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A R T I S T

by TabInStereo

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A l w a y s 03:33
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it was all for the art of it put the heart in it from the start of it let it harden now i shiver at the thought of it i just wanted to be part of something but when i look again that was all make pretend that was make a plan break it and than start again that was make it all about you in spite of them like why fight a demon? just invite him in a snake move in tighter skin i can see him playing tiny violins how much time you putting in? still haven’t given in "oh what it could’ve been" but for a meager living all the feeble give in the church and the steeple got no people in it straight ego driven speak hedonism King So and So edition keep that Holland tunnel vision what you turning into? that's a whole other version of you standing on the back of what you wanted to do this is outsider art inside of heart in spite of our insight of all its on your blind side now how long can this charade last? I'm just asking cause i used to wear the same mask “its a vibe” i scribe pictures on my vision side too little, too late i could never pick a side nothing left to sell cause there isn’t shelves answer living within self but it didn’t help still got the rain soaked heavy wings keep a steady hand pour heavy drinks none of this is planned and it doesn’t think you hear it coming its all done in a simple blink its been here the whole time now what you turning into? that's a whole other version of you standing on the back of what you wanted to do "I was trained to think of myself a certain way from my parents my education my culture and to get reassurance from the minds of other human beings that I was doing it right ...the problem was.. that inside.. it didn't feel good.. it was as if I was wearing a piece of clothing that didn't fit right and that I was trying to make myself ...make it fit.. so I would scrunch my body so that it would fit perfect so that I could be the somebody everybody wanted me to be and I would be in pain and people would come and say what a lovely suit what beautiful material" -RamDass
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R e v e a l 04:44
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"many times we hang around people ..who have hidden.. agendas and hidden motives ..they need you.. to get somewhere else so they befriend you ..look at it like this.. many people who aren't serving us will lead you towards your lower nature ..because once again.. they see what you are becoming" -Ralph Smart Today I woke up And like ten years passed Gained insight Lost touch Pretty fast Shift gears No clutch to the past ...And... From here No rush to the last end Lived fast I rushed to the crashes and Some of us Didn’t make it past this I'm No longer living in the past tense Dwelling on ..what I thought i had back than and I had never been so sure They liked it more When I’d stumble to the floor Building an allure We were really insecure My Open door Only reason they were there at all and Now they've never been to the crib Don’t know where I live Guess it is what it is huh? Well It ain’t what it was Falling outta love Following a buzz unspoken grudge critique and judged wanted to Compete with me when I was down on my luck When push come to shove Now I know who I can trust And there’s not a whole bunch ...Damn.. but It was different once Now the course been run Like this isn’t fun Phone ain’t ring once I guess this is done and I hate what we've let it become Am i coming? Where we going? damn its too hard to know and i used to know when you've been hiding whats inside of the essence of your soul it's deep in your bones and it's reaching my own when i was flying you were trying to keep me undertow keep me on the low now its different there's a distance there's a reason to go but i doubt it you'll grow ..if you even show.. I guess this is called growing up When they all stopped showing up been feeling overlooked Guess It wasn’t enough When the vision wasn’t blowing up ..so I’m stuck.. Trying to build..as I deconstruct its Like why even keep in touch? I can’t keep this up As of recent don’t speak as much I think it reached the cusp always blacked out For remember whens Want to Pack up Move out start again If we could drop the image and.. For a minute just be genuine Be like Real live friends again You ain’t gotta tell me what I should’ve done You ain’t gonna tell me what I could’ve been What works for me Don’t work for them It all depends It’s all amends We just see it thru a different lens I’ll send the stems Mix it with a different blend The fence can bend How You tell me jump in When you can’t swim? I am not a topic for your gossip it’s feeling toxic I'm seeking other options I am not listening or watching I am out Reaching for the progress And Living in the process and than it comes full circle i think i need a new circle "Your going places now Your looking better now Your taking care of yourself now for the first time in your life you actually know what you want to do with it" -Ralph Smart
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T r u t h 05:34
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"I realized that part of my identity is saying No to things I don't want to do Why are you unhappy? Why is it that you want to quit music? I don't like wasting my time spending days just shaking people's hands and smiling and taking selfies it feels shallow to my existence I have a lot more to offer than my image I don't like being used to make people money than I just become a money making machine and that my passion and creativity take a backseat that makes me unhappy so what did I do? I started to say No I'm not doing that I don't want to do that I'm not taking that picture I'm not going to that event I'm not standing by that because thats not what I stand for and slowly but surely I remembered who I am" -Lady Gaga I Started with the innocence I Put a couple tracks on a little disc It was way before the internet It was all I ever wanted ..I was into it.. Way before I hit the stage I would think of ways That music could get me paid Nights turn to days Its hard to maintain But fuck the mainstream I’m doing my own thing All it’s