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Platinum Statue (2023)

by RISKEE & THE RIDICULE

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1.
God Tier 04:05
I feel like I’m on another plane, another dimension, run when normality beckons. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere, there ain’t no bond here and that’s when you elevate into god tier. I feel like I’m on another plane another dimension, I don’t believe what you reckon. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere, there ain’t no bond here and that’s when the elevate into god tier. Break those chains, those chains ain’t yours to maintain, what’s the point in chasing fame, you're never gonna see this place again. I will break those brains, reset everything that they create, I’m a bloody bloodhound in this game, I can see lies and I can smell fakes, dead it. I hold myself in such high esteem 'cause I plucked reality out of a dream, blew off the dirt and I kept what I like, I moulded the shape, tarted up the sides. Keep your blind rage, we craft the vision do what you do, we’ll do what you didn’t, when they talk about you and you don’t care that’s when you’re elevating to god tier! I feel like I’m on another plane, another dimension, run when normality beckons. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere, there ain’t no bond here and that’s when you elevate into god tier. I feel like I’m on another plane another dimension, I don’t believe what you reckon. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere, there ain’t no bond here and that’s when the elevate into god tier I’m an iron fist in an iron glove, I'll body any front man you’ve ever loved, we are not Slaves we are not Idles, we are the underground we hold the title. I came from the dirt as did many to show you we were planted and not buried, we grow we do not rot, in bloom all year round we don’t stop. Inflation skyrockets the wages remain, where is your fire where are you flames? Where is the anger, where is your rage, I’m alright Jack yeah I’m alright Jane, dead it. You want rich but how do you want it? A Fiesta in the forest or Tesla to the office. If I’m honest time is the only commodity, my seconds ain’t for sale it’s my hours that honour me. Who are you who am I? Can we exhume truth from the lies? You play a role you are a character, you are a vessel you are an avatar. You are the worker you are the passenger, you are the driver but the manager manage ya. There’s no fast track no, there’s no time trafficker, there’s no shortcut sliding down the banister. The canister is already split open and the contents is already pre-written. Open the box strike the flame, flick the match light the game, wear your Docs, wear your chain here’s the catch you’re the same. Take your pain and package it up, they’ll market you as deranged and stuck. What do you know you’re just a fool, they can’t smell a thing sitting in their own stool! I feel like I’m on another plane, another dimension, run when normality beckons. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere. there ain’t no bond here and that’s when you elevate into god tier. I feel like I’m on another plane, another dimension, I don’t believe what you reckon. Everything just comes at once this is our sphere, there ain’t no bond here and that’s when the elevate into god tier.
2.
How I Feel 04:18
Tragic Why am I always the last one at the party? I’m the last one standing but hardly. I’m a little dishevelled but I’m still dressed smartly first one in, last one out I should’ve packed in like a sardine but it’s after afters the birds are tweeting, climbing over bodies that look corpses but they’re sleeping, catch a glimpse of the mirror of this shadow demon but I think I’m the one who’s lost if we’re competing. I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic. And it’s just how I feel. I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal, it’s going to swing like everything and it’s just how I feel I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal. I need to heal. Tragic Front door slams behind me I can feel a breeze, charged right up like a couple of Duracell batteries, -4 a normal man might freeze but last night’s beer jacket’s still got a bit of life in its seams. Kind sir may I trouble you for some words from your mouth? Can you point me the direction of the nearest public house? Take a left, take a right, through the park it takes five, okay nice, my guy, got a light? High-five. I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic, I swear it’s tragic man it’s fucking tragic. And it’s just how I feel, I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal, it’s going to swing like everything and it’s just how I feel I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal. I need to heal. Tragic Morning, you serving yet? Yeah I’ll have a pint. Look across the bar there’s a bird with big brown eyes. 'Don’t I know you from somewhere?' Yeah well I’m in a band. 'No it’s not that actually you’re on Pubwatch, you’re banned.' You feel crushed like what you’ve got in the packet, inhaling assets burn through cash like nitric acid, false endorphins to the brain is like viagra to the flaccid, sometimes aggression can be a gift to the passive. When you want something enough anger can make you active and the people you love can hand you safe passage, they can take you back to who you used to be, who they used to know, who you used to see. Who you used to be, Before you were a random in a kitchen at 5:30, who you used to be. Sometimes the lonely road is the only way to go, the stars lead you home or at least your next boat. When it’s time to go, time to go, yeah you know, when it’s time to go. When it’s time to go yeah you know, yeah you know, when it’s time to go. And it’s just how I feel, I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal it’s going to swing like everything and it’s just how I feel I might be down but I’m still around and I need to heal I need to heal. Tragic.
