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(SHIT IZ) REAL

from Summer Tape by Gepetto

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CHORUS

U know I’m real
And everything I do I gotta feel/2
I’m too inventive to get
Caught up with these bills
I just need to find another way
Wanna spend my day
Saying what I wanna say/4

One thing I can’t believe
Is to run away
Crumbling like the leaves
When the summer fades/6
But time don’t stop
The grind stop
You know I gotta get paid today/8


VERSE 1

…How many artists hate their jobs?
But can’t seem to find a way
to get out the gaping jaws/2

Of day to day exhaustion/
And their fake ass boss
and then they go home
Try to make some shit
And shake it off/4

But it’s a lot,
Your energy gets drained and lost
To try to do your art is like
A second full time job/6

In the machine
Where we cough in the grey exhaust/
We cook the meal, wash the plate
And never taste the sauce/8

Fuck that,
I’m trying to find what I want
And touch that/
Got me sayin fuck the world
It fucked back/10
Watch ya ass
Hope you got enough gas/
Might find yourself
Copping a c
Bus pass/12

And it’s a long walk home/
But continue making my music
Shit that’s all I know/14
I go to college in my 30s/
Shit I’m not that old/
Might have a dad bod but
Damn, dawg, I still rock shows/


CHORUS 2

That’s on the real
When you’re creative
but you gotta get a meal
You can’t get caught up
with the fixes and feels/
And you know what they’re gonna say
This music doesn’t pay
You gotta find another way/4

But one thing I couldn’t do
Is to let it go
Hungry, my heart fused with the
Metronome/6
But time don’t stop
The grind stop
You know I gotta get paid today/8

VERSE 2

I gotta give it up for my folks, tho/
If they didn’t have my back
I’d be perpetually broke tho
I know I never say it so I’m letting you both know
Thank you for supporting me
I honestly don’t know

What I’d do without the safety net
I might’ve turned to hard drugs
I hadn’t taken yet
Or maybe I’d have taken steps/
…it might have taught me how
To take a risk
Hard to say, either way
I gotta face regrets/

So many things I try to do
Its like I put a lot of work in
But I didn’t follow through/
Or I didn’t follow suit
Or I didn’t follow up
Its hard to stay committed
When I didn’t fall in love with it

But even when I do the shit that I do love
Its hard to gain momentum
So it feels like it’s too much
It’s unsustainable then
My energy’s used up
And I feel like point blank
Cause my music is screwed up/


CHORUS

BRIDGE
Move on, move on
Get ya groove on,
Do some, do some
Betta do some

Move on, move on
Get ya mothafuckin
groove on, Do some
Do it now
Dont wait too long

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from Summer Tape, released August 1, 2022

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Gepetto is a Portland, Oregon rapper/producer who brings the spirit of early 2000s indie rap into 2022 and beyond

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