gonna take is everything All i want to be is anything Budget on a shoe string Got a six string Got myself a new dream More than a little introverted Performing I was nervous Made friends once they heard it Met all my heroes in a basement Thinking ...wait ... "What do they really make than?" Some of this fake man I think we got what it takes We could break in By than I knew it so well Got a-little deal we were so shelved Bunch of free loaders on the coat tails Back in Roselle They were no help We got a-little buzz they caught it second hand They wanted hand outs on their second hand From the outside you’ll never understand What it’s like living with no second plan When this is what settles my soul it’s where the rubber meets the road Now they wanna do another show But these days I don’t really know no more Now They all like Ooo Ooo Look what I can do Another one trick pony saying nothing new They’d sell their soul for a song or two We’ve seen it all before It’s like Deja vu You can’t change the truth Finally I made it out the basement These days I was all about the placements ..Backstage.. I don’t need to be the face than ..Ghost writer.. yeah fuck it man I gave in It was all about the credits But that can drive you crazy if you let it Yeah I knew the other dudes were jealous ..But.. me I never did it for the status and looking back when I was cheapening the craft than I was writing trash for some money on the back end For some yuppies livin' stuffy who don’t have pen Sign away the publishing and cash in ..Damn.. I was in behind the scenes Seeing the machine What it costs for a dream You don’t even gotta sing Just throw a-little green And you’ll be on the charts in all the magazines I should use it to my credit but That shit really is pathetic though Started thinking I should let it go Speak from the soul Let it flow Just let em know 100 something songs That We never dropped I never stopped I was waiting for this shit to pop pop Couldn’t have been more wrong Everyone they ever known Was a stepping stone And yeah I should’ve played along But I was better off Just Left alone I Fell back for a minute They all fall victim to they own gimmick Even independent It’s all about the image They all make pretend that they bigger when they isn’t I know they like the sound But they keep that down Cause There’s a big fight for the spotlight now We all in it for the likes right now You see the pictures from the show But you’ll never see the crowd Now They all like Ooo Ooo Look what I can do Another one trick pony saying nothing new They’d sell their soul for a song or two We’ve seen it all before It’s like Deja vu You can’t change the truth "I check in with myself throughout the day and I say Do I really want to do this? and if the answer is no I don't do it and you shouldn't either no matter how many opportunities Fame Fortune no matter how many people accept you to your face the person that really needs to accept you is You" -Lady Gaga
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I n 04:09
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Learn to fight the panic Hyper manic Hard to manage I’d just hide the damage Check the baggage Re-find the balance It’s all feast or famine Fight or flight Repeat the challenge Found the muse Now guide the talent Don’t lose the callous I've Been had the carrot I just fed the habit Wrote the ballad Caught the Rabbit Tune the static It should be automatic Thoughts roam nomadic It’s Just the laws of magic But that’s not all that matters Long sabbatical Hard to gather After all that I took for granted When I Took advantage And I dropped the standard Disenchanted Been missing chances I was just mad I Wasn’t given answers But how long can I blame the parents gotta change the narrative Entertain the gallows just Don’t Chase the Shadows i gotta Learn how to change the channel It’s all some ancient battle Learn to escape without basic travel Get my face off the gravel Find my place and Repaint the chapel go way past the shallow end I just can’t let the outer IN inside out upside down Lost in a thought trying to find my voices We are all confined by the choices Whole life been defined by noises Hold tight while I try and destroy this Still sipping to avoid shit How did I enjoy this? All of it is pointless It’s a coin flip Joint lit Disappointments are Picking my poisons it’s Becoming my identity Waste my time Taking all of my energy Got me thinking everyone is now an enemy I let the lesser me go and get the best of me I can’t for remember for the best of me I used to think I had the Recipe I thought it was the call It was destiny Shit that was yesterday What’s even left to see? We are not who we pretend to be I Took a hard left Went separately I am uninvolved Don’t mention me Shit I was running wild Going extra deep A couple minutes of serenity Shit has gotta change if it’s gonna be Im just trying to be the better me Closed eyes These days I just wanna see IN inside out upside down "First of all you must understand what is inside, ok? and what is outside If you do not understand what is inside & outside than you will go to all the wrong places what you call as my mind the whole content of the mind is accumulated depending on what you are exposed to in your life so we have arrived at many things we know in every culture they know what is the nature of God where he resides or how the ambiance is there and the works ya know? everybody knows the geography of the heaven don't you? but you don't know a damn thing about yourself" -Sadghuru
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S t r a n g e 04:56
