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Something Beautiful (ft. Bobbi Kitten)

from I've Been Meaning To Write The Meaning Of Life by Happy Tooth

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about

.I somehow got Bobbie Kitten of Damn the Witch Siren to sing on the outro of the whole record. We played some shows together and I was looking for someone and she reached out and here we are. Go check out DTWS stuff! The other member Z Wolf made music under a different moniker a while back, "The Bomb Tastey Yum-Yums."
His music was some of the first local music I fell in love with and I still to this day play his old records. They're both geniuses.

So this one is about being a more introspective type of rapper and how being a rapper inherently comes with a inflated sense of ego, and trying to make a vulnerable song seems like the opposite of what is right as a rapper sometimes. The verses and chorus were suppose to represent this duality and how I came to terms with not fitting in any box.
Everything is as meaningful as you want it to be.
I can be anything I like as long as I mean it wholeheartedly.

lyrics

Happy Tooth and Bum.
(Theory.)
Happy Tooth and Bum.
(Theory.)
My life is a mess.
(Yep.)
Find me in distress.
(Bet.)
Sometimes I'm a wreck.
(Yep.)
Wish that I felt blessed.
(Check)
But I've held down my own self doubt
well while my Hell now spells out
sell out.
If I'm dyin unknown
I'll be deciding to go.
Here's my press release.
Expect me to be more likely exposed.
Dying to grow
but everything wants to stifle me.
I just want to floor it
bored with how they leave it idling,
Like a thief
that likes to eat.
I'll take the beat
and make it mine to keep.
This is all I got.
This is all I got.
Call it a downward spiral
I've been around a while.
Now it's final,
outta miles
but still proud to smile.
Found my style without
validation from strangers.
I'm at the show alone,
but the payments the labor.
I wrote a poem to show
folks out here waiting for saviors.

Every gig I ever did was a reason to live.
Every open mic changed a hopeless night.
Every festival that put me on the schedule.
Let me say somethin to the crowd.
And I meant it all.

So I'll refuse to bend and choose pretend.
A fugitive's stupid grin.
Whose actions are impunitive.
Just a cyst
spiting society's
skin silently.
This isn't who I'd like to be,
some beautiful's inside of me.
I just can't unlock it.
Like a latch broke on a locket.
The picture is the conquest.
My love it lacks logic
Everything is fucked..
Everytihng just sucks.
So I'm inebriated by
increasing hatred.
This disease it seems related.
So engage with being famous.
So here's to whiskey drinkers,
thinkers, all the kids
with sticky fingers.
If the thought just simply lingers.
Write a quick verse then we sing words.
Tired of feeling damaged.
Sick of bein defective.
We try to find catharis
through the things we've collected.
But writing all these songs doesn't
seem as effective.

Every gig I ever did was a reason to live.
Every open mic changed a hopeless night.
Every festival that put me on a pedestal.
Let me say somethin to the crowd.
And I meant it all.

(With Bobbi Kitten)
Say something beautiful.
Say something meaningful.
Say something.
Say something.
I've been meaning to write the meaning of life.

credits

from I've Been Meaning To Write The Meaning Of Life, released October 1, 2018
Beat produced by Bum Theory.
Lyrics by Happy Tooth.
Alternate vocals by Bobbi Kitten (of Damn the Witch Siren)
Mixed by Ryan Liptak
and mastered by Mark Abrams
at Vaughan Music Studios.

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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