3.
My Name 03:05
You know my name but I don’t know yours. We’re not the same and that’s my get out clause. You know my name but I don’t know yours. We’re not the same, not the same, not the same, not the same. Verse one You lot got real fucking brave, keyboard at your fingertips now you got shit to say? Don’t feed the trolls they’re under the bridge for a reason, the beautiful people walk the bridge and go on to somewhere decent. Face to face you’ve got shit to say it’s beef and I’m eating. I’m taking off heads like I’m the king and this is treason. The capitalist machine the music industry is in parts, first the mainstream will eat anything they put in to the charts. Second it’s not about talent it’s about who’s down to sell their hearts and third is watch the underground and go steal all of its art. Fucking Rembrandts and the Nazis imposters hiding in the dark and any musicians who want it can get it I’ll come and tear you all apart. Chorus You you you you better watch your mouth, I’ll come to your show and I will bang you out. I’m the fucking landlord, this is my house I am not normal I am something else. Da da da da da da da da da da, da da da da da da da da I’m gargantuan, I’m in your mouth like calcium, one speed it maximum, the big cat's here so mousy run. Bring me a better rapper than me and I’ll sing, bring me a better singer than me and I’ll rap. If you find someone’s who’s better at both I’ll write them a better hook for their track. Blap! If you always do what you did you’ll always get what you got, you got to evolve to roll big kid, you can’t simmer for too long stay hot. The power's always with the people, the future the present the past, not a single lightbulb illuminates without the say of the working class. You know my name, but I don’t know yours. We’re not the same and that’s my get out clause. You know my name but I don’t know yours. We’re not the same, not the same, not the same, not the same. You you you you better watch your mouth, I’ll come to your show and I will bang you out. I’m the fucking landlord this is my house I am not normal I am something else. You you you you better watch your mouth, I’ll come to your show and I will bang you out. I’m the fucking landlord this is my house I am not normal I am something else. If you ain’t running away how can they catch you? You shine through the black you platinum statue.
4.
25 Doors 04:07
You’ll go, you’ll grow and I’ll stay here in limbo. I’ll be right here, I’ll be right here and you’ll go, you’ll blow and I don’t wanna mess with your tempo I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. He’s a vision of success his life looks nothing like yours. He’s got 25 doors, 25 doors, 25 doors, 25 doors and life is so much more, it can’t be measured by walls and floorboards 25 door 25 doors 25 to 25 doors. Nobody ever said on their deathbed that life meant more windows, more bricks, more cement, more carpet, I don’t like paying rent but tell me this can you take your stuff once you went? I’m surfing the waves are ridicule and praise I choose not to get wet because waves change. You can’t rely on what people say opinions don’t define the path that you pave. You’ll go, you’ll grow and I’ll stay here in limbo. I’ll be right here, I’ll be right here and you’ll go, you’ll blow and I don’t wanna mess with your tempo I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. Would you rather be old and rich or young and broke with a cause? 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors. You can’t put a price on time but it will cost you if you waste yours, 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors. A week is just a collection of days, a month it’s just a collection of weeks. A week is just a collection of ways to build priceless years into epic decades. When did we lose our way when the coin became king and the peasant prayed? Do as I do , but not as I say, for I am for nothing but for now today. You’ll go, you’ll grow and I’ll stay here in limbo. I’ll be right here, I’ll be right here and you’ll go, you’ll blow and I don’t wanna mess with your tempo I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. I know I’m crazy but that’s how they made me I’m living my daydream I gave up my job for life and I will not work another day for the man of starve before I cave, I look better skinny anyway. Malnutrition is becoming of age. I’ll be right here I’ll be right here I’ll be right here I’ll be right here I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. You’ll go, you’ll grow and I’ll stay here in limbo. I’ll be right here, I’ll be right here and you’ll go, you’ll blow and I don’t wanna mess with your tempo I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. You’ll go, you’ll grow and I’ll stay here in limbo. I’ll be right here, I’ll be right here and you’ll go, you’ll blow and I don’t wanna mess with your tempo I’ll be right here I’ll be right here. 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors 25 to 25 doors 25 doors 25 doors.
