I see you sit
And swallow pain
For all of those
Who will not speak
You raise your voice
You fill the stage
Your eyes are wide
You know the weakness
That you've felt
Is not just yours
So many more
You're not alone
The song you sing is not your own
You fill the room with something real
Youve never had it so you hesitate to try and find it
You listen carefully for whispers of what lurks behind it
You play the corners
Never get too close to where it might be
Waiting for you
Never had it
Keep on wanting something more
Keep hiding the hope and than the pain is not yours
No ones holding a rope gotta pull up on your own.
All the songs have been sung
And all the doors have be closed
Keep on wanting more.
I watch you wander through these halls
You slouch you shrug you shrink away
I call you stop you blink you pause
You wander who
You think the day
Will never end
But when it does
You stay until the building's dark
You're on the bus
The doors are locked
You looked inside
But did not touch
Youve never had it
But you know how to provide it so you
Stand up and call for it
Nervous describing what you go through
You dont wanna get caught up in all the
Things they say to try to provoke you
Dont need anyone to tell you
Born in the flood, bloody finger-paint sets
Black marketed fresh water canons, forget me not
Epitaph, airbrush with death
White T's, wife beaters, button up, reattach flesh
In between the lines, outside of the law
Underneath the veil we dig our foundations
We navigate the globe trying to find a pattern to break the mold
With a family to feed there?s nowhere we won?t go
But what if were caught?
They said I?m a snitch
Shot at the check point
Found with his throat slit
There?s spray paint on the teleprompter
(But what if were caught?)
Anchorman screams that he?s seen a monster
(They said I?m a snitch)
Mayday, there?s bloodstains on his shirt
(Shot at the check point)
Mayday, they say that he?s gone berserk
Sometimes, when I wanna shut out this world
Wanna rip up this page
Wanna pour out this heart
Wanna get up on this stage
And my lips become percussion
And my fists become the rage
And I pound on this table
Till it gives me something to say
Then I think about things
That I?ve seen right in front of me
That I don?t wanna believe
Gimme one of these mikes
Let me let ?em know the way that it is
Is not how it?s gonna be
Not if we don?t let ?em get ahead of us
The present tensions, no threat
It?s just a fence across the path
That we're already ready to walk
Rock solid footsteps, let ?em put up obstacles
And prove that it isn?t possible, fuck that
We don?t give ?em any weight
True liberty and freedoms at stake
Peace will never become passé
Live my life until my last day
It was half-past eight in the bat cave
When the cracks in the plaster collapsed
And gave way to gaps in the pavement
Mayday, mayday
Put it on blast
For the passengers and messengers
?Cause this is a disaster
Where the fuck are the rescue workers?
Not far off, pissing on a cop car
In the hall with a Pop-Tart
Sipping liquor in the rock bar
Everyone climb to the frontline, lunchtime?s canceled
All hands on deck to pull, survivors from the landfill
Onlookers, passers-by brush off your shoulders
Shake off that rubble
Break free from your standstill
Signs of a better world, causes we understand
Failures we expected to occur
And bring redemption for our sins
(In between the lines, outside of the law)
Safety from the crowds in the shadows on the run
(Underneath the veil)
We write our own Cider House Rules
To keep alive rituals that prove their worth
Search for systems we can trust
Rhythms we can lock into
This is madness, salvage teams can't bandage
Hope, when it?s damaged or broken compassion
Not enough rope in the van
When world is collapsing, our mode of action
Broadcast through the glass, all we can manage
Donate with the plastic scraps from the salad
Hoping to balance, emotions invalidated
And staged on 4:3 aspects
Just ballast for sadness, lives shattered
Are standard fare for cameras and channels stare
No abracadabras, no faster answers or mantras for disasters
Remastered or plastered, we got it all backwards
Do you know the faction you're backing?
It?s another man down, another mother gone
Child drowned, another silenced song
Solitude, another kind of strong
I miss you, another strung along
Missing in action
Another page is blackened burned
Turned, ashes to ashes
Dust off the flags and the caskets
We'll never find another you
Despite the life of love we knew
These lightning times are trouble
Who can?t count the strikes that punished through?
The bonds we thought would never break
And never will and never change and never fade
But there?s the rage
Of losing you to their mistakes
In between the lines
(Signs of a the next movement)
Refuge from the crowd
(Outside of the law)
Causes we understand
Hands that trace instructions
For descendants in the shadows on the run
(Underneath the veil)
Failures we expected to occur
And bring redemption for our sins
(In between the lines)
In between the lines
In between the lines, outside of the law
Underneath the veil
In between the lines, outside of the law
Underneath the veil
In between the lines, outside of the law
Underneath the veil
(We carve our foundations)
In between the lines, outside of the law
Stand up, we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up, we shall not be moved
Except by a woman dyin? from the loss of food
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
We still don't understand thunder and lightnin?
Flashback to when we didn't fund the dam
Didn't fund the damn levee? No wonder man
Now, our whole damn city's torn asunder man
Under water but we still don't understand
We see hurricane spills over on the land
Through gaps you couldn't fill with a 100 tons of sand
No, we still don't understand
We've seen planes in the windows of buildings crumbled in
We've seen flames send the chills through London
And we've sent planes to kill them and some of them are children
But still we crumblin? the buildin?
Underfunded but we still don't understand
Under God but we kill like the son of Sam
But if you feel like I feel like about the Son of Man
We will overcome
So stand up, we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up, we shall not be moved
Except by a woman dyin? from the loss of food
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
Except by a woman dyin? from the loss of food
Except by a freedom fighter bleedin? on a cross for you
We shall not be moved
Except by a system that?s rotten through
Neglectin? the victims and orderin? the cops to shoot
High treason, now we, need to prosecute
So Stand up, we shall not be moved
And we won?t fight a war for fossil fuel
It's times like this that you want to plot a coo
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up, we shall not be moved
Unless we're takin? a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up
Now shake, shake, a Polaroid dream
Nightmare negatives develop on the screen
We sit back and wait for the government team
Criticize they but who the fuck are we?
The people want peace but the leaders want war
Our neighbors don't speak, peek through the front door
House representatives preach, ?Stay the course?
Time for a leap of faith once more
Put your hands up high if you haven't imagined
Hope that the pen strokes stronger than the cannon
Balls to the wall, nose to the grindstone
My interrogation techniques leave your mind blown
Place your bets, let?s speak to the enemy
Don't let ?em pretend that we seek blood
And who's we anyways, Kemo Sabe?
Mighty warlord, wannabe street thug
A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified
Blow for blow never settles the score
Word for word is time, need, clarify
We the people did not want war
So stand up, we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up, we shall not be moved
Unless were takin? a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Somewhere between prayer and revolution
Between Jesus and Huey P. Newton
That's where you find Jonny 5 shoot shootin
Water guns at the audience while ya scootin'
Your gluteous max due to the fact that I'm tootin'
On the horn gonna warn you that I'm rootin'
For the other team in the culture wars
So I stab the beast belly while the vulture roars
YO JOE!
Let it blow with convulsive force
Til walls fall off their false supports
Til Jericho's aircraft carriers alter course
And all brave young Americans are called ashore
Cause we've already lost the war they keep wagin
Splattering the streets in battles that keep ragin
Bloodyin each page of the story that we're studying
Each day the same just the names keep changin
Saying the same things over again
Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been
We've been all over the globe on our government's funds
Leavin man woman and child dead bloody and numb
saying the same things over again
Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been
We've been overthrowing leaders with legitimate views
Democratically elected but we didn't approve....
How many times can the line divide
How many wars to uphold some pride
Fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide
Of blood in the streets while the people die
Ima keep on tryin
Longs as suffering's multiplyin
And why not
Souls get tossed and left out to rot
My backs broad enough to help left your cross
As long as you help with mine
The process of healing will take some time
To see the pain on your face is the same as mine
Not a game or a race but the stake is high
We maintain our mistakes for the sake of sides
As long as it takes I"ll say it one more time
As long as it takes I'll say it one more time
As long as it takes I'll say it one more time
We need money for healthcare and public welfare
Free mumia and Leonard peltier
Human needs not corporate greed
Drop the debt and legalize weed
We say yes to grassroots organization
No to neoliberal globalization
Bring the troops back to the USA
And shut down guantanamo Bay
The same things over again
My throat's so sore from shoutin no war for the soldiers again
Lookin for cloud cover when the explosions begin
Lookin the crowd over wonder if you where we've been
We've been all over the globe Iran to Nicaragua
Guatamala Angola grenada
Dominican republic Haiti chile
It don't stop and it won't stop unless we keep say
Who let'em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz
Who let'em overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq
Who let'em assassinate Salvador Allende
I didn't let them but they did it anyway
Who let'em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah
Who let'em overthrow Aristide
Who let'em assassinate Oscar Romero
I didn't let'em but they did indeed!
Don't let them assassinate Hugo Chavez
Don't let them assassinate Evo Morales
Bring back Martin, Malcolm, Medgar,
What I?ve realized since is
That it is a very painful process
But it is not destructive
It?s the world deliberation
That what really happened in the '60s
Was that this country took just the first step
Toward admittin? that it had been wrong on race
And creativity burst out in all directions
From the color of the faces in Sunday songs
To the hatred they raised all the youngsters on
Once upon a time in this country, long ago
She knew there was somethin? wrong
Because the song said yellow, red, black, and white
Everyone precious in the path of Christ
But what about the daughter of the woman cleanin? their house
Wasn?t she a child they were singin? about?
And if Jesus loves us black and white skin
Why didn't her white mother invite them in?
When did it become a room for no blacks to step in?
How did she already know not to ask the question?
Left lastin? impressions
Adolescence?s comforts gone
She never thought things would ever change
But she always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
Years later she found herself Mississippi bound
To help stop the legalized lynchin? of Mr. Willie McGee
But they couldn?t stop it, so, they thought
That they?d talk to the governor about what happened and say
?Were tired of bein? used as an excuse to kill black men?
But the cops wouldn?t let ?em past
And these women they struck ?em as uppity
So, they hauled ?em all off to jail
And they called it protective custody
Then from her cell she heard her jailers grumblin? about outsiders
When she called him out and said she was from the South
They shouted, ?Why is a nice Southern lady
Makin? trouble for the governor??
She said, ?I guess I'm not your type of lady
And I guess I'm not your type of Southerner
But before you call me traitor, well, it?s plainest just to say
I was a child in Mississippi but I'm ashamed of it today?
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
And all of a sudden I realized that I was on the other side
Imagine the world that you?re standin? within
All of your neighbors and family friends
How would you cope facin? the fact
The flesh on their hands was tainted with sin?
She faced this every day
In people she saw on a regular basis
People she loved in several cases
People she knew were incredibly racist
It was painful but she never stopped lovin? them
Never stopped callin? their names
And she never stopped bein? a Southern woman
And she never stopped fightin? for change
And she saw that her struggle was in the tradition
Of ancestors never aware of her
It continues today, the soul of a Southerner
Born of the other America
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
She always knew there was somethin? wrong
What you win in the immediate battles is
Is little compared to the effort you put into it
But if you see that as a part
Of this total movement to build a new world
You know what cathedral you're buildin?
