1. |
Lullaby
01:55
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[Verse]
I want you back, here
Nothings left for me
Flex all the feelings on wax
TV with static, it appears
Through the noise I've been
Patient for you, for us two
Now, I don't deserve you
But you don't deserve me too
Despite all the facts
I miss you
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2. |
Katy
04:24
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[Chorus]
Dear Katy, I
I'm a fool for looking your way
You're gorgeous so forgive me if my eyes stay a little longer than expected today
Hair flows like the voice you speak in
Oh oh oh, Katy please stay
Dear Katy, I
I'm asking more than a weekday
[Verse 1]
You're the quiet type
But you get so loud
When you open up so open to me
Talk about your dreams to me
Forget about your entire degree
I'm not looking for anything, no
Just wanna know you from head to toe
[Bridge]
[Verse 2]
You're alive and I
Wanna live with you
Just a moment, just a moment with you
Off to La La Land, take my hand and dance
Whatever happens I'm just glad I met you
I'm not looking for anything, no
Just wanna feel how your heart grows
[Bridge]
Oh
You've caught me oh
[Chorus]
Dear Katy, I
I'm a fool for looking your way
You're gorgeous so forgive me if my eyes stay a little longer than expected today
Hair flows like the voice you speak in
Oh oh oh, Katy please stay
Dear Katy, I
I'm asking more than a weekday
[Middle-Eight]
Have you ever thought of me?
Has it aroused your curiosity?
I, won't get hurt if you haven't, nah
Yeah
If you have then think of we
Would you like to keep me company girl?
'Cause your soul is electric
Oh your soul is electric
And it got me singing
[Pre-Chorus]
Dear Katy I
I'm a fool for looking your way
You're gorgeous so forgive me if my eyes stay a little longer than expected today
Hair flows like the voice you speak in
Oh oh oh, Katy please
I'm not looking for anything, no
But I'd love to see where we'd go
[Chorus]
Dear Katy, I
I'm a fool for looking your way
You're gorgeous so forgive me if my eyes stay a little longer than expected today
Hair flows like the voice you speak in
Oh oh oh, Katy please stay
Dear Katy, I
I'm asking more than a weekday
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3. |
Wondering
03:47
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[Verse 1]
All our worries, all our pain for futures we can't hold
All I know is no control
To fix things is harder than not at all
Unsure, I'm surely scared to death
And it doesn't help that we're falling apart, dreaming we're free from this
Existing is harder than not at all
And there's you and me breathing for the sake of time
I was
[Chorus 1]
Wondering if "I love you" costing all of my time
Wondering if I hate you cause you're stressing heart and mind
Wondering if I'll make it for the rest of my life
[Verse 2]
This, that and this, is all the ever happens
All I give, so you can keep on standing
I'm tired, was it worth it?
Was it worth it?
I was
[Chorus 2]
Wondering if you love me after all that I've tried
Wondering if you hate me cause I'm fucking up your vibes
Wondering if you'll make it for the rest of your life
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus 3]
Do we love each other through the good and bad times?
Put it all aside when everything is on the line
Wondering if we'll make it for the rest of our lives
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4. |
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[Hook 1]
Changes
For me, for me, for me
Too long chasing nothing
Pour my heart in this, this ain't fronting
Too fucking tired asking when you coming through
Shits already fallen through
[Verse 1]
All I need, is you
Count my blessings everyday
Make it rain like every way
All I see, is you
Take you by the waist and
Sway till our feet are aching
It's good
[Hook 2]
Changes
For me, for me, for me
Too long chasing nothing
Pour my heart in this, this ain't fronting
Too fucking tired asking when you coming through
[Verse 2]
Where I need for you
To be there by my alter's side
And hear my vows drop all my pride
Why I need for you
Is the love that wasn't there before
And the ground you stopped me falling for
For good
[Guitar Solo Outro]
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5. |
My Paper Heart
04:50
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[Intro]
Goodbye love
You flew right by love
[Verse 1]
I'm here, wishing we ain't talking business
I'm here, wishing we could go the distance
You here, beautiful and godly given
You here, make me feel something missing, oh yeah
Oh yeah
Tickets are my dream
Foreign whips, I want extreme, yeah
But you're a different kind of peace, yeah
The kind I need to make serene, yeah
Though I'm holding back
I'm still so attached
Is you down to ride? Do you want my side or nah?