5.
I Lied 03:39
Those angels cried when their wings died and I lied when I said that I was fine, it’s suicide of your time and I lied when I told you I was fine. I’m running from me and this ain’t nothing to do with you honestly, die silently, so quietly, killing me softly. Too hard to breathe, too hard to breathe, I can’t wait to leave. you don’t believe you don’t believe till we’re underneath. Bring out bring out your dead, when they hang you hang your head, bring out bring out your dead, didn’t ask for help they just fled. Gone, the last chopper out of Saigon heart stops beating during this song, look him in his eyes ask him what’s wrong, he’s checked out he’s already gone. Those angels cried when their wings died and I lied when I said that I was fine, it's s suicide of your time and I lied when I told you I was fine. I'm running from me, and it’s a race that I can’t win so inevitably deadmen can’t return so no thank you to the receipt. So hard to leave, so hard to leave I can’t wait to breathe, we’re underneath we’re underneath and you don’t believe. Bring out bring out your dead, you never meant what you said, bring out bring out your dead, on the razors edge day bled. Run coward is the caption, someone’s person someone’s son black widow in a web that she’s spun you’re looking in the eyes of the murdered ones. I’m in slow motion (in slow motion) out in the ocean (in the ocean) I’m in slow motion (in slow motion) in the ocean (in the ocean) Those angels cried when their wings died and I lied when I said that I was fine, it’s suicide of your time and I lied when I told you I was fine. Those angels cried when their wings died and I lied when I said that I was fine. it’s suicide of your time and I lied when I told you I was fine.
6.
Loser 03:08
Your touch I almost fainted, my approach was so dated, being cool is overrated, I wish the floor evaporated dada dada dada dada I wish the floor evaporated, dada dada dada dada I wish the floor evaporated. Are you a loser? If so come and lose with me and we’ll lose your destructive built-in self beliefs. Medusa, too many snakes hissing in your head. Medusa, one look kills me stone dead. Now we’re running out of daylight, the sun rays are moving way bright. Tall dark and handsome on the same height, you won’t get a better offer on a day like today give it away, it's moments like this that I know you crave. Be brave you can fail at safe, buy the dress come to the rave. Your touch I almost fainted my approach was so dated, being cool is overrated I wish the floor evaporated dada dada dada dada I wish the floor evaporated dada dada dada dada, I wish the floor evaporated Are you a loser? If so come and lose with me and we’ll lose your fear of chasing your dreams. Medusa, I can’t look into your eyes Medusa, I’ll turn to igneous and freeze like ice. Now we’re running out of night time, right now is always the right time. Good vibes is all I insight I plan to plan plans somewhere in the pipeline. Yolo, I can’t do this solo, let’s go to zones that are a no go, when life feels deader than a dodo it’s time to ignite your own rainbow. Your touch I almost fainted my approach was so dated, being cool is overrated I wish the floor evaporated. dada dada dada dada I wish the floor evaporated dada dada dada dada I wish the floor evaporated I wish the floor evaporated.
7.
Your Way 03:45
You did it your way, did it your way you did it your way, did it your way you did it. You did it. Death by 1000 buts, you’re a lie Like Nigel’s bus, and if you’re not into us then you’re out of my mind I rely on allies that I trust. Doubt doubts they are not your friends, everybody's scared everybody here pretends. The truth is like a winding road bends and tends to change audience it depends on who’s there. Lies and truths blend you’ve gotta own your own message that you send. Everything you’ve ever said from your starts to your end will be analysed under a microscopic lens. You did it your way, did it your way you did it your way, you did it your way You did it your way did it your way you did it your way did it your way you did your way Death by 1000 ifs, what could have beens and what has been missed. Myths disappear into mist, when you see me on stage you think I’m in need of an exorcist. Maybe I do but everything’s true even the lies that I tell myself let’s assume that there is truth in every lie, your body language speaks to me gives me signs. I take kindness from your eyes They’re the window to the soul keep them open all times. Let all the creatures in from outside, the spiders in your mind will take care of the flies. You’ve always stayed genuine expel what you despise take them to a place where only truth thrives. Diamond walls four poster beds satin quilts woven with golden thread cannot assist the slumber of a heavy head but if your thoughts are pure you can sleep on molten lead. You did it your way, did it your way you did it your way did it your way You did it your way did it your way you did it your way did it your way you did your way I will never see you again, and it's the dark hours at night. Let the night run soon the sun come and the darkness turns to light. But you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you but you do it for you. You did it your way you did your own way you did it your way you did it your way you did it your way you did it your way you did your way you did it your way. You did it your way, did it your way you did it your way did it your way You did it your way did it your way you did it your way did it your way you did your way.
