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The Things We Started

by Drama Jean

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1.
Now the Water’s Cutting Low its so hazy i know how you feel many have come and many have died but ill still try and its so crazy how their engraving slavery into my bones now the water’s cutting low ah, oh,ah to and fro but there’s no reason to try and grow is what I’m hearing is what I’m fearing stay stay stay stay yeah these days are endless leaving me headless this sea of riots i swam till i died at last washed on your shore stripped of my lore trapped in the door ah,oh,ah to and fro but there’s no reason to try and grow is what I’m hearing is what I’m fearing stay stay stay stay yeah stay stay stay stay stay stay, stay,(yeah) uh huh uh huh stay, yeah, stay(uh huh) oo,oo,oo,oo
2.
Glass Ceiling I’ve been workin’ I’ve been workin’ tryin to get my pay, oo oh yeah oo. I’ve been workin’ I’ve been working’ but he’s just keeping me down he’s just keeping me down he’s just a keeping me down under this glass ceiling brother i know just how you’re feeling cause in the end, we’re gunna make it through (oo,oo,oo,oo,oo) what goes down, must come up we’re gunna make it through this rough spot through the way that i walk(walk), and i talk(talk), and i march(march) oh yeah(yeah) under this glass ceiling brother i know just how you’re feeling cause in the end, we’re gunna make it through(we’re gunna make it through) (grind, grind, grind, grind) I’ve been grindin’(grind) I’ve been grindin’(grind, grind) trying to get my rest, but my sleep don’t last I’ve been grindin’(grind) I’ve been grind grind grind grindin’(grind, grind) but i don’t wanna slip away woah, woah, under this glass ceiling yeah (under this glass ceiling) brother i know just how youre feeling cause in the end, we’re gunna make it through (we’re gunna make it through) oo,oo,a woah oh oo oh, oo oh, oo woah, oo woah and wake, and work x3 and wake, and work x6 then die, yeah
3.
Edge of the World I’m sitting on the edge of the world oh no and i can see for the first time in a while (on the edge of the world) and i can see that you’ve moved and i can see that you're long gone (on the edge of the world) and i feel so alone and then i feel like i can’t let go cause this is the way you feel on the edge of the world. when everything is crashing down on you i am here when everything doesn’t feel right join me(haha), oh dear, join me its been a while since i wrote some rhymes just so you could find out that (on the edge of the world) that I’ve been waiting and debating and facing the facts that you’re not coming back, soon (on the edge of the world) and could it be that in my heart i knew it from the very start that you’d be the one to drive me crazy out of my head oh, when, can i begin to express the way i feel when I’m on the edge of the world (bridge) (i am ready kick start, don’t stop, steady) when everything is crashing down on you (i am here) when everything doesn’t feel right join me(haha), oh dear, join me i was in a place i didn’t know i belonged and if i ever see you again i was hoping you would be my friend i was hoping you would be my liberation x2 i was in a place i didn’t know i belonged and if i ever see you again i was hoping you would be my friend i was hoping you would be my inspiration join me(join me), oh dear(oh dear, join me(join me) when I’m on the edge of the world
4.
We'll Wonder 04:02
We’ll Wonder i think i lost my self in your eyes (i,i,i,i) i know i told my self youre alright (i,i,i,i) out of sight out of mind out of reach i can’t believe it when you speak i’ll wonder how many mornings do you wake clothed in his arms? how many mornings should i wait? you make me wanna wanna you make me wanna sayx2 good loving’ don’t come easy with his arms around your waist girl oh yeah (arms around your waist) and i don’t care what he says babe (i, don’t care) ima lay that body down (body down) and i don’t care how many days he’ll wonder I’m sure he’ll lose himself in that smile (I’m sure, lose) I’m sure he’ll tell himself (tell myself, tell myself, tell myself) youre alright out of sight, out of mind, out of reach he won’t believe it when you speak he’ll wonder how many mornings do you wake clothed in my arms? how many mornings should he wait? did you make him wanna wanna did you make him wanna say? x2 good loving don’t come easy with his arms around your waist girl, oh yeah (arms around your waist) (uh,uh,uh) uh you never tried to be the finest girl on the scene (finest girl on the scene) but you had to keep it real when you was living in between (living in between) the faces the places on heart brake river (heartbreak river) every player a killer and every lover a victimization is the (every love a victim) word no victim is every heard (no victim is every heard) till now we getting loud, profound in every sound (profound in every sound) no way of getting round you brak'em and then you’re proud (oo,oo,oo,oo) hearts carried away in shrouds yet you were never how? yet you were never hurt cherished like spit and dirt (you, cherished like spit and dirt) uh up and down your shirt (up and down your shirt) consumed by baby love anything to fit a glove (oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo) yet heaven is so far star crossed lovers and were dangerous with these scars. ah you make me wanna wanna you make me wanna sayx2 good loving’ don’t come easy with his arms around your waist girl oh yeah ill never love again
