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By Any Means

by Gyasi Ross

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1.
By Any Means 01:07
By Any Means
2.
Breakin 02:56
He woke up one morning wondered, why his life was a mess, check the notes on the page and think back to the test. He holds the key on this road, release tension and stress, Get up out of your soles, check the focus and flex then he’d leave. Yeah, then he’d leave He thought about it everyday, take no second or less, time would slip and it slow in the day to day stress, with his face in the sand, everything coming next, open his mind with his face to his chest, and he’d breathe. Yeah then he’d breath. But I want you to know, That this is your show And I gotta get you to see that ever thing I do, I do it for you for you, for you, for you But i’m, breakin’, waitin’ for myself cause no one else will, I’ll make it take it for my health cause no one else will, I’m, breakin, waitin for myself, for myself He wondered what life was like stepping out of the drain, take away all the lessons, put down the pencil no guessin, check all the box’s and squares, cause its all going fair. open his whole mind, when the world came inside and he’d leave But I want you to know, That this is your show And I gotta get you to see that ever thing I do, I do it for you for you, for you, for you But i’m, breakin, waitin for myself cause no one else will, I’ll make it take it for my health cause no one else will, but i’m, breakin, waitin well i’m, breakin, waitin But i’m, breakin, waitin for myself, ya for myself
3.
S'empty 02:53
So empty, tempt me, simply, fifty don't touch the flow cause this is just the recipe. Miss me, fix thee, upper-deck and hit me, count the bits and peaces cause this is just the remedy. Of what we want be, Funky country, but go on, yeah So fix these, broken country, want dreams, can't find a house I’ll afford, I'm only renting It seems, to be the only thing that I know, what to shows, only, only god will know only god will know, yeah. but don’t go changing yourself around, this is all I know all I see. sun go down let the moon shine in let that light lye down on me. Said woah woah, fund this little struggle as we break through all the ruble let the pain subside the stubble, (as) will find another tunnel break this solid wall, just promiss not fall and find me with a gang of doubt, knocking out this silly mouth wondering will I find my home Woah Woah don’t go changing yourself around, this is all I know all I see. sun go down let the moon shine in let that light lye down on me. Wondering will I find my way or am I going soon its so hard I've found, you'll see
4.
Doing Fine 02:56
I could walk a thousand miles I could train for days you’ll see Focus wont leave my being but with out you I won’t breathe I could sail across the sea Life a float is what ill be All the town wont see me leave but with out you I won’t breathe I’m doing fine I’m feeling alright most of the time I’m doing fine I’m feeling alright got my baby by my side I could jump the greatest leaps Up the walls and scales so tall stop the wars break there falls but with out you I won’t breath
5.
Dopamine 04:52
REM Ambers lights can you imagine me. Time it doesn’t matter build it break it shatter me. Now I have forgotten a world that has forgotten me, Oh now I have forgotten a world that has forgotten me. Let me work these simple hours make my day go long please occupy my time I need to be gone from this house from this home I’m someone if I’m gone and I will be on time and I will be the right one for you, for you, for you But I’m already asleep Oh I’m already asleep Bui I’m already asleep Oh I’m already asleep Let me be a bizzy body buzzing in my hive, Let me spend my idle time working to get high Let me have 2.5 kids white picket fence I’m done I’m done let me live without love, Oh my life my love my kids and what it means to me and what I mean to be But I’m already asleep Oh I’m already asleep Bui I’m already asleep Oh I’m already asleep
6.
When the fighters are all around All the lovers are underground No one will save you anymore So what's happening, what you rapping about, Is it boys? Is it cars? Is it girls? Is it money? The world? Or is it something they can never believe? Or is it something you can never achieve? Is it Beyond your means? Is it Inside your dreams? Can it Never come out cause it's scared to Unprepared to Too worried about the words of the people it's weird to You don't want them to hear you You just wish there was a door that would appear that you can go disappear through Well I'm feeling your pain I was feeling the same But I said I'd never feel that again Man I really miss my pops Hope that God watches over him and that he's on top That there is no more disease and that he's alright That he's one of the generals inside the army of the light And grandma, you know I had to bite something from you So after every show it's "peace, and much love to you" Auntie Tweetie's on the way, please look out for that girl I know we'll meet again, so it's never me against the world