Girl, yeah
'round you, I forget all that I'm made of
I would trade in all the paper for the labour
I would trade in all my talent for your table
Wouldn't wanna be
[Hook]
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
Wouldn't wanna be
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
[Verse 2]
The newest city don't fill the space
Another band don't ever replace
Another Henny won't take me away
I want you, I ain't playing
When you smile, its contagious
Make your body smile 'till you're painless
Numb as fuck, forget what your name is
Tell how good that novacane is, ooh
Just one more moment with you
Just you babe
Wouldn't wanna be
[Hook]
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
Wouldn't wanna be
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
[Verse 3]
I'll never feel that
I can't peel back your hair and trade secrets
Or keep 'em, or savour weekends
Stay believing there's a place for me
And soon you'll find a space for me
Look at the state of me
Twenty, soon to be twenty-one
Friends all say don't worry, plenty come
Twenty-two just gone run
If we ain't two and two together, for the long run
I'll never get to feel your radiance
I'll never feel your warmth throughout its gradients
No matter how much I can pack a stadium
One hunnit thousand screaming my name ain't the same as you saying it
Somebody tried to make predictions
I kept saying what she said was all fiction
Still I asked her what she had envisioned
She said Noel, I think you and her are a perfect fitting
In disbelief but I continued the chatter
She said Noel shut up, its the way you look at her
I can see it from a mile away the way you look at her
That was two years ago but in my heart still matters
She got her own life and a good guy she can hold tight
The way she looks at him everything is alright
Envious I couldn't foster feelings on sight
Was there ever a chance of you being all mine
On this long-haul flight
Pour another glass of Jamie in the soft light
Still imagine if you were all mine
Wishing you were all mine
[Hook]
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
Wouldn't wanna be
Anybody else
Don't wanna be anywhere else
Just loved by you
Wanted by you
[Outro]
Pictures I'm living through for now
Trying to remember all the good times
Our life was cutting through so loud
Memories are playing in my dull mind
I hate this part paper hearts
And I'll hold a piece of yours
Don't think I would just forget about it
Hoping that you won't forget
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6. |
Stay
05:24
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[Verse 1]
It feels like I don't know you anymore
You let me down a hundred times before
It was always 'bout you
Yeah
Put you on a pedestal, couldn't let you go, fuck you and your M.O.
Blaming me for your broken soul
Allow me to let 'em know
[Pre-Hook]
We found us in a state of despair and we
Wanna to be anywhere else but here
Now we've fallen away
I love you with all of my heart and I
Felt your love from the start and I breathed
'Cause for once I felt safe
I promised you
[Hook]
I'll catch you if you fall
What harm is it in numbered days?
After all we've been through we're okay
All I really ask of us is stay
[Verse 2]
You feel right, you could do me no wrong
Lying to myself when it goes wrong
Lying to myself 'bout you
Yeah
Sorry everything is wrong and gone and you're broken
But don't you dare take it out on me for your coping, no
Then expect me to care for you
[Pre-Hook]
We found us in a state of despair ans we
Wanna be anywhere else but here
Now we've fallen away
I love you with all of my heart and I
Felt your love from the start and I breathed
'Cause for once I felt safe
I promised you
[Alternate Hook]
I'll catch you if you fall
What harm is it in numbered days?
After all we've been through we're okay
All I really ask of us is
[Bridge]
Why did you do this to me? Ayy
Did you think it would that easy? Oh
I know I've fucked up many times before
Don't act like you ain't fucked up, oh lord
I'm gone
So long
[Pre-Hook]
We found us in a state of despair ans we
Wanna be anywhere else but here
Now we've fallen away
I love you with all of my heart and I
Felt your love from the start and I breathed
'Cause for once I felt safe
I promised you
[Hook]
I'll catch you if you fall
What harm is it in numbered days?
