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But Hope

from Room Service 2 by Kadesh Flow

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about

This is the only track on the album that is sequenced out of order from when I actually wrote it. I wrote this in late November, when I knew my partner and I were probably breaking up, but also was highly optimistic about my trajectory. I knew that I had a future with or without shutdowns and was feeling highly confident. I also thought that my partner and I could work things out, potentially.

This is heavily inspired by Tanjiro's plight from the anime "Demon Slayer", who is fighting to redeem his sister's humanity after his family is massacred by demons.

lyrics

Gotta look at life from a different lens
When your world is shifted from provision to revenge
Family always said that I was different. In the end
I just carry legacy my anger, shift it to defense

Never believed that things could go this way
But listen no dismay or tragedy
Can keep me from the endgame I’m tracking, see
Determination and persistence keep me on the path to reach
A place of healing. I pursue cause I have the audacity

To hope. And believe in something better than this
I had to resist
The urge to fall and settle for piss
I’ll never forget

The way it felt to learn I’d lost everything
Everything
Except one person I love. Now together we
Push forward despite all the trauma and the scars
Crazy how a past wound can become how you are marked
Recognition of position
As you’re playing your part
To change the world around you
It’s just start
But


That’s how it goes
When you’ve got nothing to lose but hope
Feels like your sprinting along a tight rope
Cause you’ve got nothing to lose but hope
Cause you’ve got nothing to lose


Only option’s to improve and to succeed
That’s why I gotta move with super speed
Little time to waste
I see my people now I must deduce their needs
And take action cause sometimes you might be too subdued to speak

What I do could be perceived
As a super human feat
Single punch could make you think you took a Rueger to the spleen
I have just become the water as if Bruce Lee tutored me
Have to channel have to use it I consume it and I breathe
Maybe you’re pursuing peace

But these are trying times
Slipping up is like an ingestion of cyanide
So I am constantly training. No time for useless diatribe
Longing for the day when I’m happy and am flying high

But now is not the time
We putting in work
Rising up every time my face is pushed in the dirt
You see me smile every time it looks like I’m hurt
That’s the process and I’m good with the perks
Cause

That’s how it goes
When you’ve got nothing to lose but hope
Feels like your sprinting along a tight rope
Cause you’ve got nothing to lose but hope
Cause you’ve got nothing to lose

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from Room Service 2, released July 19, 2021
Instrumental:
Kadesh Flow

Lyrics:
Kadesh Flow

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Kadesh Flow Kansas City, Missouri

"A propulsive emcee, a bold songwriter, a skilled trombonist, an auspicious producer and an enterprising artist" - 90.9 The Bridge

Rapper with an MBA, a trombone Super Saiyan, and a Billboard Charting recording/ performing artist.
Tromboned on tracks with hip hop stars like Jidenna and underground stalwarts like Strange Music's Ubiquitous and JL.
Opened for Janelle Monae, Tech N9ne, Rakim, etc.
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