1. |
Reborn Again
02:21
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Control Alt Delete that
Rolling to the beat and
Garbageface said “Yo!”
Murdered jerm dead
Put a bullet in his head, Ray
That’s the way she goes
I don’t want to need that
Lose me in the feedback
I don’t want to be that bro
accepting discontentment
- But can’t you just pretend?
No
I’m the type of guy
that can’t justify that
Need to plant some roots and grow
A Jeremiah divided in my head
Violent
jerm had to get smoked
Picking up the pieces that I want
as I stomp on the others
to the rhythm of the song, yo
Scars on my feet
from the shards on the street
are a bargain to me, Sold!
Instead of killing myself
I went drilling, killed parts off
and struck gold
Playing the villain in a village
full of villains
got old
So I approached my alter ego
wrapped a mic cord
around his throat
I choked that motherfucker out
put nine bullets
in his dome
“If you can’t defeat yourself
who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
If you can’t defeat yourself
who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?”
With sullen eyes
and gutter cries
I left that other guy exposed
Now I flutter by
a cluttered sky
A butterfly in show
Fitting and suitable
That these wings I grew
are fucking beautiful, no
Don’t be surprised
if I fly by
and don’t come home
I rap and sing
and flap these wings
cause that’s my thing, hope
sprung eternal
when I murdered jerm
and learned to cope
I set fires inside
light and ignite
so
I can study
the shadows cast
on the walls of my life, smoke
signals on horizons
signify parts of me
dying, snow
is not what’s falling
That’s the ash of my past
flying home
My alter ego’s deceased
I am free
at peace, alone
I have defeated the me
the world defeated
so let’s get on with on with the show
“If you can’t defeat yourself
who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
If you can’t defeat yourself
who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?
Who can you defeat?”
I’m not afraid of dying
Pieces of me die all the time
Everything dies and we mourn the end
Jeremiah IX has been Reborn Again
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2. |
Autopsy of an Alter Ego
03:08
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I gave a name to the sickness inside
jerm
Then I became it, lived in that prison of mine
Learned
To escape it I’d need to face it in time
jerm
put on a brave face, he’d written some rhymes
about the pain that we’d been carrying
the shame that we’d been burying
the same old plain clothes drained soul
we’d been wearing thin
From page to stage he bared my steeped heart
He stole some stencil letters and made some street art
He examined the damage I was stranded in sandwiched
Had the courage to stand in it, to manage and bandage it
Undiagnosed and high with a low supply of hope
he said the things I couldn’t and they listened when he spoke
He got us out of bed when depression clouds approached
Opened up about molestation, a place that I couldn’t go
Instead of tying nooses with plans to abandon you folks
he taught me how to climb at the end of my rope
My hero jerm was but a sickness at most
There’s no division or split though so listen up close
I’m the host personality learning to cope
Autopsy of an alter ego jerm is a ghost
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
I killed him off then opened him up
like Scalpel! I’m removing his don’t give a fuck
his anxieties and belief that there’s no one to trust
I filled him up with colours and love then sewed him shut
A spirit rose from his corpse and it scared me
As fear approached I felt fortunate and free
Spiritual, As his ghost re-entered Jeremy
Here we go, this is my moment of clarity
I have awakened but this morgue is maze
Feeling Frankenstein-ish but I’m forging my way
jerm is dead and Jeremiahs going on stage
The future is a blank page, I rewrote the play
The autopsy report states the alter ego’s corpse
time of death was recorded but its not present on the form
Asphyxia and gunshot wounds listed as cause of death
and a little box beside the word suicide is checked
But I did it, the monster’s the mad scientist
Now I’m living, I’m finished with my assignment
Jeremiah’s standing over jerm’s corpse rhyming
The autopsy’s complete, I am free of that virus
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
Autopsy of an alter ego
Autopsy of my alter ego
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3. |
MetamorphoSisyphus
03:51
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They call me MetamorphoSisyphus
The caterpillar left his pit
and went out on a vision quest
Listen it’s this butterfly’s mission
to be disciplined and not get killed
Destined to push this rock uphill
for eternity
