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Contagious Nature

by Bud Lotus

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Yeah Yeah Ugh Some days are harder than they really need to be I bet that's everyday living wherever you go Nothing is as beautiful as it seems This is poetry and art of a solemn soul I've retracted enacted my actions are latent the flower is dead but it's essence pervasive Willing but stunted I'm losing my color the changing of seasons has never been duller One day I got it and the next I'm lost Confused and robust yea the time adds up I'm only getting older with a mission so distant I've staggered my time and some days yea I miss them I'm harder on myself than I use to be I have a fear of missing out when I put in time to study I have a fear of wasted time like what if I don't advance and the people I put off was all for dead ends Stress, limits are invasive invading the mental concocting an illness Strings out of tune resemble emotion sensing discomfort are auras are loaded Passive aggressive it's more than malicious take on abuse and spreads like a virus Call of the Wild that's why I love nature taking steps backs man I don't want to be a hater Burn the overgrowth for a moral cleanser, I need to get back to revive my fire I need to get back like an innocent child I remembered when I cared more what cared for MORE MORE Laws of attraction the way I've been acting Careless as ever but still am trying I don't know why I don't know how Iv'e thought to run away but that doesn't seem sound and Iv'e thought of suicide but that wouldn't make me proud WE ALL GOT GREATNESS INSIDE OF US YOU GOT GREATNESS INSIDE OF YOU And I know that I doubt everyone doubts the out is in and I'm letting it out It's hard to be sure when lacking a core The public it hoards in succubus form Average mundane I'm going insane Tested and treated by limits of pain The niche Iv'e obtained is stranger than strange Looking at this planet we've become deranged Does it really even matter when the pressures in the brain? Just in the brain just in the brain Iv'e pulled my heart out to keep myself sane Keep myself sane amateur in the game Consistency has always had resistance with me Unofficial individual reaching for the minimal practicality has always be key And I wear it proud like my Grandpa's ring And when it's lost I still feel it's grip And when I'm lost I am not alone When the passion is real I can let shit go I can feel my soul I can feel myself whole I can feel my soul I can feel myself whole
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I want to be making an honest living Attaining my freedoms by righteous decisions A healer a feeler of sorts Empathy symphony aura the force The deeper one digs the hotter it gets The fire sustains the chimney of breath As long as I live I keep it together The earth and the magma is keeping me settled I reflect this planet so It hurts when I see it damaged Clear cutting of that forest empty pits where my heart is Driving on these packed roads where the vegetation use to grow The fragments of what are left All the guts and splattered death yo Repercussion for the man is dodged by the business plan As long as making that money and stealing for business and corporate bodies You are the problem but you are the source trapped in a void that destroys for growth Blinded and hollowed compelled by the choice the vices and verses is numbing are critical point Being sold is construct Leaving my people sluggish inability to process continuity of the nonsense It's all so real How advance we are but how little we deal Peaking the future is fearful because we don't know how to act when we need to I'm in need of my essentials nothing more but connection family and friends talking with people who get it releases my stresses I'll ignore it if you ignore it too Forgetful I'm working for freedom and youth It's not about a collective it's a cut throat incentive People want their piece of the pie And would rather right their way with pride We won't survive but we can thrive The greed it kills by cutting our ties Stubborn as hell we've become ill Toxcicity filled the vomit it seeds ingrained in the brain torrential it rains The sadness is builds and builds Flooding and flooding climate chnage Flooding and flooding climate chnage Flooding and flooding climate chnage Flooding and flooding lets make a chnage I want to make an honest living sustain myself without the killing Harming and polluting why mutate with excuses When abundance is in front of us Covered up by a plain ass lawn Covered up by a warehouse Poisoned from the soil down Chemical industries families comprised Leaching of the groundwater Health is our support line Yea the price may be cheaper But the real expense of nature Won't be worth it when the world becomes uncertain from chasing paper We can see within space molecules and elements We have launched in space rockets and astronauts Still there is a struggle of common everyday people Going in with what is know and left to find our own sequel I'm a human by chance knowledge is loud Picking apart what's important And leaving the bullshit out If you want to make an honest living you have to fight to figure it out The chances of debts the bombing on tests The broken down cars short coming of rent Own the self doubt yo Own the self doubt yo If you know what is right than you shouldn't even flinch though I've broken bonds to find purpose confused at times that's no curtains Time will rob you again and again If you push it off you'll regret the dream
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I don't want to rely on anyone for anything Self independence comes from knowing many things in the world of human origin Before all of the hoarding, mobbing malls and targets The succession of our growth in it's natural progress Edible weeds medical trees foraging for simple needs The abundance to eat is in the seeds Based on our ecology Pollinate Procreate The roots already in place Allow the space to elevate There's a forest to return And I'm inhaling a deep breath Germinating words In the hopes of reset before we make it burn The presets are dead ends impractical demanding We got people buying land before they even understand it If you don't know the basics your like a wounded animal Susceptible by income, paper is our life support The last words of an old man inside of a hospital With Covid-19 was who will pay for Who will pay for it? Why are we so hopeless? Maybe it's those with power that control what's in focus Loans of fiat currency printed with that interest Bounded for infection when integrity's demented United we stand strong but we don't stand Together We got the strips and the stars but we're not a real collective Patriotism blindfolds like blue lives matter The bigger the shadow, more hiding what really matters Who's the real Bud Lotus? Soaking in the sun rays Dealing with the coldness Fear based weakened state How do you bloom when things don't change? Leaderships a damn shame Dialed back to ruthless Narcissist not clueless Conjuring hate for the gain of freedom The economy is not worth the lives deleted Freedom half the time is a mere illusion Ceasefire in countries when it could of been sooner The result of a virus we're HUMAN Suffering gives us a common Put aside your differences self-help limitless vision shift Before they take it back like they did with the Indians Before it starts creeping in Our leaders today lack benevolence t They don't inspire nor empower us Violent is silent with the right type of language Unfiltering the smokestacks in the midst of a pandemic Racism isn't dead and they use it for a conflict Wiping out the weak may just be sick logic I see actions speak like fast food is essential? We're hardly incentivized To Ever Be Better People We pay the government to lead us into the arena For poor delivery that doesn't brace us for the evil They steal from us everyday and facade their for the people Getting back to my roots won't ever be a cake walk I'll never be the same evolution doesn't take breaks Love is in my heart and I hope that you can resonate Whether not you believe me Know that there are better ways I throw shade to the shade In the hopes for brighter days.
