save the children (single).

‘Ālewa (2023)

'Ālewa! It’s a Hawaiian word cause I love Hawaii, nothing but love and support from me! Hope y’all love the album and hope y’all take some time to feel for the people of the island right now. Floating Spirits mastered this again cause we the dynamic duo! Cover art by Tiffani. “May there always be trade winds behind you, rainbows above you, and aloha all around you!” A hui hou ✌🏽 ❤️ 🌈 'Ālewa Sampler from Portugal - youtu.be/1V9Cn_OOQa0 credits released August 11, 2023 spoti.fi/47uuscm apple.co/3OOzzgx All tracks written and produced by K.Washington. "Melt", "Been Soft", Brown Eye Blue Eye", "Chinese Air Balloons", "Jesus Saves pt 1 & 2", & "Burn Paris Burn" co produced by Floating Spirits. "Time" is an interpolation of "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. Mastered by Floating Spirits. Mixed & mastered while being spied on by Chinese air balloons...

Wipe Your Feet

Ever since gramma passed I been walking round w my heart encased in glass/

a lil salt just a dash but I learned from her is get your cash/

life is a flash/

one minute in grammer school next a zipped up bag/

my other nana got breast cancer/

and now they wonder if I’m human or am I dancer/

dasher prancer/

I’m Santa I bring gifts to the west side/

every year did a toy drive/

dumbfucks wanna question my heart n pride/

You ever sat on your hands cause if you have then you wasn’t me/

Ed was like call cousin Gee/

Kenny was like word to cousin Z/

Mell been fam since like the late 2g’s/

back when you was bragging yo phone was 3g/

in the club/

back when I wasn’t even legal to enter clubs but I was/

the homie trey the homie tony/

we was so young just young thugs like we from Atlanta/

2 Californians one from Indiana/

a half Washingtonian it made me grander/

no I am not tryna hear the slander/

I run the underground so we don’t run a slammer/

my favorite uncle been n out/

damn shame he can’t put the smack down/

you can take the man out the west side/

but forever your back got the bullseye/

get it bulls eye west side/

legendary like the United Center's pride/

gosh lemme spell it out for the non hip hop heads/

I’m Jordan/

Ralph Lauren like a south sider/

who made Jesus walk/

I rock the cross I purchased in la bomba/

down in Puerto Rico word to mi best lady’s mama/

can I get a samba/

see all that involves there no way we faulter/

like the rock of Gibraltar/

we came from God not one person sculpt us/

Public

I been sleep tryna have that American dream

Cash rules everything around me/

cash rules everything around/

I am a mess but I am blessed/

I must confess I always talk to death/

I got her on speed dial she stay on mi breath/

no this ain’t a test ima mess ima mess/

but always in style/

it doesn’t matter what continent I’m in I’m never fitting in/

I’m never gonna blend/

I’m never gonna depend on mi anxiety to upend/

truthfully I walk around town like I been cuffed in/

always looking over mi shoulders waiting for crooks to bust in/

I do what I can in mi powers/

someone give Kenny Kong his Fukn flowers/

I’m so cold they call me Bill Burr/

urban centers to suburbs i converge/

I emerge my coverage is lovely/

not a thing I’ve done am I above it/

I am of it/

out the pot off the stove out the oven/

ever since 6 when my IPO went public/

we ain’t signed yet so Fucc it/

I’m the company/

I swing like Shohei/

I pitch like Shohei/

big fish in a small pond without a doubt/

that’s why they call me Mike Trout/

I’ll let you flounder the Big Mac to your quarter pounder/

the founder/

what title sounds sexier to you/

that was for all the nephews/

Ladies n gentlemen no one should go hungry in America/

so I’m feeding ya big knowledge you can’t afford college/

ofc not they want us stuck n dumb/

sucking out thumb/

consuming bullshit/

not capable of critical thinking that’s where we get caught/

all mi people on the frontlines I love ya/

MELT

My homie passed n just like that/

I felt a jab my heart like I just got vaxxed/

I been taxed I been told they gon hold what I worked for/

there’s nothing to grow towards tell me to move forward/

fall on mi own sword on mi own accord/

becoming classic like Honda or maybe ford/

am I bored maybe/

or maybe just slightly crazy/

I clasped mi hands together n said save me/

but lately this spirituality I been faking/

not much more pain I could be taking/

my hearts frozen shivering n shaking/

everyone who hates me is baking/

you can’t share that heat, it’s some disease/

that rips thru towns n online communities/

I learned to tune it all out it’s my immunity/

They fuming they screaming they off key/

they singing like Xmas pageants they caroling/

they going door to door sharing what unites em/

the anger towards me should I fight em/