7.
Our Prayer 04:11
Oh lord forgive me of my sins I know I play to win, I try to do more good but nothins working out and find when I find myself sitting in this hell, will I learn to breath or just go spinning out but will I trust my self, doing what helps wondering will I stay or will I go and will I be myself, will I be my self Or some one else Whoa, Whoa, Whoa But every body does the same old thing Whoa Oh Oh It doesn’t matter what I do or say, When I plan out my great escape working with what I made will build a road or just go far away Intention based in need, until we find our means will we learn to breath or just go spinning out
8.
Plastic places ton’s of faces burning graces overhead The bombs blow back breath into my chest final thought seconds left. The clouds of acid rain, grey matter, the left side of my brain thinks that the world’s insane I want to stop but I can’t. My nike shoes, the gold chain, these wrinkles clothes my tags my name it wears a spot inside my brain, and I am to blame. I want to save the world cause I can’t sleep and I can’t Breath connect the dots make it stop you say I’m real I say I’m not, I build this world with trials and trails another day, another girl, another world maybe in another life, I’d do whats right. I want to save the world cause I can’t sleep and I can’t breath Please look through my eyes trip me blind I’d try to find a need
9.
Story 03:50
We live in a fairy tale no men trolls witches or elves this fruit doesn’t harm it helps the pain that we’ve caused are selves our I’lls don’t change the past This fruit helps me cause I wish my life were more like a story cause I’d do as please I’d tell the girl that I like that she so different cause she’d do a she please frustrated yet elated oh happy we would be because we’d do as we please Not your typical fairy tale, I’d tell you much different this story just so difficult to say Books would bend as I look at you flip the pages to myself I know Tuesdays were never this hard But still I wondered where you would go when these walls tear down and I speak a sound, friends will tell you what to say But I know this story isn’t over today We live in a fairy tale no men trolls witches or elves this fruit doesn’t harm it helps the pain that we’ve caused are selves our I’lls don’t change the past This fruit helps me cause I wish my life were more like a story cause I’d do as please Because I’d do as I please
10.
Meadow 04:51
So this boy grows up in a meadow Watching words fly out his mouth as he thinks to him self in his meadow he wonders if his words will go far So this girl grows up in a meadow Watching words fly out her mouth as she thinks to her self in her meadow she wonders if his words will go far But I've lived I've learned I've tried so hard I've laugh I've tried I'll do it again My heat it burns so heavy and thin I stuck I'm broke down again today. So that boy grew up in his meadow Watching words fly out his mouth as he thought to himself in his meadow he knew that his words will go far And that girl grew up in her meadow Watching words fly out her mouth as she thought to herself in her meadow she knew that his words will go far But I've lived I've learned I've tried so hard I've laugh I've tried I'll do it again My heat it burns so heavy and thin I stuck I'm broke down again today. And I, know a place. **repeated** That you'd love **repeated**

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I put a lot of love into this album and bunch of my friends help make it and then re-make it. Thank you for listening and taking time out of your day to lend me your ear.

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released May 13, 2012

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All songs were performed by Gyasi Ross. Fighters is a cover, written by Lupe Fiasco. Special thanks goes out to James Dumlao for recording all of this at PacManor! Thank you to Label Records Production for their Mixing and Mastering Job. Thank you, Mom, Dad, my brother LP, and Dexter for all of the incredible design work. Thank you, Daisy, for motivating me to make this happen. Thanks to Mosaic for the support and time.

Special thanks to the children at Spring Hill elementary for singing with me on Meadow.

Photography by Sati Leonne Faulks
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Cover and Site Design By A5KLP Art Studios

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