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Acid Reign 03:10
You can't stop an invisible world Boost your health boost yourself To what you've had all along The quality of a bond Harboring the strength from inside of yo earthy gut Respect is to my body what you know about the spreading of disease from the animals we cage in the darkness Scraps to make penny's for the pinching of the pockets Violent tyrants encourage the silence The unearthen of sin for a plate full of nutrients Diluted and converted to insert the carcinogens Excess marketing to reverse doubts of bargaining Without your money yo you could really ruin them 'Stretches of acres in cages their cornered Cramped up and shot up with hormones for slaughter Chickens don't walk like obese needing walkers Open up the mind and hone in on exposure Billions of beings are slaughtered every year While 1/7 of humans still starving in fear Doesn't make sense when the numbers add up Concentrated in cities but are we moving up ? We're all for expansion where random turns to ransom Yea they take advantage government mismanaged Priorities are branded shock the whole system Fear monger us with a lack of vision Communities a grey spot we don't build together we just work together workers in a place we don't want to be forever Insane cuz to break the same is pain word yo shorter lived the lessons I started from unity now I am trinity connected Mental in the physical sixth sense protection I haven't had to die yet It's not the ears that always listen I may be young but anything can happen Integrity's the word to hold down my reputation Still devilish by nature a sexy connotation Don't forget your manners awareness to each other Could be what saves our dying future Convoluted instituted in the wrong advancements Stop looking the other way to ignore the damage Cuz when the shit hits the fan it'll be your problem Acid rain is dropping down and droughts are increasing Hurricanes are gaining speed and coral reefs are bleaching Death is accelerating deforestation Extinctions of species you never have heard of Never have heard of Acid rain is dropping down and droughts are increasing Hurricanes are gaining speed and coral reefs are bleaching Death is accelerating deforestation Extinctions of species you never have heard of Fake love is a lost of real love Anxious faded into nervous Lost of purpose untrustred by the hustled Unprovided in the struggle yo look at what were learning We see our problems building and deface Design them to be shameless Resilient in billions we suffer from villains In danger and toyed and lined up for illness Unfulfilling drinking down the poison Submission zooming in searching for desires Thoughts wonder eyes wander the paths on fire I was born to touch down yo elevate higher
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In the seams of disaster locked down in battle comes out the heroes fighting for wellness Aiding in illness unsure of the healing stillness for some is a sense of the freedom Slow it all down progressive of what? If we don't got health we don't got trust Poison in our food for the gain of a buck Unhealthy and nervous unaware of the crutch We can be stronger than where we are Looking out for others can be a start The truth is pain but it's also power Hard to align when brought up by cowards n The fear is louder the light is louder The prayers our louder I can feel it's power We can be stronger than where we are Looking out for others can be a start The resistance is here Here to take charge Nature restoring it's wounds from the hurt Clean air in China swans back in Venice Watch nature go our nature is magic Relatable the will to survive I want to be alright with the people of my time Everyone is here right now When I come alive I envision a world where we're more of ourselves Food forest we're artists No starving for progress Where is our targets we gotta use what we got We work to hard to be this advance Natures our queen forgiven forgiven Wake up the people the beauty is living Compassion from the loving The love is resilient The rhythm is heated The smoke is escaping We can be stronger than where we are Looking out for others can be a start Blessings connection capture the moments Appreciate beings that love you and hold you Standing on by there when you need them Made life better with no thought for a reason We can be stronger than where we are Looking out for others can be a start Absorbed in the presence of equals A lotus in process of stretching it's petals I have to grow up for the sharing is nectar The webbing of life is weighed out by behavior I'm still reaching out to the depths of our waters Spirit going out to the deaths of our elders I can't tell myself that it's all for a purpose But when the fire burns new life emerges If things get bad will we learn a lesson The experience now is a pure occasion We know what we know but we still know nothing Our primal connection is gone like the ashes Blown to the wind inhale the connection What we do to ourselves we do to the others Are you gaining from yourself the life that you summoned Secluded from the daily try not to panic Spread the vibration High high high to infinity Brace the day before it breaks away For sake of play on the trinity plane Physical grounding my spirit to stay The singing of birds the chirping of crickets The peeping of frogs harmonys living Let the voice of the world feel like home Feel like om Let the voice of the world feel like home feel like ommmmm We can be stronger than where we are Looking out for others can be a start

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released June 16, 2020

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Bud Lotus New Jersey

Will Nieves resides in NJ. He began his music venture in 2014 originally making instrumental ambient, trip-hop and rap music with a collaborative group called Hempmosfear. Two years later he broke off and started a solo project going by Bud Lotus. He still raps and creates music using wind instruments, field recordings, and a midi keyboard. ... more

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