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Escape Velocity

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Alternative Rap

Escape Velocity was released on June 7, 2026 by Stickman as a part of the album Gravity Don't Care

Song Details

AlbumGravity Don't Care

Release DateJune 7, 2026

LabelStickman

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM87

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Stickman

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Jason May

Composer, Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jason May

Producer

Lyrics

11.2 Kilometers per second

That's what it costs to leave

Not 11.1

Exact

Escape velocity, the physics doesn't negotiate

There's a number and below it you come back

That's the weight of the pull on everyone who ever tried to relocate

Their ambition past the boundary of what the system designates

As your ceiling and the ceiling's set at birth in certain states

Of existence, certain suburbs, certain postcodes, given fates

11.2, That's the cost to leave the gravity of estates

Where the pull of who you were keeps dragging at your mental plates

I've been calculating since I knew that calculation mattered

Every sacrifice a unit of velocity I gathered

Every rejection as propulsion, every door I heard it shatter

In my face became the fuel that made the trajectory

Get flat against the curve of falling back

I mapped the exact number, spent my twenties in the engine room

While everyone else slumbered on the dream that luck would lift them

I was running through the thunder, building speed the hard way

Now watch the atmosphere go under

Escape velocity

I hit the number

Tore through the ceiling of the world I came from under

Escape velocity

There's a cost exact

Below the number and you're always coming back

Escape velocity

I paid the price in full

Traded everything to overcome the pull

Escape velocity

The math was always clear

Hit the number and I'm no longer here

But here's what physics doesn't print in the equation

Every kilogram you shed accelerates the separation

From the mass of who you loved inside that gravitational station

Called home and home don't stop being home through the translation

Of distance into freedom, that's the part they leave in silence

When they tell you chase your dreams

With all that motivational reliance

On the grind, they don't say the grind has its own kind of violence

On the ties between you and the place that built your first alliance

I hit the number and I watched the skyline shrink to nothing

In the rear glass of a life accelerating into something new

And felt the weight of every person I was leaving

Still exerting pull, their gravity still reaching

Through the distance, through the speed, through the achievement

Of the threshold, still I felt it, still believed it

Might have been a cost too high, still unresolved, still grieving

What I had to burn as fuel to reach the ceiling

There's a moment at the number

When you're moving fast enough to leave

But you haven't gone yet and you could still come back

And you look at everything the pull contains

And you feel every reason to decelerate

And you understand that escape velocity

Isn't just the speed of leaving

It's the decision to not slow down

Even when everything you love

Is still behind you

Past the threshold now, the atmosphere is thinning

Every doubter who predicted I'd be losing, I'd be winning

Is a data point behind me in the orbit I was spinning

Out a western suburb launchpad, that's where this was beginning

Every teacher who suggested that my ceiling had a limit

Every system that was structured with my failure but within it

Became a unit of the fuel that I was burning to get with it

Escape velocity achieved and I'm no longer in it

In the gravity of never, never making it

Never breaking through the crust of expectation I was calculating

Every move against the number, never fading

Sacrificed the weight of comfort for the speed I'm generating

Mount to width of the atmosphere, the trajectory is stated

In the data of the distance I have covered, underrated

To the point of invisibility, now elevated

Past the line, escape velocity and I'm not decelerating

I'm not coming back, the number's been exceeded

Every unit of the cost has been conceded

Paid in full, the exit price completed

Stickman, past the pull

Escape velocity, succeeded

Escape velocity

Below the number, you fall back

Escape velocity

I hit the number

And I kept going

Written by: Jason May

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