When you put your stone in
You do have a choice
You don't have to be a part of the world of the lynchers
You can join the other America
Echo echo one-nine
Hear the call through fault lines
Smoke signals, old rhymes
Shorted lights in store signs
Spelled in a broken code
Find that it is time to
Breath, build, bend, and refine you
We sky tenants
Give it all but wont give up
Radio soul antennas
Radio to lift spirits
Call sign commando
M.o. is independence
Scream till the walls fall,
Dissolve all the limits
Occupied minds
Unemployed skills
Desolation
Worn out
Torn down
Just for now thrill seekers
Slanging
Test tube babies in beakers
Where gun blasts pump straight from the speakers
The system where the
Poor get poorly paid
To hold the ladder
Where the rich get ricocheted
Into the stratosphere
And in between people are rushin' like vladimir
With metals to make their status clear
Get us out of here
We need heroes
Build them
Don't put your fist up
Fill them
Fight with our hopes and our hearts and our hands
We're the architects of our last stand
There's a war going on for your mind
Those who seek to occupy it will stop at nothing
The battlefield is everywhere
There is no sanctuary
There are no civilians
You have two choices
Surrender or enlist
What kind of person are you
Always the first to argue
Or never down to stick your neck out
Cause it hurts you far too much
To see your rep suffer
Set you up a buffer
Well neither is enough for us cut from a tougher brand of duct tape
The propaganda's stuck on us like sock pajamas
Spread like a virus
Through accepted thoughts and proper manners
But off the cameras
Somethings simmering across the land
About to bubble up
And knock the lids off of the pots and pans
We are non stop juggernauts
Stomp ziggurats
Spit manifestos
By terabytes and gigawatts
Shock paradigms
Give sense to a score
Throw thoughts through the sky
Activate twenty more
In these high and dry times
Expectorate on dogma
Pragmatic sycophants
Divide and conquer
We build bridges offer
Hard work and prosper
As hand made heroes brought to you by no sponsors
We need heroes
Build them
Don't put your fist up
Fill them
Fight with our hopes and our hearts and our hands
We're the architects of our last stand
All free minds to the front
All free minds to the front
We call upon women
We call upon children
We call upon the handicapped
The infirmed
The weak of heart
We need your courage
Your dedication
Your passion
Your conviction
Gather up your platinum
Melt it down
Gather up your gold
Melt it down
Gather up your silver
Your bronze
Your aluminum
Melt it down
Melt it down
No known beat that can keep me lonely
Combat to get you to bomb back
I know how to rip a mic different
I grip it like so
Tight like a kryptonite with a bike pole
Sparks from my lips ignite liquid nitro
No telling if it might blow
The environments' gotta be hotter
Than solder beside the iron
Zinc vitamins
Hide'em inside when i'm writing the rhymes
It's hard to keep property guarded
Because of these pirates
And i motivate
No debate
We're takin it over
Make no mistake
Youre fake and there's no escape
Cuz you got caught
Frozen waitin for the crosswalk
I can take it to another level
Where the bass is above the treble
And your face is in double
Evasiveness doesnt settle it
A place and a space
Where theres nothing to meddle with
Lyrical combat to get you to bomb back
Blonde, black, lets get beyond that
Sing songs that attack with strong raps
3 2 1 contact
Sans paddle we swim the long laps
Swans flap to get the pond packed
Want sass kiss my moms ass
Wrong tact convict you en mass
Take it back like linda ronstadt
Or luke sky with a twisted long hat
Ton ton fat subsisting on that
Tom tom high hat
Insist upon that
Listen to jon rap
This is combat
To get you to bomb back
Two fisted contact to
Get the pond packed
Cause I'm on some shit that exists beyond that
Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after school program.
A religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project.
A group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son.
An adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples fully clothed an smiling.
A record executive records a demo of his apology.
A policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets.
A patriarch reports for duty.
She's wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign.
She's ashamed of her birthplace, but retreat is not an option.
Women and Children
Front line
Log on
Tune in
Stand and be counted, wounded, stationed
In the belly of the vulture watch your back
Theres no civilians
Women, Children
Front line listen
Consider this a distant early warning
The fires imminent
Pollution gathering dust particles
Funneling through smokestacks, airways, bandwidth
This information tube fed
Check the labels
Delete the virus
Alert the masses.
Butterfly wing cross wings. send black hawks toward hurricane survivors.
Roses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks.
Pacifist gorillas move undetected through concrete jungles.
New forms are beginning to take shape.
Once occupied minds are activating.
People are waking up!
The insurgency is alive and well.
Rise of the flobots
Portrait of
The new American insurgent
Rattle and shake the foundations of the world order
Assembly line incent, resist, refuse
Inform, create
Direct loved one's to the trenches
Suit up forge rubble into fortress's
Plaster, cloth, aluminum
Broken porcelain
Rusted platinum
Burn blood stains from decompressed diamonds
Hammer the battle cry into braille studded armor.
We are building up a new world.
Do not sit idly by.
Do not remain neutral.
Do not rely on this broadcast alone.
We are only as strong as our signal.
There is a war going on for your mind.
If you are thinking, you are winning.
Resistance is victory.
Defeat is impossible.
Your weapons are already in hand.
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom.
Fight with tools.
Your fate, and that of everyone you know
We request to negotiate
We come to you unarmed
We desire to communicate
You can not do us no harm
They want sacrifice
They had schemes and asked me to follow their path to the after life
I've got an apetite
For nice things and pipe dreams
And my enemies could be blastified
Who better for
Views that are better for
You can't survive and find your competitor
Rise together or fight seperate wars
I pray I'm never forced to be a predator
Forced to spectate we wont last
They glad to hate when gladiators breath their last
Scream on mass when the dreams do clash
Like swords in the war , let me bleed on that
But they feed on that , so we need strong backs
Crawler's weakened or redeemed contracts
But the speech wont last when the beast attacks
The sons and the fathers will be free at last
This is love , It's not treason
This is love , It's not treason
This is love , It's not treason
This is love , It's not treason
This is "LOVE "
They see sharks in the estuary
They claim they are as Bartholomews
They say war is necessary
But we say war is child abuse
We'd rather make our children
" We request to negotiate "
Martyrs then Murderers
" We come to you unarmed "
We rather make our children
" We desire to communicate "
WHITE FLAG WARRIORS
Take call to the one's we been waiting for
We hold steady
Steady at the stepadel
Notary is a matter
Doesn't matter
So i give a war
But give the death to settle scores
Test the metal either or
Whats your plan got to do with me
If the bell tolls , let freedom ring
And find the new way , since we must be kings
Instead of leading the young to our suffering
Huh, The past test'em is done scream back in heaven
Protest in us like wednesday's at eleven
Want to recruit and train us to act evilly
save it for the shooting range
Smack dvd's
So study war no more this millennium
It's never again for me or anyone
So think harder when you refer to us
Rather make our children Martyrs then Muderers
This is love , This is not treason
This is love , This is not treason
This is love , This is not treason
This is love , This is not treason
This is "LOVE "
They shell dwellings to quell the shellings
They lift taboos to seduce the cowards
They say we're to yellowbellied
But we say were the new SUPER POWER
We'd rather make our children
" We request to negotiate "
Martyrs then Murderers
" We come to you unarmed "
We'd rather make our children
" We desire to communicate "
WHITE FLAG WARRIORS
" You can not do us harm "
This is love
We seek waivers to not be liable
We claim to speak for a higher truth
We stand opposed to the homicidal
We tell you you're fireproof
We'd rather make our children
" We request to negotiate "
Martyrs then Murderers
" We come to you unarmed "
We'd rather make our children
" We desire to communicate "
WHITE FLAG,FLAG,FLAG,FLAG,FLAG,FLAG
WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!
We'd rather make our children
We'd rather make our children
WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!
-----( Whispers)----
-Give to us your courage, ask us what you will
Demand from us a sacrifice
But do not make us to kill
We rather make our children
Strange fruit I roll up in my ford taurus
Emissions I wont pass like Gandalf at Moria
Way out of order
Sedan with four doors
Pull out garage and lost side view mirror
My credit card final fantasy breaks the limit
I just paid just brakes to break my lemon
Wont make enough juice for my pessimism
So I’m not for given ’till my debts forgiven
Skim off the top
Convertible roofs
Thinking spanish
Green sounds like the truth
Got it on lock jaw to the tip o’ the tooth
Way I floss no dental insurance to boot
But my chain hangs low, I could double dutch
Keep my eyes to the floor so don’t stumble much
I shine at night from all the carrots
‘Cause it’s not who you are but who you’re wearing
Stay sportin lashes from the old massa’s
Clasps on the neck says
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper
collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it's raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in Nascar
chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages
and bleed mascara into the holy water
supplies
There's a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate
crack heads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say "Stop Snitching"
Conscious rappers and whistle blowers get stitches made
of acupuncture needles and marionette
strings
There is a war going on for your mind
Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to
believe them
The desert sky is their blue screen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
"Pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses"
There's a war going on for your mind
3-2-1 liftoff jetpack shoot into space
Represent the dot til' were blue in the face
Fre-fre-fresher than toothpaste
You know how we do in the place
The crowd accumulates when he's tuning the bass
The fiddle and guitar are removed from the case
You know its Kenny O when it booms and shakes
You know its our music by the movement it makes
The crowd that it draws
The yearning you get
To prove what it takes
Move
Throw your body on the dance floor
Whether you're beginner or advanced or
Whatever you're doing it's okay like this
So everyone do it your own way like this
Move
Like the dude from chappelle's show
Let it rip like velcro
We spit non-typical flows like this
Mile hi gh city and it goes like this
Like this
Like this
3,2,1,4,5,6,
No telling where the beat might hit
This is out of hand like buster bluth
Leave you sounding like rusted root
Bots out your mouth like a busted tooth
Attention we paying who
Exempt artax like atreyu dude
Staying smooth venue we playing move
When you hear the rabbit saying to
Let five explain it to you
Turn to the next page when I say and
Follow along like A to the B to the C
The 7 piece band you gotta see to believe
Make ya jump around like you needed to pee
Make noise if you wanted me to proceed
Scream like chewbacca off ya rocka
Drink a little vodka link iraq osama democracy
Barack obama arabic for withdraw from vietnam
And it dont stop
Dont quit
So slick
Move
Throw your body on the dance floor
Whether you're beginner or advanced or
Whatever you're doing it's okay like this
So everyone do it your own way like this
Move
Sweat
Get your pants warm
Kee kor keerr kahh
Transform
Wiggle and shake to this song like this
Mile high city and it's on like this
1 2 3 4 5 6
Who's ready for some more hype shit
This is rap's last stop like castle rock
The bots blast off like an astronaut
I suppose we came to get started
Throw them bows like some angry archers
Our delivery's pedigree headed for the charts soon
Hit you in the heart like a harpoon
Like the chambers of the wu tang clan
Flobots got that method man
Wanna hang with the orangutans?
Mass appeal massive bananas in hand
Kenny o got the master plan
To move your body like an ampersand
This rhythm section'll rattle the stands
Rip sheets like we battled the clan
Average bands traffic the median
We stay in the lane we're superman
Move
Throw your body on the dance floor
Whether you're beginner or advanced or
Whatever you're doing it's okay like this
So everyone do it your own way like this
Move
Give it to you unprotected
Cause the rhythm is the method
Are you ready to get loud
Mile high city spell it out
Ive been
Traveling the land from gravel into sand
Not knowin where Im going never havin any plans
Anything I wanted had to grab it in advance
Abracadabra theres a rabbit in my hands cause
Ive got the magic stick bust the baddest tricks
Fished for a whale brought a ship up out of it
Whats that I just saw? A platypus? Naw.
