15. Overachiever Mixtape – Cardiac Arrest
Posted by Sais | Filed under Life Sais, Music To Your Ears, Overachiever Mixtape
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I feel the need to break this one down in detail. As I right this I have the song on loop as to try to capture everything.
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The degradation of a relationship is not really explored in the realm of rap music. Towards the end of my relationship I would repeat the same phrase to my significant other. “This is not healthy for our relationship.” This was a phrase said to the point that it lost it’s power or meaning.
While I was going through the recovery of losing something I felt dear, I thought to myself “I lost my heart” When I said that I realized that just how you take care of anything, a relationship requires maintenance. Since love is always is equated to the heart, I decided to break this down in a direct correlation to physical health.
In Random MC, I was in the stage that I just wanted to reconcile and I thought I was at fault, so I was pretty powerless in my pleading of trying to repair what was broken.
This one is a bit more arbitrary that I show each side of where we went wrong.
First I decided to expose myself as the cause of the heart failure, detailing how I disregarded her mentions that my frleindliness was killing her inside.
First Verse
I once had a chick but her heart stopped working
don’t know why but she called me a jerk
said i didn’t put my work in
Always chasing skirts
Flirting and making her worry.
As i continue on relating to maintaining your health i make a few exercise references
Foresight was never my strength
or feelings of expression
had to keep it behind the bars like bench pressing
i pushed up too late too much lies
she still kept her chin up
but it was no more XO Sais (excercise)
Second Verse
Next part’s about me ya’ll .. shows what happens when you ignore telltale signs of an imminent failure. Basically the denia of a gradual loss of love.
Would lie with me
then lie to me
i knew it
and on the low my heart was dying
Pulse slowed down
Mind racing
Yes I’m faced with decision to regain my rate
or getting a pacemaker
Pacemaker referring to should i just get rid of my heart and get someone to replace her function, or try to make it work (regain my rate)
Third Verse
This one is basically through the view of a ghost who doesn’t know that they’re (the relationship) dead and is still trying to keep it alive. Inspired by The Sixth Sense of course
I know what could bring us back
if we lay down relax
and do mouth to mouth
while you laying on ya back
we could survive
get up and rise
we still breathing
after getting rescued from this deep pool of lies
CPR = Sex.. yeah.
If i could revive you I would
run the clock back and rewife you i should
Let it go
but it seems so close
and if i press hard enough its like i feel a pulse
but i’m talking to a ghost
Stuff that goes people’s minds when they think they could repair an ended relationship.
Shoulda kept it honest like I promised
now we’re laying there .. goin in the coffin
Both dead. bang bang. Sigel Street. Early.
Tags: cardiac arrest, expression, Fairweather, feelings, heart failure, imminent failure, Karamel, Komplexion, love, maintaining your health, mixtape, oa, overachiever, physical health, rap music, Sais, Shaulybeth, telltale signs