After all we've been through we're okay
All I really ask of us is stay
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7. |
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If I told you all the little things that I kept from you
To what line would you stop this?
'Cause Through You & I is so much of my life
That Counted
I'll accept when you walk away
Though you should be mine
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8. |
Through U N I
05:36
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[Hook]
I wrote this for you and I
Wishing I'd live through
What could've been you and I
Going through U-N-I
Memories, you in mine
Got me looking through the times
Wishing that you were mine
I said it
[Verse 1]
Fuck the guy who bedded you
Pour a shot for your soul, I would've wedded you
In all white, but that ain't life
its all grey matter
Why love when your face lathered in tears
Your faith, doubts and fears
You shared them under the sunshine
I still think you're gorgeous under the water lines
I'm at the right place on the wrong time
And I don't find honour in your cly
Back to you saying I'm hating myself
Why did I do it, you always say to yourself
I thought he was the one that's why I gave up myself
Now I'm losing my mind to all the pain that he's dealt
She said, I told you a few months back about losing my faith
With all that's happened I don't believe I'll be saved
I mourn the children I wanted to have some day
I feel like, who comes next I've already betrayed
Let alone God
Let alone my mother
This she can't know, I'm ashamed as a daughter
Thinking at the time, he deserved me forever
So I'll accept consequences that I'm bearing forever
That even means bearing him
All the antics inherent in him
Because I believe there's better in him
So I'll make my mission to bettering him
Still he's breaking my limits and I ask myself why
He resorting to the kush, am I inadequate to his high?
Who knows what else he does or is ready to try
There was this crazy night where I was worried he'd die
And I cry constantly now, deep in my doubt
I lie so lonely now, soaking my blouse
My side seems like he don't wanna hear it
Dismissive when he talks, so I'm losing my spirit
There's more than my love life resting on my shoulders
I pray I graduate, I know I've lost control
Feeling helpless, falling behind my goals
This degree keeps taking its toll on me
What do I do when the world feels against me
Do I dare question divine pre-destiny?
Feel my worth slipping away, what else is left of me?
Please Noel, what can you tell me?
[Hook]
I wrote this for you and I
Wishing I'd live through
What could've been you and I
Going through U-N-I
Memories, you in mine
Got me looking through the times
Wishing that you were mine
I said it
[Verse 2]
They call it falling in love for a reason
One minute you're fine, the next you're the deep end
It could all be a dream 'til they catch you sleeping
So here I go Katy, this is what I'm seeing
Your breakdown yesterday was more than family
And I've been knowing since you've talked your boy to me
Cause your tone been different
And your words insisted something more
Obvious that you couldn't escape the allure
But its a boy's game, imma tell you this
Best foot forward then we out when we hit a lick
I've been at it before
And I tried to warn my cousin, instead I threw a fit
What can I say? Thrill of the heist mixed with hunting
cause the prize pays the highest price, that's our vice
Not to say that your boy ain't wanna wife you
It could happen but it'll come with strife too
I'm sorry, I know I'm coming off spiteful
But not all efforts continue after the Eiffel
You can't change people, they must decide to
You can't change people, that's final
Said it different so I wasn't so blunt with it, I meant
Drop the motherfucker and be done with it
It ain't fair to get broken just to run with it
That's for anyone in your life, they better come with it
As for your decisions
I never found the catholic religion or sinners redemption
I'm a cynic, most my life been ruined by faith
My prayers stay unanswered so I make my own grace
Katy, its not my place or anyone elses'
To tell you how to be happy or find wellness
All I've said here has been selfish
And what you do best is find peace in being selfless
But take one thing from this, stay balanced
and never give yourself to failing your own ballast cause
Its one thing to be let down
And its another when people keep you kept down
[Hook]
I wrote this for you and I
Wishing I'd live through
What could've been you and I
Going through U-N-I
Memories, you in mine
Got me looking through the times
Wishing that you were mine
I said it
[Verse 3]
So here I am lying down
The heat of the sun's warm but I want your
Embrace on this grass floor
But no, cause that would mess up the concord
Of a friendship I value beyond my heart's contours
Fast forward, writing this song is hard to conquer
Cause this is more than my truth, its yours in song form
And it must be hurting you in some form
Cause putting this out is breaking trust you asked in conform
Now its sounding like I'm home-wrecking
And every action I've made you gone question
And every word I'll say you won't listen
I'll lose you, I know it, its no question
The universe draws the lines in the parallels
For both of us, that's where heaven fails
All I want's to be beside you
But I can't change you, that's final
Now look at the other thing that I'm facing
Finna give up love for dream chasing
Like what's my seed if green replace 'em
Though I know greed is where the pain is
Shouldn't ask but will you miss me?
