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The New Old Fashioned Way

by Charles Only

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1.
The Constant 04:40
I've changed I'm the same thing I play All the same games I break All the same chains I sleep Have the same dreams My team Still the same team My scene Still the same scene It's all the same Nothin changes Except the name No longer Shameless Reset the stage Come on and take this Until it all Comes back a monster Let's fill it all With somethin proper Let's kill it all Come on and prosper Cos when you think it's over That's just cos you're older That's just on your shoulders Soldier on until you reach Where you can walk up To where you've heard talk of Go to where you can fall off And walk off It's the new old fashioned way Break the mainframe I'm okay I've just been drinkin Most days I let it sink in I don't say much But I've just been thinkin I'm alright I'm makin progress Up all night Forget the nonsense All light exists Within a dark sense And when you think it's over That's just cos you're older That's just on your shoulders Soldier on until you reach Where you can walk up To where you've heard talk of Go to where you can fall off And walk off It's the new old fashioned way Break the mainframe Fame That's what you all want Capitalization You type with all perfect spacin But pick the wrong font And you got all the right needs But the wrong wants Your knees If you fall you might bleed But it's all consequently the same As keepin all of your blood inside When you let it out It's just the end of the ride And I got plenty of time To send mine through more capillaries Plenty of mind To pay none to my adversaries I'm actually very adept At avoiding conflict But dive into it with no regrets When someone wants it And I can act like I'm beyond it But if I'm bein honest You can have it if you want it And that's a promise I'm off topic I do that I have a hard time stayin focused But you knew that It's one of the things I'm tryna change In this brave new world So sit back and watch it all unfurl When you think it's over That's just cos you're older That's just on your shoulders Soldier on until you reach Where you can walk up To where you've heard talk of Go to where you can fall off And walk off It's the new old fashioned way Break the mainframe
2.
You already beat the world in your mind Like everybody knows who you are So many people know you online It's over baby you're a star Ever since you got verified It's like you got the world in your arms But offline you're still scared of life It's just so hard If we were to get to know ya Then we'd all fall in love Like everything about you Is just sent straight from above If we were to get to know ya It'd make up for the way That everyone ignores you In your ordinary day If we were to get to know ya Then everyone would see "Man they are just so different They're so not like you and me" If we were to get to know ya You wouldn't be nameless You're just dyin to be famous You shouldn't have to go to work anymore It's not fair you deserve the world Everyday life is a bore You're not like all these boys and girls They're all so busy with their small little lives Like any of em really matter at all But none of them have been verified They're just so small If they were to get to know ya Then they would understand You're someone they should follow On that thing that's in their hand If they were to get to know ya They'd see just who you are And maybe they would love you Like those people from afar If they were to get to know ya Then maybe they would see That you're somethin to strive for You're somethin that they should be If they were to get to know ya You wouldn't be nameless You're dyin to be famous Here in the world This isn't where you belong Here in the world These people got you all wrong Here in the world You're just a face in the crowd Here in the world You wanna scream but you just can't be loud Here in the world You're dyin to be famous
3.
Mol 04:49
I can imagine how long that it took the scars To heal from the things that I done to you I can remember we'd sit there and look at stars Never thought I woulda run from you There's some things that I just can't change I guess that's why you still live down there We were just kids even though we could both rent cars And we thought the world was just made for us We'd get as drunk as we could at the local bars And hope the world would never run away from us Still there's some things that we couldn't change I guess that's why you still live down there Guess I gotta fix it in my dreams Go in and fix it in my dreams I have to fix it in my dreams Cos I still see you in my dreams I hope the years that've passed have been good to you At least as good as they've been for me Down there I did everything that I could for you Lord knows you did everything that you could for me Still there's some things that we couldn't change I guess that's why you still live down there Waitin on trains that's supposed to be here You're on the ground with the track to your ear You said that I said we'd grow old together But darlin we did and it's been fifty years I can wake up and go back to the world Go back to my son go back to my girl Where I spin a totem and know that it's real And I don't just have to rely on the feel Rely on a deal that I made with an architect For a city he ain't even started yet Sposed to meet me right here by this park bench He ain't even done left his apartment yet Here I sit and I wait and I spin The totem and then I spin it again I gotta keep checkin I don't wanna end in A similar place as the one that I'm sendin A message a bottle a carrier pigeon You carried the water I'll carry the vision We made an incision and just started diggin Until we infected the world that we live in It's sick now When I put up a brick now An invisible hand goes to rip down Everything just gets flipped now There ain't nothin to do but just sit down or skip town But what happens to those that are stuck here? When they dream it's just dreams of above here There's no such thing as love here And no one voluntarily chooses to come here But for some it's a prison a home A miniature dome they live in alone And visitors never stay long Cos when they wake up where they're from They just vanish and gone Fix it in my dreams Go in and fix it in my dreams I have to fix it in my dreams Cos I still see you in my dreams
4.