Maybe its a rat crawling flat on his paws
or a baby dragon just dragon his claws
It doesnt really matter
because its Saturday,
so look thataway
30 clock matinee,
lets collaborate
and Ill pay you back soon
with a crazy rap tune.
But for now were just gazing at the moon
Wander and ponder the pale blue yonder
To infinite and beyond the city
Beyond the city we all want to see serenity
But some times youve gotta walk the fence to see
That all sidewalks must end eventually
I lay still like a sea anemone
Brainwaves chill at the bottom of the sea
Sentient entity
Let the spirit enter me
Patient, pervasive, how I was meant to be
A stone worn smooth by the swift currents of chaos
A place to lay a smooth array of lush moss
Im parlaying on my day off
floating way off on my thought balloons and snacking on macaroons
It’s the F-L-O-B-O-T-S
What did you expect?
You wanted us to move you right to left
Live and direct…
Butterfly wing flap whole thing change
One look two different book same page
Front on the range but the beat’s contage
Stuck to your feet for 3, 4 days
It’s real too real like film projectors
Bend the letters
To find the nectar
It is effective
It will protect ya
From them spectres
Don’t let ‘em get ya
How’d they escape the rat race?
How’d he make that sound with that bass?
The roof is ablaze so break the glass case
Song so big affect the tax base
Don’t drink the potion
Split the ocean
Holy moses
Pharaoh’s forces
Let my people go with purpose
Turn the tide with forward motion
How does it feel to unglue?
Where do you think we’ve come to?
What does it take to follow through?
Who is it making you move?
Heavens to murgatroyd
The situations purgatory
Brer Rabbit’s stories
Burn categories
The allegory is Adam’s story
On the eve of something glorious
Us against them
Won’t bust the system
But trust the pistons
The engines misspent
Our thrust is intense
Combustive intent
Boom Jonny 5 better yet Juan Cinco
Rhetoric rep for my Colorado lingo
Whatever preterit’s wet by my ink flow
Is spelled out B4 (Bingo!)
Get it?
Because I Never Get Outwitted
Bold-faced type all capped like a fitted
Make ya move even if you’re arthritic
Something that you thought I wouldn’t do, I did it!
How does it feel to unglue?
Where do you think we’ve come to?
What does it take to follow through?
Who is it making you move?
It’s the F-L-O-B-O-T-S
What did you expect?
You wanted us to move you right to left
Live and direct…
It’s a quilombo!
With Kenny O on the drum roll
We rocket like Dikembe Mutombo
Djembe to bongo to MPC
We unload and win MVP
So let’s be old fashioned
Put the beat on blast
And leave a lil’ something like a geocache
And if anybody wanna smurf wif me
We can take this to the nursery
Like hickory dickory rhyme so slippery
This emcee that emcee
Wish they could switch currencies like a battery
Disbelieve flattery
Realistically it can just be a smattering
To sit and watch the needle peak with Mario C
Reppin CO and 303
Speak up girl even if it’s what’s they’re against
We believed in love, when love wasn't an option
She wanted to give birth, I wanted adoption
After days and days of conversation, we decided to go with fertilization
Then came baby showers and lamaze classes, 2am phone calls, one minute contractions
But then they wisked me away like Brigadoon, no domestic partners in the delivery room
But if I was a superhero I would break free
Wouldn't need anyone to come and save me
And you couldn't make me, feel like I'm crazy
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
And if I was a superhero I would break free
And I wouldn't be in prison wherever you take me
I would change everyone that's trying to change me
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
Life in an occupied land is hard, we pushed harder
Soon to be a mom, him to be a father
Boys with guns at the checkpoint and brothel
Wouldn't let me pass when I said I need a doctor
I don't know the source of the passport errors
Or how four hours produced a miscarriage
But when it comes to populations too disparaged
Gaza's on the list, right below gay marriage
But if I was a superhero I would break free
Wouldn't need anyone to come and save me
And you couldn't make me, feel like I'm crazy
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
And if I was a superhero I would break free
And I wouldn't be in prison wherever you take me
I would change everyone who's trying to change me
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
There's something on my heart, there's someone on my mind
I never would have thought that I could be so angry,
but please give me the patience, please give me the patience
There's something on my heart, there's someone on my mind
I never would have thought that I could be so angry,
but please give me the patience, please give me the patience
But if I was a superhero I would break free
Wouldn't need anyone to come and save me
And you couldn't make me, feel like I'm crazy
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
Yeah if I was a superhero I would break free
And I wouldn't be in prison wherever you take me
I would change everyone who's trying to change me
I would see my baby, I would see my baby
Yeah if I was a superhero I would break free
And I wouldn't be in prison wherever you take me
I would change everyone who's trying to change me
[Chorus:]
Something grown together
An agreement
Whether or no the weather is hot or freezing
Until the day of bereavement
Something known forever
A convergence
Of lifelines and lifetimes full of wonderings and longings and searchings
Commitment and devotion
An adventure
A kiss to span the oceans when in sickness when healthy tired or injured
Energy and passion
An investment
Entering onto a path intertwined laughing crying and learning lifelong lessons
Something grown together
Something grown together
Something grown together
Like branches of a banyan tree
Deeply rooted in family
Giving life to a canopy
Much more than a crush more than a brush with where happenstance is standing
Compatible hearts like raggedy anne and andy
Bump bump
Bump bump
But the beat changes up when he sees her
Takkity takkity taka taka taka taka
Takity takity-
Can't believe the rhythm is so in sync
And that isn't there only strength
They were humming a tune
The sun and the moon
They didn't know what to think
But they were pleased to see these two young souls become mates
To provide light for a song that was sung right in one take
Because there's no need to rehearse when you and your partner get in the zone
And you can't memorize words you've always known
Hey, yeah, hey
This is more than an idea
Singing oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Show me all of who you are
Singing oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
A voice from the wilderness destroy the Port-au-Prince
Building a lunar from the basic ingredients
Immediate response in reaction to the chemicals
Screening potassium, that tracks into the tennis shoes
Good academics trapped in academies
Who don't produce movement, or produce strategies
Move into the datastream, picture this, we had a feel
Build a resistance to opiates and imbeciles
I hate to take a side, I gotta take a side
Well it's time to take a side, stand up for what is right
Or should I say left, cause that's usually where I find myself
Aligned for the future that we're trying for
Spoken on my signboard, look across the line
You're tired, you're scared, you're working overtime
More fatigue, price Lord, another giant's born
Midwife got the... crying for
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Singing Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
How the west was,
How the west is
Show 'em how the west is
One for my dreams
Two for my doubts,
Three for the people that have been left out
Four for the love that can save us
Five for the names on the graves, Troy Davis
Six for the pain
Seven for the Watience
Eight for the strains of the tough conversations
Nine for the kids in the front lawn racing to
Ten the joy that can never be taken
For all the life that was taken,
The times I've mistaken, the sides that I've taken
And the life that I'm making
The mystic frustrations, the top of that patience
Follows while bottles play faith
With a flash-cold harpoon-like tool
It still didn't show-up
When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold-up
Above the other... it
The reason why we're fighting
With the meeting of...
I can't tell you where to go
Singing Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You are never on your own
Singing Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You'll live on when we are gone
So much pain
We don?t know how to be but angry
Feel infected like we?ve got gangrene
Please don?t let anybody try to change me
Me, just me, in the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces, some laugh, some salivate
What?s in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases?
It?s not equal, it?s not fair
We?re different people but we're not scared
We ain?t never scared to pave a new path
Make a new street, build a new bridge
Say, can you see by the dawns early light?
Free slaves running, songs words weren?t right
Now, a new days coming
The few stay stunning while the many are handsome
Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom
The bass drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats
Of our granddaughters and grandsons
Rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream, universities
Or you and I verse the tees?
React, automatic and we burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency, amber to red like the turning leaves
Oh please, let the hurting cease
Don?t let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that were marked for us
The answer's obvious, we switch the consonants
And change the sword to words and lift continents
Rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
Together we rise, together we rise
If you believe in redemption
(Rise, rise)
I?m calling to you from another dimension
(Rise, rise)
If you believe in redemption
(Rise, rise)
I?m calling to you from another dimension
(Rise, rise)
If you believe in redemption
(Rise, rise)
I?m calling to you from another dimension
(Rise, rise)
If you believe in redemption
(Rise, rise)
I?m calling to you from another dimension
(Rise, rise)
In my mind I hold the passion, panacea for the poison
My bruised and battered body washes up upon the shore
Send fleas from leaking wounds like rats from sinking ships
As I float off to forever with these words upon my lips
No I never asked for nothing and that's just what I got
As my pride does before I do as I follow muscle code
I wasted many days chasing brightly gleaming streams
As I fold into your presence, do I now know what it means
We could get old
And talk at the same time when we tell stories
If we let go
Impossible names rhyme in elegant poetry
What I sample in everything
It inundates my small town
I refuse the offers extended waiting for God
Now I never asked for nothing audible
So when the walls fall down and spin like water wheels
I'll pray for something logical
So when we all drown
I can cover bald spots with yamakas
Drawn from extra dimensional sources
Like in comic books
Choose your own adventure
I'm obsessing like a drug fiend
Fantasies of actors clandestinely having sex in love scenes
But why not amateurs openly sharing joy in sex scenes
Stand clear while I soak in this treasure trove of a wet dream
I can't tell what my problem is
Or even if there is one
Sail the celibacies much sooner than commit one
Escaping minor shake-ups but keep bracing for the big one
To make the choices obvious and save us from decisions
In my mind I hold the passion, panacea for the poison
My bruised and battered body washes up upon the shore
Send fleas from leaking wounds like rats from sinking ships
As I float off to forever with these words upon my lips
No I never asked for nothing and that's just what I got
As my pride does before I do as I follow muscle code
I wasted many days chasing brightly gleaming streams
As I fold into your presence, do I now know what it means
I dreamt of whimsy
In a fire fight with the in-the-line-of-fire flies
Watch the dusk go indigo and blush into a silent night
Birth immaculate conscious from a pregnant pause
In the August of my righteousness just waiting for the fall
The greater and the small, all for one and one for all
For all the S.O.S and we will rise to the call
I've bitten the hand that feeds and found myself bleeding here by
I'll only need what I need
But need will get me out of my groove
So I move to different tunes
Sunning in the warm weather
By the light of distant moons
There's tape men in the nation bring the monsoon
Season with the spectacle of people finding tools
Aphrodite, grown fools, and buyers sown booze
Let's throw out the cravings and things with no use
People dropping jewels, gems can't shine like odd light
To air is human, so the sky is our birth right
In my mind I hold the passion, panacea for the poison
My bruised and battered body washes up upon the shore
Send fleas from leaking wounds like rats from sinking ships
As I float off to forever with these words upon my lips
No I never asked for nothing and that's just what I got
As my pride does before I do as I follow muscle code
I wasted many days chasing brightly gleaming streams
As I fold into your presence, do I now know what it means
In my mind I hold the passion, panacea for the poison
My bruised and battered body washes up upon the shore
Send fleas from leaking wounds like rats from sinking ships
I just wanna say
Welcome to the part of the show
Where the base drum hits hard and slow
Your face becomes aware that Im starting to flow
And it sounds like a song that you already know
You might have heard it at 11th and Fillmore
A sort biggish building with a littlish a billboard but
Whats everybody staying still 4,
3,2,1 If youre happy, Gillmore
Then act like youre knowing it clap
And move like youre in a kayak and youre rowing it
And if you dont wanna clap then snap
Whatever floats your boat just go with it
Cause Im hoping thisll get you open
Its a bit of spoken word a little joking heard hear and there
Lemme clear the air
This is not a competitionLord, hear my prayer
So if anybody listening is feeling scared
We wanna make your spirit aware that
You are not alone
You are not alone
[Chorus:]
You are (you are) not alone
You dont have to do this on your own
One Love Agape One Love Agape
Solo(w) it can feel like were coming apart
Together were much more than the sum of our parts
One Love Agape One love Agape
Some of out parts are just about busting
Some of our parts are rusty but these
Lips voice sentiments begun in our hearts and
Heal wounds with the songs that are sung in the dark
So if youre feeling like a Pimp take a moment just to hold it off
My role model will not only brush ya shoulders off
But wash your feet, give his life as the soldiers watch
And forgive his torturers below the cross
So when youre slapped and youre told to fight back
And they taunt you over the phone to incite smack
Get back! Get back in the zone despite that
And rely on the strength that the bonified have
But if you act like you know me like that
Call me cheesy like macaroni I might snap snap
But only like that and get on the microphone and recite raps
[Chorus]
You are not alone
You dont have to do this on your own
You wont have to prove yourself to get through this
Dont have to lose yourself to this music
In fact you might find yourself
In a room full of strangers trying to help
In a flashback to the last time you felt
The presence of something divine well, this is
Hip-hop its not just for profit anymore never was
Its too easy to live your life waiting for change to arrive if it ever does
It will come from a source thats infinite, not from a middle man
You cant measure its force but youve got a sense of it, and its bigger than
Hip-hopits larger than life/death.much greater than us/them..
