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Five Alive

by Doomtree

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"Five Alive" is Doomtree's first full collaborative song since 2015. You can tell by the snarling distortion and booming 808’s that producers Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger have found new and bustling energy, layering the song with synth stabs, polyrhythmic percussion, and crushing bass. Meanwhile, vocalists P.O.S, Sims, Mike Mictlan, Dessa, and Cecil Otter each take turns attacking the beat in their own unique and varied ways, showing off what has always made full-crew Doomtree tracks so intriguing.

lyrics

P.O.S VERSE
Shambles as a rule
Tangled like
Chasing a train
But still look cool
Somehow still limp along
So fly that it feels like a strut
Like glitter on a black eye
Or tattoos over scars
Keeping all flames lit
When the breeze 5 alarm
Bet tho
Fresh coat of Rusto
Flat black (yeah duh)
Tight bolts, Presto
Till the bell tolls really
Till my knees and my speech goes silly
Till it reach that hilltop spread
With the views and the truth
Get whole, break bread
Been ready, been set
Been chilly, been dead
All the way live tho
By some twist of energy I’m alive
and I can’t just not
I’m head first, dive in

SIMS VERSE
I was really dripping
Thinking there was peace to ink in
Guess I had fallen on my own pen
writing “do you"
Now I’m really bending
Guessing Every sword is double edged
Never thought that art was war
Cut cord
I wonder
Do you too?

SIMS HOOK
My friend he's all heart
It's on sleeve
He's all hurt
He's all art
He’s won’t speak
It decorates his arms

My girl she's all work
She's no sleep
She's all hurt
She's all art
She won’t grieve
It decorates my house

MIKE MICTLAN VERSE
These tattoos don't say much to you
Wake me up in the middle of a night terror
Im scared but these tats don't talk me down
Safe arms & my fists can't fight fair
Ghost Dad? Nah son that's Dadface to you
Left & right
Life or death, Aztec, more than skin deep, sacrifice the blood to you
Lines connect the scars like connect the dots, got 8 for my crew
Ink for my dead big sis center of the chest spot right where her heart went stop
Off tha RIP half dead plenty mizer
Pound foolish & a Pennywiser
Glucometer high but now my veins dont pump that saccharin, fentanyl, Pfizer

DESSA VERSE
Leave it running
leave the keys in it
if I ain’t back in a minute, gun it
you can go and keep it.
I got both feet on the gas
something to prove, nothing to lose
extra room in the back.
Little petty cash
in the petticoat
so if the getaway’s gone,
I’m still ready though.
Hold steady on the straightaway, fast as fuck
then it’s pencils down because the 8 bar’s up.

CECIL VERSE
Autumn walks along the woods
hardest talks about the past
Always saying if I could of
Always ending in the glass
Only friends are finish last types
Soda jerks that miss the glass
All they ever did was gas light
No reverse…hit the gas
It’ll last, it’ll stay
The medicine is fast
The bed is never made
Head is in the past
telling me to stay
Risk it all now?
edit, let it fade
Edit edit, get it, gut it now
Check my night light, it ain't coming down
Write for the night, I’m living, loving
running, drilling, I did my bed, I’m done and gone


SIMS HOOK
My friend he's all heart
It's on sleeve
He's all hurt
He's all art
He’s won’t speak
It decorates his arms

My girl she's all work
She's no sleep
She's all hurt
She's all art
She won’t grieve
It decorates my house

credits

released February 25, 2020
Raps: P.O.S, Sims, Mike Mictlan, Dessa, Cecil Otter
Beat: Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger

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Doomtree Minneapolis

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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