False Hopes XIV

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On this installment of Doomtree’s False Hopes series, Sims drops 10 tracks of new material to tide fans over until the release of his upcoming full-length. Production by Lazerbeak, Cecil Otter, Paper Tiger, P.O.S, MK Larada, Medium Zach, and Noam the Drummer.

“He’s built his rep and repertoire around a fierce work ethic and a strong empathetic streak for the common man…The playful boasting expands his bootstrap persona nicely, and the whole disc whets the whistle for his forthcoming full-length.” –The Onion

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released 23 January 2009
Audio supervised by Joe Mabbott

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Doomtree is a collective of seven friends who live in Minneapolis and make music together. They’ve earned acclaim for genre- defying recordings, explosive live performances, and their fierce loyalty to one another. Members include P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger. The DIY outfit has built an international fanbase one city, one show, and one song at a time. ... more

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Track Name: Like You Mean It
Aint this town too small
Aint the stakes too high
Don't it make yo skin just crawl
Watching those days fly by
All you wanna do is walk out
Log in
We'll see what's goin on then
Turn the lights on the life's too dim
Cinder to the timbers light those limbs
You want it all but you're scared to fall
Head to the wall, frustrated
Time to make your move
It aint nothin to prove to no one but you so
See what you got left here
Hope vs fear
Scrap at the thang in the mirror
Clock on wind
Persevere no time for the insincere

So say it like you mean it boy
Be the seed in soil
Toil and reap
Keep the spoils
The road is steep
The pavement coils
Now on your feet
Keep it loyal
So say it like you mean it man
Be the feet to the land
Mark that where you stand
Stakes is high
Thats the plan
Extend those hands
Reach what you can

Don't it feel good to touch?
And it don't mean much
But sometimes you gotta reach out to reach up
Scrape those knucks to break those cuffs
Take that bump
It's on you
This is how we pull ourselves up
Overlook luck
Run til the tank spits dust
Cus aint no spark thats bright like us
We do what we say say what we mean
Clutch the pain take it all the way
All the way
Take it all the way
No in between
My dedication to dedication
I dedicate this to you
This is my dedication to dedication
I dedicate this to you
Track Name: With The Fire In Its Palm
I knew this dude named Soap rum soaked when he wrote
Wrote songs wrote prose wrote both
Wrote tickets that brought him to both coasts
Met people that brought him to too close
Out in NY the epicenter
Trying to build the network putting in the effort
He got the work then felt the pressure on the link
Chain smoker spark to think
He start to drink The boy lookin more like Barton Fink
Called me up he said he had this sinking feeling
City of stones no rollin just reeling
Ceiling getting closer, circling like vultures
Took another sniff Said it helped him find a lift
I said they gonna find you stiff blue lipped bag zipped
Gotta know when to talk gotta know when to quit
Wrote me a song from rehab and it goes like this

And the clock ticks on with the same old song
And it sings you to sleep with the fire in its palm

I knew this girl named Jessie kept her life messy
Did anything and everything to keep from feeling empty
Moved to a new city kept her toes busy
Head spinning like a ceiling fan she feeling dizzy
Her parents left her when she was just a kiddie
Started latching on to men who made her feel safer
Dancing in the evening made the rent plenty
But hat scene was too seedy smoking bidis like a chimney
Had a boyfriend sipped bottles of Remy
His motto pop the throttle til his tank is sitting hollow
He'd get tipsy, smack the girl silly
One day she had enough and said "I'm leaving you tomorrow"
When the grip gets tighter the good get gritty
I hadn't seen her since the day she left the Minne
But today I got a call guess who pulled through
She said hope you understand back to the wall you gotta move

I knew this dude name Levi served and earned a medal
He made it home but the storm never settled
Stuffing cigarellos to keep him on the mellow
What he saw pushed him to another level
At home so many people missed the hiding Doc Jekkyl
It's a carnival for sure and the father wore yellow
They look at him wrong aint no hellos
The boy get hot and steam like tea kettles
He said they turncoats you read Othello
All things fall from kings to rose petals
You hear that echoing when the city bellows
They really getting illy with them millis in stilettos
Making face art deco but you gotta let go
Be good with yourself when all that smoke settles
Aint no thing in the world you gotta prove
And aint no stopping at all you just move
Track Name: Pay No Mind
Said a penny aint worth the zinc it takes to press
Now we flip the V-8 in figure eights figuring which right to make next
Reminiscing on those good times
Memories burn bright as the tip of a cigarette
They say the dollars dropping go out and spend it now
Every red cent counts
Fight that good against the red threat coming to your town
Get that good debt cadet stand up act proud
Time to reinstate the great unifier
And aint nothing like a world war to put the fire to your feet
The tires hit the guard rail listen to the choir screech
Grab everything in human reach
Come and scab up the wound fair citizen
And in this rare time of need extend a hand to immigrants
Long as the credit's good and they don't want nothin
Come and assimilate while the marketplace is buckling
But once it's back to pax americana
Pack up yo son baby back up yo daughter
Get back across the border that there's an order
Home of the xenophobe land of the slaughter
But until that day it's all hands on deck
Man we're taking on water it's a fight against the tide
Fight against terror like the fight against time but it's online
Bring yo wallet to the frontline and hold the perimeter
All in together now
Flickering images of Rosie the Riveter
Except the labors coming cheaper from the prisoners
So that's not quite applicable but you get the point
These times are pivotal do what you gotta do
Details omit able ethics forgettable
Keep this place livable send the help to the roof
Fix that leak man it's drippin on they suits

