Guns on track 07
Vocals recorded by Casey Ahrens-Cavallo at Capture.Studios
Mastered by Jason "Jocko" Randall at Capture.Studios
Cover art/edit by Jessica Montgomery + Stay Fresh Studios

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