Josh Martinez Uphill Climb Lyrics

[Intro]
Everybody's after something ([echo]: after something)
I mean success ([echo]: success is) is just a pursuit
Everybody's after something ([echo]: after something)
Success is just a pursuit
I mean success is an uphill battle the whole way

[Verse 1]
I'm just an alchemist
I turn pens and papers into verses
Turn three verses into a song that makes you nervous
Turn ten songs into an album with a purpose
And I'll plant that seed in a place deep beneath the surface
Water that seed till the trees grow tall as birches
The tree bares fruit the sun gives heat like furnace
The fruit provides nourishment for every single person
But the fruit becomes worthless
Surrounding climate worsens
So I go back to the lab create a different version
But something seems odd those pens and papers just ain't workin'
Now the situation's changing everything seems uncertain
I'll stop planting those seeds Cause it's time to close the curtain

[Verse 2]
So move on over you could say I get around
I walk along the highway and (...) at every town
My hands reach out and steal life without a sound
Make a speech on every soapbox when I just want to get down
This is my joy to hear so pour the beer and pour the wine
And Cordially I'm acting finely tuned and fully (...)
Eclipse the sun (...) coated let it open really open
You can be the one to make me feel a little bit better
Instead of sun setting stars coming climbing hills and running head down
Got to make it to the lake by sundown
We can wash away this awful clay that molds us holds us
Ands its (...)
I turn around and walk away

[Chorus] x 2
An example of a low pressure bad apple callable
Haven't you noticed our main focus how the topics get tackled
Get in a downward spiral once our cages get rattled
And don't you realize that real life is an uphill battle.

[Verse 3]
Catch Paul he's falling like leaves in autumn
You aught see him now's calling from the odyssey's bottom
These coliseum columns got him in a bad situation
If it's the last temptation
or the fact that I'm facing impact I'll be
Bracing myself for the crash we're awaiting
Meanwhile back at the station people are (...) confessions perversion
Raising the question why were we raised in deception
FFFFuck all this stressing got me blazed and (...)
Crazed and aggressive messed for days in this maze of obsession
Just a blessing in disguise this depression I'm guessing
Just a lesson for the troubled burned bubbled and blistered
Misters twist hit the rocks
s___ p___ Double Fist it

[Bridge]
I am just a thinking man swimming in the sinking sands of lost time
My heart's so cold my souls exposed to force
But I don't suppose you notice folks who got strife
Never look back, cause you might turn us all like Lot's wife

[Verse 4]
Got in a lot of hot spots
Gotta drink cold beer
(...) take a load off hard rocks at the (...)
Don't knock where they rose
So from here we wonder off and on our own
Wonder how long it'll be before we see home
From the seashore to the treetops
My feet walks till the beach stops
With each step get my feet wet
Let my speech flex when the beat drops
And my mind works till the suns height
And my face shifts to the sunlight
And my eyes burn till the sand quakes
And the sky turns to the landscape

[Chorus] x 4

[Outro]
That's what makes pop culture so significant to all the little consumers out there. They have no interest in history or economics or science or art. They're kind of interested more in gossip, the nature of celebrity. And that's not at all encouraging to find out that you participate in this society, one way or the other.