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Winter Forever

by Khemmeta

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Intro / Dinner Blessing (free) 03:24
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I hate the doctor's office, It makes my parents sad. This time I'm just with mom so she's strong for me and dad. We usually go for ice cream afterwards cuz it's tradition She almost missed the turn this time it's like she's on a mission She's staring at the laptop refreshing the page I goad her into hide and seek cuz we all need to play If I'm not a pain by the time that the day is done They let me say the dinner blessing God bless us, everyone. Dad's away at work. Cuz his boss don't pay enough to make it work So he got a second job and now a third God bless us, every one we all deserve, a day of rest. There's lotsa secrets they think that they keeping from me But i know that our gofundme has always been going hungry And it got something to do with the doctors and me and money But as long as I'm alive mom says my light it shames the sun even when Dad's away at work. Cuz his boss don't pay enough to make it work So he got a second job and now a third God bless us, every one we all deserve, a day of rest.
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Spring's Too Late 04:05
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To whom it may concern I lived in Punxatawney before you became a sperm, in fact I was spotting these shadows before Truman served his terms Turns out skipping extra naps is the secret to keeping firm Yeah, it's either that or sorcery, "abrakadabra!" I got a body that refuses to become a cadaver Humans think it's just a gag and yet I'm steadily breathing Another year as eldest mammal slash forecaster of seasons I've had my share of those, and then some and then some and even then some Mention my age and it's giggles and never tension From humans, but look me deep in the eyes and you'll see the friction I've the played game for long enough now I just want this done With or without an ending I'm demanding it stop Handcuff, both hands on the clock I never ever want to see another season on this flammable rock Suspend the hourglass before they make an ansible talk If you're hearing this in spring then it's too late Tryna help us all escape from this doomscape Something's chasing me renewing all my moon's phases Keeping me from ever crossing through a new gate They call me Phil I ain't feeling too great Spent a century groggy with the loom of fate That's why I'm finna end the seasons, sleep, conclude dates if you're hearing this in spring then it's too late Few can grok for certain how the spirit world is channeled I took the form of insects now I'm back within a mammal Incantations mostly words I had no language left to cancel But perhaps if i can form the sounds and chant them i can pass on ….These are guesses I've collected based on legends The local sorcerer that hexed the cultists tryna settle With a plague of gnats that staved away the colonizers' spread Until they came back with their magics and they trapped me in this cell They call groundhog, bound by, time itself And they renew the ceremony with an annual spell Humankind amassed hell and weaponized the atom's snap That's the main snowflake that broke this groundhog's back And that's why I've decided I should try to kill the future Humans scurry around desperate in chaos and there's no use or a Rhyme, or a reason to their rhythm they just die and get Eaten, like all the planet's other wild living beings, why? If you're hearing this in spring then it's too late Tryna help us all escape from this doomscape Something's chasing me renewing all my moon's phases Keeping me from ever crossing through a new gate They call me Phil I ain't feeling too great Spent a century groggy with the loom of fate So I'm gon have end the seasons, sleep, conclude dates if you're hearing this in spring then it's too late
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The Thaw 02:47
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In my "Wig for Council" shirt, feeling hella groggy Copping a Rock Star from Pic-n-Pac to resurrect my body i usually get the Rip-Its by the dozen from the Dollar Tree but brain’s still reeling, from the early morning Benadryl i haven’t had taurine in like three or four mornings A bonus round of sleep failed to ready me for warring, or ready me for forming, my words to sharp edges So i hope these chemicals will drive, artificial wedges 'Tween me and the nods, i gotta be at the top Of my capacity, my bar’s still set too low to reach the standard peaks Getting lapped by the average should be a passing thing Worst of both the tortoise and the hare that’s where i can’t believe So pass the Monsters, the Tornados, and the Red Bulls Full Throttle, Hyphies, defibrillate when i’m fed Jolts Heart pumping fast as **** *****’ with the tinfoil hat setting fires of liberty with the strap Where y’all at? Meta’s stretching his limbs Dropping my name on all the proper nouns, correcting the hymns That’s right, the trinity: the worshipper, the devil and the god above 1st commandment, greatest law, you know i gotta love The soul that’s here imbibing this world, and remaking it Always along the patterns i see, i’m creating This sea of information in a language only i can speak I try to translate to the common tongue but someone’s mind is sleep Mine or yours? Finer chores than tryna be more visible What’s my reward for flying towards their anti-air defenses Going down in a blaze of validated assumptions just had to tell my truth within the range of their judgements Now i’m deranged and i’m bugging and i’m parading with nothing Like, “see my arsenal’s ready!” nobody swayed by my bluffing Keep my theories to myself, it doesn’t matter, noone’s asking me Next time i’ll keep the poison out my veins and just go back to sleep.