8.
Obsession 03:56
I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I want to be your obsession, I wanna be a conundrum you can’t work out I’ll be your lesson I’m the hole in your brand-new hand-me-downs, baby keep guessing. I wanna be your obsession, oh let me be your obsession. I do things the hard way, I like to annihilate. Stay in bed for nine days name something better I’ll wait. Crashing like a tidal wave onto your safe haven where you bathe, I’ll move you like an earthquake but be careful cause you might break. Emotions shuttering like glass, sweep it under the rug it’s the past. Clinging for life on the mast, let go the current takes you fast. Go under, go under go under, if you don’t you’ll always wonder. We only grow when we blunder. It’s a hunger. I want to be your obsession I wanna be a conundrum you can’t work out I’ll be your lesson I’m the hole in your brand-new hand-me-downs, baby keep guessing. I wanna be your obsession, oh let me be your obsession. We’re going through phases, actors on different stages. An unfinished chapter that changes and you’re never gunna touch these pages. Hours that feel like ages, freedoms that feel like cages, dark souls with beautiful faces, poison lips and kiss chases. It’s so insidious, I really pity us. First we rust then combust, willing to turn trust into dust. Go over go over go over, the grass is greener from your sofa. There’s no grass on my side I’m a poser, its fields full of four leaf clovers. I want to be your obsession I wanna be a conundrum you can’t work out I’ll be your lesson I’m the hole in your brand-new hand-me-downs, baby keep guessing. I wanna be your obsession, oh let me be your obsession. I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be a wannabe a wannabe I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be I want to be your obsession I wanna be a conundrum you can’t work out I’ll be your lesson I’m the hole in your brand-new hand-me-downs, baby keep guessing. I wanna be your obsession, oh let me be your obsession.
9.
Dead Soon 03:30
I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you’re locked away in your bedroom, I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you locked away in the bedroom. Come on man it’s on, I’m going out out, now I want you gone gone. You know we ain’t got long to sing song, after song, after song, after song, after song. Come on that ain’t nothing wrong, have a livener to liven up man have a bomb. I mean have a ball, It’s your night but your choices are your fault. Choose wisely. I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you’re locked away in your bedroom, I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you locked away in the bedroom. You’re coming to me like I’ve got the answers but I’ve got none I've been hanging here for free, would you charge me rent if you think I’ve got what you need? I’m a delicacy, an acquired taste taste test me lie back and bleed, I’m your poisoned tea, I’ll ring the dinner bell ding ding ding ding ding let’s eat. Will you get what I mean if I sink to your level a few flaws down from me? What a travesty, no one likes a show off but do they watch oh yes indeed. Everyone look at me, no hands as I cycle through Purgatory, through Purgatory. Choose wisely. You think that all of this is going to last forever, you’ve got an answer for everything are you so clever? Cherish your tears and remember all your laughs, you can’t touch memories and you can’t talk to photographs. I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you’re locked away in your bedroom, I’m very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you locked away in the bedroom. I'm very aware we’re all gonna be dead soon and you don’t care you’re locked away in your bedroom, you’re locked away in your bedroom, we’re all gonna be dead soon, we’re all gonna be dead soon dead soon dead soon.
10.
