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Lux
06:59
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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
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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
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3. |
Dawn of Regret
05:30
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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
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4. |
Juxtapositions
02:37
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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
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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
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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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