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Writers Block

from Happy Hour by Paradox & P44

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lyrics

It’s been a weird couple of months, I’ve never had writer’s block this bad,
I’m gonna lob this pad, in the fire,
Been stumbling, funds drained, chuck this fad in the recycler,
Where’s that lighter, give me some propane,
Was feeling like cocaine, chopped up, flaky and stretched,
I’m gonna David Karesh, everyone, get it done,
I’ve got flames out the pen, but can’t make any sense,
These lines won’t go straight in my head,
Go two mixtapes on the deck, Mountain Goats and some other guitar shit,
But it’s wasted cos Pez,
Can’t write a decent verse, get a theme and work hard,
But can’t keep up good rhymes and wordplay in the text,
There’s a producer on the line, he’s cool with it ‘cos time,
Normally solves this kind of problem,
But it’s been three months since P bumped out a playable track,
He’s got other shit to do, who am I to stop him,

I can’t, can’t get it out anymore, can’t get it out, can’t get it out anymore,
All stuck in my head, can’t move on ‘em, lose all them lyrics soon as I sit down to record,
I can’t, can’t, can’t get it out anymore, can’t get it, can’t get it out anymore,
All stuck in my head, can’t move on ‘em, lose all them lyrics soon as I sit down to record.


Walking home from the station, might be listening to Nas,
Illmatic, keep at it, then suddenly a bar hits me,
Half-dizzy, repeat the track, yeah it starts with me,
Throw an idea out, comes back, nothing changes,
Man it’s like Frisbee, I’ve had writer’s block before,
But never when the going was this good,
And Dox ain’t no doc, can’t write me up some sort of prescription, for this affliction,
No urine test for being this pissy,
We 8 tracks deep in the album son, god knows I’ll be so stoked when the album comes,
All our work this time, might start selling some,
But I can’t get a fucking lyric out, GET IT DONE,
Skip James is a classic, slept on heavy style,
But I feel like I’m starting every second track with “it’s been a while”,
It’s just pressure, I see these patterns in my head,
I just wanna use them, but they won’t leave my fucking pen,

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from Happy Hour, released November 15, 2016

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