Paradox for Bad Omen

by Agni Ra

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1.
Lux 06:59
Born with the Big Bang and I've been rapping ever since Before words exist, just listen to the music I dispense The cosmos crashing Blasting sound waves that are ever-lasting With a chorus of lights, igniting the night Tearing darkness apart with cymbal-like strikes The maestro, molding this macro-cosmic melody A master mixing Dj, so angelically And every note came to life From a particle small, reaching up towards the light As the symphony grew, so the creatures did too Reaching up from their aquatic plight With a right and a left, taking their first breaths Stepping out in the Sun, feeling oh so blessed Oh yes!!! You can hear the cries, as they sang But it comes to an end with a great big bang Oh no...so sad, it's just too bad See it's time for a change in the track Progression's the name of the game Not thinking ahead is only holding you back So I jacked up the volume, remixed the scene Flipped the script to white from green So now everything gleams vibrantly Silently, life returns to the screen But just like a dream, it all came to an end Because the beasts couldn't hang with my jams again And won't ever win, if they can't match my flow Because fast or slow, you have to grow Have to go further, farther, harder, stronger Adaptation will make you last longer So no stopping, pausing, waiting Just keep on creating... Creating, innovating Take the foundation and keep on upgrading Raising the stakes with a new population Changing the tune for a whole new nation Vibration, emanating from the table Turning the Earth like a record, unable to quit Never stagnant, have to advance Because if given the chance, you know you have to enhance Your capabilities, Time, not your friend You gotta move with the shift in trends You gotta groove with the rifts and bends Remove all of the useless ends Improve and transcend Keep it moving again, the climate swished and stirred But these beasts couldn't be deterred It seems now they have got some nerve But their strange, don't know if their praise is truly deserved Because from what I observed, the beasts can't hear the beat It's like they all have two left feet Dancing against the grain, with no glide in their stride A surprise they even remain alive Because their steps are contrived, not even listening to the Dj Not even feeling the rhythm here as the beat plays Keep on trying to deny where they came from Killing off the notes, they done forgot they were the same ones Once, despite all of my composition, they still ain't trying to listen Get nothing but opposition As the chorus swells, I hear the trumpeters blow The final hour's dawning, but when??? Not even I know So I keep on creating, crafting, drafting Until I finish my next score And if the beasts can't embrace my next beats pace They'll never make it to the encore As the sand keeps falling, problems, absolve them Just keep on evolving As the sand keeps falling, problems, absolve them Just keep on evolving As the sand keeps falling, problems, absolve them Just keep on evolving As the sand keeps falling, problems, absolve them Just keep on evolving
2.
Writing at the speed of the connection Insurrection between every section Of the spectrum of immaculate conception Intersecting with the points of perfection Once every 13.5 billion years ago Appears to know the end before the whistle blow So don't pass go until you see those green lights glow He actually wrote this piece 13.5 billion years ago Today, right this way, the right to say Light it strikes right through your darkest days The darkest ways to cause effects, to cause distress Because this stress has got me feeling regressed Not impressed by the best, interest is the crest Of the blessed holiness that composed this mess- Ages from vassals of emperors Such senseless sentences, yet stupendous Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of what you believe in Breathing Jesus, please, he's a heathen Seething, received disease in this season Grieving, he lost the one that he needed Incomplete is his quest, because he cannot find the X He's so obsessed by a chest, but no key is possessed By the host, a ghost with the most to regret So adept, but he can't find an ounce of respect So he set down the road to decode every node To unload manifold palindromes from the soul Reason, this here's more than just dreaming Please, can you just let him be for this evening Sorry, took it too far, see each part Beats art, each mark imparts kids with smarts Swift darts, sweet tarts, both tear right through the heart Restarts, it seems that he just missed the ark Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of sound until they found A compound world-renowned for the styles it compounds So profound, down in towns where the clowns wear