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The Benchwarmer Series Pt. 1

by Subtle Keystrokes & Prof. Mayfly

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Static 04:16
Because through the static he would always act dramatic. Tune to the frequency a leisure he could not escape. Not religious but he's always been a man of faith, scripted with rivets that he didn't dare reciprocate. But through the static he didn't need to act it always on the blacklist. Picking at his passion like the the scabs of an addict. And it's tragic. Because half the time it's as if It didn't happen. Soft as satin, keeps his heart tied to the center of the universe. He'll need to feel the bluesy birth of a child in his theater hurt by curtain closing him to the crowd and yet leavin him open, leaving him frozen coping by extinguishing his feelings like the flames same reason that he chose his degree same treason that eloped as he fleed same freezing hands that groped all the keys. But will the door open? Adolescent strangled his conceptions and brought a new perception of his essence or his presence on Pangea. Oh mamma Mia he's a firm believer that if he tunes in it's proven to work. And it's proven to hurt because he's losing his work he just lurks goes home and tears off his shirt and says I am I am I am supermaaaaaaayaaannn Because through the static he would always act dramatic. Tune to the frequency a leisure he could not escape. Not religious but he's always been a man of faith, scripted with rivets that he didn't dare reciprocate. But through the static she could always hurt the baddest. Always in high fashion while she's picking at her passion like the picture perfect eyebrows she's created a craft in. And she just smile, half the time it's as if it didn't happen. While (s)he yearns to see why hurtins not enough to learn a bluff is a bluff, well what they say about love it's unconditional it's only principle will be the the one to unfold what she holds. Old cat lady crazy maybe shouldn't have never let this one get away but what can she Say. The control made her sure that he'd never escape. Then one day she turned away and likewise fluffy made his way on down the fire escape, Treat it like a lap cat he acts like a pusy. He's not after the pussy. It's the compressed chest feeling that's appealing wen their life's a mess.
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Disrupted sleep pattern turning me over my cold sholders feel strange with a hand to hold onto the world i guess again. I feel a chill down my back as if there are fingers there to comfort me but i do not feel like this is suppossed to be this way. i don't agree with the premise that has been laid out at my feet and i will not accept this defeat. I will not let this get the best of me because the best of me is the best any of you will ever see. I am not like you and you can not comprehend the way my path turns and bends and where it will end nobody can. what do i want to do with my life why would i want to do anything but break breakthroughs through with my pen again. this is a penmans ship and ive stencilled your engraving on the side to hide what my real intentions are. Maybe i am evil i guess i can't pretend were not all just people reaching out to a world past the stars that is truly just voids. its truly just noise and more noise and more noise. coated in silence behind closed eyelids and upon this island ive found that finding a place private is more a creature of habit than anything else. and anyone else would be happy to be given my chances my gifts. but ive blistered with time and ive grown callused in my palace. filling my chalice with the blood of a dragon that wont breath or leave the place were he first learned the taste of mutilation. Im not going to be this upfront about how i feel anymore if you can't deal with it. If you won't accept the suns warmth from your bed then forget that you've regretted to dismember all the members of your fascist elitist thrill seeking heat seeking missle family and damn me to the rancid and lonely places that i propose in poetry you still have something to show to me? i know that im going too slowly and without a truth to it in my coarse voice but thats because although egotistical in proncipal my inferionity complex is more complex than that and it makes me dixlecic and disruptive takes away my abilityto function. and thats the reason. Sometimes my grades slip not because i cant handle this workload but because what does it really mean? i had a lapse in judgement ok? i almost fucking beleived in me. i almost imagined a world that i didnt see on a tv screen behind the green screens and all this perfectly allined blocks that you flock too and talk to as if they were your therapist there is a cave in which a theory lives and the theory gives life to those of us wanderers locked in wanderlust lost and unable to talk hiding. im seeking out the one thing that is worth fnding and i was not lying when i told you i had met posedoin but i never meant to make him my clientell hell i didnt even know that he would take what i had to say at face value. You'd think gods might be granted a distinct intellect but i didnt check his i.q. first only his pulse and that was after the fact. decisions were made bounties were paid and then i grabbed his wrist and nothing but this..... laughter starts my heart moves faster. i could tear apart this bastard i could barely taste the art for any reason harder faster. hear for now and hear me after everything is gone in fact for all the