Adult Swim Remix
• Written by RYD
RYD's Notes
A work in progress hit me up with your thoughts
//Intro 0:00-0:18
Tell my ex I’m on the wave again
Tell my demons they can't stay again
Tell my bros we really paid the rent
Built this from the basement, not a single cent
Didn’t ask for much, just space to bend
And a mic that ain’t break when I pace and vent
Got a list of regrets that I made my pen
Now my notebook feel like it raised a man
//Verse 1 0:18-0:50
This that ramen in the kettle when the power’s out
This that shout from the crowd when you had the doubt
This that split screen feel, like a side quest
Told the label I’m not hungry — I’m obsessed
Who you know still honest in the 808s?
Still anime and heartbreak on dinner plates
Still drive like I’m broke in a stolen Benz
Still talk to my God like we texting friends
Had a dream where the booth turned gold
And I spit so clean that the mic grew mold
And my girl in the back with her blue-eyed glow
Sayin’, “You were meant for this, now let it show”
//Bridge 0:50-1:12
I been floatin’ in the backseat
Moonroof gone and my phone on sleep
And the beat go “ba-dum” like it got cold feet
So I chase my past with a low heartbeat
My friends say “RYD, don’t lose that flame”
But I burn so bright I forgot my name
Like who am I when the sound cuts out?
Just a voice in the dark tryna scream self-doubt
//Verse 2 1:12-1:44
Got a line so clean make the Devil flinch
Put a halo on pain just to feel the pinch
They don’t write like this — they just post and rinse
I been spittin’ like a pastor with a crypto glitch
Pull up in the Civic with a tank on “E”
Still make ‘em feel God through an MP3
Still tape up dreams on the cracked TV
Where the volume stuck but the soul stay free
And I ghost in the text like I haunt my friends
Like “Yo, I’ll hit you back once the track gon’ end”
But the track never end ‘cause the world too bent
So I loop this life till the bars all spent
//Hook 1 1:44-2:06
No cartoon, this is Adult Swim
This that “cry real soft then you grin”
This that “hit rock bottom and begin”
This that “soul on wax with a pin”
This ain’t reruns, this is prime time
I ain't punchin’ in — this is lifelines
You watchin’ my heart on a flat screen
Midnight wave, no laugh scene
//Beat switch – verse 3 2:06-2:36
I was broke, tryna bend like light
Now I shine like I owe myself spite
Now I ride like the wheels don’t spin
Feet off ground, but I still get wins
I be that glitch in the static
Magic in the margins
Drew my pain in a pad
Now it’s hangin’ in the gardens
This ain’t just a song — it’s a ritual
Made of loss, love, and a miracle
I could cry and float in the same breath
Turn a heartbreak into a new step
//Verse 4 2:36-3:06
Yeah
I’m the one that the city ain’t get
'Cause I ain’t wanna flex with a social check
Rather spend time with my girl on deck
She a stylist-to-be, got the curls all set
We just dream in loops
Plot our next move in the anime booth
Told me, “Keep that pen, you the truth”
Now I ghostwrite pain in the vocal booth
When they talk about me in a decade's time
Say I kept it 100 like a second rhyme
Say I bent all rules ‘cause I never signed
And my art got a pulse that could skip time
//Hook 2 3:06-3:28
This ain’t no cartoon, baby, this Adult Swim
I don’t fake moves, I just dive in
All these scars got me stylin’
And I been gone, but I’m dialed in
No reruns, no laugh tracks
Just deep cuts and flashbacks
Still float when the tide’s black
Still smile when the past cracks
//Spoken Outro 3:28-4:55
Bro...
I remember we watched Toonami like it was church
Bag of off-brand chips, volume low so my mom ain’t chirp
And you said to me —
“You think we could make something real?
Like something that outlives our fear?”
And I ain’t say nothin’
But look at us now.
I ain’t even write this...
I bled it.
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RYD
Member since April 9 2025