pitch forks light em gas ignite em/

riots we incite em hell I supply em/

electric chair spark em they tryn fry em/

lil did they know I’m on a diet/

mi heart been yelling I seem quiet/

you can’t feel the flame inside em/

frozen on the outside but try em/

if I said I wasn’t enraged I be lying/

shed my skin it’s medicine/

dropping dead weight put me ahead again/

stopping by the gates before I’m headed in/

looks like your hate need to be fed again/

Been Soft

There’s 30-50 Feral Hogs/

I can’t be bogged down by these shitty laws/

you need to caaaalm take a breath/

every step every respiration from me is/

They group been soft/

circling Hell’s Kitchen eff these jag offs/

flight to Brixton town tell em to slag off/

I was in yo girls loft while you at home jackin off/

They group been soft/

Netherlands blonde walking round in clogs/

butt ass naked w a view of the canal/

as much as America annoys me I’m always fuckn loud/

They group been soft/

watch on watch on watch n I can’t even tell time/

if that bitch ain’t digital I said I am American it’s critical/

I get richer than you n you/

for no other reason than to say I did it wooptydoo/

yes dude I flew the coop/

time for the chickens to roost/

You can talk you can talk you can talk you can talk/

but uh yo group been soft/

Everybody horsin around till I touch down/

They wish they could clone us/

so tired of dialing always gotsa phone us/

waiting on my arrival is an onus/

sac town to Portland it’s Sabonis/

They group been soft/

I am become of death/

I am one step from meth/

i am destroyer of worlds/

I am the one on the other line w yo girl/

They group been soft/

scratch on scratch off/

I am the vintage/

I am exempt from any criticism/

cuz honestly I could give a fucc what you think/

They group been soft/

mazel tov/

by mi 13th year I knew I’d be right here/

circling round mi peers/

while they stand like steers/

the bottom of mi heart has no trace of fear/

ima chef I sear/

it’s so hot remove yo brazier/

double cheers/

if I jumped off the nearest pier n disappeared/

I guarantee you i will always be near/

Did I make it clear to everybody in my rear/

you will never ever never ever catch up/

Brown Eye Blue Eye

Brown eye blue eye blue eye brown eye/

if I put in contacts do it matter/

I know a chick since a teen/

been fake so long she believe her eyes green/

but when you living this life inside of society/

n they tell you ugly n wrong what should she gleen/

every morning in the mirror when she preen when she lean/

when she keep getting told she won’t amount to anything/

cuz your skins a lil too dark/

even the heroes of your race who get promoted are a lil lighter/

they the right kinda black they the right kinda Asian/

they the white latina/

they the Indian named Jason/

everyone living the same life is just plagiarism/

there I said it/

if your life could be shredded/

n not a damn thing changes did you really exist/

on each cheek you can kiss you can dance you can pimp yourself/

but do you really know yourself/

the stuff we do for wealth/

id rather starve n rot in a cell/

What shade are you all shades/

would it interest you if I told you we all slaves/

we just pushing down on the less fortunate/

of ourselves/

find a path find an avenue/

not enough gravitas take a sabbatical/

tighten your adidas grab your clavical/

hit the mirror I gotta battle for you/

I’m as confused as a republican in a school/

that offers free lunch/

I’m as dim witted as a democratic woman or man/

who hollers loud but never has a plan/

atleast we got onlyfans/

atleast I can pimp mi assets/

fuget going to school and learning and teaching these future generations/

I got mine YOLO/

When you pull up did you know yo school might get shoot up/

when you suit up did ya know this might be ya last maneuver/

when you went to sleep excited to be at school in new kicks/

did you think for a second someone would bring an AK in/

did you know call of duty was just a simulation/

did you know target practice is on PlayStation/

did anyone think of the mothers n fathers we facing/

did anyone imagine it’d be they kid they tracing/

Chinese Air Balloons

Shout out to the Chinese air balloon/Diamond hands to the moon/

Everyone has flaws cause we’re living by some made up rules/

dip your toe in the pool submerge your whole body in you just a fool/

I’m crueeeel I got puuuull/

God ain’t put me here to be a tool so screw you/

it’s minus 40 my mind is hoarding/

so much packed into mi thought process im sick like Hodgkin/

I tear thru cells/

I’m scared of jail I won’t make bail/

shout out to the Chinese Air Balloons/

diamond hands to the moon/

Why do you say church? It’s spiritual you’re gonna get lifted like that Chinese air balloon