If I touched down in your city, girl
Would you see a show or just miss me?
You believed I could do it but this feels like
I'll have no one to see me through it
[Hook]
I wrote this for you and I
Wishing I'd live through
What could've been you and I
Going through U-N-I
Memories, you in mine
Got me looking through the times
Wishing that you were mine
I said it
I said I wrote this for you and I
Wishing I'd live through
What could've been you and I
Going through U-N-I
Memories, you in mine
Got me looking through the times
Wishing that you were mine
I said it
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9. |
Paradise Freestyle
02:51
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[Intro]
Last one on the tape
Yeah yeah
[Verse]
Gimmie that 10 note
I'll give it back when its ten fold
I'll open up that window
So we can live the dream off ten shows
If you not there don't get involved
I got a lot of people making intros
But wont stay from my end prose
From the 4-6-80, my postcode
You got a pocket full of my old hoes
Can't sleep on me I'm a No Doz
But she sleep on me when the door close
She say other rappers? I don't know those, huh
I'm just playing for now but who knows
Maybe I'll be renowned for inducing renounce
Maybe I won't
But nothing realer than the sound I've proposed
It's here
Slapping speakers and flowing clear
'til I croak or I blow your ears, ugh
Like Lambo start shit
I drop top shit
Yeah this that frog shit
Hop out and grrrrah shit
Tape saying caution 'cause I'm dangerous when I mop up
Lilies on the cover, push your flowers tryna stop us, yeah
But try anyway
My accomplishments just a matter of time anyway
Tryna make a hunnit bands in three hours
Just to drop fifty bands on my hands to tell the hours
Bust down Rollie, want the trophy on my wrist, yuh
Y'all don't know me, I go Kobe, no assists, yuh
My shit Ryobi, so just phone me for the fix, yuh
My shit Ryobi, this my tool, squeeze the trigger
Blaow!
No one can check me
Ticking 'em boxes for envy
I've seen better days
They all straight ahead of me
So keep on playing my mp3
Reaching for space like I'm Kennedy
Till I know what's serenity
Like God Tiller on melody, I got it
Don't know where I'd be without it
Carry the weight of raw talent with no one here to spot it
Its been a lot of lonely nights to make this happen
Y'all will never know my feelings off they first reaction
When they steady pressing play on my love and passion
Music Through You and I, the beauty of my thoughts in action
Paint dreams in reality after I imagine
[Interlude]
Wish it were that easy
But still want it like
Still want it like
Yeah
[Verse]
Touch road with a bad bitch
In a foreign whip, no average
Knocking two hunnit on the dash
'Cause this rap shit I've been maxing
Got paradise for an address
Nike Cortez with a passion
Tom Fords snapping for the fashion
Awards stacking up for the mantle
Not a worry in sight
Cause this shit is unbelievable
All my life
Living lucid becomes feasible
Don't think twice
Cause making money never seasonal
And if I die
That's more to keep from you
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Noel Joshua Sydney, Australia
Singer, Rapper, Guitarist and everything else in between. Imagine if David Choi and Drake were in the same room. Or Kendrick Lamar and Tori Kelly. Or John Mayer and Bryson Tiller.
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