facts ive ever know i could never find a home i could never let it be known to you that i do know what to do and i just feel scared to take a chance. I dont want to dance in the rain when i feel so empty and alone. E.t. phones home because he and Ive been living on a foam throne and somewhere out their in the mist of the night there is an intact entitity of life and he or it is taking my place. theres something unsettling about this tension you played out and made out to be destiny. as if you told me what to do and wont let me im trapped in limbo im stuck in the dungeon plotting and throbbing trodding around like a headless horseman. then vanquish me already. Rip me apart so i can start to feel better. rip out my heart and then write me a letter out and sign it as me. take me worlds words and make them out to be your own because i dont care anymore theres nothing there anymore. this is my note to self destructive worlds in which i function there are no variables left that i havent fucked with but the output is still the same like my specimens i too am corroding i too am floating in the the sea salted mist that makes me iroic and makes me ionic and keeps me charged. current currently flowing and i feel open and exposed as i let it play out with the the notes notarized. somebody save this somewhere so that someone might stumble upon me unwillingly. its that chilling and villainy taste of disgrace that makes my face different than yours. through the layers of waste i made haste and chased after something that honestly may not exist still i feel like my soul is begging to tell me where it is and everything that makes me logical sees the problem still because its not probable but the artistry part of me thinks these things are not that hard to see and all i know is that i should be harvesting and harvesting the arts that makes me part of these trees, the sky it all collides and ill ill ever find acting normal is that normally while normalcy is accepted formally decision fermented a spcial type of instrumental patient sentimental in nature and magic in a tragic way because this world cant accept my words unless i curse them and disperse venom to rot away the pieces of the recently discovered lovers that made up the couple of people who populated this stupid empty shithole that we call home while it was deveoping. hope is that ever prevelent or releveant to the discussion about fate and time and truth and fuck all of it because it never made any sense to my senses and it never made sense to made friendships just so i can end this endless piece of time with a rhyme that ill share to get ten plays maybe a repost great golly im a grey ghost im cooked im toast im never going to even get close to close so ill break hope and watch my ship sink. you all want to to bring me down anyway.
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Were all connected concerned with bein certified. I can only do me and I've been trying to get purified. But sure as I can't I'm sure you. Can't either. And I've been selfish I've stupid, I've been trying to appease or. Sometimes I say don't need her, this theaters quite meter to check the distance. Unparalleled vision without Perriffials. And I cleared myself a path so why am I tripping still. To much room too many mushrooms. Can't handle the truth my music comes with the honesty blossoming. But I won't settle, Mammouth gonna fuck ya head up and here's a heads up. I'm always aiming right at you and I'm just about fed up. Don't wantto let up shakur said keep ya head up. And I don't deal with sprayed shots waiting at red lights. Still I'm just trying to get my head right with a beer by my bed light and a blunt to keep my head light. But not quite fed right. How do you expect me to help you I could use a little help to, that always fell through I don't know what to tell you. You're all the same you can go to fucking hell to. Escape this phase, this fate made me compelled to serve a purpose listen to what you tell you. It's all inside the mind. Grows like vines of moss upon te cities walls. Theses streets became a jungle. Ready to rumble I'm trying to stay humble. Outwardly expressing until complications made me crumble. Don't want a bundle I'm just asking for a little peace. Piece of mind piece of time a piece that's mine a piece of me. I've been let down so much it made a valley, so many times I've wronged Immediately lost the tally. So rally the troops. I'm about to head home. I home that I found within the space between my headphones. Don't want to be a dead clone I'm trying to stay active. Perhaps I'm too passive I want this like a breath I. Air. So that my voice can comfort someone in a time when there's nobody there. Tell em you do to need to worry about me. I promise no one else does. You think your a tactician your strategy won't help us. My mental healthy rough nothing heals the way tht love does. It seems nobody loves us. I can see that's not for me, I need a cup of tea. Porsaland and herbs in water my greatest fucking luxury. Chamomile hugging me. I'm trying to fall in love with me. So I can be there when nobody else can comfort me. So uncomforting, I can make my world so minuscule, of anything happens inside this box I'll be ridiculed I've always been the fool, accomplishments brushed over. It was early when my clover was lost. Pause I wanna be on currency I want to set a precedent I wanna rule the world but I don't want to be the president. It isn't relevant the television isn't helping it. It's gotten hot in here and suddenly I'm