Earth to Earth Why's no one pickin up? Livin out here can be rough sometimes All the way out here Where you never come to see me We're barely even in touch sometimes I say I love you But you don't even believe me You leave me out here On the edge of the sky Here with a bunch of little stars Who are tryna be me But I'm kissin all of this And heaven goodbye I can't wait around To see if you will ever need me I get excited When you say you'll come around (And you just don't know) And I just can't hide it So I lay all my cards down But there ain't no poker face In this high of a room And there ain't no one to chase On this side of the moon I can't just let you Let me sit around and wait Like I won't forget You and me share all the same fates You can't just see me When you're sick of what you see Like you don't mean a thing to me I keep on callin but no one's pickin up It's like the planet that I once knew as home Is just gone Livin out here can be rough sometimes All the way out here Where you don't get any service The sound of silence is too much sometimes I'd say to try it But I know you don't deserve it Just bein out here On the edge of the sky Here with these stars Whose little names I can't remember I send you letters Almost all of the time All I get back is just the same Return to sender I know you never meant to Make me feel this way But all of the evidence Doesn't support this claim So just excuse me If I'm feelin cast aside You can't just use me And then think it'll all be fine I've finally woken up To what I need to see Cos I finally broke the part Of me that just can't be Fine with believin In what's only make believe Like you don't mean a thing to me I keep on callin but no one's pickin up It's like the planet that I once knew as home Is just gone It was your home But now it's all gone Hey it's me Okay listen I hate to be So unremitting and faithfully Dedicated to an idea that's make believe Instigated me to drive here take a seat Been a minute don't cry tears Hate to see you feelin so sorry This isn't a pitiful party Bit off more than I can chew I abuse the nostalgia Just sit in the car please No ignition or car keys You been wishin to start me Slow me down hold me back Because misery loves company So you been huntin me down Used to ignore me and then you treat me Like some brand new discovery How? Used to tease me But you think you in love with me now You're not in love with me now You're not in love with me now You're just a lustful untrustworthy Lovehungry son of a Eh now you get the summary now What have we found? Oh that's right You treatin me like the long lost When I needed you You let me fall off Now you want me back here at all costs But I was always there for you Your scapegoat and your parachute This payphone call is obsolete So how could I declare a truce? I was always there for you Your scapegoat and your parachute You refuse to define our love Connection lost the line is cut I keep on callin but no one's pickin up It's like the planet that I once knew as home Is just gone
5.
Legacy 05:05
Watchin cartoons Sittin in the kitchen You're talkin gibberish But I listen I bet if I did a little dance You'd laugh and you'd love it It's somethin I would probably Never do in public It sounds silly Cos it's only been a year But I can't remember what life was like Before you were here Don't get me wrong I wasn't in a dark place But now it's like I got hotels On Boardwalk and Park Place I pass go every time that you smile at me You changed the meaning of the word And redefined happy What it used to mean Just seems a little empty now And all the vices in the world Don't even tempt me now Yeah I still got a couple But now I'm workin on em Cos you make me wanna Be a better person Used to not care about my troubles I would just ignore em Hopin that they would get better But they would only worsen I'm sure you'll go through the same things And take all the same swings at pitches Tryna win all the same rings This world can be vicious But it's a beautiful place When you can finally make it onto a base And when you finish the race You'll wanna look back And see what you did Now I can look back And see it's a kid If we should ever be apart You'll forever have a part of me now And you'll forever be my heart The biggest part of me now is you Even when I'm not around You can listen to this song If you're feelin down Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there No matter where you are You can listen to this song And I won't be far Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there I wonder what you'll wanna be When you get older I wonder if you'll even know Cos I didn't I just took the whole world And put the thing up on my shoulders Thought I would figure it out But who'm I kiddin? I just did what I had to do At any given time Just to make it through Just to survive Just to be fine Just to try to find Any little thing that made me feel like I wasn't so alone Cos yo at times it can feel like Nobody understands you And that can be the worst And you can't find yourself So you continue to search But that's just life Y'know what? It's only for the better Cos when the sun shines You'll appreciate the weather a lot more If you know what the rain's like And the good times are sweeter If you know what the pain's like F'real tho I think you'll be fine Cos you're a little me And little me grew up to write down these rhymes So when I'm When I'm not around You can listen to this song If you're feelin down Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there No matter where you are You can listen to this song And I won't be far Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there Man I can't wait To watch you figure the world out Or watch you be confused Tryna figure a girl out I wonder if you'll be into sports Or if you'll be in a band Or if you'll wanna try to rap Like your old man Maybe you'll write a song like this For your own son Maybe I'll live long enough To get to meet him Maybe you'll be into movies Maybe you'll be into books I'll save mine Just in case you ever wanna read em Maybe you'll be The President of the United States Maybe you'll travel the world Instead of stayin here Maybe you'll be an astronaut And go to different worlds Ones we won't even discover for years Maybe you'll just be a regular old guy Who does whatever he has to do to get by No matter what who or where you are I'll never judge you You're the best thing that I've ever done You're my son I love you Even when I'm not around You can listen to this song If you're feelin down Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there No matter where you are You can listen to this song And I won't be far Just think of me and close your eyes You'll see me Put this on and close your eyes And I'll be there