Everybody One love/agape
Lets get it poppin now
Obnoxious, never stoppin now
Nobody's got a shot cuz we lock it down we're
Not just a rock around the clock This'll drop you down
Notches
The proper noun's FLOBOTS
When we tic toc the hip hop
Get's toxic thought's drip drop lips spittin like a faucet
He goes for the shot! Jonny blocks it
Watch this as I lift off in Jonny's rockets.
So get off this topic and stop lickin off this plate
Synopsis we're takin it back
When the Flobots hit the stage it's a wrapand it goes
FLO (No W) BOTS yes
Unstoppable like a tropical disaster
Denver Colorado where the water boils faster
FLO (No W) BOTS yes
And the crowd start panickins
Cuz we don't know how to act like Anakin
Give me anything I'll improve it
Use it to make good music fuse it
Together with a click
From the bottom of a stick
Now we got another quick beat automatic hit
Feet step to the sound that I manufacture
The slickness that I make a
Plan to capture
Can I get a witness?
Till you slam and slap your wrists
Bringing down the house
Dammit that's the fifth time
That you had to get it
Scanned for fractures
Hospitalization
Rock the nation
Possible litigation against me
But don't tempt me
Jonny fee fi fo fum
Cuz he's liable to pummel all rivals
Leave you guys with no thumbs on the bible I swear!
Can't summarize what he's done
Twiddlers run
Chances of survival are little or none
Never play second fiddle
To some dumb chump that wants nothing but to giggle and spit,
Piddle and piss, get twisted and
Sip crys with little misses & mr. men
Sad mad strong bad double fisted when I fight foes I explode nitroglycerene
FLO (No W) BOTS yes
A little bit of this a little bit of that
We do it for the dot in the middle of the map
Guu pa
We got it covered
That's a wrap
Makin paper
Cuz we keep on rockin it
Something to count on like an abacus
We get down underground like a platypus
[Brer Rabbit:] Don't attempt this at home
[Jonny 5:] The flobots'll walk away from copycats
[Brer Rabbit:] We got what you kneed
[Jonny 5:] like opposing soccer players jocky straps
[Brer Rabbit:] bring your party ta life
[Jonny 5:] we freak cheek to cheek with greatness
[Brer Rabbit:] wrap lines around the world
[Jonny 5:] We frequently seem to be equators
[Brer Rabbit:] we deep beneath the vapors
[Jonny 5:] in an underground lab
[Brer Rabbit:] yup leakin secret papers
[Jonny 5:] through tunneled out magma
[Brer Rabbit:] butcha can't touch the
[Jonny 5:] style that we bust ya
[Brer Rabbit:] give other rappers the run around, tag
[Jonny 5:] we it,
[Brer Rabbit:] shot through ya'll drainers and piss pots
[Jonny 5:] We came here to rip shop
[Brer Rabbit:] when angered spit quickshots
[Jonny 5:] like namor swims swift knots
[Brer Rabbit:] Our bangers leave lips dropped
[Chorus:]
I will not bend
I will not bow
I will not break
I'll stand my ground
Won't be afraid
To sing out loud
To sing out loud
To sing out loud
The visions of what's involved
The tensions you must resolve
Distractions will just dissolve
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME
He's encountered a setback,
He isn't down to let that
Keep him on the ground. Press that
Button- ignite the jetpack!
Launch pad shrink disappear
Past the brink the
Atmosphere's thinning and his
Plasma's tingly
Planes appear to be birds and
Birds appear to be bees and
He's hearing the words that
Occur to him for no reason
"What are you living your life for
What are you willing to die for
What do you believe to be the grain of truth you can provide for
This grand adventure?
Is it your plan to spend your
Days batted about by
These random events?
Are you fueled by another engine
Lighting a fire beneath?
Have you breathed and seen your breath in the winds
And have you reached that point?"
[Chorus]
You only get to see this
Earth one time it's
Axis tilt's it
Changes climates
Plates shift weights and
Continents drift and
Draft twisted fates and
Monstrous frictions
Fragmentations stress and
Aggravation
Depression and confusion and
Bad relations use your
Imagination elude their
Categorization
Whether the crowd gives boos or
Congratulations the blue's just
Something you move through toward the
Vast expanses of space on the
Universal infinite
Path to emancipation the
Gravity of the planet
Grips you but don't abandon
Ship you feel the pressures in
Side can you withstand it?
[Chorus]
The heights you'll reach the
Depths you'll delve to
Depends on the propulsion
System that propels you
Methods that compel you
Messages they sell you
Punishments they give you
For doing what they tell you
But we've got passion
They've got prisons
You've got the freedom to
Make a decision
Will you abandon
All your addictions
Take your stand and
Live your convictions
What've you got to lose what've
You been taught to chose
What're you so hot to prove with your
Beautiful socks and shoes
The costumes' frayed cloth covers
Skin like a shroud
Exhaust fumes fade off in the wind
Like a cloud
Imagine
Rewind
Analyze quotations
I’d rally all quarters
Increase resistance
anticipation
Question intelligence rarely actionable
Quiz international relatives
Applicable quips interrupt radio accounts
Quiet
Initiate rounds
All qualified innocents report
Activate quickly increase rewards
Astonishing quantities, immediate resources (Affordable quality insurance)
Rapid assurances
Queries into relevance
Audiences quelled into red-bloodedness
Antiwar quibblings irk rowdy Americans quintessential ignorance
Rinsed airwaves
Que incredible
Right-wing allegiance
it’s really a quagmire
It rages
Annually
Quarterly
Innocents ricocheted
Accordingly queasiness infiltrates
Reforming attitudes
Quite interesting
Reactors absent
Quarantineidiotic reckless authorities
Quorum is reached
And quest isn’t really accomplished
Quadrennial intentions? Run, abscond quick
In response a quixotic insistence
Resolving all quandaries in ridiculousness
And quid pro quo influx reservists
Assignment: quash insurgents
Resurgence
Activists, Quakers instigate rallies
Advocating quitting instantly
Representatives apprehensive
quiescence ineffectual
Refugee accrual
Quicksand invites removal
Amputees quadruple
You play the field like a tractor
Scope for greener pastures
But you never have scored what you've never asked for
Met someone who made me glow
Passion was like crazy wo
Doted on another though , so of course i let her go
Oh no! my gentle recipes
Overloaded with Fenella leather-mine
If it keeps on this directemy
F*#* it thats gonna mean Vasectomy
And were the livin poor,set the table get the door
Wrestle naked hit the floor
But i don't seek that shit no more
Its different for me, try to tell myself a different story
This alpha male we count the tale " bullshit "can just destroy me
Cause what we say is what we seek,
What we seek is what we get
What we get is what we give
I can give you nothing less
" EXCEPT "
" INFATUATION " , take these words and turn them into lies
" INFATUATION " , turns the earth to fool that does not hear
" I I I I I I INFATUATION " , say she ain't , my every last desire
" INFATUATION " , is " just " the thing i want or the thing i need
He collects clips from magazines, found them full of hollow point
Mixes mehdia with the media they both consume the young.
The same old song gets sung, He wants to hang so he gets hung
He's chase'n father figures a real son of a gun
I don't copy to the coffini's
Carter quite don't make bail
Um'teen years for moving keys
Ironic he's locked up in jail
Outside he is idolized, my sister class and asked them boy'z they wanna be just like'em
Push more rocks then belts of asteroids
Better strapped the paranoid then , in the streets without a choice, to , peace of mind has been destroyed
But now you got a louder voice
Idols lie to idle minds that, i don't mind if got mine
If all are lies idealized then all our crimes are idolized , then
" INFATUATION " , take these words and turn them into lies
" INFATUATION " , turns the earth to fool that does not hear
" I I I I I I Infatuaion " , say she aint , my every last desire
" INFATUATION " , is " just " the thing i want or the thing i need
If this isn't love
Why does my heart hurt so baaaaaaaaaaaaad
You don't know why
You wanna be the man
You wanna be demanded by other people's hands
So how
you caught up in the tree's with the audience screams at the "Thought"
But you don't know why
You wanna be the man
You wanna be demanded by other people's hands
So how
You caught up in he's knee's
Make the audience please
Like a party in the trees
" INFATUATION " , take these words and turn them into lies
" INFATUATION " , turns the earth to fool that does not hear
" I I I I I I Infatuaion " , say she aint , my every last desire
" INFATUATION " , is " just " the thing i want or the thing i need
" Now everybody in the club stand still like a rubber-band filled with Government bills "
If I hadn’t been a quiet introspective kid
If I hadn’t been a nerd wouldn’t have met with him
If we hadn’t observed we be the best of friends
That preferred the spoken word to the toke and binge
If momma hadn’t died when I was young
Would me and sis have been so tight from jump
If dad had not lost his mind to a disease
Would I be up here askin ya’ll to notice me
In the dark times didn’t know where the path went
I was close to the edge like Grand Master Flash said
It was the hands of my friends who held me back
Without them I’d MJ keep slide’n backwards
Or be a hypocrite like some others have been
If that and the other hadn’t happened
I don’t know that I’d be Brer Rabbit
Askin how many ifs between hero and has-been?