sweltering. You're a synnic nick so sin nick synnic sin. You're a synnic nick so sin nil synnic sin. And then Throw this shit away please. It doesn't mean anything. I let it settle in another one sided compromise. I wonder how these mistakes must look from my fathers eyes. Sometimes it's hard to find, but I'm the one who lost it. I got a lot of skeletons up in my closet. So would you pause, drag and drop the track to toss it in the recycling bin. 3-4 feet of snow outside for me to cycle in. When the cycle begins I find I'm better off alone. Because I let them take my light from me I've always been too danger prone. So I'll be Staying prone no doubting that crouching will make me too apparent. I birthed hurt so now I'm a parent. Oh right I'm just too self righteous just write and write them off. Your too soft like cloth you're fabricated. Fascinated with the tendencies of relativity. Your so conceptual and amplify epitomes. So don't you Apity me and my city we will start the dwindling until everything's pinned on me and then I'm finishing
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Keep It 02:12
Man you've gotta get mad(x4) Nah fuck that Man you've gotta get mad(x4) I am mad ain't it sad I used to think it's funny or it's not that bad but lean back peep tht. They say it isn't rap well it's rhythm and it's poetry. How can you be so presumptuous you don't even know me I rap too slowly and you say I lack confidence I think your just too cocky I think they way your talking walking and dressed makes no sense and in my defense at least listening to me rap isn't listening to me overcompensate.. Well no way I won't reciprocate hate as of late I've been wondering if it's mine it's yours it's mine it's yours keep it. I'm keeping mine too. I'm rappin. Then it's happening and I'm laughing at that crap tht you spat. You develope a persona I embellish a craft. And how selfish is that I do it all for myself. Hell might as well fight until there's something to sell and tell me what you need armor for if the harbor is mine nah the harbor yours and the harbors filled with boys and girls with no perspective and chores the just sit still engulfed by themself on the couch watching television the type of mental prison given to a generation of no names and it sounds so hectic in here where here in my mind there's a adventure to see everytime and imma keep it imma reap it you sow because youre so fed up you're a solo red cup flip it skip the formalities heading to a place looks like a battle scene of fallacies. And feel my chest, it goes bump in the night. Always tick talking to me trying to get an answer it won't stop. I'm trying to find a balance so I can keep it
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the clutter 03:16
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You're silly and it makes me sick. You're silly and it makes me sick You're silly and makes me sick So shut up clown Shut up clown Shut up clown Alright little Bobby to the carnival to ride the Ferris wheel. The child he was known to steal an saw more appeal in hoping the fences then paying at te main entrance. And in his defense, he had no guidance from the rents because they'd been gone ever since his 6 birthday and 4 years later he was still hurting. And bobby never got nabbed so Bobby never looked back his thieving got more serious and soon enough the soon the house was packed. Every year where the the carnies were reincarnated he would sneak in to the dressing rooms and still from his favorites. But this time was different cuz bobby felt cold and this time was different because felt bobby bold. So he waiting until the were smoking and he stole a clowns clothes yea entire wardrobe. And the clown malfunctioned found bobby and he started cussing tried to cut him but even way back bobby was fast always knew how to react. So he took a step back and he laughed he said You're silly and it makes me sick. You're silly and it makes me sick You're silly and makes me sick So shut up clown Shut up clown Shut up clown And Melinda was only child proud as can be. She said there's no one in this world quite as lovely as me. An her parents always spoiled her a hundred toys for her flowers and bouquets but hey. Became a teenager started to stray. Starting dressing or attention since her parents never looked her way. Besides they seperate and tried to make her pick favorites. So she said fuck it started fucking and went away her patients. And one day she met bobby he told her about her all about his hobby. But now he'd moved on up to circus clowns. And he took he took her to the lobby of the nearest show. And even tho their was security they still got past because bobby was like lightning and Melinda only flaunted her ass. Into the dressing looking for drawers a lotta bills in here is that all of it you're sure. Then in through the door a big nosed big shoed mother fucker comes clomping along and bobby was long gone he had popped a couple pcp. Still it had been a while since he'd practiced his decency. He said please relax we'll put it back we don't need to see you're whack ass attacked. But the clown called the fuckface and Melinda a whore so bobby tarted chuckling once more. He said You're silly and it makes me sick. You're silly and it makes me sick You're silly and makes me sick So shut up clown Shut up clown Shut up clown Frank was an outcast a loser a shadow. He always looked forward to the carnival and fall though and aw what followed was his favorite part. All the magicians and the circus freaks. Pick a card oh any