Abstract

Released: April 28, 2014

Songwriter: Abstract

Producer: Nasty Beatz

[Intro]
Would you know it's me?
Would I know it's you?
Would you know it's me?
Would I know it's you?

[Verse 1]
Promise I've been tryna lead a better life
Tryna go out, hit these stages, shut down venues every night
So if you met me, you'd be proud
Cruisin' down the highway, I'm your stereo sound
You don't
Said you don't
Said you don't
Said you don't—and you won't—know it's me
Said you don't
Said you don't
Said you don't—and you won't—know it's me

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you may never know who I am
But I know that there is a reason you weren't part of my plan
Home's a different constellation than the stars I fell from
If it's any consolation, like to be the brightest ones

[Chorus/Drop]
So you know (so you know)
So you know (so you know)
So you know (so you know)
So you know where I shine
Where I shine
Where I shine
So you know where I shine
Where I shine
Where I shine
So you know where I shine

[Verse 2]
Think you know my book?
Goddamn crook, think you know my look?
Think I don't look back
Wonder what got me to where I'm at
Why my heart stay strapped
Wide open up a second and the door snap back
'Cause you don't know this, way before my birth I'd been dismissed
To a game of chance
Hopin' that a family would take my ass
Yeah, take me home
Lucky that they love me and the shit I done
That's the people that raised me
The people that saved me
The family that walked me through life and are proud of the man that it made me

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you may never know who I am
But I know that there is a reason you weren't part of my plan
Home's a different constellation than the stars I fell from
If it's any consolation, like to be the brightest ones

[Chorus/Drop]
So you know (so you know)
So you know (so you know)
So you know (so you know)
So you know where I shine
Where I shine
Where I shine
So you know where I shine
Where I shine
Where I shine
So you know where I shine

Growing up in New Jersey, Luke Terkovich, otherwise known as Abstract, was involved with music at an early age. Learning how to play piano, electric guitar, and the drums were Luke’s first involvement with music — and he did it all before 6th grade. With a move across country from New Jersey to Jackson, Wyoming, the distance between learning and playing new instruments got larger. It wasn’t until several years later that Luke began to mess around with freestyling during his high school years spent at Jackson Hole High. Evolving his newly found musical expression into Raised in Jackson, WY, Abstract is known for his immense musical versatility and affinity for providing uplifting music for a turbulent world. With a knack for storytelling, he provides introspective motivation to all who take the time to dive into his work. Notably known for his remix of Ruth Bs Lost Boy “Neverland” which has garnered hundreds of millions of plays on YouTube, his work with Drumma Battalion and Roze, and his 2016 album Something to Write Home About. He heads a collective known as “A Team Worldwide” 5 musicians from 4 different countries. Producers Drumma Battalion of Norway, Blulake of Sweden, Cryo Music of Scotland, and Abstract. Coming off his first overseas tour with YONAS, the ATWW collective is gearing up to drop Abstracts new album/experience late summer 2018.writing detailed lyrics, he began to find that he could vent the stresses of his everyday life through creating music. Slowly progressing through the years of his new town where he calls home; balancing school, life, and music developed Luke to become Abstract.

Trying to find his sound was a young teenager who just looked to get something written down and then translated into music, and eventually rap. Still in his caterpillar stage of metamorphosis was a young Abstract who released his first ever collection of songs, properly named The Dream.

In 2012, through YouTube, Abstract met Craig McAllister, a producer from Glasgow, Scotland. During that period, Abstract was in the midst of working on On My Own Time and was the first time Craig showed up with Abstract. Afterwards, the duo started to mesh extremely well and produced the five projects, Under Lights & Microscopes, A Life To Live By, Dreaming With Eyes Open, The Science Of Feeling Tall, and We Are The Artist.

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