They fly so high/

yet I have seen them eye to eye/

if I told you my Pacific Northwest experience/

of seeing aliens n shit/

would you believe it/

or would you throw eye drops my way/

que guay esé what’s poppin in the usa/

just another day living on pins n needles/

broken glass n meth addicts/

tracks on they arms like railroads/

hair all crazy like scarecrow/

peep mi parable/

this is what I live for/

mid girls w big titties n tassles who think they models/

shout out to the Chinese Air Balloons/

diamond hands to the moon/

Bad chicks do splits gymnastics/

(boo you whore) that’s rich from that bitch/

has anyone done the mathematics/

it tok tik it tok tik/

how could I get pissed bout something floating/

when they collect everything typed in my phone n/

I gotta voice activated living room/

I voluntarily let em all roam/big home to small home/

we’ve all consumed we’re all doomed/

I figured out ways to get outta commercials/

now everyone’s a walking billboard/

now everyone’s ticked them boxes/

not one left of clever ass foxes/

everyone wanna speak for they whole generation/

so to end mi frustration/

shout out to the Chinese Air Balloons/

diamond hands to the moon/

Jesus Saves

Jesus saves I don’t

The stairway to heaven is paved in liquor/

mi cuerpo shivers as I get delivered/

started chipper but left feeling a bigger/

state of being was escaping me and/

mi own shelter has crumbled the weight is too heavy/

I heard heaps of criticism a whole bevy/

push chevys break levy’s hand ain’t been steady/

it’s incredy/

edgy just to be edgy/

I don’t save hoes I ain’t for hire Becky/

I’m just a ticking time bomb away from being nothing but an explanation/

salutation/

what are you saying/

pagan after pagan I’d quit praying/

if I was you/

it don’t seem to be working out dude/

Luck of the Irish luck of the Catholic/

every passage is drastic you acting spastic/

what caused this what’s caustic/

he been out what closet/

the way that people react make me vomit/

police on every corner made me a target/

I grabbed on mi rosary’s but still got shot/

clinched mi eyes open mi eyes what the fucc/

the bullets were stopped in mid air I’m like the matrix/

he may save me but I ain’t playing/

I ain’t taking in no more ladies w four more babies/

by four more baby daddies I’m sorry Patty/

they were boxing well I call it slapping/

the beats was knocking like door to door salesmen/

middle of summer the heat was swelting/

the beads of sweat from her body had me melting/

It’s a love song we left the club long gone/

then you dropped all thongs in the back of mi drop/

then you came to mi home which wasn’t really mi home/

it was a rental from an immigrant from Senegal/

south central LA where did the winter go/

acting so cynical still pulled out the winter coat/

cuz I’m still cold like chicago/

we huddle so close like Eskimo/

she want the finer things like escargo/

I said better hit that truck they got taco/

if I pray after every sexual encounter/

does it reset the counter am I balanced/

or am I doomed to consume n live a life full of malice/

Jesus Saves pt 2

Had Jesus on mi side he mi right eye/

if I die I multiply I’m coming in tri’s/

Good Friday to Easter I passed over/

everyone dressed as me in actober I laughed over/

he turned mi agua into vino I’m way pass sober/

penalty on the d line I’m an encroacher/

my style been bitten by sharks picked apart by vultures/

have to switch it up daily too much exposure/

demasiado mucho/

the next line I say to you is always crucial/

yea I may die but there is always a loophole/

I feed your soul ima soup line I’m Campbell’s/

Judas Judas Judas which priestess cutest/

