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1. |
Die Quiet
01:54
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I’ve been blackmailed, caught red-handed
Been green with envy and blue due to sadness
I tell a lot of white lies cause I’m yellow to the core
I’m in a violent environment like a violet in a storm
I try to perform, to a sellout crowd
But my songs are just me calling myself out loud
I can’t get through a couple bars without feeling the guilt
I say I tell you everything but there is so much that still I conceal
So the human race is in ruins
Because humans love to condemn other humans for being human
Ha, where do we learn this behavior, it’s not improvement
It’s detrimental, are we consuming it through communion?
Put my entire being up for sale, it was sold within minutes
No contract with a major label, so independent
A couple hundred thousand bars, a couple were the difference
That took me from a widower to a cuckold with a mistress
Find the purveyor of worldly evil and beat his face in
Going to take your nightmare drawn darkest and recreate it
Always getting reacquainted with a chord or a rope
So are you going to hang yourself or be divorcing your phone?
These calls, and texts are a ball of stress
Forgot how to live or even walk, I’ma just crawl to death
(Heroine Cloud), born a miracle, little later die quiet
Entire life a phone or screen and being hypnotized by it
Yeah, everybody has their ducks in a row
But everything seemingly perfect is dysfunctional growth
Having your own opinion at all will get you punched in the throat
And having said that - I have this under control
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2. |
IDK
04:14
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Everyone seems to know what happens when you die, but you know what (I don’t know)
And since every religion is correct, let me go ahead and tell you that (I don’t know)
And since you have existence figured out and you understand everything (I don’t know)
I guess God existing or not is so obvious, but forgive me (I don’t know)
Another sheet of paper, another release of anger
If you don’t like it I’ll meet you in person
And when you piss me off I’ll have you tell me which one of these is safer
I have a tendency to use my fits of anger to rearrange your
Faith, outlook of life, and view from the top
I’m trying to make it possible for you to survive
What if Jesus had never gotten Judas Involved?
Would the outcome have ruined us all?
I have passion for what I do, but I keep making more trouble
I practice what I preach but often I have sore knuckles
I have a difficult time remaining calm when I’m upset
Oh, how easy it is for the rich to die in a pile of debt
You learn that most of the time a smile’s deceptive
It’s hard to dwell when your mind’s moving a mile a second
There’s no time to think, when all you do is just think
And you just want to be, I have plenty to believe
Everyone seems to know what happens when you die, but you know what (I don’t know)
And since every religion is correct, let me go ahead and tell you that (I don’t know)
And since you have existence figured out and you understand everything (I don’t know)
I guess God existing or not is so obvious, but forgive me (I don’t know)
How do I stop from wanting to die, and possess knowledge?
God, I want to be happy with less and less profit
Delight myself in Christ in this life, and I ain’t leaving ‘til I’m satisfied
There are no secrets in the afterlife
And even if so be it I’m the last alive
All my soul will ever lust for is to be with Jesus in paradise
Give a fuck if you believe it or not
I’ve spent my life looking for happiness, you find it unlikely there’s a God
Evidence and facts aside
Why would I invest in the world and not eternity, live life and learn that it passes by
Just like that, so your beliefs hope evidence exists
My beliefs observe and yearn for something better than this
And life is what you make it, but temporary
Sometimes my mind can ensnare me; maybe we don’t hate the thought of an afterlife;
We just hate the waste of time that we’ve spent preparing
So naturally we’re more acquainted with the cemetery
Tell me that I won’t mock one of Satan’s angels; dare me
There ‘gon be an angel buried in the sanctuary
While you’re talking salvation preaching how you achieve it
Pounding on the walls, and the echoing of a demon, screaming’s
all your gonna hear, looking around like “What’s going on”
Believers learning “all that I know is that I know I’m wrong”
And every time I wrote a song, all I’m thinking is that there’s a
heaven out there no imagination can impose upon
So when I say believers are wrong, or anybody
I’m saying there’s a mystery out there, unknown by anybody
Unless you’ve tasted death or have ever been a cadaver
Nobody knows, but some desire every answer
I finna make it so complicated to comprehend
I’ma make it so lyrics are considered as contraband
How did so many find contraceptive for common sense?