the crowns Every mound built of pounds of that shit that confounds Rewound, looking through another lens Walking through the looking glass to reach the realm of kids pretend So diligent and militant that villains can't get rid of him A miscreant just waiting for the day that someone seeks to end The chaos, seance, trying to find a universe Far beyond your make-believe, but what's its value truly worth Just rot beneath the swollen earth until the day Apollo bursts Then and only then will you know how a day does more than hurt Seeing through the serpent's smirk I'm nourished by the simple joys Life is rife with sustenance, why fall prey to their feeble ploys Come now little girls and boys, don't listen to the piper's noise Walk unbeaten paths, don't simply hold the tails of asteroids Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of, writing at the speed of Writing at the speed of bleeding, damn A man who just can't keep the pen from his hands Lands blasted by dastardly fans He came to reclaim the remains of the band Then, vivify the ashes Liquify the bastards until their eyes spin backwards Word backed tactics clash with the average Is he a genius, or just a savage Passage is sought through pearly gates Every pearl he makes is about as much as he can take So he lies there in wait for the guards to fall asleep Lest he wishes for the beast to impede his shining fate Up the spine, in vertebrates, keep the gold behind temples See through the lies that are squeezed through their dentals Sent to vent all the pent up potential No change, spent every cent on his last instrumental Writing
3.
What are you feeling, what are you expecting What are you going to do when it starts asking you about sexing What are you going to name him, what are you going to name her What are you going to do if the father doesn't claim her What are you dreaming, what are you hoping What are you going to do when it starts drinking and smoking What are thinking, what are you fearing What are you going to do now that the time is nearing Bright lights, men in white Banshees screaming, awful plights Life, death, wrong, right Wishing for the calm of night Chords cut, all alone Why'd they take me from my home Cry, bleed, pain, fear Beginning of the end is here Tears, cheers, lost, forsaken Family, congratulations Blue, pink, handsome, pretty Live in country, live in city Feet, pounds, nomenclature Type a or a type b nature Head, shoulders, knees, toes Digits for his entry code Certified, here's the present Servitude, forgotten essence Measurements for length, duration Citizen, indoctrination Food, clothes, toys, milk Wrapped in cotton, wrapped in silk Listening to idle chatter Sitting here in feecle matter Hunger, thirst, warm, cold Longing for the days of old Bibs, bottles, passifiers Don't blame me for being tired Hope for this here generation Haunted by their expectations Eat, sleep, cry, play Genesis, conception day She looks just like her mother, he looks just like his father She looks just like an idiot, so why the hell'd we bother He looks just like a loser, she looks just like a finder He looks just like a slab of meat that ready for the grinder She looks just like a princess, he looks just like a pauper She looks just like the nurse who's been screwing around with the doctor He looks just like a player, she looks just like a whore He look just like the messiah we've all been waiting for House, fence, lawn, car Twinkle, twinkle little star Bows break, cradles fall Branches aren't for kids at all Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack just walk around the candlestick Don't make bets with Rumpelstiltskin Pay your debts with first-born children Rowing boats, life's a dream Lost my paddle up the stream Gotta keep your tummy fed But don't trust the house of gingerbread Red hoods, stolen goods Don't just wonder through the woods Walk the path of villainy Why kill such a generous tree Numbers, letters, functions, forms Dissidence or follow norms Pencil, papers, crayons, books Don't cross the street, both ways first look Be fair, please share Do not hit or pull on hair There's no need for hostility Take responsibility Learn, think, write, draw These things aren't so hard at all Yes it is ok to cry Goldfish, mice and hamsters die Trust is just so hard to find Can't even count on number lines How the hell'd you get so smart son Learned it all in kindergarten I think she'll be a dentist, I think he'll be a lawyer I think she'll be an astronaut, deep-space explorer I think he'll be a sports star, I think she'll be a model I think he'll be a drunkard pushing down on the throttle I think she'll be a dancer, I think he'll be a foreman I think she'll be a waste of space that eats up our resources I think he'll be a capitalist, I think she'll be a facist I think he'll be the one to burn the empire to ashes