In today’s sermon
we’re opting for something permanent
I buried jerm in the dirt
the day I murdered him
I killed jerm and the reason is this, bet
That piece of shit ignored my cease and desist letter
I got the recipe to empty the emptiness
and the best me is yet to come
blessed is my destiny
cause ahh yes progress
is all I’m investing in
I’m not jumping off of rooftops
Pacing at the precipice
facing it with a message in a bottle
that states - I have a lesson plan to follow
Move aside I’m not just rappin’ it’s happenin'
I traded in my suicidal thoughts
for happiness
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
You can bet I’m on some different shit
Stare into my eyes
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
Letting go is difficult
and there is no design
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
We must let go of the distant past
when we’re learning to fly
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
The work isn’t finished
gotta live my best life as a butterfly
Broken winged butterfly
Bi-polar Boulder
MetamorphoSisyphus
dies over and over
I’ve been reborn
so many times
Just leapt out depression
with an opening line
like - “Yes each breath
so fresh and divine
blessed, so precious
this life that is mine”
But in the blind spots
danger it hides
cause Jeremy doesn’t know
when Jeremiah’s arrived
I got a bi-polar boulder
and I push it uphill
When I recognize jerm
that fucker gets killed
When Jeremiah takes the reins
it gets strange
I medicate him
That’s the way I stay safe
I am the Universe
energy expanding
Host personality
Jeremy, man thing
Depression = jerm
Oppressive hurt
Mania = Jeremiah
Lesson learned
Reborn deformed, see horns, breathe
Reform, restore, be more, Me!
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
You can bet I’m on some different shit
Stare into my eyes
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
Letting go is difficult
and there is no design
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
We must let go of the distant past
when we’re learning to fly
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
The work isn’t finished
gotta live my best life as a butterfly
When you’re fighting keep fighting
and don’t end it
Suicide is never the answer
to those tensions
Detrimental parts of yourself
get death sentence
Grass is greener on the other
side of the fence, it’s
a friendship I’ve forged with my senses
Apprentice to life
I explore this dimension
Replenished high vibe
I adore this immensely
Intentions set to
gratitude and contentment
Hi my name is Jeremy
I am enough
MetamorphoSisyphus
Diamond in rough
Fistfuls of dexterity
shining it up
Cyclical polarities
paradigms in flux
I got this, I’m good
The only lion near
A pioneer discovering
Jeremy’s higher gears
Wise mind clear
IX tribe guiding steering
MetamorphoSisyphus
it’s why I’m here
Reborn deformed, see horns, breathe
Reform, restore, be more, Me!
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
You can bet I’m on some different shit
Stare into my eyes
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
Letting go is difficult
and there is no design
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
We must let go of the distant past
when we’re learning to fly
MetamorphoSisyphus
Jeremiah IX
The work isn’t finished
gotta live my best life as a butterfly
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4. |
Now or Never
02:31
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For every bicycle in China there’s a fracture in my mind
and it came time to acknowledge I designed it
Batches of attachments, emotional reactions
Trauma manifesting in the manner I defined it
Unlock the boxes, unpack the toxins
unclog the chakras, realign it
Never is a dirty word, Jeremy is an early bird
Searching for purpose, beginning to find it
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Never built a pyramid or ordered a drone strike
Never fit the prototype for being a clone type
Never have I ever not walked as the crow flies
Never owned the role while I was living the low life
Never have I given up, never have I quit
Never have I ever met a forever I could kick
Never have I wished upon a star or given shits
about never having ever lived a life that was uplifting
Never boarded space crafts or founded a cult
Never grew into a well-rounded adult
Never put the metal to the temple, click Bloahw!!
Never is irrelevant the moment is now
Never seen a ghost, never seen a UFO
Never seen a miracle near and up close
Never lived at the top, never died on a cross
Never did give a thought that I might be god
Never pulled the pin from a grenade in a crowd
Never had a halo never walked on a cloud
Never put the metal to the temple, click Bloahw!!