“Honest men” stand atop their obsolete accomplishments
I’m speaking in a figurative language
So it’s okay to say that I have my finger on trigger, I’m aiming
I alleviate irritation with a little alliteration
Or if you’re allergic to allegories of where a sinner’s faith is
I’m speaking in a figurative language
So it’s okay to say that I have my finger on trigger, I’m aiming
I alleviate irritation with a little alliteration
and if you’re allergic to knowing, take faith into consideration
Everyone seems to know what happens when you die, but you know what (I don’t know)
And since every religion is correct, let me go ahead and tell you that (I don’t know)
And since you have existence figured out and you understand everything (I don’t know)
I guess God existing or not is so obvious, but forgive me (I don’t know)
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3. |
Perfect Angel
05:56
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I don’t mean to be a bother but you will be molested
When I take a pen and turn this page into a lethal weapon
When your creativity comes to life and your beats are restless
With enough energy to have the police arrested
Rappers better get to the point, or at least to steppin
You can’t face the music with that bleak expression
I’m going all out until I physically can’t
To leave a legacy, even if it kills me to rap
Tell me how to act, you can go fuck yourself
Put you in the middle of the pacific and cut your sail
You don’t know what it’s like to be someone else, you have no idea
So you can tell me to go hell I bet you I see ya
I’m the type that will bring a knife to your home address
Middle of the night while you’re tucked in tight in your sofa bed
Sleeping, stand over and watch you while you’re in your coma rest
And when you wake up, drive the knife into my own chest
That’s what you get for being a person that assumes things
Like who I am as a person, my addictions, and what my view sees
And where my life has been and how I understand, cause truly
I hope you despise all I am and musically disprove of me
I want to be your perfect angel
With a halo and turntables
I want to be a perfect angel
As I look for another verse to strangle
if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again
Hence the wide open front door to your house and why I am in
As long as Westboro tells me that I’ll die in sin
I feel I might as well break in and say bye-bye to them
I’m sorry; I keep using fantasies for the wrong reasons
It’s why religious people and I are not speaking
Guess I hate seeing communion turned into superstition
While they pretend we’re not all confused humans using euphemisms
They say - the true character of a man is done privately
What happens if what I’ve done is televised cause it ends violently?
If you’re terminal I guess death is a dire need
And why you might fly a plane into a building scraping the sky to leave
Too much being preached to me that I can’t believe
Can turn sanity casually into a casualty
I usually would only fight to protect my family
But I might deck a pacifist for calling me a pansy
Why do you waste your life getting upset at me?
Half of what I say are lines that I would never mean
And since you’re preaching things I’d never let myself believe
I guess we’re equal, and by the way, the quality of yours that I’m most envious of is your jealousy
I want to be your perfect angel
With a halo and turntables
I want to be a perfect angel
As I look for another verse to strangle
I bet those pages in your notebook are disastrous
Real lyrics resurrect you from the dead like you’re Lazarus
There’s nothing to get hype about anymore it’s embarrassing
You might as well be rapping in Arabic
Cause I can’t understand you, mad cause no one talented has thought of you
You sound like you are purposely not hitting notes on auto-tune
Was there someone that didn’t love you enough
Or have you realized you can make a lot of bucks when you’re dumb
What the hell else can I do, I’m dead with this done horse
I’ve already kicked it onto the steps of your front porch
There’s nothing to do, I’m all out of class, and there’s much more
On its way while I attempt to disrupt your
Concentration on your level of comfortability so let’s start a war
I don’t see the contradiction of your life when you’re on support
You have the means necessary to benefit the lives of peo/ple
That are dying but those possessions are all yours
Water for the thirsty, food for the hungry
Looking for good fruit that you produce but there’s nothing
Know what happens to a dead tree, it gets cut down
Dragged to and thrown into a lake of fire to drown
And I don’t believe in literal hell, so what does that tell you
I just make music for all of you to kill yourselves to
My target audience, the overly-sensitive
No need to thank me for taping your mouth shut, don’t even mention it
I want to be your perfect angel
With a halo and turntables
I want to be a perfect angel
As I look for another verse to strangle
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Dt. Ngga is Wck!
03:46
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Welcome to the rap show
Please push all of the girls creeping up slowly to the front to the back row
And if they won’t move, crowd surf em out of the building
And then let innocent civilians deal with their feelings
Women and children / can relate to your emotions
And not even your priest wants to talk about anything
That’s coming out of your mouth since it’s incessantly open
Oh, the moral fabric you’ve independently woven
It’s essentially hopeless, I intentionally wrote this
With the intention eventually pay attention to notebooks
So mic check, mic check, one two, one two
Go ahead and step your game up, if you want to
Can you be blamed if a demon gets ahold of you?