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Slaying Song 02:07
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Huh. Another one down. Shoulda stayed home shoulda picked another town. Now you’re wearing dirt for a crown. Got lost, ain’t never getting found. If you thirsty Meta’s serving extra rounds BNV for certain is serving them extra rounds Come around and find a home under the ground You got lost, and you’re never getting found. What are you saying? Run ya whole city or get decaying I grab my 2A and i get to slaying Zaytsev accurate aim when i get to spraying Sack loads of ammo on wretched LARPers cosplaying As very fine people, get very closed caskets When i’m emptying the clip it’s like i had a whole basket No funeral you go missing with no tracks then Serve your fresh cadaver to cats, Carole Baskin Feral blasts get trained on your narrow ass Acting like a hero, no applause you get the barrel’s clap HP stats getting zeroed out, you playing games So we both know you know, what that there’s about Whereabouts? In the shadow of death Keep your voice down, shallow your breath There’s a monster coming for you finna cancel your quest It’s like a sentence to the gallows when you battle the best Write your will and pick your last words carefully Bravery is suicide, the wise would be scared to breathe Heartbeats banging on your rib cage as if they’re police Finna kick a hole through your chest, with a pair of feet Get distracted by these awesome bars Now you’ve landed on a planet where it’s lotsa tar Stepped your toe upon my land but you were never granted passage You ain’t never going home, you getting Tasha Yar’d. Huh. Another one down. Shoulda stayed home shoulda picked another town. Now you’re wearing dirt for a crown. Got lost, ain’t never getting found. If you thirsty Meta’s serving extra rounds BNV for certain is serving them extra rounds Come around and find a home under the ground You got lost, and you’re never getting found.
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Lie In Wait 03:24
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I ain’t chose war, war chose me. Dropped me in a kamikaze charge, then it froze me. In a fountain of bodies, where no foes see. Til the time is right I chill with these cadavers cozy Look around for the perfect spot Camp out, lock in for the perfect shot Let the rockets be the soundtrack, camo to cloak Handsome princes shifted back into toads, i have em croak Knocking down fascists like bowling ball pins Mosin’s rifle is the scalpel, I’m a surgeon Germans might as well be strapped down, sedated and sleep The way my off-switch, finger finds their brains and delete The OS of an SS pest in the bear’s nest Getting their blessings, leaving forever their earthly stresses Behind, real life, no rewind, but we’ll see it again When my scope, puts my eye, on like three of his friends. [Proud eagle perches on a bear’s nest. . . ] I do not hibernate. I lie in wait. [Eagle preens its feathers in shadow of death. . . ] When I hit a target, whoever’s with em will share their fate. [Bear is hungry. Eagle is reckless. . . ] I do not hibernate, no. I lie in wait. [Eagle is ingredient of brown bear’s breakfast. . . ] When I hit a target, whoever’s with em will share their fate! I'm a sniper of the ten forty-seventh of that two eighty-fourth of that sixty second army, junior lieutenant Horizontal hailstones for the opposition Fashy officers get decommissioned I’m starting to become well known For planting metal seeds in the skulls of our foes Sprouting hopes that’ll grow when they’re drove from our home Futures that’ll feed comrades in the snow So my letters home are letters to every soldier i used to be Every hero that sees their adventures when there is news of me Every comrade back home sending anything to the front lines All the world that’s looking to Stalingrad as the one shining city Even in ruins we got the groove When Hitler marches boots thru our winter he getting ruined Under a single moon, 6000 had reached their doom And my Mosin booked a 4th of a thousand for dates with tombs [Proud eagle perches on a bear’s nest. . . ] I do not hibernate. I lie in wait. [Eagle preens its feathers in shadow of death. . . ] When I hit a target, whoever’s with em will share their fate. [Bear is hungry. Eagle is reckless. . . ] I do not hibernate, no. I lie in wait. [Eagle is ingredient of brown bear’s breakfast. . . ] When I hit a target, whoever’s with em will share their fate! I am a stone. I do not move. I do not move. Very slowly... I put snow in my mouth. You can’t see me. You can’t see me. You can’t see me. I take my time. I aim at his eye. Finger on the trigger so gentle on the trigger. I