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General Gibberish

by Kaelin Halcrow

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1.
Gooder Words 01:49
This lesson will be, a relatively Ephemeral précis, with hyperbole You better believe me reverently I'm eminently gonna encompass My eloquence with peremptory rumpus Demonstrative audial glumness Committed to giving a plethoric helping of Rhetoric jargon, a generous bargain Hearken it, I'm pardoning Your axiomatic benighted disparaging Of my repertoire so far I strive to enthral you all as I dict like a czar Or a tsar.. That was the epitome of a homonym Intonation is falling and falling Inflection, in my lection risks defection I’m resolute in testing you And I might induce a hyper-acute Sensation of dudgeon as I convolute Through duplicity. Are you listening? I'm deliberating whether to enervate you Through clever use of oppressive truths, such as All your subjective quotidian problems and dramas are caused by you Voluble misanthropic honesty spilling out of me solemnly Not an anomaly for an autonomous crotchety polymath But what about profligate sophistry? Like I am a prodigy, it is my prophecy to Solve my insolvency through my Constant onslaught of ontological philosophy With incontrovertibly thick viscosity Oops! Tautologic verbosity, my pomposity's failing My confidence in my precocity's fading Shameless virtuoso behaving grandiose And I hate to be loquacious, so I'm Gonna try to summarise, what would otherwise be An aggrandized, even temporised editorialization but wait I've had a realization. In order to mesmerise, you with my soliloquising enterprise I must actualise that which I lyricise By epitomising ambition so I will apprise My franchise, by eulogising This anthology rhapsodically Abhor at the thought of apology Oops, sorry, obviously autocracy got to me Back to doing those "aw, ee, ee" rhymes time for apostasy BEAT CHANGE, incidental This song is compartmental yet monumental That penny effect is detrimental, making the music worse Kick drum is fundamental All the rest is ornamental Put together it's instrumental in helping you apprehend gooder words
2.
Four bar introduction Gotta talk over it for a little while So uh, yeah, this EP is designed to build your vocabulary Pretty wicked idea I think Ahem, anyway What I meant to say is I'm draconian on the beat And you're an amenable being We're juxtaposed But for the moment we're one I omit your hope that that I don't bestow You with the opposite of a paucity of words you don't know Thus the list of hate you tote Titillates as you feel dotish It's okay insecurity's popular these days So you're probably in the majority If my boloney inverts your bonhomie to bellicosity Insidious spitting these gimmicky lyrics Satirically spirited Mentally imaging grimacing cynics Getting livid at my pivot from the considered idyllic song composition I'm at war with the limit I implore all the critics to sit for a minute and listen When you listen to the same song Frequently Eventually the lyrics get absorbed Easily And before you know it you've learned the song And you can't get the lyrics wrong And once you've learned the lyrics You just learn what the words mean And you've just easily increased your vocabulary. Then the song's in your head any time you need it So you conversationally can't be impeded Never ever settle for reverie Refer to this verbal dispensary With more words in your treasury you're set For an upward trajectory Public opinion is fickle All it takes is one slip of the tongue and you're done Which is bad news for me as a bohemian extremist I'm an eccentric guy with a blithe attitude And I might be shrewd but I can be viewed as a crude and lewd dude alluding to the fact that I'm a maverick with eclectic taste Flip the script I'm being larcenous with the Topic of conversation I feel like an archivist Time for a psychotropic alteration I hate ostentatious prefer perspicacious Unfailing forbearance under great provocation But I'm proving inefficacious In case you find me vexatious Some statements are mendacious A lot of them are solecism Especially the ones that are predacious It's in your best interest to Develop a defence against affects Instead of being between extremes of Belligerent indifference and unmeetable neediness Shoutout J Peterson for dealing with the conceited people Instead of getting defensive and fighting society for your rights Why not try being pensive and attempt to make sense of your life An internet fight is inherently a waste of time You can't change them so don't condemn Invest in yourself oh, and a bookshelf When you listen to the same song Frequently Eventually the lyrics get absorbed Easily Then the song's in your head any time you need it So you conversationally can't be impeded Never ever settle for reverie Refer to this verbal dispensary With more words in your treasury you're set For an upward trajectory Disallow lexical penury Outgrow your rudimentary Treat this EP as supplementary And you'll be on an upward trajectory
3.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Lyrics Directionless in this quest for excellent eloquence While you Sedulously represent Your temperament of emulous pettishness And fecklessness, and negligence This is the genesis, of the eminent contentious specimen Do you get it? I'm impetuous with sentences I'm aconscientious Thus I besmirch myself That line was sedementary Despite the sense of it My ethos is temperate The next section is effusive I'm aiming to exacerbate your anxious state Which won't be complicated given your pervasive trepidation Don't you fucking make me elucidate I just wanna adjudicate and you can ruminate I've got an anatomical anomaly a nominal anthropical problem My canonical encephalon is gone Now my mind is framed that kinda way That enables me to say anything no reparation and even though I know audacious is the way I relegated to meditation Anyway, here's the chorus You're gonna hope that I can stop it When I'm on this mic and talking bogus You're gonna hope that I get diagnosed with Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis I'm releasing masterpieces with alacrity No laxity, I can be elaborately refractory Ask my boss, he was my confidant Until I got sick of his vaunting It was exhausting my vivacity My boss was the worst, he coerced me Artfully versed in dominance assertion Uncannily vacuous Simply can't vanquish his ubiquitous anguish I just quit my job (woah) In the middle of this song That's true But it isn't relevant so Moving on No more strife In this unemployed life Kaelin! We have the building surrounded Our numbers are unbouded Get him! Shit! Shit! Oh shit!! This is because of that stupid Ramadan Dan song I knew it was a stupid idea Well, in case you missed it And it wasn't obvious, monotony's not for me But I believe I made it audibly clear The song's a bit weird And it doesn't cohere But! Everyone likes a chorus! So… You're gonna hope that I can stop it When I'm on this mic and talking bogus You're gonna hope that I get diagnosed with Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
4.
Plan B 03:08