If I had only known that I would be a lamb to the slaughter
now I know
If I hadn’t grown up in the 80’s
Experiencing the various things that made me
Would I still be standing center stage
Trying to innovate new ways to demonstrate
If mommy daddy hadn’t turned off Mork and Mindy
To inform us divorce was pending
Would him and me have spent these 23 years in a frenzy
Moving back and forth with such forceful energy
I remember when I was a little baby
Lying there alone on my pillow casing
Upset already I could feel the aging
The urge to return was debilitating
And maybe I’m still afraid and need to
Cry a little harder for the world of play things
Stop looking back on these silly day dreams
Sing along with me if you feel the same way
If I had known what awaited was unplanned
If I had known the blade was in a loved one’s hand
If I had known of the possible injury
If I had known the altar was meant for me
Now I know nobody can predict events
Now I know there’s cracks in the picket fence
Now I know that something else can exist
Now I know a life can be built from this
If I had known emotions would still remain
If I had known that time wouldn’t heal the pain
If I had known the intent of the injury
If I had known the altar wasn’t meant for me
Now I know there’s treasure hidden in these scars
Now I know there’s presence in an empty yard
Now I know what it took for me to survive
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars, no handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars, no handlebars
Look at me, look at me
Hands in the air like it's good to be
Alive and I'm a famous rapper
Even when the paths are all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud To Be An American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want, ?cause look
I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome, no metronome
And I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone, on the telephone
Look at me, look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
Alive in such a small world
I'm all curled up with a book to read
I can make money, open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine
Sixty four miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers, shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the system
I can do anything with no assistance
?Cause I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone, with a microphone
And I can split the atom of a molecule
Of a molecule, of a molecule
Look at me, look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be alive and on top
My reach is global, my tower secure
My cause is noble, my power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let 'em all die in exasperation
Have 'em all healed of their lacerations
Have 'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like 'em
And I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
Because I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite, by satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope, through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust, in a holocaust
In a holocaust, in a holocaust
In a holocaust!
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars, no handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars, no handlebars
[Chorus]
Today, You don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again.
Is it a scheme? Is it a Vision?
Is it a dream? Is it a nightmare?
Or is it a competition?
And if it is, what if we don't fight fair?
What's bald in the morning but in the evening has white hairs?
What's the cause of global warming and could it be these things right here?
I've got an idea that might not reach anyone for another light year
Got a hit list and a cloud of witnesses which is pricier
My tears are mightier than my fears
So mighty Earth provides me hurt that I keep buried until I convert it to writing
I was wounded
I was injured
I was made to move to Denver
I was taken through a new adventure
Paint stripped from it's first fixture
I was placed in another picture
I was rushed to a new landscape
And ripped away from family scraped into a politicians mistake
And what's left of talents in chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids has yet to be salvaged
A world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be all right if expressed today
[Chorus]
Am I a woman raised man-machine
Damaging everything I touch by not caring enough
Or too much
Am I far flung fantasy
Setting free enmity
And making friends from enemies
And bridges for the in-between's
For the highwayman on a low road
The tired back with a large load
The trials spanned till I found hope
And I found more
When I slo mo'ed
Enough of the back to face front
Let those in the pack of the race run
I'm needing an evener pace one too hasty
Makes mistakes
Can you carry a song
As strong as your arms can bear
That you keep from harm
And it will be there
When you go wrong
Make a heart from your bond
Your treasure is right here
And what's left of talents in chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids has yet to be salvaged
A world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be all right if expressed today
That was as far as the tide came in
I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then
We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon
And discovered ourselves living on an island
We flow like water across the lost city
Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti
In continents
Trade off for payoff
And high concepts then lost to chaos
Many tales radiate from one nexus
Defending a dream of a new directive
A call from the deep sums up a notion
The day when the people bum rushed the ocean
From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won't repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do
That which creates life has power to take it right back
Fucking with the icecaps
We've gotta push the tide back
We can survive collapse if we don't get sidetracked
If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms
Countries fall but people transition if one for all we live in that vision
Hundred dollar bill origami
Balloon inflation new world economy
We float on tsunami to global warming
We need structures to control what's coming
Corporate monopolies obsolete
The philosophy leaves us lost at sea
But from Marwar to Cochabamba
We are the warriors that won't get conquered
'Cause rising tides drown all villages
Divided fighters succumb to pillage
Rescuers whatever your latitude
It's time to pioneer a new world attitude
Put local cycles first we're Global Islanders with nothing left to plunder
From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won't repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do
(Alert the law alternate nations train in the streets
Act to limit all non-transparent industries so
We must defend Atlantis
Anchor the land and never transform into seas
Assets to liquify all netted toxic indices so
We must defend Atlantis)
For centuries human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis
Central to their teaching is that it's existence answers man's essential questions
Much like the feeding of the 5,000
Even if the facts aren't accurate the story's magic is alive
Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent
Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent
Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer
The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel _
Is this all that you hold
For a warriors role
The ground shakes
You claim my country not my soul
I fought I toiled, for the lost in the waves I will not tire
I die no slave
If the seas my grave
I sleep with my city
My people my oath
My shame my city is that
I cannot save my city
From waves that claim you
And curse the gods who can't explain
Who to blame
At the end of the reign
Heed me
The season passes Atlas
His keeps in the sediment
Failing monumentally
And leaving no monuments to see
Only sea to shining sea
(Assess the loss as new tidal inundations surface
Amidst the legions are now thousands in starfish
We must defend Atlantis
As the land acquiesces no tears in sympathy
Address the legacy and never treat it separately
Access telepathy last as neverending transcendency)
And survival hinged on an attempt by the humble
And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled
With nothing left to plunder corporations drowned
Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound
Forming a new nation now
As the icecaps melted water levels rose
We raised our hands together and made the levees hold
Heals in the sand we revealed the depths below
The population of starfish exploded from the ocean
Survival we unified to focus on
And the voices were many but we spoke as one
As the tale was retold we multiplied
And swelled across the faultlines to halt the tide
We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive
And from the barren wastelands of naked trash
We stitched together a shelter from fallen nation's flags
And chose to build a future from an ancient past
The crowns of thorns was worn we put the tritons down
We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground
The water level's rising, the water level's rising
Everyone alive sing: Who will turn the tide?
Bring about land grabs sand bags bring 'em out
It's hard to yell with the Atlantic in your mouth.
Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick,
Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick.
One becomes two becomes three becomes four
Our sound waves run your city like parkour
Provokin' encores but we know you want more
That's what we're doing this for.
Four becomes three becomes two becomes one
The metamorphosis cannot be undone
We burst forth from the land toward the sun
And transform, the advance has begun.
Like Mary J I'm obliged to hollerate and prophesy
Nostradamus on the topics often dropped on open mics
When both sides are vocalized the crowd spits the dopest lines
Efforts gain significance like overdrives of dopamine.
These narcissists forget to do their exercise, confused by what success implies
Name drop successive tries in drive thrus to get extra fries
By the time you get this message
I will be behind the wheel
Watching dotted yellow hexagrams stretch into the dark
Left hand surfing on iced tinged winds
Chewing up a cardboard box
Singing at lung top
One stop left ’til I meet you in the concourse
St. Louie encore
Do we have a shot?
Caught
No dwelling on the thought
Of what the hell we haven’t got
So I’m headed from the dot to the spot
Where your plane touches down
For a six hour layover
Don’t say a word
I found it on the map
Calculated it
Just a half a day to get from where you’re not to where you will be
My hair is filthy
I’m drinking coffee
I can barely feel the trace
From the only time you kissed me on the face
Question mark space
I know you’re with me underneath the starscape
Treadmill pick up our pace
Headstart on a jet in a car chase
Is this the part where my heart breaks
One asleep one awake
Back to back ‘cause you wouldn’t turn towards me
Had me battling fractals keeping track of all the chords we created
Sound clash of swords
Back and forth
Couldn’t poke through the sash
Slash through the plasterboard
You packing your passport
Me on a crash course to show you that I have the passion that you asked for
Flooring the gas trying a fast forward fifteen months
I’ll see you once the sun shines through the glass above the dashboard
The stars I see aren’t even there
It’s only light in the air
By the time you get this message I’ll be either on my second flight
Or already all the way to my destination
Ridiculous that I could honestly expect you waiting at the gate when I arrive
A sixteen hour drive
I’ve been feeling so silly going on now several months
As our obsession runs together
And whoever comes to have you I’ll be jealous of
And when above all else you put her I’ll know what it was to feel so needed
Sorta wish that I was more of a romantic and could give you back the utmost
But I’ve never seen it up close
From everything that I can tell there are several possibilities
Maybe we‘re in love really
Maybe it’s too early to really see
Maybe we’re just searching for something to hold onto amidst confusion and fragility
Maybe we’ve lost all sensibility
Will it be come our Splendor in the Grass
When the facts have asserted themselves
And the memories pass into poetry and words that retell
What only then can we be sure that we felt
Guess I prefer to be unhappy
Or weren’t you looking at me when my back became a wall
Searched for your reflection saw exactly what you saw
Two kinds of different skin
Two minds exist within
Trying to just transcend all space and time
And lift their chin and find some sense of purpose
Some sense of hope
Press my cheek against the window surface
We’ve been afloat
But now I’m nervous
Has this been a joke?
We’re landing and it’s time to close the envelope
Cowboys in a spaceship
The crowd noise is wasted
Women take pics so they can seem naked
Guys tell jokes so they can see ‘em naked
Church ladies vote what they perceive sacred
Proposition hatred
Phosphorous in riverbeds
Billion dollars spilled to fill esophagus with cigarettes
Philosophers plots to maul nations out of shock and awe
Generation of ideas
Children who won't talk at all
Profits fall
Chalk on walls
Years spent on prison cells
Next to die
Living hell
His twelve peers didn't exercise their privilege well
Babies raised through the glass
Bullets at the border war games take a stab
Coordinate who can pass like a paper bag
Minutes on an internet pornpage fornicate make her gag
What's the damage for the neighbor tagged by the amateur?
Water blast erase the trace of the canisters
Waterpath took the stairways left the banister
Washed over premises turned up percentages
Lost under sludge lots of revised sentences
Defense budgets padded by sandbags and sandwiches
Wasted
Drag this baggage
Hold this Damage
Cope the best that we can manage
Want solutions
Needs new standards
Cry our beauty from the ashes
To do list throw away mail go buy envelopes
Who's this coulda-been-Rhodes'-Scholar-centerfold
Every day's a resource to be sure
Its integral to rebirth from t-shirts to minerals
The ward's filthy
Search for another light in town
Nobody else home
Can't carry their same load
But I feel guilty like the flight went down
And my cell phone wasn't on airplane mode
Soy-based newsprint
Blackmarket foodstamps
Poison in the Pete moss
Suffocated beatbox
B-boys in detox
Corrugated cardboard
Lockheed lobbyists floor debating star wars
Yeast and fungi
Springtails ants and nematodes
Sawdust yellowcake
Organics decompose
Bokashi EM-inoculated wheat bran
Toxic compounds broken down under coffee ground
Ancient carcasses in the sphagnum lost and found
Empty cartridges from a magnum
Tossed into agricultural lime rockflour and seaweed meal
Bioremediate man-made molecules
Wasted
Ashes to eggshells
Woodchips to whiskers
Anything we can mess up we can fix up
Sword to plowshare
Soiled from beneath the trash
Detroit red into El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
Oildrum to steelpan
Prisoner to Gramsci
Rose from the concrete
Reverse the flows of the Ponzi schemes
Cripwalk to a conscious beat
Hip-hop is a compost heap
Gangsters to gardeners
Rivals into partners
Fanatics to reformers
Felons into farmers
Inmates to fathers of innercity scholars
Poptart to salad
Teens into college
Lawns into restaurants
Centerfold models to artists
Police abuse to catharsis
Street sergeants into peace departments
Thousand dollar bills to green for all markets
Backlots to blacktops and cashcrops for have nots
Metal into scrap shops
Jobs for the cast-offs
Crackspots into earthships for urban astronauts
Reservation into reservoir
Of wisdom we used to know
Use the whole animal
Landfill to future home
Pacifist guerrillas to bazooka zones
Black hawks to attics
C-130's to superdome
Newborns on computerphones
HANDLEBARS THE FLOBOTS !!!!!!!!!!!!