Never is irrelevant the moment is now
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Never seen a lion at the store, but in line I’m getting warm
Anxieties are swarming inviting me to war
Deciding it’s a storm, replying in my core
Infighting setting course, insides are getting torn
Programmed with that fight or flight
A lion might strike, incisors bite
Fear response, this shit is primal
Trapped in the past where attachments latched
Childhood
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
Now or never? Never - Never better
Now or never? Now - Never better
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5. |
Now
02:53
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Set my intentions
Set my intentions to gratitude and contentment
Set my intentions to gratitude and contentment
Trust my intuition, all authentic no pretending
Honour my emotions with acceptance no resentment
Present in the moment and the moment is so endless
I’m blessed to be aware of the breaths that are giving air
to the lungs of a man that once hung himself cause he was scared
When that abandoned house came down on me ,it died, I didn’t
Surprise, life is a, surmise? quite different
Set my intentions to gratitude and contentment
Trust my intuition, all authentic no pretending
Honour my emotions with acceptance no resentment
Present in the moment and the moment is so endless
Carbon based, Jeremiah, Garbageface
Darker days behind me like parking space
Heart decayed in artsy ways
Took it apart talked to the parts added to cart and paid
My yoga mat is a flying carpet, flying far
My shine goes light years back, I’m a dying star
A human being being human, trying hard
Core beliefs I forfeited dissolved iron bars
Moving forward the present moment is all
In therapy tearing up Jeremy trauma resolved
CBT DBT EMDR...Lab rat, lab rat! Me in a jar
See and it’s hard, What? To peek under scars
seek and discharge trauma feeling weakened and marred
We can be stars, we are, among Venus and Mars
We shine divinely, seen from afar
Primate on a spinning rock, wise to the divisive rot
I am on my giving props, rhyming till my train stops
Bye to the submissive knot, hi to the uplifting talk
I am not a victim locked inside that fucking same box
Lies when politicians squawk divide through televisions watched
blind to how their visions blocked, society is brainwashed
Awareness - back to the breath
Where? On my lips, in my chest
Stare at the abyss and accept
I am not my brain’s thoughts
Set my intentions to gratitude and contentment
Trust my intuition, all authentic no pretending
Honour my emotions with acceptance no resentment
Present in the moment and the moment is so endless
Set my intentions to gratitude and contentment
Trust my intuition, all authentic no pretending
Honour my emotions with acceptance no resentment
Present in the moment and the moment is so endless
In the now, keep on existing in the now
In the now, keep on existing in the now
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6. |
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My inspiration is love, NINE
A dedication to one, mine
There’s no mistaking the sun-shine
My inspiration is love, NINE
You are the sun and the moon
You are the fun in the room
You are abundant and true
You are my wondrous muse
I was the gun and the boom
until I run into you
Now I’m the one with new tools
I humbly put them to use
Mining diamonds and jewels
from my past trauma and wounds
My inspiration is you
Nicole...You inspire me entirely
in diaries I fire breathe
in dire need of finding peace
so I repeat
My inspiration is love, NINE
A dedication to one, mine
There’s no mistaking the sun-shine
My inspiration is love, NINE
From where I stand, there is no plan
There is only this moment and the way that we hold it
From where stand, there is no plan
there is only right now, right now, right now
From where I stand, there is no plan
There is only this moment and the way that we hold it
From where stand, there is no plan
there is only right now, right now, right now
My inspiration is blood, mine
the revelations and floods, fine
the dialation of one, time
flowing past ever faster and faster and
slowing down occasionally
nothing is the same to me from
moment to moment my aim is
growing in a framework of
love unconditional and never ducking wishing for escape hatch prophecies
the properties of stone as it
breathes in breathes out moisture and air
as if it had lungs that were already there
foundational fears disappear
when you see there’s no reason to be scared.
my dedication to you, truth
that’s all comes out of this booth
the growing tree and it’s life fruit
I humbly put it to use all for you
From where I stand, there is no plan
There is only this moment and the way that we hold it
From where stand, there is no plan
there is only right now, right now, right now
From where I stand, there is no plan
There is only this moment and the way that we hold it
From where stand, there is no plan
there is only right now, right now, right now
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7. |
Kaleidoscope
03:20
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Colours fade like the troubled look on my Mother’s face
Playing with the Rubik’s cube but don’t know what I’m doing to it
Colours fade like the troubled look on my Mother’s face
Playing with the Rubik’s cube but don’t know what I’m doing to it
Perfect the pattern eventually put the Rubik’s cube down
I see the beauty in life, playing Kaleidoscope now
All the colours once faded I thought I died in the brown
but black and white came back to life, playing Kaleidoscope now
I play kaleidoscope
The vibrant colours that dance
fill me with light and hope
I am these colours
a man, a different isotope
Perspective shifts I reckon
Filled up with light and hope
I play kaleidoscope
I see the hues of purples, reds and blues
in a heart once consumed with darkness and gloom
The pitch black got ditched kicked to the curb by jerm
‘bout six tracks into ‘The Sickness’ he learned
Its safe to stay and play in shades of grey
Still embracing the darkness, pigment afraid
cause you don’t gotta do shit once you admit
you can live in the depths of a bottomless pit
you just exist, that can be difficult, life’s a gift
but sometimes, you’ve got nothing to give
It’s an addiction you wanna kick, a prison you wanna split
A cliff you wanna visit to view the vista, before you hit
A heart grows sparse left alone in the dark
So I faded to grey took it apart and played with the parts
In that grey place I picked at the black
learned nothing grows there or goes there, this is a trap!
