1. CLEARING A PATH
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; drum programming, percussion, bass, guitar, synth, vocal
JJ Beck: Piano
Adam Turner, Drums

Here’s a sticky situation
when we’re facing enemies we don’t even see
ill equipped as a nation
Frustration kill switch victim mentality
Fast Cash, Last Laugh, Ass Grab Tactics
change, they ebb and they flow
match flick, home sick, sunk ship
too arrogant to cover the hole (ya shit in)

and so I go a little deeper
try to make my mind and clear a path
undress my soul and kill the speakers
silence the distraction of the math
but when I try to make amends
I find the math is made of men
who only wanna play if they don’t come in last
and while I try to be cool, Try to reframe
try to displace o’ this ocean of hate
Well…sometimes you just have to laugh.


2. TWO HANDED (Instrumental)
Written by Elder Orange (M.Scott)
Elder Orange (m.scott) drum programming, percussion, keys, bass


3. FOCUS
Written by Elder Orange (m.Scott)
Lyrics by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; drum programming,bass, guitar, synth, vocal
JJ Beck: Piano
Adam Turner, Drums

something’s out of focus
and I can’t seem to make up my mind
a little hocus pocus
a little longer standing in line
and if my mind were made
there’d still be better days ahead
but there is no magic moment
if I can’t find my focus in the sunshine!

there is no greater glory
there is no allegory here
(nothing happened here)
not looking for an answer
just bounce and throw your hands up
lets keep it lighter than the air

somethings out of focus
and I can’t seem to shake off the blues
a little frozen lotus
a little longer watching the news
and if my mind were made
we’d still have better days ahead
stillness is no substitution
i find resolution in the sunshine


4. MEANING
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; drum programming, percussion, bass, guitar, synth, vocal
Kim Marsha, Additional Vocals
Adam Turner, Drums

Are you distracted?
the opportunity comes knocking
And you black list

“Stay the hell away”
Is a tall tall price for practice
cuz someones always trying to change your mind

Is there an outlet
An answer hidden in the cracks
You ain’t chased out yet

Better off alone not knowing..
or dive back in?
Cuz someones always trying to change your mind

So how do you create meaning?
how do you create your love?
how do you create meaning
how do you create your love?

Is it indifference?
Is it a longing for compassion
Through resistance?

just an ounce of care
To counteract the listless
When someones always trying to change our minds

And is it sadder?
if theres a point at which
Your head’s upon the platter

To call upon a
God that never mattered
Cause someone always tried to change your mind


5. MEHLDAU (Instrumental)
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; drum programming, bass, guitar, ukelele, synth


6. ELEPHANT FLOWER
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics adapted from Sonnet 18 by W. Shakespeare (common attribution)
E.O; bass, guitar, synth, vocal
Michael Sutton, Drums
JJ Beck, Piano

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

And every fair from fair sometime declines
When in eternal lines to time thou goest

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.


7. NO MORE LOUD MUSIC ft. Curly Castro
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics written & performed by Curly Castro
E.O; drum programming, bass, guitar, synth, vox

Moving on up like Jorge Jefferson
Miss Anansi, first floor will make
yu turn your weapon in
Always with her 2 cents,
never mind her neck again
Yelling at them young Buoys
Cutting that linoleum
Turn that damn Box Down!
Sounding like the Opps Now
What yu hard of hearing?
How yah Ear hear a Damn
Sound??
...It’s No Matter, yu dealing with
A Masta
Poppin Car alarms
Till the Volume doesn’t Matter
—>Box another Raheem, hope we don’t
follow that pattern
Shouldn’t matter anyhow, Now, the former
Or the Latter.
Did I bring the Noise, the only matter
in Question
...I’m talking Bass, and the ELDERs teach
The Lessons
—>(Eye/ i)-dentify as Loud mouth, bang my ,
Music Mad Loud
Neighbors always bang out, begging
Me to Slow Down.
Broom stick, Two Taps, treat me
Like a Sound Thug
(But) when I knock on your door
I threatened you with Ear plugs. (Word)
...Damn Homie, you act like you know Don’t me
—>When I practice Detonation,
Know I do so on my Lonely
If there ever was a problem in the past,
Yu shouldda Told me
Now it doesn’t feel Good, No
Tony, Toni, Toné
...Here’s a Dub, if it Knocks, then
I’ll save Face
->Don’t put me in yah Box, if yah
Shit Eats Tapes
Nah put me in no CLash,
With no Chalice nah yah Hand
And don’t bump me in yah Car
Less yu smokin’ Sunz of Man
...I know yu Overwhelmed, so
yu don’t understand
I’m trying to reach sounds greater
Than the Great I Am
I’m trying to speak to the Great
Beyond, and then Again
Spit Ghost’s of Future Past,
(But)with a Baldwin Spin
...A Huey Newton Roar, a Malcolm burn,
A Bob Wail
A Seale Gag Order, never stop my Rebel Yell
The Revolution won’t be Broadcast,
it never Fails
The Sounds that happened HERE,
will Never Die, Like Donnatell’(a)!