What if they won’t leave even if I told em to?
Man I don’t have a lot of answers as a go to
But I can try, so welcome to the show, I can show you
Pardon the lack of passion, yeah it’s rap – who’s asking?
Pennies for thoughts and I’m purse-snatching, come a little closer and taste my harassment
So, in other words - you want me to use other words
Quit syllables, cater to ignorance, quit aiming to make your stomachs turn
Answer is always “I don’t know it” – the medication is psychotropic
Open-minded, bias broken, no Xanax cause I’ve awoken
These dreams are severe; I can’t get rid of this ring in my ear
I’m so glad you listen to Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill but I’ll never agree with you dear
AKA please be aware – I’m irritated you’re breathing my air
You’ll be the only hot-head I get matched with while I am pouring gasoline in your hair
Me too, same feels, Dean, Marx, I-in
Ian, whatever – you suck pen island
Josh Horton – I heart you X 69, and do your worst Wyland
Thanks for the beat but next I want a verse Ivan!
Thoughts, words, actions, habits
Character, destiny, target practice
Got my cross hairs on the atlas
For God so loved the world – but my heart is elastic
Is God going to tell me that I chose hell?
I pursued Jesus, but I brought in the Gnostic Gospels for show and tell
I’ll just pick a different size for the glove that I wear
What are your thoughts on heaven? “I don’t know – up in the air?”
Sorry, you’ll have to pardon me – I love to stare
Just picture us both as Mormons in our special underwear
Now imagine us on our own planet
Having spirit babies – “You’re pregnant AGAIN? GOD DAMN IT”
I’ma go ahead and say everything you wouldn’t allow
And if it kills me I’ll be in a box that’s wood, in the ground
It’s not my fault you couldn’t figure it out –
I’m a priest, so stick your tongue out, and let me put it in your mouth
Don’t look under my robe – hey don’t touch that
I left the Mormon Church – they took their magical underwear back
And by the way – let’s get back to communion
It’s clear your mind is in the gutter and it’s ruined
Shhh – the rap game is sleeping
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5. |
Bedtime Story
01:45
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6. |
Rappers in My Basement
04:25
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I keep trying but I guess that I can’t quit
With bad habits associated with this rap shit
I thought I’d be the nice guy, but it wouldn’t have lasted
Want to send every rapper to lyrical hell in a basket
With a bow tie, no lie, I don’t know why they are so dry
Talentless teens in a cycle and it feels like they won’t die
Which, is ironic when you have no life
Loves shoes and cars but won’t go the extra mile, and has no drive
The feeling comes over me, it’s looking like I’m gonna write
I’m going to have to run tonight, when nightmares come alive
Back against my bedroom door, knife trying to steal my lung’s supply
If karma comes to get me guess I’ll see you in another life
So lackluster is rap, I can’t believe I haven’t called it quits
Talent won’t have to stay underground, once abolishment
Told you I’m waiting on a rapper apocalypse
Or at least lure Nicki into an abandoned apartment and then demolish it
I’ve had rappers in my basement for days
And I don’t know if I should let them go or stay there and rot away
I don’t know if ever again they’ll have anything worthwhile to say
No, so in my basement they’ll remain
Mugs get hit, die when I spit
I’ll be smoking jokers like I got a 30.06
And I want to get under your skin the best that I could do
But what I really wanted was to provoke, inspire and push you
Rap is supposed to be competitive, not repetitive, not repetitive
You sound like you’ve been edited by a braindead faggot on sedatives
I can’t tell if you’re not trying, you don’t care, or you’re just lazy
You need to step your game up, who gives a fuck about your buzz lately
no unnecessary adlibs or metaphors – I’m giving you straight facts
like how a white homosexual might like his coffee, straight black
if you don’t like it, do something about it, it really shouldn’t be hard to stop me
cause right now, you’re a copy of a copy, of a carbon copy
I think you think your brain is smart, but you should listen to your heart talking
It might try to tell you somewhere you can discard your body
I could destroy 98 percent of you with my weakest diss
Collab with you, with my verse right next to yours to show how weak it is
No topics, cause I’ll just go off of it
And good luck with your rap career, I hope you make it to the top, so I can throw you off of it
I’ve had rappers in my basement for days
And I don’t know if I should let them go or stay there and rot away
I don’t know if ever again they’ll have anything worthwhile to say
No, so in my basement they’ll remain
I’m already read for the next one
Move on to a new project as soon as it’s done
Too many lyrics have accumulated, I keep having this dream
And there’s no time to sleep during a rude awakening
Your record should be proud silence, I laugh
When rappers say “I could do this in my sleep” yeah, you sound like it
