Somebody tell me why we landed here on the planet left
stranded
We suffer in this land then we leave it empty-handed
Experience a fraction of eternity then vanish
I never took advantage, I just took it all for granted
In my youth man, I used to smoke a quarter a night
Was bored of my life, ignoring all the glorious sights
I was lost getting caught up in all the hype
It took me ten years to get my priorities right
I'm up close and personal with my daily abuse
But all you fairies say spare me cause you're scared of
the truth
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
Why? Cause everybody needs to hide
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
Why? Cause everybody needs to hide
You know I really think it's funny
When you're flaunting all your automobiles
Cause I know that money's something that you oughta
conceal
The more you reveal the more we know it all isn't real
I bet you frauds keep talkin' till your coffin is
sealed
But it's ok, you behave in anyway that you want
Cause I can look you in the face and know you're fakin'
the funk
So take a second and brace yourself for taking this
punch
You may leave a little shaken when I break through your
front
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
Why? Cause everybody needs to hide
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
Why? Cause everybody needs to hide
I was just another white kid who suffered an identity
crisis
I ain't the only one I know that many are like this
So I did it how I did it never cared if they liked it
Kids got so excited they was ready to bite shit
Me getting on the mic is just like getting a license
To be hittin' all you critics that are stereotypin'
My only problem is I got plenty of vices
But I'll keep on writin' till I'm ready and ripe
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
Why? Cause everybody needs to hide
Why oh why must everyone be in disguise
You get nothing out of living lies
I'm spittin' with the venom
To your soul through flesh and denim
I kill every opponent with the message that I send 'em
And I leave 'em, with no heart-beatin', the lungs
breathin'
Their last thought was questioning the demon they
believe in
Forcing me to start kickin' mental martial arts
Piercing they hearts, with all these metaphorical darts
Make use of this verbal abuse and call a truce
'Cause the verse hurts worse, and works quick as a
noose
Stop frontin', you wantin' my mouth to stop running
Some sought assault, but the thoughts kept comin'
The last man who tried, well, he died in his sleep
I can't believe what I was saying put him 6 feet deep
Diagnosed with an overload flow to his brain
I guess the truth that I told him, must have drove him
insane
Any rough .$ ., can pull the trigger, but I'm bigger
The poisoned lyrics make you sick quicker than liquor
So go blast your gun, I'm gonna be the one who'll be
yellin' victory
When all is said and done son
Now I'm battling my wars
With chords and metaphors
Lord knows the pen's mightier than the sword
Armed with my thoughts and the almighty force
For sure the pen's mightier than the sword
Destroy the flesh, but the core will endure
Of course the pen's mightier than the sword
So blow me up with a bomb, I'll move on and go beyond
Like the wayward son, and carry on
I'm forever green, I'm what you never seen before
What you thought was raw was far from hardcore
I'm alive on a compact disc, I never miss, I always hit
Assuring I'll forever exist
Three times as arrogant as Cannibis is
Now they teaching classes, calling it The Borial-
Analysis
I grip the mic as if I'm never gonna pass it
When I spit the ancient and eternal to the masses
Enthusiastic, opposite of plastic
Just recorded this shit, and it's already classic
Man on a mission, holding my position
With no war paints, just poetic ammunition
Now I'm battling my wars
With chords and metaphors
Lord knows the pen's mightier than the sword
Armed with my thoughts and the almighty force
For sure the pen's mightier than the sword
Destroy the flesh, but the core will endure
Of course the pen's mightier than the sword
Combat, without physical contact, you're under attack
Gettin' bashed, smashed, slashed, and gashed
With the sharp tongue, piercin' your ear drum
It's fearsome, slinging your gun son, I ain't even got
I'm doing what I say, and saying what I mean
With words that cut clean from a poet supreme
I flip tha Tai-Chi Chuan, droppin' terrorist bombs
With blood from Lebanon like Kahlil Gibran
I reside in the hills outside the city walls
Behind closed doors with the infinite source
While you're dwellin' in your hood, inhaling the smog
I'll be in the woods, puffin' logs talkin' to God
Uninvolved with ya'll, I'm watchin' all far from afar
Loungin' on a mountain top, countin' the stars
Now I'm battling my wars
With chords and metaphors
Lord knows the pen's mightier than the sword
Armed with my thoughts and the almighty force
For sure the pen's mightier than the sword
Destroy the flesh, but the core will endure
Of course the pen's mightier than the sword
Enough of all that, let's switch up the format,
And talk some more trash, I'm getting bored fast
Ain't gonna talk gats, just hand-to-hand combat,
Man-to-man, full contact, on the floor mat,
Your weak blows are deflectable,
I'll go toe-to-toe with you, at your own dojo,
Want none of you bozos at my show,
where some silly hoe's shakin' her ass up in my video
I didn't kick flows in the cold until my lips froze,
So folk can always tell me how my shit goes
I grab a pencil like it's a pistol
But this way it isn't problem if it hits you
You won't see what you want from me,
So don't come to me well "what's it all mean?" cause'
It don't mean a thing
Your lies is all I despise,
Been fightin' guys like you all my life and
They don't mean a thing.