6.
Cannibals 04:46
I stay above the fray And float above little things That you think are the biggest I take another way And go above I'ma start where you think that you're finished I wait another day And I just watch As you burn all your village's bridges Then I take another way And go around While you're sure I'm just mindin my business I'm huntin prey and leavin nothin to scavenge I'll clean your plate And leave you wonderin what happened Pick your bones clean and leave You'll think I'm a savage This ain't no thing to me It's survival tactics Someone explain to me The things you're concerned with Cos this ain't a game to me It's things you'll get burned with I get yall afraid Cos you don't think that I've earned this But get yall acquainted It's the things you gon learn quick While you just eat each other alive I started everything Was playin shows Before most of yall ever bought music Man me and Blake were kings And wore the crown Before there was even reason to do it Those clubs you play at now You wouldn't be there If we ain't convince them to let you So say thank you Say that now And kiss the ring of the one Who just made you and left you You're all my children And I will be respected I'll play the villain Just so you get the message I'll hurt your feelings If you still need a lesson Cos my floor's your ceiling If you need come and test this I don't know what happened To the scene we created I'm so done with rappin This is peace you can take it I'll give up the passion And just leave all this wasted And sit up here laughin While I peep my replacements Just beef and eat each other alive
7.
Anchor 05:44
I'm never good when left to my own devices I'm fine at first but then it lasts too long I never could be counted on in a crisis Too hard to find I'm just a vagabond I wish you could be someone that I can talk to I wish you knew me like I want you to But I ain't got time to take you all on a walkthrough There's too many other things I wanna do But we can sit here for a drink or two And talk about the weather Talk about the weather But there's some other things I need from you Besides the simple talk And a laugh when we're together I get up and say peace to you And walk to make it better Walk to make it better Though I'm not sure why I'm leavin you But you'll never understand And I can't see it through I need an anchor weighing me down Someone to sit and spend a day on the ground Someone to tell me I should stay in this town But you don't know a thing about me I need an anchor weighing me down Someone who'll let me spend a day in a frown Someone who'll put up with this negative clown But you don't know a thing about me You only get so many people who know you Once they're all gone you can't replace the ghosts You all don't know me You just know what I show you Or what I tell you in a Facebook post I got a couple I got left I can talk to But we're all so scattered it's impossible And I ain't got time to take you all on a walkthrough So get up and leave and I'll just watch you go But we can sit here for a drink or two And talk bout politicians Talk bout politicians But there's some other things I need from you Besides the simple talk I just want someone to listen I get up and say peace to you And laugh bout what I'm missin Laugh bout what I'm missin Cos I'm not sure why I'm leavin you But you'll never understand and I can't see it through I need an anchor weighing me down Someone to sit and spend a day on the ground Someone to tell me I should stay in this town But you don't know a thing about me I need an anchor weighing me down Someone who'll let me spend a day in a frown Someone who'll put up with this negative clown But you don't know a thing about me I've been out to sea for way too long And need to hit the dock I've been aimin hard but never hit the spot Miss the plot I can listen watch Get a little blister pop Fish some rocks Flick a wrist and flop But I can't hit the top I wish it'd stop But I gotta keep aimin Keep namin these pictures I keep framin This one here I call Damon This one here needs replacin This whole process takes some patience But I'm nothin if I'm not waitin Not pacing back to middle of the frame It's a game with a trap in the middle Lemme rap for a little Talk your ear off Take a few shots just to walk the beer off Have another round then it's off to play I would stay but it's been a pretty awful day And I don't want you to know that I want you to believe what I want you to believe So I leave And drown in my own thoughts on the ride home And down one or two more soon as I'm alone As soon as I'm a grown man everything changes Soon as I'm my own man everything's phases All the same pages I read at the start of the book Appear again in a whole different part of the book So man look It's not like I'm cryin for help But there's a knot and I can't untie it myself If I could just get it loose I'd be fine All I need to get by is a little bit of time And an anchor I need an anchor weighing me down Someone to sit and spend a day on the ground Someone to tell me I should stay in this town But you don't know a thing about me I need an anchor weighing me down Someone who'll let me spend a day in a frown Someone who'll put up with this negative clown But you don't know a thing about me
8.