They send the tax back in the checks they go buy
And pay no mind
Keep it rollin keep the factories open on time
I see they drew that line

There goes the great rally cry from the top of the valley
An over romanticized plea
Everybody pitch in, freedom costs a fee
Holler caustically we need you
But not as much as you need me
Track Name: TC AG
I got this beat in '04 on a worn out TDK
So much time invested / here's to love and effort
Still planting the seeds
And aint nothing changed but the means
Seen growth, seen decay
I've seen doors both open and close
I've seen people so close to me fall apart at the seams
Seems the summer gets hotter and every winter is colder
Learned the valleys and peaks, learned to roll
Call it climate control
And just when I seem to get close the target moves
Finding comfort on my toes, double knot the boots
Redirect, reinvest, falling in and out of love
Felt the weight and the stress and the tension and the snap
And just when I say that's that something keeps pulling me back

What do you love
What drives you
What height above are you climbing to
What is your passion
It's what I'm asking
What do you love
What drives you
What height above are you climbing to
What is your passion
And who else but you is gonna make that happen

I got love and it supersedes rapping
Late night, Dinkytowner / Snakebird drawing on a napkin
I still got it framed up in my room
You learn to love the little things
Through the days I've seen a lot of things change
I seen friendships wax and wane like the phases of the moon
I met people that would rack your brain the way they act so strange
Look at him fronting / he don't trust nothing
He just keep puffin his chest out
Its the story of the rats in the maze
Trying to find the best route trapped in space
We weigh out
We learn to find the little ties that bind us to the things we love
Aside from that what else do we got
Birth and love until your body's in the plot

Make it happen, boy
Track Name: Birds & Earthworms
Birds and earthworms
When all the ropes have strung you up
When all the blades have cut you down
Nature and nurture
Birds and earthworms
When all the ropes have strung you up
When all the blades have cut you down
I hope you find that ground
You're moving too fast to slow it down

Born without a known destination Rome
Sifting through the details of flesh and bone
So we move in in a row or question where to go
Yet the one thing we know your yesterday is gone
Dedicate so much mind to define it all
Spend our time drawing lines to divide it up
As it winds up we're vines climbing up the wall
Interweaving everyone's reaching
It's the search for more or a dollar from a quarter
Work our fingers down to bone to put it all in order
And you can break it down to wonder
Or break it down by numbers like it's god or science
This is the story through the ropes and the staggering
Wrote with no protagonist
Just a narrative of past and present
The baron and the peasant the pastor and the heretic
It's all comparative so many different people
So much experience they're sharing in
I often wonder who's staring in on who

All the static will snap
Passing through patches of mannequin stance
People frantic as ants ravaged as rats
Everybody so matter of fact never relax
Whole city so busy gander back
I'm embarrassed by the things they cherish
Chasing after carrots
They want it but they'll never wear it
Funny how they always hit us where it hurts most
Plus you sick of burnt toast and asbestos
So they got us pulling ropes then dangle private jets
Just another way of working levers different ways to apply the stress
Gotta supply the debt
They live it life or death
They waste they life behind a desk to ride a Lex
Can't take the money with you but Armani's got designer death
Yo funeral so beautiful
Eighty color TVs light up the spot
Everything you bought laying with you in your plot
Track Name: Something Crazy Is Happening
They say let it live let it burn
Penny paid penny earned
Petty crime penalized fed em to the worms
Recognize enterprise build another cell
Revitalized and gentrified that building gotta sell
And your apartment's a condo that you can't afford
Back in the mindset new carnivore
Duck while the sirens swoop back and forth
Mastering the art of war
Every day's the waterboard
Get what you bargained for
Reap sow sink swim
Eat your own ink
Hope that think sinks in
Don't blink
Put your work in
Here and now is moving
It's a changing landscape
No more juvenile maneuvers
Turn a new sheet of loose leaf
I'ma do me til the dawn
Damn right I lose sleep
Doomtree and it's on
Cause when the night's too long
Baby listen to the song
Turn the lights back on
Track Name: Up For Grabs
'Round here it's everything but Kafka
Everything but Rushdie
No metamorphosis just self-important shit
And I'm so sick of the same old thing
So sick so sick so gone
I lit a cigarette and call Mictlan
He say stick to it boy make them songs
It's all ours been that way all along
No need for alarm but the time just flew
It is what you make it, state that loop
It's your chance don't let em take that from you
And like Dessa say "Shake, shake, shoot"
Daddy needs new Timbs, daddy got rent due
Daddy needs coupons for the canned goods
But daddy learned to fall on his face with a grin
Then get up and do it all again

That's the cycle of it that's the cycle of it
Spin them spokes boy you gonna learn to love it
You gotta get up when they get you down
Get up it's only one round
Get up stand
The world's up for grabs and it's all in your hands