card. He was always glad that they were their for him. He figured he could do it to so he finally dissapeared with them. He was so happy to finally find his place he acted silly all the time and no loves the makeup on his face. It was perfect until one day. Along comes bobby, strutting his stuff. Now he was 30 years old and he still and he still didn't give a fuck. Him and Melinda had long since but still in touch because he helped her through some shitty stuff. But it was long until she found a better man bobby wasn't good enough That's ok he learned to understand time to fuck around with this towns clowns that always cleared the air. So bobby waits for the performance this evenin not even interested in theiving. He had something in his heart that he was scheming. And frank felt precious, the sunshine was beautiful this view was imoressive. So he dressing up and hops on stage he gets a page from the manager don't walk it isn't safe but he was halfway there he said fuck ill do it anyways. And when the catwalk fell bobby was on top of it and he shed his first tear. Because this time was serious, it was a life that he'd steal. And he mumbled to himself with his broken knees while he waited for the police. He said You're silly and it makes me sick. You're silly and it makes me sick You're silly and makes me sick So shut up clown Shut up clown Shut up clown
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I'm not embaressed I'll take you to Paris. I found the light out I'm trying to share it. Would you wear on your Sleave would you understand or call it deceit. Would you call back or let my call just decease. I mean at least I steady ponder my wandering. Lavender just wouldn't grow I wonder how much harm is on the air or my energy. And look I'm different I don't have your charisma don't have the money so it's ramen for dinner. Sinner writing tightening verses with purpose. Pen stains paper save my roach for later and savor the ambition listen I have a subtle tradition it shines like gold for me so lack me permission. I'm quizzing I'm absolutely sure. That the shear stress and strain will rain Down and pour out of me, I'm a different bread an apple fallen far from the tree mI wrote the script and my mission is to start with me. That man in the mirror mirror on the wall. Tell me who out there can here my call it stubborn. Bubbling like a cauldron it's all in a stew for you true. I'm a do what I do best you've ever heard. I can't believe I had the nerve to serve my poetry. Still, im not moving musics aoothing to a prudent premise proving the pricing, and dosing the lighting to get it just right. I had more than my fair share and still I feel it in the air like the waiting weighted me. Wait for me it's gonna be worth it. Because I came with a message and a heart filled with purpose. Searching but the answers with in, time i won't e stationary and feeling as thin. Some days I felt empty some days I felt ugly. Don't expect you to love me trust me I understand the hatred. The patron saint of favors fact is I'm staying in tact. Tactful math and a wish list or tacks to pik me to pieces don't fit together wed better savor the weather or not you understand. And no matter the weather you can't rip me from this tether I'll make it better. I stand in place permanently grimaced faced. I think all day about a way to get right out this place. They rush around but I hardly ever change my pace. I only hope that when I've gone somehow I leave a trace. I mean I never quenched my thirst for taste. I wasnt even saved a dinner plate. So if I'm only taking space I think ill take the bigger weight. Sit close until there sick of me Just because we see things differently A loss of dreams is all that has been haunting me. She said tht she was wanting me I heard tht shit before sure as shit it's problematic static dynamic in practice makes perfect didn't think I deserve all the time that I've been wasting pacing my heartbeats frantic like I'm from another planet handed good advice to splice nights and hide daily what you thought that you could save me
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Shaman 03:18
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Vandalicious 05:36
But in a past life, my energy consumed me now here I am hearing out words from the wind and reading directions in Sand. I stand like a modern made moon man moderate. Soldered it gently, well I welded the well see here's the thing I never gave my self time to even begin and I started clipping my wings. So what the hell did I think. I mean yea in a way falling a a beautiful thing. And yea I know this icarusus wish where Nicolas spits comes down in the gloomiest sense. So ill ad this to the knick list it's bliss bitch you betcha But ill never talk about my music in any tense but this tense I'm tense. And that's present So hell here's a gift from me but on your 3d glasses se it vividly. I'm part of the ministry but no ones even close to understanding this symphony self included I too deluded in too diluted I acts stupid but I'm smart and I'll prove it. Shhhh there's beauty In the silence this is as close as I get too finding peace and quiet. You want it you find kindly don't mind as i time it so keep running and keep gunnig for the top branch of that family tree I can't stand to beseech half of these totem pole motives grope the rope like you mean it tear down the tears in your eyesthe tears in the sleeve freeze child death is imminent isn't it great. dangeroUS who me and you Well were vandalicious there bloods too