4.
Another bad day, another lone night Another brother took the final seat on my flight Another motherfucker just walking the earth Asked another stupid question, what is it worth I mean, is this really what it’s all about Working like a slave for useless clout Standing on a rock in outer space Can anyone tell me why I’m in this place? Once upon a time there was a god named God All the power in existence, but he still felt odd Thought all this space should be put to work Made the stars and the sun and the moon and the dirt And from the dirt he made a planet A special purpose he did grant it On this here your seventh day I shall place here my children to run and play Play, yes, and I’m the actor A mass of water and other matter Flesh on bone, skin on flesh Adorned with the finest in fashionable dress A mess of the best in bio-tech Flier yet than any other flying pest But still haven’t mastered dying yet Haven’t felt like this since the dawn of regret Run and play the children did Much like you as a little kid A boy and a girl named Adam and Eve In a garden of happiness, wonder and peace And in one of the trees he placed a fruit An apple containing all knowledge and truth Forbid his kids from tasting the nectar Lest they be expelled from the sector Expelled from the sector, fuck Seems like I just ran out of luck At a fork in the road, should have went right Exacerbating this deplorable plight Why me, I asked the sky But alas, as always no reply Why bother, I asked the ground But it just sat there, not making a sound Now kids being kids, just the way God made them Couldn’t understand why he had forbade them And why on earth would he just forsake them When he was the one that created them Curiosity killed these cats When a reptile’s smile talked to these brats No manzana was finer, but here’s the cost Potential for Hell when your innocence’s lost Lost, can’t find my way Can’t find the Sun, though it’s the middle of day Like I’m walking in the valley of the shadow of Anubis I wonder and stumble, utterly clueless Who is the maker of this plan? Why couldn’t he write it so I could understand? My wounds are many and in need of mending I hope this tale has a happy ending Ashamed now they were of their nudity The truancy condemned with impunity They ruined the fantasy that they had lived Just one bite from an apple, you cannot forgive Damn, ain’t that a bitch A spectacular glitch in a galactic ditch Jesus, what a mess But hey, now at least we’re allowed to have sex
5.
Ouroborus (free) 05:59
Come now follow me, along this road of battered memories Where sirens sing in sorrow at your unintended felonies Where minstrels sing the songs of heroes brave and full of pride But lose their lives when the fairy's tail is cut off by the knife This is a god-forsaken place, where the goblins roam In place of that cute gnome who wonders the globe alone Where the gremlins, ghouls and ghosts all embrace the currency But still cannot afford to buy their way out of eternity I found a message in a bottle and it told me Though we have never met you are the only one who knows me Because those who live beside me judge, but lack all of the proof You have never judged me once, so your opinion is closest to truth And I just want to be closest to you Longing for the moment when one plus one equals two Perhaps I speak too many riddles A silly monkey, playing games, trapped in the middle It was all just a dream, wrapped in an illusion It was all just a dream, the source of all confusion It was all just a dream, an echo of the past As the first-borns get revenge at last It was all just a dream, painted upon the landscape It was all just a dream, a missile sent from the fan base It was all just a dream, taped to an instrumental As the ideas beg to be released from the pencil I sit here speaking with two gentlemen, one on each shoulder Both look like me, one very young, the other much older And though it's freezing cold upon the perches which they rest It seems they'll never leave my side until the day we all meet Death Now I've heard many a tale about the reaper The keeper of souls, sickle-slinging, skeletal looking sort of creature He lives within the shadows and each particle of light And he knows not the difference between wrong and right Between day and night, there's a moment of uncertainty Where time just isn't certain of the place that it's supposed to be So as I lay me down to sleep, I pray that I've no soul to keep Or I shall find my spirit down where all the wicked demons creep This is not the path he seeks, it found him Gagged and bound him, lassoed and downed him To take him back to where the story began To when the pyramids were nothing more than piles of sand It was all just a dream, wrapped in an illusion It was all just a dream, the source of all confusion It