My best shit ain't even on my set list,
Cus half the listeners can't even get this,
So what! you sold records, you ain't respected,
You went too far and tried too hard to be accepted,
This can never be a thing of jealousy,
Just don't be tellin' me to check the melody,
I got the better beats, got the better rhymes,
I made sure I bettered mine ahead of time
So what's up kid? Your big head's been busted,
Don't get disgusted, I'm just servin' justice.
You won't see what you want from me,
So don't come to me well "what's it all mean?" cause'
It don't mean a thing
Your lies is all I despise,
Been fightin' guys like you all my life and
They don't mean a thing.
So don't attempt, to beg for my pardon,
Cause' I'll keep talkin' til' my arteries harden,
I've takin' losses, told off some bosses,
Sick of all them jobs that all make me nauseous,
It ain't worth it, workin' for no purpose,
For cash I'm hurtin', future's uncertain,
So I keep searching, livin' and learnin',
Earnest to earn everything I'm deservin'
If I can't be on the stage with my band jammin',
I'll be standin' on the street corner panhandlin'!
You won't see what you want from me,
So don't come to me well "what's it all mean?" cause'
It don't mean a thing
Your lies is all I despise,
Been fightin' guys like you all my life and
They don't mean a thing.
You won't see what you want from me,
So don't come to me well "what's it all mean?" cause'
It don't mean a thing
Your lies is all I despise,
Been fightin' guys like you all my life and
I've lived in cold and freezing snow
Breathed the heat of steaming cold
And never ever be a part of me
I worked hard to scape the land
Did my job at shaking hands
But can't stand the fake that makes of me
Yeah im thirsty standing firmly
But your purpose just cant concerm me
Man I know you'll take this personally
It doesnt mean that I hate you just cuz I don't want
you to do me no favors
No matter how hard you shake this hands
Can't break this man, can't break this man (x2)
I've been to hell and felt the pain
Smelt the smoke of melting flames
I know there ain't much lower one can go
It isn't me who's hurting you
I happen to have some work to do
I just need a little room so I can grow
Not unfriendly just unbending
Can't you read the signal I'm sending
I don't care if I'm offending thee
It doesnt mean that I hate you just cuz I don't want
you to do me no favors
No matter how hard you shake this hands
Can't break this man, can't break this man (x2)
Yeah I'm thirsty standing firmly but your purpose just
can't concerm me
Man now I know you'll take this personally
It doesnt mean that I hate you just cuz I don't want
you to do me no favors
No matter how hard you shake this hands
Dreams of freedom
Lost in this forsaken land
No one left to find you
Running scared
Fooled by those greedy hands
Familiar places become new
Same old song
Pick up where the old ones left
He said he'd heed our calls
Far too long
Another reign at his behest
Dreams of freedom call
Hope is gone for all
Rob us, drown us in your evil lies
We don't recognize this place
Free us, promise us a brand new time
This will be our fall from grace
Brand new day
New beginning, same old end
Safe in his little shell
Chance ends soon
His opportunity to change
Then we can break his spell
Fear not my child, your day will come
Attack this broken soul
Take and leave me in
You think that I forgot you
Destroying part of me
You don't even know
Your scent is all I breathe
You left me long ago, walking on my own
You swear you won't return
In times of clarity, sky breaks through the clouds
And you will leave me be
Flash of truth, back where we started
Your peace, my war
It's warm inside this lie, the world escapes me
Just me and you again
You only wanted peace, for you that's the end
But all I got was war