viscous. I'm fairly sure that this blood is pure. And were vandalicious so I dare you frisk us. Ill piece by piece destroy every crisp piece of your wish list you wanna risk it This kids been wandering the state forest with a metal detector forced us to start unbyrying hatchets. Ravaging the savages in the middle of the night sleepwalking keep talking tough cookie good looking sick spider silk spindler.keeping his or her pockets Cobb webbed results caught in the internets worth . Probably a problem, cross my heart I hope I die stick the sloppy needle in my eyell inject the slick poison me princess. No? No I insist, my wrist clicks and just like the prophecy fortold the reinforcements show up just as soon As I don't need em any longer. Fuxking hilarious Well were vandalicious there bloods too viscous. I'm fairly sure that this blood is pure. And were vandalicious so I dare you frisk us. Ill piece by piece destroy every crisp piece of your wish list you wanna risk it I'm swearing off Eyes on horizon and the sun is setting me up to fails like there's more to this can't be the bitter ends up that it's just me again I'll count down from tenderly tindering like a lumberjack timbering it's coming down I promised you then I'd save some room in the tent but it flooded muddied up my little cubby where I Kept my belonging is just so abstract it's just a class passed although I never altered I thing they gave me and a plus I left in the trash. I don't even need to ask it know were getting blasted rocket shio rendezvous point on the moon point to the scribble called earth that disappeared too soon I don't wanna hear from you, hug Me like a straight jacket this is straight passion I'm straight crashing I don't want to be heavy fuck this gravity. Incinerate me and spread me ashes I saved this love up now I want y'all to have it. I'll rip my heart out and double bag it always seems to slip away from the ones who thought they had it are you bat shit crazy spacey Lacey dress. By my power invested don't make me regret this I ripped off my necklace Nicolas think of me before you proceed look guys I'm the only one that I'll ever need. This is my holiest creed this is the rosary beads you'll just keep clinging too like mildew it again and I'll kill you. Rip the mold from the mold all that glitters is gold low and behold oh no I think we gotta leaves fall with the trees call y'all I fall to my knees please you can't see this is more than a petty fight picked locked breaking an entering a state of retreat me like the splatter glass last night I asked a question started questing now I'm never coming back Well were vandalicious there bloods too viscous. I'm fairly sure that this blood is pure. And were vandalicious so I dare you frisk us. Ill piece by piece destroy every crisp piece of your wish list you wanna risk it
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The say I'm too methodic or logical problems will arise to surface of my planar planning trust that's a misunderstanding. I Must blush before I explain ya my planning. I'm crushed don't think it was demanding. Meaner demeanor than a thirsty venasaur. From the the constant lateral loading. Is this suppose to make me functional. I never trusted ones who acted like there their tough until the shit started spraying no I don't wanna go home. If rather be alone Because I'm a ruthless lucid dreamer prima Donna dahli lama. Im the motive and result and you could be too if you wanna Because I'm a ruthless lucid dreamer prima Donna dahli. I'm the waking sake of a snowflake lands on the palm or you cheek. So leave the rest to me That's beauty see they say the best is free. Like this crest on me, or like my destiny. There a wake of abrupt love Oooh noo yoo it's festering. I'm especially caught up in this fellowship of pixie stick truth teller dwellers playing show and tell nick he's snickering I'm happy can't you tell or well will you tell on me. Nicks a felon he almost fell for me suttelty ya right more like an abrupt touch fuck with me, I'll write you a pedigree of your missused illusions I'll cause hysteria and confusion leave you hypnotized feast your eyes on this bliss...fine we'll compromise I'll admit I'm still cocooning if you admit that were all butterflies. Fluttering uttering a last breath separately oh jeez Im so love me.( Me me me me me love with me. ) Because I'm a ruthless lucid dreamer prima Donna dahli Lamma. I'm shaking with anxious excitement and yet I've never been calmer Because I'm a ruthless lucid dreamer prima Donna dahli lama watch me pout or put my moves to the test, in a land of inspected respects check my honor. I'll bring the beat back like open heart surgery you haven't heard of me, I'll be so dirty we expect to collect me currency. Or blow like in keresone. All this vividly coloring. Hey they exempt me jury's because I'm blurry and always biased supply this to the highest adolescents in that state of nauseous growth and malcontent I'm here to vent sent to represent -I'll put my foot down how ow you Eva gonna shake me now love-

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"Subtle keystrokes" the improvisational pianist and "Prof. Mayfly" the spiritual lyricist come together in the The Benchwarmers series part. 1 to bring their ever decreasing audience music the are likely to dislike.

This is the first of many releases for this dynamic duo off the BCF collaborative label.

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released February 23, 2015

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