From the recording Empires Die...Life Evolves
Written, produced, mixed & performed by: Plaedo
Additional vocals by: Maxwell Davis
This is the song that inspired the album and the only solo song on the album. The first started and the last finished. Actually, the version on this album is the 4th version made for this album. At 21 while living in Thailand, a Buddhist Monk said that I was an incarnate of a ‘Boddhisatva’. Ever since I have tried to live by that principle, to shine my light into the dark. Which has led me to have all kinds of wild experiences, for example, One time I broke up a machete fight. The night after that experience, I woke up in extreme pain, thinking I was going to die. And thus began a period of my life in which I was surrounded by death and decay. 2 close friends were murdered, one of my clients murdered someone and I had to testify in a controversial trial, my marriage ended, and I thought I was going to die. And if I was going to die, first I would need to make my monolithic masterpiece. A statement, an album epitaph. Thus began the journey of “Empire’s Die...Life Evolves”...
Lyrics
Mutha-Luva’s Need 2 Know
My name is Plaedo
I’m always on a fight for a righteous cause
Who else but me, will fight the cops
And make it personal since my close friend was shot
Walk into a mob of proud boys with guns
Tell them all to go home
Leave my neighborhood alone
I’ll take on the mayer, the gangsters and bankers
And i’m not a hater of the game
I’m simply a player who is doing my thang
And i’m doing it major
So now you can read about it in the paper
Before i set it on fire, get high of the vapors
Cuz when life gets crazy, I get crazier
And now they label me a hero
Yo everyones impressed
But what they don’t know
Is that my life is a mess, I feel so stressed
And I’m ready for my death…
So walk in my shows
Live my life, see what i’ve seen
Be who I be, understand why
I don’t wanna live but I’m scared to die
And so they remember me
For these moments that I acted heroic
With a passion to show it, but know that
When I was fighting these officers
All i was was reliving my trauma
I was fighting the monsters
Who beat up my mama
I was traumatized and ever since
It’s been drama live, so i am trying
To move on with my life
I got two weeks to move again
My car won’t start again
I got nowhere to go
And I don’t know what to do
My wife left me, girlfriend did too!
So walk in my shows
Live my life, see what i’ve seen
Be who I be, understand why
I don’t wanna live but I’m scared to die
And so everyday i try to maintain
With this strange pain that pervades
Every cell in my body
My fucking nerves hurt
And everyday at work
They give us bandaids
To try to save society
As my clients sit and cry to me
Most of my experience is anxiety
So i want to be dying
I am now closer to trying
I now have a plan
And the sleeping pills to fill my hand
Next on my list is to slit my wrist
And bleed out to death on this troubled floor
And I won’t leave a note nope
Only this album finally finished....