Here's a funny horn sound I found Your ear's gonna be scorned now lie down Debonair forewarning learning found in sound Big words in the impound I hound Top tier funky learning churned out right now Shakespeare would've written more if I was around Endeared by many somehow hidebound We're near, the verbal playground's inbound Kaelin is coming with the vocab rap Nomadic on the track, sporadic That was volcanically emphatic Autocratic yet enigmatic when I'm jabbering You gotta be somatically static To have a chance at grasping facts From my panoramic entanglement of language These rapping patterns are causing anguish So I'll change it up, that's how it works Jejune it was, but I'm averse To banality in my musicality In my prelude to mastery I use alacrity to unilaterally Abuse your anatomy's acoustic faculty To loosen your attachment to the views you have That you hoovered up from the medias depiction of reality You are the accumulation of all the views you take in I'm the dude who shakes them makes you contemplate them The key to successful manipulation Is blatant reiteration Every day and every station The same shit perpetuating All of us following false idols and demagogues And liars and psychopath titans and heinous tyrants Act, recite, and practice till you get it right! Kaelin are you saying that they're faking it!? Yes. Cultural degeneration over several generations Equates to a feckless population that's enervated and sedated We're celebrity fetishists Docile obedient governable creatures And I fucking hate it! I don't know how it came to this The intention of this mission was to talk gibberish but Now I'm hyped up, I'm angry, it's plan B It's happening whether wanna thank or hang me The real terrorists are in the American government They need you to believe that hell's a-comin' So you're on your knees saying Please, please protect me from the enemy What about all the politicians That were found to be full of shit? You honestly believe that they're the rarities While the rest spout genuine verities!? They institutionalize our children in schools While their minds are a blank canvas Naive to the flawed adults who follow orders blindly Who fill their minds With the insidious lies That fit the government's current narrative. Land of the free Ha ha hee… That's the funniest piece of comedy To come out of me so far When I think of the future I get scared A life of work and we don't have another spare It's like living life in an invisible dragon's lair Foolishly assuming that these powerful people care Don't ask questions Just keep working Get a promotion Buy more stuff One day all that stuff you have Will solve your problems and make you happy I don't know how it came to this The intention of this mission was to talk gibberish but Now I'm hyped up, I'm angry, it's plan B It's happening whether wanna thank or hang me This song wasn't meant to go like this Nevertheless I hope it spreads like a virus Coz I'm hyped up, I'm angry, it's plan B I hope that out the two It made you want to thank me
5.
Here we are Song five of General Gibberish And you know what? I am dissatisfied So far I feel like there's been too much truth Not enough gibberish Let's fix it I just took a shit on my cat! The second I walked in my flat! I dropped my pants, assumed the stance And shat on her back! Okay, that was gibberish But not quite the level of lexical finesse that I'm after Let's try again Gonna make reparations, for those who possess patience Pay obeisance, negate complaisance I got a whole lot of plaintive prating to do There's a vacancy in my distrait crew My shrew dilates her gestating voodoo fete purview Conflating miscues, blating imbued with Dictating my gait communicates I had a debut doodoo Headed for my shoe from my trouser leg Carousers beg for a keg endowment So I vow to get them a statuette with a sobriquet And whet my disavowal of the sacred cow epithet And if I had a kitchenette on a corvette It'd sublet it to suffragettes To inset gimlet giving to dragnet coquettes And inebriate them for free and make them Gee into the sea so they plea for Ki to save them From my preponderant previous statement Speaking opaquely, substantiating my fabrications As I acclimate to complications I'm actuating vacillation Orchestrating veneration Inculcating extirpation of Trust of the doctor by the patient (say what?) I don't wanna be a guy that anybody deifies I got a bit of a keener eye but Nobody's special, neither I nor you Nor the president, nor celebrities Oh shit, I'm getting back to being personal again Fuck Okay, back to gibberish, let's go God spoke to me this morning He said Kaelin, you're dying. It's the way I designed you. I bind you to life for a finite time So you better fucking step up before it's goodbye Y'know, God, you have a point. Live is transient, people who dander shouldn't be pandered to And I'm getting compelled to abandon This Instrumental intransigence So I'm nonchalantly changing the song That's right, that's right, that's right I'm catalysing contagion of Galvanizing elation through Tantalising oration Fragmentizing my vocation Of soliloquising incantations By forsaking other undertakings I'm annotating my flagrant perorations To make it a little more titillating Permeating your grey matter Nutating for days after Overweening freewheeler Feeling au fait spieling coquet As he inveighs Against displacing the vase Encasing a lace discassed with haste Effaced from the place it took up space Searching apace, bracing my face for a squall To cause me to fall Palling and lolling and drawling This appalling scrawling will make you all go AWOL Ay Two minutes and four seconds in the song And it's lacking antiphons This is not a lexicon This is the paragon of twaddle The protocol needs an overhaul Rambling on about nothing at all For the long haul like an oddball With the wherewithal to forestall The pitfalls for future me Grandiloquent raps with undue esprit brooding exuberance is my new decree An aberrant gabber for you and me Concocting audio souvenirs Okay I just gotta have a coffee here hold on (slurp) Okay I think you have a habit of brandishing fallacies callously Your facts are incompatible with the matter happening Laughing at all the frivolity I'm taken aback by this megalomaniac I'm beginning to think that your diffidence Is a symptom of the vigilance of the omnipotent You're in need of deliverance Vigilantly vociferous since Ambivalence is equivalent to impotence Man, scribbling lyrics in this EP is addicting I'm thinking of writing another one Whereupon the foregone one is all but forgotten Don't be woebegone Thereupon setting upon yours truly Like you were Genghis Khan with legs for arms I get that that premise should be withdrawn (yeah) Gotta make sure your words are impermeable I'm skirting the churl, who's goal is to hurt me By hurling malediction in my direction, With affliction on their agenda, like This song needs a corrigenda Drunkard in a slumber unencumbered by the humdrum Of succumbing to his loved one when she wants to visit someone Disdain for his missus when she ordains to arraign him Over inane things, he must explain his side of the story Time for furore Dilatory laudatory oratory allegory All nugatory bullshit Diatribes inbound That ramifying gibe left him cowed So that was my Gibberish Can't wait to deliberate If I was rigorous enough to stop the feverish need to incorporate Improvement through my music to cultivate an advanced understanding Of the language I've just circulated As this EP culminates

