Your Ambition (feat. P.O.S)

from Instinctive Drowning by Chris Orrick

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INTRO The way they measure winners makes me wanna be a loser/so I hang with all the sinners love the beggar not the chooser VERSE So the cancer comes back/can't stop the bloodbath with thumbtacks/can't overcome that/And they work so hard so they go so far/but so far who's really done that?/I think about ambition/Does the horse draw the carriage/or the hanging of the carrot?/Cuz this world is something else/They expect me to love their wealth/But I still can't love myself/So find another lie to tell/These fairytales about millionaires/came from nothing/wing and a prayer/make us love it/but we're okay/Still we gotta hear them say BRIDGE Everything that I got/Yeah I got that on my own/See that money, see that car/See that castle I call home/See that yacht/See that job/Yeah I did that on my own/Everything that I got/B--- I got that on my own PRECHORUS The way they measure winners makes me wanna be a loser/so I hang with all the sinners/love the beggar not the chooser/Addicted to computers/Generation Consumer/You'll see it later than sooner/Treat symptoms instead of tumors CHORUS So --- Your Ambition/We don't love your ambition/I'm in love with my failures/I'm in love with my misses/Cuz everything you are is everything that makes you weak/I'm not reaching for the stars/I got my hands up in defeat/---- Your Ambition x4 P.O.S VERSE yeah! dead in the doorway/home from the grind/heavy heart and a headache/shoes off flick on someone else's/life like it's yours/wanting more feeling selfish/--- yeah, the clock ticks ridic/that uphill pitch is about as real as it gets/so go, come on, skedaddle/navigating a lake of fire with papier-mâché paddles/and weak hands, scared hearts make ---- scared plans/there's no chance and no comparison/just cherishing the little bit of air I get/get it in/fill lungs, move, own footprints/yeah trying to fill my own damn shoes/I don't see 'em if they purchase their personality, worthless/judging by the gift that they cursed with PRECHORUS The way they measure winners makes me wanna be a loser/so I hang with all the sinners/love the beggar not the chooser/Addicted to computers/Generation Consumer/You'll see it later than sooner/Treat symptoms instead of tumors BRIDGE Everything that I got/Yeah I got that on my own/See that money, see that car/See that castle I call home/See that yacht/See that job/Yeah I did that on my own/Everything that I got/---- I got that on my own CHORUS So ---- Your Ambition/We don't love your ambition/I'm in love with my failures/I'm in love with my misses/Cuz everything you are is everything that makes you weak/I'm not reaching for the stars/I got my hands up in defeat/---- Your Ambition

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from Instinctive Drowning, released August 26, 2016
Written by Red Pill (C.Orrick, Red Pill ASCAP) and P.O.S (S.Alexander, Half a Kidney Half a Lung ASCAP). Produced by Ill Poetic (T. Gmeiner, ReDefinition Publishing ASCAP) for SoundRzn Graphic & Sound-Design.

Mixed by Charlie Beans
Mastered by Eric Morgeson @ Studio A Detroit

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Chris Orrick Detroit, Michigan

Chris Orrick is the patron saint of a poisoned world. The blue-collar MC writes spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs. Think Bukowski on an eloquent bender, swapping wine for whiskey, a notepad for a glowing LED screen, the race track for the recording booth. These are anthems for the irate, over-educated and under-valued. ... more

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