have no fear. I am here. Now it’s bigger than two nations. This is the essence of the worker’s liberation They sent a, snooty bougie shooting tutor to do me It’s time for some one-on-one knifey-spoony Look around for the perfect spot Camp out, lock in for the perfect shot I have the patience of the people, you’re too basic if you’re regal Any little distraction’ll have you lurch your top Heard my helmet drop to the ground, as the bullet connected That’s gotta be the battle won, cuz that’s where my head is, right? You gotta have the victory, just come and collect it It's a propaganda war, dog tags are expected That means out from your hidey-hole to claim your prize A communist bullet come to claim your eye So elite, so cunning, all the same you die Another fashy sent to Satan to arraign your life.
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Starlight 03:46
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we are star stuff we does what stars does cuz we're star stuff built with the star's love Powerup, plumber dragon slayer You're the shit, you're the savior, shining on your neighbors Mining diamonds outta craters making allies outta haters Where appropriate, salvaging Anakins outta Vaders Shenanigans, back on the path again of the righteous Tonight this maze shines so bright, the hard left's so right Look your demons in their eyes and they're petrified All our generational curses and ghosts are set to die. ...Spread your wings and fly, while your feathers carry you While the wind is with you glide, free as a canary do Collect-a-thon whatever you may need, just like a fairy's tooth MacGuffins for the people, yes the world is your library too Check it out, it's at your talons The world is yours and you're the world's it's all a balance Through you the universe discovers itself Listen to the proverbs it tells. we are star stuff we does what stars does cuz we're star stuff built with the star's love The maze’s path is inside of your cells Even all alone you’re never really by yourself On the wave, tryna move can’t hide your sails Cuz only floating ain’t enough gotta fly like shells Through a whole troop of Koopas run circles round your foes’ pace Keep it moving cool, Not desperate like the dough chase But certain, like you’re moving towards what only you can locate And when you’ve mastered all these new lessons it’s time to showcase Every snowflake, is a star shape Every angle a micro-fractal of god's face All phases of the moon in your bloodstream Ocean tides rise in your heartbeat Carpe diem erryday you have the range Take your space adorn your orbit with maximum strange You’re coming into view, as the world is turning You’re coming into view, and they see you burning we are star stuff we does what stars does cuz we're star stuff built with the star's love Go go gadget thermonuclear fusion Summon all the heat from inside, to fuel a luminosity That couldn’t possibly be groked, except by progeny Nebula’s collapse makes stars, bibbity bobbity Boo, before you knew it it’s a planet fulla animals Manipulating plantlife telling stories bout what hand had planted Us here in this sand or dirt who established planet earth What’s the total volume the circumference, the diameter? Looking up then looking in we come across the atoms Common denominators smallest counted fraction as it happens there are patterns from Cambridge out to Saturn And beyond, every yonder We ponder then gather facts And comparatively it won’t be long til particles inside our bones Reunite within the sun as it grows You’re coming into view as the world is turning You’re coming into view, and they see you burning. we are star stuff we does what stars does cuz we're star stuff built with the star's love

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2020. A year where the days are weeks, the weeks are months, and the months are years. I told myself that by year's end I'd have 12 new EPs to my name. Winter Forever is number 11.

After making this resolution, the first thing I did this year was record Fool's Therapy at Denley's home studio, a.k.a. The Catacombs. Now, we're revisiting a project he and I first conceived back in 2016.

I hope you find what you need in the shadows, light, chill and warmth of this music.


More from Denley:
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released December 24, 2020

Raps written, performed and recorded by Khemmeta.

Production by Khemmeta and Denley.

“Intro / Dinner Blessing” is a reinterpretation of “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Guitar on “Starlight” by Crested.
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Mixed by Denley.

Cover photo by Victoria Holt.
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Khemmeta name graphic by Khemmeta.

Winter Forever title graphic by Lil Zen Ten.
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Khemmeta San Francisco, California

Khemmeta's music strives to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, or are shouted down when they do. His upcoming EP "When I Get To It" produced by Stephonathan (1/3 of both Pride City Purpose & Chedda Guap Boyz) is silly, nerdy, romantic, anti-nihilistic and defiant. He can't wait for you to get to it this [December]. ... more

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