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MetamorphoSisyphus

by Jeremiah IX + Garbageface

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Cameron Schettler "There is no bad, there is no good. There is only lessons and experiences, and you choose these every time you come into a life" <3 Favorite track: Standpoint feat. Garbageface.
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1.
Reborn Again 02:21
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Now or Never 02:31
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
5.
Now 02:53
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
6.
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
7.
Kaleidoscope 03:20
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
The End 04:06
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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Vulnerable yet bombastic, grounded yet unhinged, Jeremiah IX + Garbageface's MetamorphoSisypus paints pictures of polarities. Jeremiah passionately and poetically guides the listener through an array of mindsets and emotional states over a brooding moody sonic boom of Garbagebeats. MetamorphosSisyphus stands in stark contrast to Jeremy Aaron Bertrand's 2012 release 'jerm Warfare' by alter ego jerm IX, which depicted a desperate man at war with himself and his depression. MetamorphoSisyphus finds that same man on the other end of the spectrum, on a quest for self improvement and balance, while experiencing the glorious rise and dangerous fall of a manic state.

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released November 4, 2022

All songs written and performed by Jeremiah IX.
*Additional vocals on tracks 1+6 written and performed by Garbageface.
Produced by Garbageface.
Mixed and mastered by Garbageface.
Recorded at The Werewolf Sanctuary in Peterborough, ON, Canada.
'MetamorphoSisyphus Butterfly' cover image designed by a1one.
Cover arrangement by Garbageface and Jeremiah IX.

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