5.
Piercing Burning Sleeping (Part 1) Verse 1. lets go, eyes open you’re broken and scared seems like your vision’s impaired can’t figure out who’s on your side. who should you leave behind? all the doors lead to nowhere. and these stairs never end you’ve got scars in your hearts you know will never mend but its time to make a choice. of what will be your voice. cause you can whine and cry and scream until you freaking hoarse but fighting back now that takes skill no matter what type of dose or pill you can fight this thing that holds you back now get ready to attack Chorus: Drama and Patrice Mayo Better stick to your guns the battle isn’t won. (The battle isn’t won the battle isn’t done.) And if you give up soon I won’t know what to do. (I wouldn’t know what to do I wouldn’t know what to say.) These hearts are crying out this world is far from sane. These words flow through your veins. To help to ease the pain. Verse 2. Khaos Light: (yeah, now check it) sometimes I look at my life. Wonder how I got this far? Forget gone, I’ve been way done. These battles just won’t be won. My shattered mind has the tendency. To exploit these insecurities. That no one else would ever see but me. (uhh) I spent so many years. Keeping this Khaos inside. (khaos inside) Until I realized that I shouldn’t have to fucking hide. (fucking hide) I’m gonna let these scars be shown (scars show) and I’m gonna let this pain be known. (pain known) No more silence suffer. I’m gonna make this life my own. So own all your deformities. Embrace your insecurities. Brace yourself and stand up. Its them vs you and me. They call us the broken ones. But best believe we’ll stand up. No more razors on our arms. It’s your throat we’re gonna cut. Verse 3. Drama: (ah.ah.ah. yuh) i am the broken soldier, whose purpose is to serve and on this earth its give and take so I’ve never earned and please excuse me if I’ve ever acted insecure its from these barriers, in the air i breathe and these words i slur and if you do concur, steel strings and switch blades expressions of my heart, so far just oppression in my sleep steep hills when i speak sow what you reap, loneliness is what we eat (yuh) meal after meal, i still on the wheel earth keeps turning, even if we die I’m on that suicidal high tide mercy for my pride everyday that we die is one more for the treason i need that big room in that big house, back home home with that thick spouse. give gifts like saint clause. (suicide but no way out) trill shits what i stay bout, stay stiff but i give clout suicide but no way out(but I’m just a…) x5 Chorus. Drama and Patrice Mayo: Better stick to your guns the battle isn’t won. (The battle isn’t won the battle isn’t done.) And if you give up soon I won’t know what to do. (I wouldn’t know what to do,this world is far from sane.) These hearts are crying out this world is far from sane. These words flow through your veins. To help to ease the pain. Breakdown: Better stick to your guns. The battle isn’t won. And if you give up soon. I won’t know what to do. These hearts are crying out. This world is far from sane. Let this words flow through your veins. Ill help you ease the pain. Outro. Khaos Light: Keep passing those open windows. That’s what John Irving said. But its hard to hear those words. When my minds screaming “you’re better off dead” And my little one and my life. Have both picked up that knife. And though I preach again. I still commit these acts in spite. I’m a despicable, hypocritical, criminal With words that drip cynical. Somehow I’ll make this life hospitable. For you and I and he and she and those who stand by me. Like Riku I’m meant to be. Control what’s dark within me. Using my defects to protect and detect the ones affected And inflicted. With crippling blows By those who are vindictive. And for my love. You’ve got to be strong. I know distant makes time feel long. But in no time I will never be gone. But then again like drama said. I’m just a boy with dreams of a god. To somehow clear away life’s fog.
6.
American Horror Story (hahaha)… we’ll cause revolutions in your streets carried by one simple beat these elders are all wrong with veins of poison in their arms they built a circle, a cycle never ending it spins it spins it spins and spins some more because everything was built for the rich mans purpose, lack of education so we can not hurt them their building idols in my town i see them everywhere i see so I’m seated when the reaper comes to burn we’re not your typical story were not your typical kids this is an american horror story (we’re not yours) past the age past the grave the living dead who came to power at the turn of the first page the year is now the year is soon what are we to do(oo) they’ve taken captives with this market so tall their influence triumphs