about

What is General Gibberish?

Short:
It's a rap EP centred around the use of uncommon words

Long:
General Gibberish is the five-song result of my self-issued challenge to rap as many unconventional words as I could muster in one song.
Although I had initially set out to create just one song for the purpose of this vocabulary challenge, I greatly enjoyed the creation process of this song, and resolved to extend my efforts and to write four more vocab-dense songs for a five-song vocabulary-based EP.

This became General Gibberish.


Buy why?

The idea to write a vocabularically (< Neologism) dense song was inspired by my (at the time) new practice of daily reading.

As I read books on my phone, I would highlight, in red, any words which were either new to me, or which had attractive potential application in future discourse.
Reading adult non-fiction literature for the first time, I was encountering unfamiliar words by the page. As I continued to highlight and take note of newly discovered words, I recognised that my day-to-day operational vocabulary was woefully limited in terms of precision concision.
As the list of words which I wanted to incorporate into my daily vocabulary repertoire grew, so did the complexity of the lyrics I was writing.
I started the practice of writing disjointed rhymes, which were both lexically mature, and rhythmically pleasing, to me, at least.

Some examples of unused lines are featured below:

• "Sophisticated process of symbiosis"
• "Been in a habit of reading sporadically"
• "Gaffers gonna garner gossip"

Ultimately, as I continued to highlight 4-8 new words every day, I had a brainwave.

The Brainwave:

It is true that if we listen to a song enough times, we can memorise all of its lyrics rather effortlessly.

By incorporating the words I was discovering through reading into my raps, I would be immortalising, in song, an everlasting resource to aid its audience in their development of a more comprehensive vocabulary.

The plan was as follows:

1. Write and produce lexically-dense songs.
2. Memorise the songs, internalising the lyrics.
3. Learn the meanings of the words in the songs.
4. Reference the songs from within your brain in moments of dictional difficulty.

Nearly two years after this brainwave, General Gibberish is finally available for stream / purchase on all platforms worldwide!

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released October 5, 2020

Kaelin Halcrow

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