The distance suits you well
You get to miss the show
I pray that you, you're happy
While I descend to you
Flash of truth, back where we started
Your peace, my war
Miles away, too close for comfort
Without a paddle in the darkest sea
From the shore they call to me
Promising all of my dreams
I fade into the night
Change this life laid for me
Take home and pray
Take reality, take this life from me, oh no
I'm not free
Empty words, shattered pride I had
You lead me down a path of shame
The stories I write for myself
I'm not of your kind
Take reality, take this life from me, oh no,
I'm not free
Soon I'll rise and see, what I am to be, at last
Regeneration
My blood coursing through my veins
The gift for what I have done
Til now hiding bliss from me
Tired enough to let it go
Awake enough to fight
Too proud to know you've sunk so low this time
Leaving you with an unknown reason
The strength to do and thought to see somehow
Now a life's work looks withered on your tired face
A new man I see with my eyes
Forces strike again, it's pointless to pretend
We can help the evil that's inside you
Taken away, but remembered to this day
That's what I failed to say while you were here
To live as young men in the prime of our lives
Mirror sees a different face
From what you recognize
New light cast on old place
And seen through empty eyes
One moment's thought defines a lifetime
And this moment will be yours
Take this time to see your new reality
You hear them calling
No one else will know
Don't you ever let these cracks show
When your thoughts become lost
What was good becomes bad
All at the damning cost
Of all you ever had
Another mind lost to the depths
To see what no one else can
An existence cast in a memory
Finest Hour Songtext :
Rise up to these bitter times
To uncertain rhymes
Find yourself between the lines, end of days
Within these pages lies a written memory
Of the story of the fallen ones
The pride and freedom, of the ones who risked it all
Made the sacrifice and gave their lives
Cause they were...
Free men, with the will to live
Knowing it would cost their lives
No flag or fail to end the night
Restore the broken pride
Where ever we may fight
In the wrong or right
Devotion and courage sees us through the night
On these pages
We'll write our history
Write the story of the world at war
Pride and freedom, we're the ones who risked it all
Made the sacrifice and gave our lives
See the smoke reach to the sky
Visions of my demise
A sight best left unseen
I know I'm not awake
But the pain I still feel
Who am I to say what's real
Free fall into paradise, a world of lies, when you
Free fall you will see what you cannot be
Take these memories when I wake
Of the years that have gone by
Emotions I can't deny
To have lived another life
In a world non-existant
How does one live again
When you feel your life is over
But you're really just asleep
When reality surrounds you
Realize it's just a dream
Try to leave this dream I'm in
These cold hands hold me down
Pull me deeper in my mind
I feel I'm going to drown
I see the world collapse around me
Feel the walls cave in
The sky is torn, the world is burning
I can't escape this hell
My sanity has betrayed me
How can I forget
If you cannot forgive
The past, ever haunting
I've nothing good to give
Fear overcomes you
Driving you insane
Feel it take you over
Feel the warming pain
When I close my eyes
I see you night and day
I dream of my revenge
You took and now I'll take
With left inside
Another wasted night without you
Empty bottles to the side
Scattered pages lie around me
Written words of better times
I won't let you be the key
Unlock what hides inside of me
A restless soul that longs to see
What it can truly be
A lyric of a new beginning
A war against my demons will
Exorcise these thoughts from my head