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TKO

by Celia Inside

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[J-Taite] ayo C.I., we a tough act to follow tough act to swallow every time we link i look like Young Black Sopranos but we bound to get in accidents riding with your heart on your sleeve, that's one hell of a fashion sense and we don't read relationship columns instead, we mixing D'usse with relationship problems i'm always gone when things go wrong then we fuck til things get right and things go left then i move like young Hugh Hef slave to your ways when i wake up, it's chain on chain cop the Cuban link - finally got that thing on swing so don't hesitate to tell em that i made you levitate made your mind and money elevate cuz you told me you can't wait no more you told me dont move too slow but baby don't move too fast with all of this, we might crash like waves but you told me it's mine told me a million times said i had you feeling so high i hope you don't crash like waves i hope you don't crash like waves [Celia] why it always gotta be win or lose? you act as if we in a battle and i never wanted to cut you lose, yeah but you made it so that i had to cuz the game won't lie; we all one in the same unless you giving them a reason to remember your name so if i made mistakes, then you made mistakes too it was a different time / a very different place you were so convinced our love could never be replaced you are killing me now like you were killing me then sometimes i wish we could go back to you & me as just friends, oh cuz we were happy once upon a time it felt so beautiful to call you mine now the vibe is gone and no, we can't carry on like this i really never meant for shit to get so complicated but damn i couldn't help really feeling our conversations before the pressure, 'fore the feeling like we had to move see i was really feeling you and maybe that was all i wanted but maybe i never should've looked at you in your eyes and i wasn't lying when i said for you, i would ride it's just the wrong time, wrong place, wrong face for the moment still looking forward to see you again but you told me you ain't worried about the past you just wanted something that would last, yeah you told me you ain't bout that life i wasn't tryna be your wife, now you told me 'bout a million times looked at you right in your eyes, yeah you told me now are we still good, are we still good, babe? if you really want me, let me know cuz i can't be your girl just on the low and when you're feeling lonely cuz you know i'll be good out on my own but are we really better off alone? maybe i never should've looked at you in your eyes if you didn't want it that way, then you should've just told me we could talk it out like some grown-ups / phone me
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it's really crazy / you was my baby but now we're fading on this darkness path ...the hourglass your sour past had me losing; i couldn't win with you my heart ain't bulletproof but it seems you were meant to shoot i wouldn't call it love; love is such a mystery love is such a memory -- something that's not a friend to me i take this Hennessy / mix the misery, then i drown told me you would hold me down, now fuck it, don't come around i blame myself for even taking you back what was i thinking? wasn't thinking on that one night i snapped started sinking, wasn't dreaming when i woke up like that that's how i knew it - yeah this ain't something that's worth pursuing know i'm better without you all these --- saying that i need to get out soon but i don't listen to em cuz i know who you are and now you're so far about to shoot a rocket full of memories into the stars you need no evidence / it's evident my presence is irrelevant? shoot up your residence for 'saulting my intelligence hangin with that Mary, not the virgin she ain't celibate rappers want some fame that they can relish in, no better shit well equipped my etiquette so legit; i murder it been a dick, not innocent got a pocket full of presidents estimate my (???) got a bad bish look like Marilyn know i look so elegant still stomp you like an elephant, uh [Celia] the quiet has a way of getting to you after spending too much time in it senses on overdrive til you feeling blind in it so i put this rhyme in it - like a wishing well throw in all my pennies and my energy to wish you well sometimes i wish you fell for that other girl, the one that you were talking to when we were going through our hell i guess in ever thought it through i never thought of you as someone or something that i would wanna follow through with how'd you do it?, you ask me i had you so cool-whipped don't look at me in that way cuz i let you say what you need to say couldn't let it lay now you wanna stay or you really wanna go? it's your call, it's your move blocked your call and they're soon to ticket so move your car if you're gonna stay stick around for a little bit and i know you will unless you really meant every single word you had the nerve to say the other night kick me to the curb and now you swerving looking for a fight chillin with that Mary, always there for you or so you say she gon be the one to hold you down but in a different way same shit, different day we see shit differently missing me - i bet you do but tripping when you picturing us - and how it was, how we were when we together hate to be the one to say it but we better off apart yeah cuz when i say on to the left, i see you looking right back so gone and i want you bad [Trey B.] and babe i'm wishing you the best i know that you don't like that i tried to send you on the right back cuz when i go on to the next, i see you looking right back so gone and i want you bad [Trey B.] and babe i'm wishing you the best i know that you don't like that i tried to send you on the right back uh - thinking back on it, i looking deeper, looking inward kick it a minute where you never go i never hold you up to standard i'm supposed to fuck it; hold up a toast to those dudes i go through keep going down that old way you don't have shit on me i'll never be that old Jane stuck in them old ways stuck in that always; i don't know how yall do that shit i wrote it down and brewed that shit... and grew from shit, see i've been working on these equations since '89 i've been waiting patient like baking a fucking pie i've been main tings! even been a fuckin side even played the fuckin fool but i never let my aura die put that on my artistry and put that on my heart put that one everything we've been through from the start put that on a pillow so you feel it when you lie and put that on the day i met you til the day i die
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TKO 04:25
get up, get up, get up... it's what you hearing, listen you gon' have to do more you gon' have to make damn sure you gon' have to make it all worth more you gon' have to be my one & only love you gon' have to give everythinh up you gon' have to be there all the time you gon' have to lay it all down on the lie you gon' have to be the one i need & more you gon' have to be the one to make it all break your fall pull me up pocket that run it back & you can't go back hold me down & out you gon' have to be the one you thought you wasn't when the well runs dry, yeah (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) when you're in need why can't you sleep? so i'm gon' vibe out on my own (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) but know that when you call, i will pick up always, always ooh, oh - contact hit the floor and i don't know where i bounce back fall back / in your arms, i think i did but i know that that ain't the place for me that ain't the place for me, i know oh, again again i fall into some weary place some weary spaces / oh my god i don't even know if i can make it out this time i don't know if i can put my life in you 'fore i'm all putting my trust in you / who are you? wish that i could turn it back throw this weight up off my back but i guess it's better late than never better find a love that's real for me, for you (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) when it's all in me why can't you sleep? so i'm gon' vibe out on my own (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) but know that when you call, i will pick up always, always why can't you sleep? why can't you get yourself some rest? why can't you just do what everybody else has did? why can't you just do the things that everybody do? i confide in you cuz i find in you the vibe in you it's three and four and five and six; i see the sun again they was never on my level; motherfxck a friend fxck a friend, yeah cuz i don't need that anyway (i don't need your love) that shit slow me down like in a different way (i don't need that shit to slow me down) already got me seeing things in twos a different vision that you thought you knew of, knew of me now why so afraid, why so afraid? better find a love that's real for me, for you (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) when it's all in me why can't you sleep? so i'm gon' vibe out on my own (why's it always gotta be so hard for you?) but know that when you call, i will pick up always, always

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released November 18, 2017

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Celia Inside New York, New York

Musically versatile as ever, the past year saw exciting, experimental, and more electronic-leaning collaborations from Celia & friends. She’s also been busy making an impact in web3 via her blog, iridescent wave, which strongly features women and/or queer people of color.

What's next? More worldwide collabs, and way more original production from Celia!
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