Windows 04:05
I know where we're goin now And this ain't the way But there ain't no slowin down On this interstate Been lost and been goin round Been missin for days I'm sad but don't show it now Cos this ain't the place No this ain't the place The future's ahead of us The past is a maze Let it use them instead of us We're rats in a race How we ever made it out We can't be contained No more will we wait for ours We can make a better world If we just don't fear the change I'll miss what I thought I won't It'll hit me in waves I'll sing to the parts I know It'll give me a stage I'll say that I'll stay in touch And I will in a way But there's a world out there made for us I gotta see it today Oh let's go see it today So hold on we're goin home Now that I know the way We'll be there before you know Just another few days My hand on the steering wheel My mind in a haze I'm starting to feel it's real Lookin at a changin world Through the windows into space
9.
Old 05:24
I can be a hard one to live with I'm sorry I ain't no gift This I know But I promise I'll try Try to be less of what's wrong Less of what's wrong Is always more than what you think When you think you've done enough I guess I'm just wrong Always wrong in what I think Even when I think I'm wrong I could do more than I do Yeah I know that I could be less difficult So I promise I'll try Try to be less of what's wrong Cos baby you know You know it's never what I mean When I say that I'm not wrong I guess I don't know Don't know where I"m supposed to be Even when I think I'm lost If I ever do somethin so bad Somethin so Somethin that I Somethin I can't just come back from Just tell me and I I will just go Go somewhere and sit and think About things that I've done wrong Cos whatever's wrong I know it's never gonna be Somethin we can't come back from I know I can be a pain babe Baby I know You know you can too But it's just not the same babe The same as before We're just growin old This is grownin old
10.
Golden 04:28
I remember when I saw you for the last time There was a Halloween party up at Minick's We got there it rained and everybody went inside Except for me and you we dipped we were finished We hit the car and hit a bar instead Had a couple beers said the stuff we usually said Acts that we were gonna book Shows that we were gonna rock Songs that we were gonna finish For the album we were gonna drop You raised a toast to my newborn son I had to get home to him so we only raised one Then we said our goodbyes To all the people that we knew there Cmon it's me and you Everywhere we went we had a crew there You dropped me off And made plans to come and meet him Asked when was the best time For you to come and see him I watched you drive off and then I went inside Man I wish that I could turn back time Golden Now you're golden I remember when I saw you for the last time There was a random ass party back at Rachael's Some people there were on mushrooms I think I dunno if you were one of em You really didn't say so I hadn't seen you in awhile so we caught up And talked about the music each of us was workin on Even though we started off in the same damn group Somehow we never appeared together on a song So we talked about fixin that I was gonna talk to Haj Get you on a Dumhi song with the whole squad We freestyled Kicked some rhymes back and forth We were young it was fun We would rhyme for sport I don't remember you leavin I don't remember sayin bye There's a hundred percent chance that I was high Man that whole era really flew by Yo I wish that I could turn back time Golden Now you're golden I wish that Tommy got to meet his Uncle Blake I wish he got to meet his Uncle Joel I wish he'd know what they were like in real life Instead of in the stories that I'll tell him when I'm old I wish that I could hear their voices without hittin play I'm thankful that I can at least hear em there I wish that I could be with each of them another day So I could say my goodbyes instead of sayin prayers I wish I never had to see what it was like For a parent to lose their own child I can't imagine the sheer amount of strength That it must take to even crack a smile I wish that I could let em know they'll be fine I wish that I could think about it without cryin And even though I'm sure we'll see each other Somewhere down the line I still wish that I could turn back time Golden Now you're golden We're all golden
11.