influenza so that our bodies start to rot we’re not your typical story were not your typical kids this is an american horror story (we’re not yours) okay, an other generation fall victim by the same system we all want riches we want bitches like we can’t quite 'em we all dependent on said real shit but get real with em hey all you niggas preaching money drugs and hollow women how bout some struggle, strife, and hunger cause I’m always with em i call it egotism on rap skism like blacked prisons you never winning’ if your churen are your own victims and all you rich tricks in the echoes with the wind with it im smelling corpses in corperates i smell embezzle but all you blinded by the money fame and shiny metal and could it be that this is a kettle to keep us cooked see that all this bull shit taught me to swim through the ocean b numb pain shock release my country has a voiceless voice they’re screaming we (can hear it) but it seems their pain would change your course in hopes to hear the screams i bleed my souls across these pages my words are knives they’ll cut the lies falsely that you are living not angry just annoyed that you act all so damn surprised when kids shoot up their schools and then decide to end their lives those kids showed warning signs broken damaged don’t be dumb turns out that I’m the one you turned your knowing head from (he’ll be fine) turned your knowing head from (lets go) ahh...
7.
The Road You Leave (Part 1) how long? till the end of the road i thought i knew long before you but then again so did you (1,2,3,4) colors turn to grey life it self leaves life it self goes away x2 how much is enough? there’s a loss at the end of everyday when you wait, for the end of the road sorry, for what i said the other day baby, i meant it to go an other way but you know its partly you too please don’t walk away i need you here today, and every, every day forever and always my baby please, please don’t go i love you, i love you so when.. life it self goes away x2 (every time that we turn, we burn the pages) (why do we even bother, yeah?) but how much is enough? there’s a loss at the end of everyday when you wait, for the end of the road I’ve been a longing for your touch almost everyday yet, things are not the same would you hold this? would you hold me? x5 cause the old me yeah she’s lonely and I’m, dyin’ when… life it self goes away x2 (every time that we turn, we burn the pages) (why do we even bother, yeah?) how much is enough? there’s a loss at the end of everyday when you wait, for the end of the road i love you so, i love you so oo,oo,oo
8.
The Road You Leave (Part 2) so, the road is over now I’ve found myself with a lot of people (oo) who don’t know what love’s about (ah) so give me a way give me away now give me a way out suicides okay now in these eyes, in these eyes so, youre feeling lonely now you’ve found yourself with a lot of people (oo) who don’t know what loves about (ah) so you said so give me a way give me away now give me a way out suicides okay now in these eyes, in these eyes x2 i was talking to my boy the other night he was on the brew and i was on the knife talkin bout this life and how it is so lonely lookin for a lover, but don’t no body know me yes my girl left me and thats okay im looking for a shawty if anyone would stay i’d call her ms.del rey and she would call me bobby and we’d be making love(yuh) but never like a hobby she would be down and i would be around(yeah) never fuck around is she ever need a body. x2 we’d never say… so give me a way out,give me a way out(out yuh), so give me a way out (out,way out) suicides okay now (okay now) in these eyes in these eyes in these eyes x4 [oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh oo oh] (ah ah, ah, ah ah, ah, ah ah ,ah) (oh,oh,oh,aye,oh,oh) we’d never say, she’d never say (yuh, we’d never say. yuh, she’d never say) (she’d never say) we’d never say, we’d never say she’d never say, I’m giving you away so give me away out(alright) suicides okay now(no way) so give me away out(okay) suicides okay now(let go) if i was gunna kill my self she would not care (would not care) when she was (sui)cidal (she was (sui)cidal) i was beside her (i was beside her) leaves me anxious, leaves me breathless all the things that we could say heinous faces so missed placed in all the hatred of these days(yuh) so give me a way out, (alright, alright) give me away now (okay naw) so give me a way out, (let go) suicides okay now (in these eyes) in these eyes in these eyes in these eyes x4 oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh oo oh oh, oh, oh oh

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released April 9, 2016

Robert Barron: Lead vocalist, Guitar, Songwriter/ Composer/Arranger
Michael J. Moody(Khaos Light): Drums, Vocals, Songwriter
Jackson Rodgers: Bass
Max Kao: Bass
Ruth Gardner: Keyboard
Patrice Mayo: Vocals
Jake Griffin: Vocals
Corbin Winkfield: Vocals
Leo Thomasian: Vocals
Carlos Barron: Vocals
Barbara Templeton: Vocals
Adam Koudah: Producer, Recording/Mixing/Master Engineer, Vocals

Special Thanks to Jimmy Wallace

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