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Sisyphus by Quadeca

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Quadeca

Sisyphus

Release date: 29th March 2021

From From Me To You
Track 2
4:32
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About This Track

Quadeca builds 'Sisyphus' around the mythological image of endless, futile labour, but the song is really about the exhaustion of loving someone through cycles of departure and return. The climb up the hill becomes a metaphor for a relationship that cannot sustain itself, where every effort to stay close only deepens the distance. He moves between tenderness and frustration, acknowledging how small grievances calcify into mountains in the mind, how the butterflies fade into resignation. The track moves through distinct emotional registers without losing its grip on the central image. Early verses are almost conversational, full of specific detail: August goodbyes, the wish to live somewhere simple where you never have to call back. Later sections fracture into something rawer, the repetition of "Sisyphus grimace" and "it's the rock and roll" pressing the metaphor until it breaks. By the final stretch, Quadeca is asking whether he should simply let the rock roll, whether staying close to the peak is worth the risk of the drop. The song ends not with resolution but with a quiet acknowledgment: sometimes he wants to disappear, but somehow he'll get past it.

"Sisyphus" is a track by Quadeca, from the album From Me To You, released 29th March 2021. The track is 4:32 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Quadeca

Quadeca

Lyrics

Sisyphus

Walked up the hill

Don't look down, you'll be there soon
And I love you still
Everything feels better when surrounded by the space
I need to fill

And I know
Everything feels better when I go

I been so melodramatic with you on this climb
Can't wait to feel shitty and tell you about it another time
All of the blisterin' mends in a callus
Even our bickerin' getting nostalgic
All of those little things meld into mountains in my mind, uh
August came by, saw you say "Bye", wanna stay by your side
What the fuck do you say when you know
Life cannot be the same but you try and try?
If those footsteps remainеd after time went by, somеthing expirin'
I guess them butterflies in my stomach
Have been fuckin' retirin', uh (yeah)

And I love you when I'm back on the climb
You're only with me in the back of my mind now
It's a cycle, it's a path I can't find, uh
Sisyphus grimace, it's the rock and roll, vulnerable
Maybe it's my fate and it's all my fault
And I know
You got a mountain of your own (yeah)

Wish it wouldn't feel so broken to me
Tried to take the edge off, but that only brought it closer to me, uh
And I just wanna live in a mo'fuckin' log cabin
In a place where you never have to call back
Never have to log back in
I've been backlogged in black fog
I fall back in, dreamin' of times it wasn't all madness
I just can't mimic it, though
I been in Sisyphus mode, lookin' up the path of a tall mountain
And I keep getting stuck in these potholes
Maybe I should just let the rock roll
I've been so close to the peak, I know
But I'm tryna stay away from the drop, though
So I don't

They only love me when I'm back on the climb (yeah)
You're only with me in the back of my mind now
It's a cycle, it's a path I can't find, uh
Sisyphus grimace, it's the rock and roll, vulnerable
Maybe it's my fate and it's all my fault
And I know
You got a mountain of your own (yeah)

Watch your step
Lifting slow
Giving no
Imprint in the snow
And I love you to pieces
'Til that's all we're left with (yeah)
It's all we're left with
In the end (yeah)

And sometimes, I wanna disappear
Been a shitty-ass time and a shitty-ass year
But somehow, I'ma get me past here

Everything feels better when I go

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Track details

From From Me To You

4:322021
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Album
From Me To You
From Me To You
Quadeca
30th March 2021
Track number
2
Release year
2021
  1. 1Couloir (Intro)
    1:21
  2. 2Sisyphus
    4:32
  3. 3Candles on Fire!
    2:47
  4. 4Shades of Us
    2:58

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Quadeca
    Composer
    Quadeca
    Producer
    Quadeca
    Keyboards
    Quadeca
    Acoustic Guitar
    Quadeca
    Arranger
    Quadeca
    Electric Guitar
    Quadeca
    Mastering Engineer
    Joe LaPorta
    Mixing Engineer
    Quadeca
    Recording Engineer
    Quadeca
    Ukulele
    Quadeca
    Video Camera Operator
    Thad Swift
    Video Colorist
    Quadeca
    Video Editor
    Quadeca
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