What do you wanna leave behind? What do you want the ones who are still here To have when you're gone? Just a little peace of mind Maybe a blanket to wrap themselves in When they need to be warm An old sweater that needs to be worn Even though it's all ripped and tattered and torn But it still smells just like you so they keep it They're never gonna wash it They're never gonna bleach it I need this to be more than a song More than the album it's on More than the job I was workin At the time that I wrote it More than the computer That you'll use to download it More than my voice and Lenny playin piano More than my usual tenor more than soprano I need this to be somethin you keep Somethin you love Somethin within your reach When I'm beneath and above Whether I'm in the earth or in the air Whether if I knew it was comin or unaware Whether I was facin it down or runnin scared No matter how or when it happened This'll always be here Yo this'll be my will even if I have nothin Play this at my wake for my friends and my cousins This is for anyone who will say that they loved him Tell em he's still here They just gotta push a button This is hello from the other side This is me tellin you not to cry and that I'm fine This is a message from beyond This is Ouija This is for you to put this on when you need me I'm sorry this is somethin always on my mind But you never know when you're gonna die It could be tonight It could be somewhere way down the road I just wanna take a bow before the curtains close This is life the universe and everything in between Get in the car it's a hitchhiker's dream Don't make a scene make a fist And just put it in the air For the ones who ain't here For the ones who ain't there For the ones you think about At the end of the night Yeah the ones you still see When you turn off the light They're the ghosts that exist even if you fight Cos when they're gone to forget em is wrong So we remember right Remember me as I was Remember me as I am Remember me as a son Remember me as a man Remember me as a father and a husband Remember me as an artist worth discussin Remember me as a friend and a lover As a mentor a brother Man remember it all Remember all of my climbs and all of my falls If life was a game I had a ball I'll be your guardian angel now And follow you around Keep you safe outta danger now I'll be the eagle in the sky keepin watch And you know I always wanted to fly So that's the perfect spot I'll be the picture collage somebody made for you The one you hang on the wall and look at every day I'll find a nice spot up here to save for you If anybody tries to take it I'ma chase em away I'll be your memories the good times and bad The happy times and sad and everything in between I'll be the dream that you have That you think about the whole next day Tryna figure out what it means I'll be the leaves in your fall Be the spring in your step Be the breeze in your summer Be the snow on your breath Don't think of me like I'm gone Just think of me like a song And if you miss me put it on and sing along like This is hello from the other side This is me tellin you not to cry because I'm fine This is a message from beyond This is Ouija This is for you to put this on when you need me I'm sorry this is somethin always on my mind But you never know when you're gonna die It could be tonight It could be somewhere way down the road I just wanna take a bow before the curtains close
12.
Sunset 04:23
I'm on a planet none of you've ever been to Somewhere out here beyond the Kuiper Belt Can't see the sun from here it's sort of an issue But we never worry that our ice'll melt The locals look at us like we don't belong here But everyone's newer than somebody else Soon as another rocket drops someone off here We become locals to somebody else We don't play like we used to This all takes getting used to We might say that we'll take off Or we might stay and just make this home A million miles beyond how far you can dream up Somewhere out way beyond the moon and stars That's where we landed and we made a new dream up Where it don't even matter who you are You could be anyone today I'm a doctor Tomorrow I might be a famous star This ain't for everyone to be an imposter But if you got a ship you need to chase the stars We don't play like we used to This all takes getting used to We might say that we'll take off Or we might stay and just make this home

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released May 25, 2016

All songs written & performed by Charles Only
All songs recorded & mixed by Waxless
Track 4 features additional vocals & lyrics by Korey Costa
Tracks 1-6 produced by Nemes1s
Track 7 produced by OB Beatzz
Track 8 produced by Waxless
Track 9 produced by Greg Barbone
Track 10 produced by Someone
Track 11 produced by Nom-Mineral
Track 12 produced by Korey Costa
Album art by Shawn Vales

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As a solo artist and the vocalist half of the duo the Yes Yes Yalls, singer/emcee Charles Only has shared stages with The Roots, Action Bronson, A$AP Rocky and many more.

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