There were no dark thoughts or broken hearts on Noah’s Arc
Metamorphosis occurs when you and your broken heart grow apart
Eventually with age this faded and then decayed
Shades of grey vacated, this is what they became
I play kaleidoscope
The vibrant colours that dance
fill me with light and hope
I am these colours
a man, a different isotope
Perspective shifts I reckon
Filled up with light and hope
I play kaleidoscope
Now I’m a bright beam of light and love
A technicolour rainbow in the sky above
Now I’m a bright beam of light and love
A technicolour rainbow in the sky above
I play kaleidoscope
The vibrant colours that dance
fill me with light and hope
I am these colours
a man, a different isotope
Perspective shifts I reckon
Filled up with light and hope
I play kaleidoscope
I radiated 88 full shades of grey
till I satiated the emaciated mind states at play
Colours fade like the morale of the underpaid
Some others they bleed like the backs of a hundred slaves
Now I dip into a Pantone palette of energies and moods
and paint the world with light and love, my centrepiece my muse
I am more than just a storm cloud of blacks and greys and blues
I am the port, I am the lighthouse, the facts, the way, the truth
In a sea of positivity there’s no need to find a boat
so I surround myself with other like-minded butterflies and float
We fill the sky with wonder, wings aflutter, time to go
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
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8. |
Good Time Travelling
04:12
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Psilocybin star child, intentional trips
Wormholes, portals, dimensional rifts
The matrix glitched, I simultaneously exist
with past and future Jeremys, a subterraneous eclipse
A meeting of the mind, Jeremy, Jeremiah, jerm
- I’m you from the future...Here’s everything I’ve learned!
Filled with the essence and the spirit and the lessons
that a future me experienced already, just this second
I time travel, levitate and bend spoons
Mend wounds telepathically, empathy is my fuel
Perception is reality, life is but a dream
I jettisoned my medicines, I just wanna be
I’m having a good time travelling
Jeremy doesn’t know it yet, but I’m unravelling
I’m riding it out
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m riding it out
Intergalactic mass intricately attached
intimately to a past that is infinitely collapsing
Connected to a future that is instantly in tact
No longer distant and detached ,rather vintage and relapsing
My safe space is the present moment, forget atonement
I’m light years from right here, but I’m heading home
I manifest abundantly, profundity in droves
Everything that comes to me, I let it go
Energy in motion stays in motion, space implodes
Reincarnated data made of basic 1s and Os
You and me are clearly here, the hologram it broke
The Universe experiencing itself is all I know
Unmedicated meditating the story unfolds
Clairsentient entity in warrior pose
Connected to a higher consciousness I time warp
This is something I’m willing to die for
I’m having a good time travelling
Jeremy doesn’t know it yet, but I’m unravelling
I’m riding it out
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m riding it out
I forget the recipe, I think I can hack it
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of -redacted-
This is bad, my reality has been fractured
Jeremy man, I think I’m starting to crack
No, mind over matter is the code
jerm is dead, Jeremiah go!
Man this over approaching a black hole
Jeremy’s gonna kill himself isn’t he? Is that so?
If I identify as Jeremiah IX I am alive
If I identify as jerm IX I’m barely getting by
If identify as Jeremy Aaron Bertrand, who am I?
Proceeding without therapy and meds is not advised
If I identify as Jeremiah IX I am alive
If I identify as jerm IX I’m barely getting by
If identify as Jeremy Aaron Bertrand, who am I?
