Silver Bullet Lyrics

First things first

Just gotta say rest in peace to Jules, MF DOOM and J Dilla

My Grandma, Grandpa and my Abuela

My Abuelo and their Abuelos too

On both sides, and rest in peace to Delfa too

I didn't really know you well but when I heard the news

It was really real world worst fears come true

And then the news just didn't end

And I don't mean on TV, I mean hearing it through family friends

How in 2 years more than I could count on 2 hands we'd never get the chance to see or speak to again

22 that we knew since 2020

I mean loss after loss then I lost friends

Felt no choice but to cut contact with who I had been closest with for the longest

I mean talk about wept till I emptied the faucet

Planet-wide shifts, what could you really do to pause it?

Or even try soften the hits

Clear cause and effect on my mental, talk about an impact statement

Sad to see the past fall wayward

Try best not to let it vanish in the wind

Know my last song was called Kansas

But no way to predict the turns and twists since

Grief broke open the dam that all my life that I had been assembling

But no way to avenge, just gotta try and mend your broken heart

Make amends with what you wish you could've done

Every piece added to this puzzle from the start filling some

Part that you can't replace in its sum

With any other part under the sun

When it's all said and finished

Don't diminish who they helped you become

Never separate even if you never see em again in the flesh

Wouldn't be the person you are right now if you never had met

Whether you hold on regret or memories that you would never like to forget

Hard to draw the line where the good start and the bad end

All amalgamation of moments spent

In the process tryna reconnect

Cause know at heart where we already been

Help us figure out where we're heading, how to not just blend in

Started tryna sample music from my heritage

Started me in direction to learn more about it, not just stare at it

To understand better what's coming through my parentage

Soon after started intercepting signals from what I can't call anything else but inner inheritance

The past send ripples don't be scared of

Just be aware of it

And prepare for as long as you got time to share with it

Not unlimited, each time I'm reminded imma need a therapist of some kind

At least kind enough to be worth sharing with

Not parroting a guidebook, try to limit the impact of genocide to just in my mind

Talking internal imbalance like they haven't seen outside

What's systemic cannot be individualized

We all interlinked like cells

So where to draw the line?

Only wanna use this música when I feel like the words merit it

Same as any ceremony, need to put care in it

Or else it was all for nothing

Something you could share with

Instead of tearing down, spilling like a sandwich

Tried to fill a bit too much to hold up with my hands

Ask me if i'm bleeding, I'm like "Nah it's just condiments"

Compliments to those still cooking

Stead of letting this high heat turn you wooden

To get good gotta put good in

Even if some part of you say you shouldn't

Had a change of heart when I was so sure that I couldn't

Rather be called so-called soft than blocked off

How's that for a silver bullet?

Vulnerability still right where I put it

On the shelf for a minute

But crack it open like Popeye, need my spinach

So much to gain from the time spent sitting in it

Absorb more than nutrients

In more ways than one I'm learning ways to maneuver in the future

Not just for awareness but to really do the s**t

You can be studious to a point

But if you can't find compassion in practice, you're already losing it

More than seeking to be lucrative

Bout returning to space where rest just as crucial as movement is

Illuminated under moonlight

And shining bright under sun, keeping you in sync

Let the faucet flow, never slowing to a drip

You just gotta open up

It's love from the source help you go the distance

Clear through all that imposed static

Impulse to get mad at myself when I mess up just like my dad did

But it didn't start with him

It's a river sending ripples through the past to the future kids

Less we find a way to break the chain

For the 7 generations before and the 7 who are yet to exist in this form

You can do so much more than you think

This time is ours to build new oars outta our experience and re-orient this ship