was all just a dream, an echo of the past As the first-borns get revenge at last It was all just a dream, painted upon the landscape It was all just a dream, a missile sent from the fan base It was all just a dream, taped to an instrumental As the ideas beg to be released from the pencil (2x) I'm just a snake that keeps eating his tail Because he can't bite the hand that feeds him, because that feeder's himself So as I sit and struggle with this question of infinity My stomach starts to grumble and I have to find a bite to eat Oh what a whirlpool we live in Funneling down, round and around, just one step beyond oblivion What the hell, maybe I'll jump right in Because if it's worse than this place here I didn't have much chance to begin With, it's getting cloudy The visions keep dancing, while the music plays too loudly Is this Heaven, because it surely ain't Hell I guess that means it's Purgatory, where the sapiens dwell Surely you've heard of them A manner of monster that devours the very flesh that gave birth to them So when their bows and the cradles hit the floor I wonder if they'll still believe that it was all worth fighting for It was all just a dream, wrapped in an illusion It was all just a dream, the source of all confusion It was all just a dream, an echo of the past As the first-borns get revenge at last It was all just a dream, painted upon the landscape It was all just a dream, a missile sent from the fan base It was all just a dream, taped to an instrumental As the ideas beg to be released from the pencil
6.
Umbra (free) 04:14
I am the wickedest, some would say I'm insidious The smoke inside the smokers lung that burns through every lyricist The cheer he gets from splitting the seams of your teams Has got these gangs going green as I sever their dreams Malevolent fiend, they ask, where can he be seen Well he's lurking down on the road, at the end of your means I'm such a problem, remind them of Mephistopheles I brings about atrocities unspoken of by prophecies The moment, the foulest component Of the circuitry that works to keep the peace, with bad omens So paradoxical, looking through the monocle You see me talked about in every single human chronicle Dishonorable, the only rule's that I must live Dishonor a bull, he slaughtered just for sacrilege This bastard is the son of a father who just was never home Surrounded by unholy ghosts that raised me, now see how I've grown Into a veteran, master of peace-prevention He's a freshman, interjecting with a penchant for detention Did I mention I am the ruler of societies Aladdin's just a novice, I'm the one true king of thieves I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it Just a truant, incongruent with this state of unfairs Vision's impaired, these words here are the truest Screws loosened, I'm trying to get my life repaired Strike the flare, send someone to save me Lamb wondering too far from the flock A scary situation, they tried to shave me The butcher's knife descends at the final tic of the clock But now that time has passed and everything is right as rain So I shall remain the same as I was in the first verse man Disperse cursed things, an angel flying with cursed wings Your mad cursings ain't worth one thing You sad earthlings, the universe is quite displeased It sees how you all treat the trees that give you all the strength to breath Please, do you really believe That the might of mother's nurture can be murdered by fleas He's a step above the pharmacist Prescribing daily dosages of hopelessness and carnage with An artist's eye for detail, he haunts your every e-mail He sells these shells to keep the populations quelled His occupation's swell and there is none more lucrative A ruthless kid who does not have the will to forgive Sieve through the dirt and grime, trying to find that piece of mind That humankind's been trying to find since long before they spawned in time Before the dawn of rhyme I was just a bad idea Now you see me clear as a deer when the headlight's near Fear and anger cause mass confusion Just remember the cause of your effects is an illusion Damn, I just can't stand it Punished just for wanting to be Thought that I took my freedoms for granted Bandits took my freedoms from me So now I lay in a pool of blood Sin stains my cloak, as I ascend the stairs The final day of judgment, let the trial begin But when I opened Heaven's gate there wasn't anyone there... The final day of judgment, let the trial begin But when I opened Heaven's gate there wasn't anyone there... But when I opened Heaven's gate there wasn't anyone there...

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released December 24, 2010

Author: Illiad the Oddyssey

Vocalist: Agni Ra

Instrumentalist: Brandon Hardy

Album Art by: Brandon Hardy

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