Proceeding without therapy and meds is not advised
I’m having a good time travelling
Jeremy doesn’t know it yet, but I’m unravelling
I’m riding it out
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m having a good time travelling
I’m riding it out
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9. |
Tuco Salamanca
02:41
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People ask, I say that I’m fine
It’s a lie and it has been since the day that you died
Spirits pass, your subtraction multiplied the divide
Bad math, add it up teach me how to survive
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
Death...is juxtaposed by life
What’s left...when nothing feels right
Last breaths...of a loved one that has died
At best...all that’s left is to survive
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
You died, but you’ll always be here in my heart
Alive, with me here, bleeding in my art
to guide like a beacon in the dark
Mine forever we will never be apart
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco, my twin flame, too close for a pet
Tuco, you loved me back to life and then you left
Tuco, I can’t live without you so I checked
for a loophole, and got you fucking tatted on my neck
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
My conscious awareness is experiencing Jeremy
experiencing life
but what’s experiencing
my conscious awareness -You hear me right?
I hope you hear me, hope your spirit is free
I know you’re near me, your energy feeds
Your presence never left, strength, summon it up
Yup, everywhere we go son you’re coming with us
Snuggled up on daddy’s neck, runnin' amok
Sing it with me if you ever lost someone you love
Tuco Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
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10. |
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The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
The fall of Rome’s upon us
We are generation overthrow
But the Romans are not in the moment
Hypnotized by phones
Massa done distracted masses
Massacres untold
Elites discretely secret keep
deplete the sheep of wool
This is all illusion
collusion and constructs
It doesn’t matter who you vote for
they are not representing us
They’ve colonized far and wide
Now they’re slyly mining minds
Capitalism ate democracy
and shit out our new lives
The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
The man behind the curtain
pulls the strings and puppets dance
as person after person
buys new things stuck in trance
We can’t rely on worship
it diverts productive plans
If we don’t kill the man behind the curtain
we don’t have a fucking chance
The man behind the curtain
is the cancer to our cure
The man behind the curtain
is advancing on our purity
The man behind the curtain
he is riddled with concern
He knows I’m gonna play
my fucking fiddle while it burns
The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
The CIA went public, aliens exist
but it didn’t trend on the internet so no one gave a shit
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11. |
The End
04:06
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This is the end of emo rap
I see no path to lead me back
to the casino trap
I bet it all on dreams I had
Lost my tuxedo jacket
and my temper on some
Nazi fascist bastard back there
yeah, I left him bleeding bad
This is the end of people asking
how I’m so courageous
to display myself so honestly
It’s just me n’ that
Authentic life
spliced with manic and depressed
Bi-polar boulder
Wait, IDGAF!
This is the end of me pretending jerm is dead
Every word that’s said
inside my churning head
sets fires
Turning red, hurling meds
circling death
Jumping from this burning ledge
Expired!
This is the end of you and me
human beings
New machines do the deeds
You’re the user you’re the fiend
Algorithms do the feeding
you’re spooning through you’re teeth
making one consumer
from all humanity
This is the end
Last thing I’ll ever do
Algorithm sells my two cents
advertising revenue
This is the end of the rat race
goodbye cheese
The revolution has been
hashtagged and live-streamed
This is the end of neutrality
Human beings being cattle meat
You can get with this
or you can get with depravity
This is the end of
slow people in fast lanes
old people and ALL people
snuffed put in an ashtray
This is the end of Jeremiah IX
The end of time
We live we die
buy the ticket take the ride
Exist survive
paint the filigree with vibes
I’ll miss you bye
Nothings saving me from dying
This is the end of my funeral
Mom’s sobbing
“Suicide is selfish and brutal”
says someone softly
I taste your tears Nicole
Face your fears Nicole
You wasted years Nicole
You’re free
She can’t hear me mourn
I’m in spirit form
No one knows I regret it
just me!
This is the end
from stardust to ashes
I wore my heart where your mask is
in a fake world made of plastic
This is the end of my manic state
jerm’s awake...
Sleeping all the days away
Tick tick
They don’t need me I’m just in the way
Sick sick
Better to burn out than to fade away
Tsk tsk
I’m bleeding on a razor blade
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
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My Mother called me Jeremy, but you call call me jerm, till this virus inside of my mind gets murdered.
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