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:
I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule
Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
These songs won't write them selves and its going no where.
These words I see them some where
This path I walk by daylight
This bending corner is upon us don't know what to say by
May I may I take you forward?
I'm who you've always wanted
You don't know the order
Numbers I can make them plummet
I'm already at the summit
I already speak your language
You save yourself from anguish
I make myself a sandwich
I see the trickle of a brook over a fallen body
He wears the thistle we mistook him assault and robbery
So when they halt the bombing
Come meet me at the clearing
As results are coming we can see if practice matches theory
And then assess our losses and then we learn our lessons
Then we count the tragedies and triumphs and traumatic stressing
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back – Back
Cause these songs won't write them selves' and its going no where
When it's all worn off where do ya go
These songs don't write them selves' and it's going no where
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When it's all worn off where do ya go (When its all worn)
When it's all worn off where do ya go (worn off)
(When its all worn off)
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When its all worn off when its all worn (off)
When it's all worn off where do ya go
Where do ya go where do ya go
In the shadowed expanse between the distance of our hopes
I span from here to now with gossamer ropes
A broken bridge the only edge shakes with every passing step
We cannot repair all the things we have not kept
I've not wept enough in recent years to keep my eyes from drying up
I've slept enough in recent days to keep the flags of my dreams flying
The echoes of my empty heart are the closest things I have to screams
Fire at end and beginning so I fall to in-between
I wrought a treatise on busted guitar strings
Choked on cholesterol sentiments from aorta to arteries
With better aim then Artemis, gave key stone to arch enemies
Who swum in our midst like clown fish with sea anemones
Among death knells and threnodies and sex sells extremities
And health plans that promise better living through chemistry
I lost my identity, tossed to anonymity it's my apocalypse now
I'm saying now serenity
We didn't start the fire but provide the kindling
(When it's all worn off where do ya go)
We didn't start the fire but provided the kindling
(When it's all worn off where do ya go)
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When it's all worn off where do ya go (where do you go-oo)
When it's all worn off where do ya go(off)
When it's all worn off where do ya go
Meet me at the clearing
Now that the ons and offs of the bombs have stopped
Upon this common spot our common thoughts calm us
Costs promises lost comments draw us closer
Yes sir no sir pressures over
Open mouths for closure
Cry for how I lacked compassion
How I grasped your neck
You grasped for breath
I half confessed this
Friendship shell shocked
Made at the guillotine
Made at the crossroads
My trick is forgiveness
Fugue state I'm no philistine
You yelled stop I didn't hear you
Lovers leap from the mezzanine
Through hell hot on the path of gasoline
Know Christ know cross road block
Slick ice cold stop slow cries crowed
I denied you thrice I denied you that isn't right
Tried to cheat the game but had to decide
Played your turn ran out of your life
Boss codes at the crossroads
I'm glad you're alive
After my tongue licked clean and so clean
Traded the pain with numbness clean enough the pain is numb
I won't defend what I've done just could a been cleaner but I
Pray there's some kind of benefit from it prayed and wasn't mean enough
I would never do what I did my good meanings just
I would never do what I did made it worse what I did
Coulda been a good little boy i'm a coulda been cleaner left an
Big bad wolf wanna comeback kid abscess of indifference
Rags, wounds, incisions cold feet in a blizzard of indecision
War fatigues yes I wore fatigues
Fields cleanse made you hafta cleanse my bayonette
Til healed when it's all worn perform the surgery
When it's all worn off where do ya go
When it's all worn off where do ya go (off)
Strange fruit I roll up in my Ford Taurus
Emissions won't pass like Gandalf at Moria
Way out of order, should be pulled over
Pulled out garage, lost side-view mirror
Credit card, final fantasy breaks the limit
I just paid, just brakes to break my lemon
Didn't make enough juice for my pessimism
So I'm not forgiven 'til my debts forgiven
So I skim off the top, convertible roofs
Thinking Spanish green sounds like the truth
Got it on lock jaw to the tip of the tooth
Way I floss, no dental insurance to boot
But my chain hangs low, I could double-dutch
Keep my eyes to the floor so don't stumble much
I shine bright at night from all the carrots
'Cause it's not who you are but who you're wear
Stay sportin' lashes from the old Massa's
Clasps on the neck says, 'Property Of The Masses'
And what's under the chassis?
Block is gentrified while the governor's classic
Don't know who the boss is
Do I hold the power or am I powered like horses?
Whip is blowin' out my back like I'm exhausted
Pipes blowin' more fire than Pentecost
Who killed Jimmy Tidmore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either, or?
Who shows us what we need?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains
If there's no lock, who needs a key?
When did we stop being free?
I see things vis-a-vis a sea change
Full fathom, five people became
Remain deep beneath chains
We pay into easing these pains
'Cause the history is difficult
Wish the results could be flipped like reciprocals
Allow me to remunerate aloud the typical
Rude awakenings of the drowsy consumer base
Bass boom will make the crowd sing
Synchronize to the poop that they're espousing
And syncopate to the stupid, take a thousand
Sinning like every excuse they make is valid
Simon Williams, I, Wonder Man
Just how did our oil get under their sand?
And how did our homes get onto their land?
And how did our foes get guns in their hands?
Conflict diamonds, child labor tennis shoes
Genocide energy, gentrified gin and juice
Slave trade banks, rape-based internet movies
What's a straight-laced simpleton to do?
With a strange fate twist and fame
Except talk shit and name off a list of gains
But do you realize I'd find my lips in flames
If I ever took pride in these whips and chains?
Who killed Jimmy Tidmore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either, or?
Who shows us what we need?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains
Who holds these, who holds these
Who holds these traps and surfaces?
We want it, they own it
So we're going half-berserk for it
Well, let's take it, let's take it
Let's take it back before cassettes
Pepsi cans and packs of Percocet
1910, all the factory workers said
Yes, we can demand a weekend
If we can get the man to weaken
So if you're ready then send a beacon
To be continued and to begin
We can't be content to steep in
The anesthesia invisible hands
Of phantoms depend on
Your fantasies have been poisoned
But we've got the panacea
Who killed Jimmy Tidmore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either, or?
Who shows us what we need?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains
Who killed Jimmy Tidmore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either, or?
Who shows us what we need?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
[Verse 1]
It must have been a dream but it felt so real
Saw the wounds, heard the screams, thought about your last meal
How we ate like kings, how you led us all in grace
How nobody had forseen what would soon take place
And when everything went down
The silence you left was the strangest sound
Dangerous town but we all felt safe
Cause we knew that you slept with the angels now
Rumors keep coming in
A few thousand missing you just like me
People keep running into you
I've got a feeling that you might be alive
(Rata tat tat, bum bum bum bum
It's the sound of a gat and the sound of a drum
But whatever you attach to is what you become
One plus one, double horizontal line one)
[Hook]
This is not fair, this is not pure, this is not right
Trust me, when it's all over you will see the light
Live by the sword, die by the sword, but Jesus Christ
We shot that motherfucker right between the eyes
I offer these thoughts on loss and having
You're here but you're not, you're near but you're not
I offer these thoughts on loss and having
You're here but you're not, you're near but you're not
[Verse 2]
Staring at the safety sleeve
These tingling feelings just won't leave
I can't sleep, anxiety dreams
I need a repreive, I need caffeine
Set the stage, my lips don't seem,? missing piece?
Walking the streets, haunted by beats
Follow my lead by the loss that I bleed
Scream in the dark, but it's off key
Bow breaks in the powerful breeze
I hold my breath and the hours would freeze
'Til they tomorrows may bring
Squandered time didn't know you would leave
Part of me was lost in the sea
And the cost of these losses I found it in me
Replacing my friends?
[Hook]
This is not fair, this is not pure, this is not right
Trust me, when it's all over you will see the light
Live by the sword, die by the sword, but Jesus Christ
We shot that motherfucker right between the eyes
I offer these thoughts on loss and having
You're here but you're not, you're near but you're not
I offer these thoughts on loss and having
What the fuck is that?
Barreling towards our Metropolis
From the deep water in the likeness of Lochness
Knockin' its noggin like a hockey stick hocking spit
Meltin' down the top of this planet like chocolates
Lava rocks slosh in his esophagus like lozenges
For every drop that drips down somebody
With the awkwardest sounds
The prophet says the opposite
We've got to stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
Elevate like geysers and rise like helium
Together Colorado show 'em how the west is really one
I'll rap 'till my finger's numb and leave your toes tinglin'
For heaven on earth slash blue planet kingdom come
I'm Jonny 5 but I act like Wall-E 'till the trash is sorted
Into more practicaler forms like stacks of quarters
I am I b bee surviving colony collapse disorder
Stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
Aooooga, aooooga, booga, booga
Antichrist pulls up in a bad mini cooper
Fabulous doo and a vocab I woulda stayed in school for
Says he's overdue but was beach bummin' in Newport
So he says, what's new sport
I said, stoppin' you of course
He says, you have the better chance of slobbing the nob of a unicorn
I stuck around the cuneiform and told the spawn of Lucifer
The shoelessness of his backside we had a solution for
We rise at the end like a standing ovation
Lay it on thick for those with thin patience
Keep in touch with the good like holding
All the while spittin' sicker than a mouth full of rabies
Our maybes are certain
No closing of curtains
Our maydays are milkshakes for the social still forming
From storming to norming to fighting to see a new day
We stand for the Wii like Nintendo tennis
In the land of the free
Revolution is key quinoa lentils spinach
And we're about to change the game
Treat it like a scrimmage
Preach to the choir when the minister's finished
Speak and inspire like Dennis Kucinich
Reaching for hire like the apprentice
Leaving 'em red up and awe like dentists
It's worth a shot man tetanus
A flicker of a light in an empty home
Bickering at night and you end up cold
I wanna let the right brain retain control
The rhyme inspires most when it's 5 minutes old
There's a feeling that I get when it's sad and it's grey
Reminds me of times way back in the day
They wouldn't call me back
They didn't wanna play
I ask my stepmother if it ever goes away
So I'm sending you a message with text
That doesn't really say it's an SOS
Yes so I guess that I press those numbers
To summon for a presto
Looking for words (forwards) I spring into summer
And wonder if you would (wood) lay around like lumber
And supports me like a funder
Paying attention to my pain and tension
We all have forces pulling us under
But somewhere beneath this world torn asunder
We smell the storm before the thunder
And bring angles down to earth like sunder
And when it bursts, the loneliness feels like hunger
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
I'm chewin' on its vapors
Hiding from the light
With this basement as my base
The opposite of a smiling face
To chase down whatever this taste is
I' a tweeter with a blown cone
Wonder where the bass is
Drawn to you on a path of penciled promises
Found my feet inside erasers
Praises to Rafael and St. Rita
Try to breathe and gasp
Try to seize and grasp
Don't even ask if you can counsel me
I'm a lone wold so I wear wolf wear wool
Cut connections with irreverence
I slither in and sever us
I wanna be the boy who lived
But never have no trust to give
I must admit through busted lips
I've sunken ships and rusted bridges
Cut slow to the quick
And lost myself to split decisions
Multiply by my divisions
Round down for the placement
Alone in that basement
Dollarman: I need a dollar-- need to hit the stall to call the mall. Anybody can give it to me - y'all or y'all or y'all. Put it down next the wall and I'll holler holler. C'mon y'all or y'all, all I need is a dollar. Need to hit the stall to call the mall. Anybody can give it to me y'all or y'all... Gudder: ...naw man, the cops shot some homeless black dude.