But 'round here that's a hard sell
The winter so long I bet the bars do well
Conflict they do well with self
If they can't win that then who else gonna
Such low heights the zeitgeist
I'm at the bar with a coke on ice
Put up trite all the dialogue back and forth
From the jack endures raconteurs
Sounding like an off-key four part harmony
Clogging up the air like arteries
Caught in transit
More or less feeling stranded
No need to panic call the plane mechanic
Dial the homeboy Stef for the quick pick me up
He's like whatup dun not much
Life love the usual fisticuffs
Caught up in the mix tryna switch that up
Feeling stuck well that's just human
We go the ways of the wave we keep moving
Track Name: Rap Practice
The old timers say watch for the two-timers
The young timers say watch for the one-timers
I'm a no-timer spray the can of primer paint disasterpiece
And let the emo kids cry about they tragedies
They dull like novocaine I'm sharp enough to fold an ace
Strong enough to hold the weight
Staring like a frozen Minnesota lake
As much cold as you can tolerate
It's not about the dollars made contrary to what Puffy say
Catch me sippin on that midwest lemonade with as much wealth as i can demonstrate
Still get met with hate I don't sweat the fake I just keep me straight
Lace up the kicks and chase mine
Noam the Drummer on the breaks and I never waste a bass line
Known across state lines for shooting down stars
Yellin hey sucka emcee wherever ya are
Stack the deck like Tin Pawlenty make your life real hard

This is young and overlooked but deft enough
So the older heads understood the boy is contra good
Shoot my way through Hollywood find me winding down fairfax finally
holding down a baggy of my Air Max 90s
My words paint bizarre murals lime grey sparrows
I'm the rap champ guitar hero dimebag darrell
I'ma make my own brand so I can get old and fat
Change my name to Marlon Brando (what you think about that?)
My friends call me young Lucky Lucky Luciano
I make the bomb tracks to break your iPod nano
I aint no Tony Soprano but I'm fat as fuck
Bang your head like RZA razor mixed with Keith Matvichuk
I'm bout to step up rank bet the bank the boy can hang
Let em nibble out the style I smile and reinvent the slang
Gander back the sound is smooth like a Cadillac
My practice rap soundin better than your album track
Track Name: Roll Down
For all the smokers
Get a job fool
Do somethin, damn!

Off of work clocking out light the dashboard up
Mash the gas in that crash Ford truck
Check the cash on the last four bucks then load that butt up like right now
Hit them pipes like the shutoff valve
Keyed up right, Stevie 'Key of Life' on K
Then I see them lights pray they don't read my license plate
Then radio bass mace then take me away
I learned to weave the drops of rain but still afraid of bigot cops and blame

So let it roll down just enough to crack it
Let the smoke roll out
Roll down
Roll down
New leaf
Old's out
Doomtree Blowout
Roll down breathe out slow your roll down
Everything that floats is roped let it roll down
I see the drips gripping up the whole cloud now
Sims and Otter...(no doubt)
Let the water...(roll down)

It's snowing purple through the Lowry tunnel swerving
I'm burning erb with Turbo so we slow the gears from churning
We working through the bunk cause we be murkin from the Minne
Only lackin love for backs that's turning on our city
We mimicking the chimneys cloud factories in fact in the back
Blown factories bump the abstract
Electric Relaxation we don't sweat degrees escaping
Replace the scape with ice but that's aight
We skate make it nice

They say the eyes are the window to the soul
So I keep my shades half drawn
I roll a spliff at half past and post the lid to half mast and I'm gone
Track Name: Pay No Mind Redo
Said a penny aint worth the zinc it takes to press
Now we flip the V-8 in figure eights figuring which right to make next
Reminiscing on those good times
Memories burn bright as the tip of a cigarette
They say the dollars dropping go out and spend it now
Every red cent counts
Fight that good against the red threat coming to your town
Get that good debt cadet stand up act proud
Time to reinstate the great unifier
And aint nothing like a world war to put the fire to your feet
The tires hit the guard rail listen to the choir screech
Grab everything in human reach
Come and scab up the wound fair citizen
And in this rare time of need extend a hand to immigrants
Long as the credit's good and they don't want nothin
Come and assimilate while the marketplace is buckling
But once it's back to pax americana
Pack up yo son baby back up yo daughter
Get back across the border that there's an order
Home of the xenophobe land of the slaughter
But until that day it's all hands on deck
Man we're taking on water it's a fight against the tide
Fight against terror like the fight against time but it's online
Bring yo wallet to the frontline and hold the perimeter
All in together now
Flickering images of Rosie the Riveter
Except the labors coming cheaper from the prisoners
So that's not quite applicable but you get the point
These times are pivotal do what you gotta do
Details omit able ethics forgettable
Keep this place livable send the help to the roof
Fix that leak man it's drippin on they suits

They send the tax back in the checks they go buy
And pay no mind
Keep it rollin keep the factories open on time
I see they drew that line

There goes the great rally cry from the top of the valley
An over romanticized plea
Everybody pitch in, freedom costs a fee
Holler caustically we need you
But not as much as you need me