Thirst Lyrics

Can I be immortal?

Let me scream my name from the cliffs

Let the wind carry me across the abyss

When the sun bleeds and the sky gets drenched

Can I be the last song playing in your car when the mushroom

Clouds on the highway lift their gaze to the heavens

Turn my shit to eleven

Turn that whip in a donut down the 101

One for the sessions that were never done

Two for the money that we never made

Three for the prayers that we said in vain

‘Cause I don’t want to risk living in regret

Just a kid with a mic and the Internet

So I float with the clouds and I sing with the rain

‘Til I sink in the grave

Can I be immortal?

Setting up my dorm to record this

Looking at my life, can I score this

Listen for the chords and the melodies

Listen for the hook and the chorus

Shit, now I’m late for my deadlines

Got a second draft for my thesis, but I know it’s bullshit

I was so excited when I started writing

On Because the Internet

And they said it would get me into Berkeley, but

It’s not about the PhD

I just want to meet Don G

Tell him that he gave me the vocab

To put my damn name on the whole map

To look into myself and be sure that

The fork in the road has a war path

Or a dead end

Can I be an artist?

Can I put it all down on the wax?

Give it to the randos, giving the reacts?

Give it to the DJs, spinning at the frats?

Give it to a stranger living in the moment

Back in the past you were me, I was you

But the memory is gone

Meet me down in the song

Lift my name to the gods

Years pass, autumn into winter and the

Gears snag, flower beds wither with the

Beats, chords, melodies I never wrote

Words for, melodies I hum whenever

Waiting in a line to get another cup of joe to get the

Blood into my head so I can write another paragraph a

Couple pages left to get the article to where the journals

Publish it and put it on a shelf where no one touches it ‘cause

I don’t ever want to be forgotten even if I gotta

Sink into the bottom of a cup and get another ‘cause

Another sip is all I gotta get to get a portal of

Enlightenment to finish an assignment to get back to what I

Need now, time in every day to get the beast out

Open up a window and reach

Out into the deep

Deep into the darkness

Can I be an artist

Setting up my class for discussion

Writing with a whiteboard marker

DAMN. and the ethics of honor

Damn that record is… doable

I can do it too

Maybe that’s why it feels so beautiful

And even if I can’t yet rap like the king

I’m a killer with the MIDI, I can make a beat sing about the

World that I see when I blink

Closing my eyes, can I lean from the brink?

Fall into the water, deep in the reflection

Sing about hysteria, sing about depression

Sing about falling asleep on the 101

When I step into a daydream, and you’re gunning for my

Soul, but I stay fiending, can I have another forty minutes?

Can I have a couple days?

Can I be immortal?

Let me scream my name from the cliffs

Let the wind carry me across the abyss

When the sun bleeds and the sky gets drenched

Can I be the last song playing in your car when the mushroom

Clouds on the highway lift their gaze to the heavens

Turn my shit to eleven

Turn your thoughts in a spiral down your spinal cord

One for the cry to find your final words

Two for the fight until the bitter fate

Three for time we didn’t get to make

‘Cause I don’t want to risk living in regret

Just a kid with a mic and the Internet

So I scream to the wind and I sing with the rain

And I float with the clouds and I reach for the gates

‘Til I sink in the grave