Giving Up 03:28
Do you feel like giving up? And you feel like giving up. Do you feel like giving up, like you ain’t going nowhere I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there, and you feel like giving up but you ain’t going nowhere, I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there. Finding realness it’s an illness the moment will be mine even if I have to steal this. Empty your pockets, I carry rockets, blow up the sky to see your eyes filled with shock it's colours in chaos, it’s Amadeus, neon destroys noir to entertain us. I’m paramount, its paramount, I'm paramount but I’m just a sound. Do you feel like giving up, like you ain’t going nowhere I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there, and you feel like giving up but you ain’t going nowhere I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there. Feeling hopeless as I wrote this, can’t control anything man I really hope this feeling passes, on my last legs I’ll carry the weight of this and I’ll take all the chances. You like my music you love how I use it, I'm the point of this mountain and I will prove it. I’m paramount, you’re paramount, I’m paramount but I’m just a sound. Sertraline gleam beam your smile it’s fake it’s a show. You’ve got my hand here, why’d you wanna let go? Baby you got this oh baby you got this, depression needs addressing it's a dress and you can rock this. You wanna cry go and cry it’s never over, press your face into your pillow is my shoulder, and even though I’m just a voice in stereo, wherever you are, I am here and I am telling you. Do you feel like giving up like you ain’t going nowhere I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there, and you feel like giving up but you ain’t going nowhere I’ve been there I’ve been there I’ve been there Do you feel like giving up? Do you feel like giving up? You feel like giving up like you ain’t going nowhere. And you feel like giving up, you ain’t going nowhere You feel like giving up but you ain’t going nowhere and you feel like giving up? You ain’t going nowhere.
11.
Dead Weight 04:51
I can’t ever repay what you’ve done for me, what you’ve done, what you’ve done for me, if I could have your heart if only for a small part of your life, a fair trade. Because I won’t be needy that’s not me but I’ll remain knee deep in your sea and they all come flooding back, those memories they all come flooding back. Put them back in the jar on the back of the shelf in the back of your mind in the back of yourself, make sure the memories are trapped or else it all comes flooding back. I can’t really explain what you’ve done for me, what you’ve done, what you’ve done for me but I won’t ever be your dead weight. So I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge for you. So I'll plunge, I'll plunge, I'll plunge for you into the deep, into the deep, into the deep. Into the deep, ahhhhhhh. I hope you had a good time in the sunshine I hope it was warm. If I could take your soul and you would still be whole I’d exchange, a fair trade. Cause I can’t take pieces that ain’t mine, I know you tell me to take what I like and they all come flooding back, those memories they all come flooding back. Put them back in the box under the stairs useless like Facebook thoughts and prayers, make sure the box is intact or else it all comes flooding back. I can’t ever exchange what you’ve done for me, what you’ve done, what you’ve done for me But I won’t ever be your dead weight. So I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge for you. So I'll plunge, I'll plunge, I'll plunge for you into the deep, into the deep, into the deep. Into the deep, ahhhhhhh. I can’t ever repay what you’ve done for me. I can’t ever repay what you’ve done for me, for me. I won’t ever be your dead weight, and I won’t ever be your dead weight. Weight dead weight, weight your dead weight So I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge, I’ll plunge for you. So I'll plunge, I'll plunge, I'll plunge for you into the deep, into the deep, into the deep. Into the deep, ahhhhhhh.
12.
Game Over 03:22
Game over game over tonight, we never begun. I guess we should have learned to crawl but we just run. Game over game over tonight, what’s done is done, we ain’t ever gonna age we’re staying young. We’re staying young we’re staying young. I leave a piece of me on every stage of ever graced, and when you’re in front of me I swear that I don’t feel the pain. But I am getting older now and when I am not on stage all these beautiful colours that I see are slowly turning to grey. I realise that I am here for you I aint here for fame and this song ain’t goodbye to you it’s goodbye to the game. Game over game over tonight, we never begun. I guess we should have learned to crawl but we just run. Game over game over tonight, what’s done is done, we ain’t ever gonna age we’re staying young. We’re staying young we’re staying young. I’ve left a piece of me on every girl I’ve ever kissed, and they’ve left a piece of themselves on me, I can still feel their lips. I apologise to the hearts I've broken as God is my witness, and if he exists then he knows mine's been shattered into bits. What will be will be, it is what it is, I know I’m not cut out for this world some shapes ain’t meant to fit. Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over. Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over, Game Over Game Over Game over game over tonight, we never begun. I guess we should have learned to crawl but we just run. Game over game over tonight, what’s done is done, we ain’t ever gonna age we’re staying young. Game Over Game Over (we're staying young)

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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios in July/August 2022.


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All tracks written by Riskee & The Ridicule.

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released August 25, 2023

Scott Picking - Lead Vocals/Lyrics
Jimbo Aglony - Guitars/Screams
Jordan Mann - Lead Guitars/Vocals
Matt Verrell - Drums/Bass/Vocal Harmonies

Artwork by Stuart Granger.

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