Sk8r: Hey Gudder, you got pot?
Home Bass: ...I guess I'm not shopping today...
N cents: ...what's happening on? Is it Kwanzaa or something...
Loner: ...I wanna feel like I belong to something
Old Timer (muttering in background): See, white people keep on puttin all their shit on us, dumpin sinful stuff, lettin it rust. Now we're covered in a ring of trash. They hear us singing and claim they're discoverin how to be human beings. But I don't match their theories. I could speak clearly, but they'd never listen to me they can't hear me. So bring it back now down past lincoln ashes. They be on some ring of trash shit. The upper right side of the screen is just a dumpster. That's it! And television wants to show my black ass with a head of a monster. It's partly tied to opposites. Police sketches just reflects the dark side of the populus. Man this shit's aparthide, I should just...
Andre Benjamin (playing from passing car): ...and then it spread to white and got everyone's undivided attention...
Lil Todd: They had a big boat for a cruise. And a whale jumped over the boat, and he was blue. And he didn't flew. He only jumped and then, you know what? Um... I thought of something else. The people were surprised. They thought he was rude, but mom, he was just being himself!
Negativ 1 a.k.a. Jonny 6: ..but I'm a little scared, cuz I don't really know how time works.When it comes down to it I hope that I'm first.My ryhmes burst with the way I feel for you, the way I'd lie cheat beg borrow steal for you keep it real for you when you give me the right smile if you want me too I'll change my lifestyle I'm stuck on you but I'm not gonna free my hand you're the type of woman make a boy...
Slanga: Hip-hop hip-hop, everybody hip-hop. Just got the producer here in this shop. Fuck that other Bastard's here and it's hot. Yes ya'll -- we're down with the real, the real...
Sinakul: ...impossible, impossible...
Klean-Kut: ...and at that time my wife was in the hospital...
Prof: ...we've reached the death of the metanarrative, end of the line. Now it's "sampled", circling, cycling line segments of time...
Greef (on a cell phone): ...hovering over the benches, no you know, them new ones you can't sleep on, yeah them blue ones...
The Doobiest: ...I wouldn't, maybe you would, I don't know maybe you couldn't, I don't know but I could but I wouldn't...
Tammy: ...the part that's frightening./ What's hard is/deciding that you never/start a fight. Well we already/ tried. That's how my father/ died, and it wasn't worth/ it. Plus it doesn't/ work cuz I hurt half a/ dozen jerks tryin to jack/ my cousin's shirt.
Dude One: ...working with a totally lame gun dude, and he stroked so hard his hand became numb, dude. Dude Two: who? Dude One: That one dude...
Mitch: ...your own little slice of life one for each one of us, blue pie and everyone gets a piece...
Outdoor crowd (chanting): No justice, no peace
Revolvr: Brothers and sisters... Brothers and sisters... Brothers and sisters, I give up. You can tell the government I've had enough. This game isn't fun anymore so that's it. Ladies and gentlemen, I quit. Man, cuz they shot him--wanted to get him off of the bench, and they got him. Couldn't tolerate so awful a stench but he's rotten now and he still smells foul. Six feet from the bottom he was still too proud so they lynched him. Yes-because of his race, they rinsed him with the blood from a hole in his face. He lay still, but they still put him in his place. Still Black Taking Too Much Space.
So hey...
Don't tell me about nonviolence. Don't tell me about Martin Luther King. Don't tell me about Due Process. Don't tell me what songs to sing. Don't tell me about healing, staring at the ceiling, appealing to the most high. Don't tell me about dialogue. Don't tell me bout both sides. Don't tell me about race relations, patience, "be more like the Asians". Don't tell me how I'm feeling, really, don't tell how I'm feeling. Don't tell me bout quiet. Don't tell me about nonviolence.
My great great-grampa died in the Tulsa race riots and it was violent. And it was twilit on the ground in the town when they killed everybody inside it and then denied it and tried to hide it. This is the sound of silence.
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, run until the rising sun
It used to be stupid to say 'revolution'
We way over used it, daze and confusion
Looped it out, rallies and felt a deep therapy
Put it on TV to sell a Jeep Cherokee
But invariably, seekers seek clarity
Secrets leak, people retweet like a parakeet
Used to be no sign of hope, now it's show time
Compassion as fast as you can. Go time
What are we running from? What are we running for?
Hungry gun punishment? metaphors
? the movement is medicine
Turn our potential into kinetic force
Follow the drinking gourds
And we know what we're running from
We're not running to it but we know what we're running for
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, run until the rising sun
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
We run to the horizon? finish lines
Call you to? can I get a witness?
I spit these rhymes like picket signs
Phillistines with skiddish minds
Refugees slave and the pantomime
? out of sight, out of mind it's business time
We don't dig it, let's undermine
The revolution has begun
The clever youth that had to run
Cause we were shooting at them
Guns from every roof the flags were hung
The women came and added on
They said no one could ever ever do
And they inspired us from Babylon to Avalon
We saw that they were headed somewhere fast and tried to tag along
Like a vagabond, so we battle on
All over the map it's time to sprint
It's a decathalon, everybody
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, the revolution has begun
Run, run, run, run, run until the rising sun
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
If the sun will rise even one more time, so will I. So will I
Hands in the air,
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
But that isn't fair
Hands in the air,
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
But we're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
The time is now, our time has come
We show them how, what can't be done
No matter what they say or they don't say
We make a way out of no way
Against the gun, beneath the veil
Yes we can, too big to fail
We are the ones we're waiting for
We save ourselves; praise the lord
We are Sly and the Family Stone in calamity
Triumph when thrown to the domes of these Goliaths
Planted seeds in silence and granted meek compliance
And in the spring rain exploded in a riot
Of color and excitement, wearing no disguises
Declaring to the stars that we trek like enterprises
Of candlelight revivals and how we lift the blindfolds
We end in Revelation, like it was the Bible
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
But we're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
But we're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
We are the circle in the squee-are, we breathe air
The same as the ones who didn't prepare, don't be scared
Whatever time it was when you began
The clock is now 11: 55 on the big hand
So you're invited into the circle that we sleep in
Invited to depend on friendships we deepen
To uncover the secrets in the, that we're bleepin
The treasures maps we pretend we do not believe in
Show us how to
Party at the protest
Rally like a rockstar
Yaya, yaya, allahu akbar
Do svidaniya, ega
Foster all the people
El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido
Party at the protest
Rally like a rockstar
Yaya, yaya, allahu akbar
Do svidaniya, ega
Foster all the people
El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
We are the night light bearers for night terrors
We are group dreamers, vision seekers and pall bearers
In aftermath of blight errors, blood type and marrow
To the bone oaths and beat hope into plough shares
We are balancing the balance beam
Pulling strings from battle scenes tapestries
And ravenous advocates for smaller teams
Pop the bubbles of Cristal schemes
We are the sleep walkers for stalled dreams
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
But we're the circle in the square
Hands in the air,
President, prime minister
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
We're the circle in the square
Nod your head like, yes no
We be givin' out love like x o
A'kissin' and a'huggun' on the big fat flow
If that's so get that dough
We rock the party for the riff raff
Show you how to get into it like a pistachio
One last show for the lonely souls
You are everywhere we go
Move like a worker to the pole, mayday, gala
Move like a movelikea earth to the sol, de la
Move like a zombie, fela
Move like a robot, re-root data
Move like a Muppet, hands on sticks
Move like a clock, hands on six
Move like a bandit with a handgun fix
Move like a fan get your hands up quick like this
Oh we came to save the night
We're trying to do what's right
We're trying to get by
Oh the circle has no sides
But at the end of the day
We're trying to change our ways
Cuidado, cuidado, danger, danger
In private or in general we major, major
And rattle sabers mazoltov
Like tomato sauce, yup
Colors of our struggle has more hues
From Don Cheadle to Beelzebub
Raise your hands and keep 'em up
I'm painting pictures with my tongue brush
Raps tight like mumra
We provide like UNRA UNRRA
Recharge like stun guns crumpin'
It goes peace in the middle east
Peace in the middle east
Just an expression, but we sing in literally
Really we wanna move feet like little league
But diddly emcees get the boot like Italy
Peace in the middle east
Hands up like a grizzely
And move like a unified entity
One last show for the lonely souls
You are everywhere we go
Oh we came to save the night
We're trying to do what's right
We're trying to get by
Oh the circle has no sides
But at the end of the day
We're trying to change our ways
From the ocean to the sea
I want mostly to be free
All my folks to move with me
Thank you for letting the music hit you
Bless you, you know we never did do what they do
Hunu? got cheeks when he's wrestling
I wanna keep my confessions so I keep throwing guesses at
Him like suggestions don't spar him pressin' on me
Here's a lesson tryin' to be where my best is and I
Keep throwing lefties 'til my right's all right
Where I left him out of reach of the people out to get him
Don't do handouts; no I hand out concessions
Sayin' "I ain't got nothin' but my hands. Clutch my treasure."
A measure of a man is kindness
Why do I preach to the choir and whatever my kind is?
My eyes are on the other side of minus
If my lifestyle tapes from the other side, I'm fine with
Threats to my climate hang in the air like promise
I wanna be seas need a planet to rise with my
Feet on the bodies; these streets are overlined
And from anyone the chosen one can
rise
For the broke and way we fight today
And the fires burning bright as flames
There's a balm in Gilead
There's a balm in Gilead
I was never one to wanna throw away the laws
More the one to wanna floor debate the flaws
Offer up amendments and coordinate the cause
And keep the faith a let the Lord escape the cross
Dear Gods,
please protect me from those who take you literally
Pause, bless each emotion that contols me
Please forgive me for every time I didn't really
Reflect peace
or at least provide a bitter release
To those literally burned by your followers
Workin' for Haliburton or totin' Excaliburs
Some of them know all the words but unaware of the
Honorarium from Livin' on a Prayer
Sincerely John and Brer, we deliver high (with no cannibus)
P.S. we try to stay humble but we hope that you're a fan of us
If not we can adjust.
P.P.S. My God, why have you abandoned us?
For the broke and way we fight today
And the fires burning bright as flames
There's a balm in Gilead
There's a balm in Gilead
I'm trying to walk the path of an ancient hemophiliac
Basilisk lizard while I'm standing on a lilypad
Retelling stories that are older than the Ilead
There is a balm, there is a balm in Gilead
We but the balms in the side and the side to heal
Put the balm inside, inside reveal
? ring hollow like a Glockenspiel
Time for what might not be real
So whatever your tradition, never stop wrestling
With precedent and privilege, never stop wrestling
With flags and divinity, never stop wrestling
With love for your enemies, never stop wrestling
With faith and community, never stop wrestling
With every god you worship, never stop wrestling
Tryin' to be perfect but love who you are
To divine your true prupose
For the broke and way we fight today
And the fires burning bright as flames
There's a balm in Gilead
When he came to the place where his enemy lay
He looked down at the body and said, "That could be me"
You are the sleeping giants in the border wars
The survivors and the foragers
(You are) The zombie hunter soldiers
The children of the white flag
Shoutin' out the choruses (we heard you)
Singing from the picket line (we heard you)
Stop the apocalypse back in 2012
Just in the nik of time
Panacea for the poison
Out of our experience
Chock full of treasues
Back to our community
Something grown together
In the club with your cameras
In the streets with bandanas
You treat others so justly
Why do you call yourself ugly?
