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Johnny (Prod. by Day Tripper)

from Watered Down Demon Fuzz by Darko The Super

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When I was little, a boy in my neighborhood drowned and froze to death one winter after trying to ice skate on the lake by my house. I remember how terrible my parents felt for his family. Though I didn’t know him very well, it was the first tragedy I ever experienced. It’s something I still think about at times and I wanted to put it in a song. So I wrote about how far I’ve come since those years and what I could’ve missed if that was me and not Jonny. This is my favorite song on the album. Day Tripper or DT, of the psychedelic rap heroes, The Difference Machine, made the beat for this song.

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New school Dr. Demento
Darko have Donald Trump painting a fence post
Deathstroke
I’m a space cadet like Dr. Conspiracy
My man DT, he put the fear in me
To write the realness
Rest in peace to Bill Hicks
My spiritual advisor
I’ll never do another show at the Fire
Cos, fuck that
They can kiss my nut sack
And be gentle
This instrumental had me tripping for days
I find inspiration in infinite ways
In ATL at Wyatt’s barbecue
I’ve seen The difference machine straight up slaughter crews
At the 529
I got that cool shoe shine
I never understood a word the Gorillaz sang
But I always loved it cos that shit still bang

Sitting on the handle bars
Skipping rocks across the stars
It’s all down the drain from here

Skating on the lake
And falling in the ice
I saw your mom wipe away her tears

Oh, Johnny why’d you do it?
Johnny, why were you so stupid?

Sirens on Christmas eve
Johnny why’d you have to leave?

Sledding down snake mountain
Wedding’s and the chocolate fountains
You sure missed a lot
I’m touring now, I moved off the block
Greenlee drive
The seaweed in the sky
Floor of the ocean
They found you drowned and frozen
I’m sorry for your family
I got a peppermint stick and some candy
My best friend’s now a heroin attic
I’m blaring the static
The boogeyman got a hold on me
I’m loaded up on caffeine
Driving through Virginia
Don’s asleep and I’m listening to the day tripper
I wanna be so rich that I could buy the world another god
The world famous in Athens thinks we’re too odd
But I don’t care, they ain’t listening
Remember the name like a christening

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from Watered Down Demon Fuzz, released August 25, 2017

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Darko The Super Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Darko the Super is the weirdo rap superstar alter ego of Evan Souza. Born in the bosom of suburbia in 1993, Darko the Super wrote his first song at the tender age of 5. A prolific mad genius on the beats and microphone, also the mastermind behind indie label, U Don’t Deserve This Beautiful Art. ... more

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