the nuns play mi instrument they all flutists/

no wonder they tell me mi flow is soo damn fluid/

wooooooo - whatever suits ya/

Jesus saves I don’t

Crucifixion ask for permission/

both hands clenching part of my submission/

not even a Mormon mission/

or wishing could top mi expedition/

all eternity compliment fishing/

stay serving don’t you dig mi dishes/

cuz of me everybody so pissy/

get the buckets they just started drizzling/

acid rain it keeps on fizzing/

pass my head it keeps on whizzing/

this is an experiment it’s only fission/

it’s like saying Christmas is for Christians/

if I get another person who claims to follow God/

to tell me that I am wrong ima lose it/

if I get another person who’s life just ain’t it/

who tells me I ain’t legit they can suck my dick/

Burn Paris Burn

You wanted our first born

You wanted our second

You wanted our blood type

You wanted our heaven

I will chop off all heads by the bastille/

I will dunk on any fucker like mi nombre Shaquille/

it’s a goooaaal/

Mbappe Thierry Henry/

head butt a mug like Zidane/

I will shut down the garbage collection/

I’ll shut down the train I’m getting an erection/

all the nobility gon need protection/

all y’all are scourges your all infections/

everything you did to Africa/

all your gold will be oozing w blood/

don’t get me started on Belgium

Let mi country do the same/

it’s a shame letting billionaires call the shots day to day/

you can’t take a day off/

but you’ll line they pockets give em views what/

buy all they products/

but they can’t give to the hood that don’t seem like a problem/

we gotta buncha temporarily embarrassed millionaires in our hands/

The land that chose me the life I chose/

was to be declawed n be unrobed/

n have dollar bills on fishing line dangled/

who tryna get strangled/

if it was up to me this whole democracy would be mangled/

Friday Night Fire Fight

Westside of chicago/

raised outta me coffin down in south Austin/

it’s awesome took the 66 down chicago/

hooked up w the vatos pronto/

exactly

never doubt me these are carbon copies/

hanging out in hobby lobby lobby’s can’t nobody stop me/

yea he’s a problem probably ain’t no Fukn probably/

someone better grab they homie n they gramma probably/

Yea I meant it I said it I spread it/

the message embedded you read it/

I feel like Jesus Christ I slice n dice/

did it not once but twice who wanna fight/

Friday night fights in the lights/

feel like warriors coming out no syke/

people all age 100 years down to tykes/

ain’t no one tryna chill we just prowling tonite/

It better be a cold day in hell

My soul been locked up but I still made bail

They won’t shut the fucc up talk fast move like snail

You think you come hard I come harder than hail

I been seasoned I been cut against the

Bias you can’t cut the mustard

Try us you can’t handle this artillery

We got Heart we got love

We got strength we got sun

We got fire we got brimstone

We gotsta gets home

Time

Our loves electric our loves eclectic/

our love ain’t selective its every single choice/

it’s the sands it’s been flipped/

every time we on the last grain it’s been tipped/

it’s the baby that came even when I been snipped/

it’s the miracle it’s/

panicked it’s the damage that we managed/

it’s every terrible time and beautiful moment combined/

it’s the pits it’s the tits it’s the sunrise/

madrugada when you oughta/

it keep kickin like soccer/

it ain’t a corner or barrio it’s a globe trotter/

spotter after spotter shotter after shotter/

it’s every son it’s every daughter/

it’s every feel of love it’s warmth it’s laughter/

can I get an amen from mi local pastor/