Atlas, a SoundCloud rapper, explains his success on the site. This success would bring him a better self and remove the issues prior to it. Mid song, talks about escapism, drugs, anxiety, and most importantly, the hook at the end. The hook interprets obsession over death by picturing a story having...
[Intro: Sample]
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[Verse 1]
Came a long way from Guitar Hero mics
I was growing up alone tryin' hard to decipher
The meaning alongside walkin' through life
With my hands on my head and my heart in a vice
Or something crushing
I've been on the up and up and up again
Hauntin' something I don't know the name of through my ugly limbs
I'm wanderin' wonderin' where did I go
Wanderin' wonderin' where is my ghost
If I died a long time ago where would it go
'Cause I don't feel alive in this world
But I'll cope through drugs and escapism
All that I know, is I don't feel satisfied living alone
I don't feel satisfied being myself
No, I don't feel satisfied going through hell
So I arose in the morning with a true hope in me
Tryna bring change like the new Pope simply
Never understood why my crew coped with me
Until I realized they were all a few clones of me
And that's fine 'long as these rap lines make me
Fun dude to be around they'll still stay, see
Then my fanbase doubled in a month
While I slept all day, catching rest y'all'd say
But, truthfully I was so stupidly sat in a state of anxiety spewing these raps
From my mind to the paper, to you and then back
'Til it no longer sounded like me on the track
When I listen to it, my issues had exited it
Took the express from my brain to the exodus
Traveled for miles on a path through my head
Discovering questions and asking them
[Hook]
When my friends came knockin'
I'm in bed
I z-z-z pretend I'm dead
Sayin' Atlas isn't here he's traversing his regrets
No, Atlas isn't here he's reversing the effects of..
Friends come knocking
I'm in bed
I z-z-z pretend I'm dead
Cause Atlas isn't here he's just searching for his meds
No, Atlas isn't here he's obsessing over death
[Outro]
See the, the moral of the story is I- I guess that things are gonna get better, and then they're probably gonna get worse again but, in the long run the better times tend to out-weigh the worse ones. And I'm not a philosopher or, definitely not a genius of any sort. But I am a well spoken rap artist on the internet and from experience I can pretty confidently say that shit's gonna improve somehow so, just, do- do what you gotta do I guess you know like... Do what you gotta do. Make yourself happy. As long as it's not illegal. That's a- that's a debate for another time whatever, I'm out
Isn’t here was written by atlas.
Isn’t here was produced by tomppabeats.
atlas released Isn’t here on Wed Jul 13 2016.