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In the oldest story known From the darkest corners grown You took on many forms Following her home And you hide And what she saw as wrong Was Thru your eyes She Thought she wasn’t strong From your lies You step inside a fragile mind In disguise Than Criticize and agonize the flaws Tell her all is lost You Make mountains out of little hills Second thoughts and little pills Credit cards and Missing bills You let it build Until you filled the void You took away her voice You shrank the world down to a room A feeling of impending doom It’s closing in It’s ending soon Pretending you Leave Any room to breathe You brought us to our knees Your The monster in the cellar There’s something in the attic The habits that developed Change us to the addict Just the same Face to face I’m staring down the strange So you and I have met before watched you go infect a soul I pulled her from that exit door Yet still I fall Into a hole entranced right into your hands You changed your shape from pills to booze False beliefs where nothing’s true self esteem to self abuse Ive felt it too Where she was all along Out there out on my own Your all the things I can’t avoid The quiet screams The silent noise inner war Inside the void I’d find the joys If I could lift the veil And see things for myself been running from you in my mind drowning with drinks and wine Knowing you can swim just fine Intensified by what I hide away I’ve gotta find another way With The monster in the cellar There’s something in the attic The habits that developed Change us to the addict Just the same Face to face I’m staring down the strange "I was struggling ceaselessly against this dark cloud that settled down over me and I did everything but it didn't solve the problem and I suddenly realized I wasn't dealing with myself it wasn't my mental attitudes it was a person that was tormenting me day and night and I realized it was a person that had known me from childhood he knew my every weakness he knew just when to attack me furthermore I realized it was what we would call a familiar spirit it was a spirit that had come down through my family" -Derek Prince
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T i m e s 04:46
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"We are in the unfortunate position of being aware of time being aware of the future and although it's advantageous to know about the future in the long run its depressing because we all know that we come to a bad end and that everything falls apart in time where the world is regarded as a process that begins beautifully but as it goes on it gets worse and worse until it destroys itself than theres a long period of rest and it starts out again beginning beautifully but getting worse and worse all the time" - Alan Watts It was All clear There was no fog We The Last of the analog I remember ballin' in the front yard Than it Led to chiefin' in the backyard Shit I started rappin on the walk home Everything was happening its all new Started making something got a whole crew I was breathing in the whole view L rides in the daytime Thuggish ruggish bone on the baseline Back when we never had to make time We were all lost but it seemed fine We clicked in a deep way House party on the weekday Three day bender on the replay wake up and let the beat play it was Sold out shows Fake IDs 30 something deep Tour bus on the street It was all I need It was all I breathe It was all our scene We could taste that fame I Had to chase it down Ten thousand hours It was sacred ground I’d Live thru the pain just to write it down It was All for for the sights and Sounds Heart on my sleeve So Young and naive Always the one to leave Had a Knife in my back I never wanted to see And So I jumped in headfirst Lost all my day one networks Drink - drug, yeah whatever ,that works I’m Just Trying to forget that it gets worse Shit I woke up On the floor In the car In the jail In the bar You forget who you are When it’s all for the last call Love lost I fell thru the trap door Who would've thought I would even make it that far I built it up just to burn it the backyard He lit a match It didn’t match I took a step than took it back I took a breath And put it back it was a test That I didn’t pass yet That wasn’t me It was someone else A lot of work just to shovel out I learned how To live without Spend time When it’s running out strum chords that i learned from a ghost now all the words get stuck up in my throat now burn both sides than it goes out make art from the dark part thrown out you plant seeds don’t leave and it grows out a tendency to be what i drove out feel a need to leave it seems worn out same town that brought down this whole sound i found whats been down the big chase can’t call what was lost in the first place been off the rails since the first taste i changed the ways a self first-aid raincloud parade on my first day gotta tame the rage and meet mid way think of all the energy i did waste all of those that never leave and did stay were never here they disappear its one way they play it safe n never stray than one day not a trace not a peep its no game without a loss there is no gain still i am a lost its insane i started looking up and the view changed i started giving up on a few things i wrote the same song on some new strings started listening to what you say started tapping into the woo sa stop pushing it too far stop looking and move one

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A R T I S T 

“Always Reveal Truth In Strange Times” is the mantra for this EP (a thesis on life for the modern-day artist) . It was written for all the creatives still out there trying to balance adulthood & responsibilities alongside dreams and purpose. Growth is the major theme of this project. Growing up (personally/spiritually/artistically) & growing apart. I wrote all of these songs on a classical guitar or piano and production-wise focused on minimalism. I wanted the message to be the focus. I tried to present the underbelly of the life of an artist in today’s society. The self-doubt, the scrutiny, the falling in and out of love with the art form itself. It’s about shifting gears and accepting what is and what was...hopefully coming out the other side a better version of yourself.

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released December 3, 2018

Written/produced/performed & mixed by : TabInStereo
Co-Produced by: A.U.R.C
Background vocals by: Jade Gritty
Strange features Elle Rose on vocals & Lusty Apricot on violin

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TabInStereo New Jersey

Tab is a producer/singer/songwriter/emcee based out of NJ.

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MethodMan,GhostfaceKillah,DJ Tiesto,Slim (112),Rayvon,Jake Miller,Mr.DoItAll

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Real World,Keeping Up With the Kardashians,MLB Network,Bad Girls Club,Road Rules Challenge,Fix My Mom & more ... more

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