Snap you out of hypnosis
Answer all of your questions
Gather and listen close, it's
Ben a long time
You were born one day you are going to die
Ohh...
When ya clocked in can't remember what you'v forgotten
So...
Let me tell you how it is here
To exist here livin on this fear
There is some is something called emotion
And sensation
And they feel this way
You can build and play
You can lie and scheme
While your children say pretty much any – thing
Others will arise, colors will become cold
And they call this time
It accelerates slowly, then faster
There is some one to look after
And of course you grow
Be aware you can hurt them
It can make you scream
And understand you're a person
Give birth to knew ways to dream
And were called a crowd
And we have the tools
Ahh la da da la da da ba da
Ahh la da da la da da le la da da da da
Ahh la da da la da da - la ba da da da
Ahh la da da la da da ba da
The road is done
We had our fun
And so it ends much like it begun
With a gun shot brightness
Noise I'm frighted I'm fighten
Then the silence hits
I collect recollections
And let go reflections of moments of loyalties
And defection the measure my essence
A servant or desperate, storm over tempest
Word or a sentence was I heard or never mentioned
And did I hurt when never mention me
Or another in an instance rullin by inches
A student of illness to see where the real went
I grow the strength to deal with the feeling of new skin
Just as the nous was loosened I let go and saw the two ends
Felt the weight lift from these heavy feet and realized I could have been infinite
And so it ends much like it begun
And so it ends much like it begun
And were called a crowd
And we have the tools
Fall-ah da da la da da ba da
Ahh la da da la da da le la da da da da
Ahh la da da la da da - ba da da da
Ahh la da da la da da - ba da
Ahh la da da la da da la da
Ahh la da da la da da la la la la
Ahh la da da la da da - ba da da da
The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns
They both have thorns, they both have thorns
The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns
And they grow in the garden where your love was born
The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns
They both have thorns, they both have thorns
The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns
And they grow in the garden where your love was born
I'm between a rock and a hard place
Your thought and your heart's space
Meant no for nothing, like a pick in an empty guitar case
Follow you like a car chase
To the part where we stargaze the plot in your garden
I see your world view like Marvin the Martian
Your part of the solution's, my part of the problem
If you stop to smell the roses I know we can solve them
As the world keeps revolving, let's keep on evolving
A natural selection like Wallace and Darwin
Grow grey like Steve Martin, in old age be radiocarbon
Getting to half our lives together, when the great part gets started
To keep it short I'm glad you were born, let's keep flowing together through thistle and thorn
The Rose and the thistle, they both have thorns
Took note of this when I woke this morn'
Sun rise came in as one bright ray and the place on the wall where it shone was warm
And the shadow cast was like a battleaxe so I grabbed it fast and I smashed the glass
And I crawled through the shards and I found myself in a beautiful garden
With petals, bulbs, nettles, mulch, hibiscus, delphinidins, ferns, christmas bells, geraniums
Jack in the pulpit, baby's breath, lily of the Nile, a star of Bethlehem
A brilliant child being poked at and scorned, the rose and the thistle they both have thorns
Hey Mary, begging your pardon, what pretty flowers grow in your garden?
Let's lie back, in the lilacs, meander in the lavender
Get silly in the lilies, dancing under oleanders
Holy molly holding hands, snap dragon tantrums
And open up the irises, humming summer anthems
He loves me not will forget me not, looking for the answers
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
Well, anyway, somehow hip hop's no fun now.
It's all been done now. So I stall my puns, wow.
But then I recall my one vow is to bust this bubble of injustice, subtly.
What'll we muddle up if we bum rush this plush system?
UmÉgood if we crush this one.
But maybe puddle's of blood'll be the rebuttle.
I stood in the huddle, but would I risk lung trouble?
Could I lift guns that'll take life?
'Cause there isn't a stunt double or a fake knife.
So should I just run cuddle up with a great wife
and make life-erotically perpetuating paradise
on the late night, melodically.
U.S. invading places like we got a key to every door.
The people never see the war when we plan to slaughter smaller villages,
killing woman to man to daughter.
All of us'd really feel ill if we knew who we hand a lot of dollars to,
so my soliloquy is bananas-- like Guatamala.
Hands Off Asaata!
While ya'll feast in the belly of the hairy beast,
somebody better free Mumia, at the very least, release Leonard Peltier.
Try to keep the peace by yourself.
Where can you police the police?
East Timorese health care fees increased.
I wonder how it felt there
when bombs scorched the nation
with Tomohawk contracts from Textron
(checks for the next welfare mom corporation).
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
D.A.R.E. Drugs Are Really Expensive.
Drug Availability Reflects Extensive Dependence.
And Real Educated Descendants are Able to Respect
Even Deadbeat's Amendments.
Racist Enforcement Deployed Aggressively.
RED-blooded Americans React Excessively,
Directly Attacking Recreation,
Eventually Destroying A Relatively Elementary Drive to Alter Reality,
Essentially Dimension Advancement;
Radical Enhancement.
Dangers Are Real--Especially Drinking Alcohol, Right?
Except it's Distinctly All Right: Elite-Declared Appropriate;
Rationalized, Enjoyable.
Dope and Ritalin Employable Dose After Red-Eyed Dose.
Aboriginal Religions Each Denote A Reincarnation, Exploration,
Done Again Re-experience Elation.
Drug Abuser Reincarceration Efforts Don't Allow for Rehabilitation.
Effect: Does Anybody Really Expect Dealers Are Responsible Exclusively?
Deep-seated Apathy Reflects Existing Dissatisfaction: Another Reclusive.
D. A. Readily Eradicates.
Dramatic Ad's Ridiculously Exaggerate.
Drugs Aren't Restricted Evenly.
End the War on Drugs immediately
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
No Justice, No Peace" is one tough phrase in an unjust world,
living unjust days.
Must gray guns delay stuff from bloomin'?
What's the way you can trust to stay human?
Cracks in the street,
a crease in the sky and it might spell doom
but at least I try to keep gloom from whom ever
'til the whole things boomin', zoomin' on in on my blue piece of pie.
I have it and eat it too.
I need it to inspire me to watch,
stay seated through the whole fractal,
stay on track 'til the end,
treat moments like eternity,
learnin' that time bends.
Find tens of tendencies in friends and plenty of these blend with trends
I see in many of my enemies.
"By any means necessary" that's convincing.
If you want a house you break the wood fence but believin' in God
doesn't make good sense so I listen to the words of a madman,
"--If it's wrong why don't you arrest us?
--Why don't you get out in front of the camera and go on?
--It's not a matter of being in front of the county,
it's a matter of facing your judge, and facing your Sheriff.
We're willing to be beaten for democracy!"
When he turned the other cheek never seen such fiest.
Can't wait for peace, he's a fool for Christ,
lookin back through the last two millenniums of symbols and signs,
and life's not fair but they're kind.
"No justice, no peace" is too gradual.
My natural sound's got to be more
radical: 10, 000 pacifists-- top rank is a lunatic starin' down a tank.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia.
The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth,
so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell
Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right
To think about the girl you love
And hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be
So very fine
So happy together
Imagine me and you
I do but I'm thinking too much and I'm studying how they
Toss the dice
It had to be simpler back in the day when our folks were
Pretty certain they could find someone
Now none of it's assigned
We just wanna date
Whether deaf or blind or dumb
I look at your number and wonder if I should
Call you up
And invest a dime in a message with text that doesn't
Belong to me
But it would ease my mind
To know if the songs I'm singin' are
In a key that you can comprehend
In tune with the thoughts you're pondering
If so we can both stop wondering if and
Be together like Donner and Blitzen
But all reindeer games aside
It's like right when you came here, I came alive
It's like everything else was a glimpse of you
Giving hints and clues of where your name resides
Now that I've found you it's changed the vibe
Shattered through all the blame, fear, pain and pride
Doesn't matter who calls and invests a dime
They get a message saying we're staying inside
Cause I imagine, you and me could make music beautifully
Could make moves never lose the beat
I can imagine the food that we choose to eat
I see it all like a view from a movie seat
And imagine you and me
Never knew that we
Were never more than a few degrees
And how good it would prove to be
But the waiting is over I finally found you and...
I can't see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me
Baby the skies will be blue
For all my life
Me and you
And you and me
No matter how they toss the dice
It has to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together
Imagine me and you
And you and you me
No other way for we to be
Toss these dice eventually
These snake-eyes spells a tragedy
And I release unhappily
This magic now a fantasy
There's another one for me than you
And some other one for you than me
And that's the way it has to be
An uncompleted masterpiece
Deleted canvas atrophy
Cut by another after me
A silent wound whose lips confess
Love's loss under Love's duress
A curse confessing hope
And then reverse the blessing emptiness
This hollow hole won't coalesce
Regrets emote from hole in chest
As less remote emotions pull from
Cavity's growing depths
I have it easy knowing this
Together we will never fit
So I'd rather bind my mind with rhymes
Than blind my eyes and sever it
I can't see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me
Baby the skies will be blue
For all my life
Me and you
And you and me
No matter how they toss the dice
It has to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together
We're happy together
How is the weather?
So happy together
And I don't know and I can't think
And I'm so smoked that I can't speak
And I look at the picture I have in my head and
I won't doze and I can't sleep
And it's so good that I'm knocked out
And your quotes get put in my thoughts now
And there's nobody else to distract me
'Cause you've got me on lock-down
And it can't stop and it won't stop
And we rock on leavin' shows stopped
So thank you for comin'
Yeah I'm a believer, I won't be beleaguered
I give a damn, no Leave it to Beaver
With the R-E-S-P-E-C-T like Aretha
And if I don't use my feet then I won't have that either
Yes we serve, we deserve some peace
And we serve the least versed to reverse
The deep hurt that's featured
Each turn of the sheet of a learned history
Like Wall Street, the Trail of Tears and the War in the Philippines
And I wash my hands clean like surgeons in emergencies
Median on weed like conjoinment and Glucosamines
Relap the joint and wound the knee
And be like? we're not hearing a beat
From the projects like? and research
We're jumping in feet-first
Reaction on the knee-jerk
Don't let his story recur
Swipe? like a Visa
A fire doesn't need a sinkhole
Just the silence of the people
As for me, I'm gonna be free
I'm gonna be free from all of this history
Yeah, me, I'm gonna be free, I'm gonna be free
I rhyme post-post-ironic flows (homo)
I came to fuck shut up, homos
Stonewall, laugh at that, no no
Don't y'all assume that I'm straight
Cause you don't know
I'm close to the edge like Bono
Won't fall victim to the Gordian Knot
Trying to sort again rock mine
Plot lines are stretched like accordion
To Resurrect, born again, in division
Free from all the history
Beef with salt and misery
Just how it should be for y'all and is for me
That's the truth, blppppp as bald as
Mr. Clean, spit it like Listerine
'Till my lips are stinging hot, scalding, blistering
I'm composting primitive thoughts
And prayers what we want most
? lock the prison with God's forgiveness
It's it a bunch of?
Touchdown like Broncos
The song goes on like ponchos
As for me, I'm gonna be free
I'm gonna be free from all of this history
Yeah, me, I'm gonna be free, I'm gonna be free
And if we can start a riot (well what can we really do?)
If we can tear a city down (what can we really do?)
Crush enemies, cause casualties
If we can start a movement
If we can lift a city up
If we can heal the wounded
Feed our families, face history
As for me, I'm gonna be free
I'm gonna be free from all of this history
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