8. TREASURE
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; drum programming, upright bass, el. bass, guitar, synth, vocals
Drums, Adam Turner
Alex Wolston, Trumpet
JJ Beck, Fender Rhodes

Anywhere or way
(You are my treasure)
Anytime of day
(Stiff as a board light as a feather)
Let the people say all that they want in this world
Cause my love is what my love is what you need

slow motion, slow exposure, slow pulse
a Slow endeavor to the core of me
no fault line, no distortion, no part time
a known in favor of the fortunate
circumstances change
nervous glance exchanged
Inertia is the air we breathe
Earnest answers gave
Servant, savior, saint
earthly fruits eternally

And you know I’ll give it all and then some more
Cause my love, is stronger than is stronger than before

Pure passion, sure as ever
Pure paths where we walk together
can you tell me how?
No words left, only actions
one heart beat drumming faster
Can you hear me now?
As I play my song for you.

9. END GAME. ft. MavStar
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics written & performed by MavStar
E.O; drum programming, bass, guitar, synth

Mavistar Galactic - battle axe the hatchet
Cadillac's the gadget from the catalog don't scratch it
most plastic cats won't flow past it
so passive no hope for broke masses

the abacus that added it up mathematics
when you're laced in the cut that's whassup
rewind it back slow motion the detail
we fail to re-scale to size like the retail

omnipresent info graphics that's the baddest
magically compatible with status that's the atlas
perfection is the fallacy the
closest that we can hope to connect is with family

that's how it has to be redesign the focus
we combine the frequent rhyme to fly with the lotus
know this everything condenses in the end game
press play endlessly reflect on what the friends say

10. HUNGRY HAWK (Instrumental)
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Elder Orange (m.scott) drum programming, guitar, bass, synth, percussion

11. TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH
Written by Elder Orange (m.scott)
Lyrics by Elder Orange (m.scott)
E.O; Bass, guitar, synth, vocals
Drums, Adam Turner
Alex Wolston, Trumpet
JJ Beck, Piano

Were you awake or were you sleeping?
Eyelids parted
Cheeks stained from weeping
what you need and what you want today aren’t exactly the same.

Does it still ache even when you’re peaking?
A heart; bloody, raw and still beating
Leaping from your chest at every hour of the day

Too much or not enough
You’ll crave more than just the junk
You’ll waste everything you’ve loved
Behave like you give a fuck
Cause you’ll kill yourself for pleasure
You kill yourself for pain
You’ll kill to live to kill another day
and that’s all on you

Are you insane?
Are you in hiding?
Maybe it’s both I know sometimes it’s hard deciding
Why we take the path less traveled, unraveling all the while

Do you feel dumb?
Do you feel empty?
Do you feel cheated by a system born of plenty?
And do you care enough to try and care enough to care awhile?

Too much or not enough
You’ll crave more than just the drugs
You’ll waste everything you’ve loved
Behave like you give a fuck
well you’ll kill yourself for power
You’ll yourself for fame
You’ll kill to know you’ll live to kill again
And that’s all on you.

12. ALL ON YOU (Instrumental)
Written by Elder Orange (m.Scott)
Elder Orange (m.scott) drum programming, field recording, bass, synth, vox
JJ Beck: Keys
Alex Wolston, Trumpet