Sleeping on the mic, you should be killed in slumber
If you’re rapping like “I need a pillow and a cover”
I need a pillow, so I can cover your face
Your songs to me are like breaths to you that you struggle to take
Every second lasts forever, you just want it to stop
But at least you can see light at the end of the tunnel while slipping off
To radio rappers, I don’t like any of you
Please come to my basement, I have plenty of room
Oh, you thought that this is a joke
Bring your favorite rappers over to my house, didn’t you know, that
I’ve had rappers in my basement for days
And I don’t know if I should let them go or stay there and rot away
I don’t know if ever again they’ll have anything worthwhile to say
No, so in my basement they’ll remain
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7. |
Call From Ein Flynn
01:25
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8. |
Feelings Hurt
03:54
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Go to hell, figure of speech
Best wishes, for to you to die miserably, figuratively
I’ve been waiting for politicians to tell the truth
And have only genuine intentions when they yell at you
I’m john Wesley and I approve this message
What behinds the scenes bull did they pull to get you elected
When you mirror evil actions you begin to lose reflection
And as for politics, the public gets a ruined perspective
And understanding, do you even care about the general public
What if you spent as much time as what you spend on your budget?
On being real, and not glamorous public service announcements
And fire anyone who is letting them occur and allows it
We’ll celebrate purgatory while burning your palace
Wipe that smirk off of your face while you’re earning your status
Can somebody please be real when they step into office?
And eventually see renovation on the steps of congress
The devil’s eyes are beaming, and you can bet they’re on us
We’ll trace every politician for one instead that’s honest
That isn’t so incredibly fake that they bathe in an image
That’s so unrealistic in nature that it’s way too suspicious
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt
Bring them back, bring them back, bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
Perfect family man or woman that’s ideal
The devil’s wearing prada, a suit, and some high heels
America’s Top Model, how could you view it as not awful
While watching them trying to walk, waddle
Or getting down the catwalk however they can
So they can be judged while wearing some ridiculous fashion trend
But politics are kind of like that, aren’t they?
Wouldn’t have to look like that if we believed what you are saying
Or had a choice for a genuine governing order
And you wonder why no one is becoming supportive
We don’t trust you, I would love to adore you
But please, stop right now, enough, that’s an order
What if you could be real instead of faking?
And didn’t act or look a certain way to appeal to general population
What if politicians weren’t ran by big dollars
And if they weren’t being honest, then they would get charges
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt
Bring them back, bring them back, bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
I’ve got you now, hook, line, and sinker
We both took an oath but I took mine with ether
We’re both selling crack, but I cook mine with fear
So while in office, I could die a cheater
In the meantime, I’ll push my supply and steer
Using smoke and lights, quit blowing kush in my mirror
Nowadays, voting means taking a bullet
With hands tied, pick a liar, we elect their enrollment
It’s not a choice when you choose between 8 of the same person
I’d rather be looked down upon, voting just ain’t worth it
Some billionaires, an ex-first lady, next to this lame, smirking
Fronting to a bunch of people that just want to see change and purpose
So, lie to our faces and you should hang for it
If you were fined for every time then you would pay a fortune
Go find robin Williams and hang where Mork is
“some people need to get their feelings hurt, bring them back down to earth” – no, stay in orbit
Yeah, gladly let you remain in outer space
Politics are a game and ya’ll are rich and con artist enough to know how to play
It’s grown child’s play, and my mind is miles away
Okay, so ever so gently, I will say –
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt, get their feelings hurt
Bring them back, bring them back, bring them back down to earth
Some people need to get their feelings hurt to bring them back down to earth
Go to hell, figure of speech
Best wishes, for to you to live miserably, figuratively
I’ve been waiting for politicians to tell the truth
I’ve been waiting for politicians to tell the truth
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9. |
roMANIC
03:53
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It’s like it’s my own funeral, all black, suited up
Walk to the wake, look down, “what have you become?”
Admit to myself that I never loved you enough
“He’s already gone, why did you leave him in a pool of blood?”
If you have answers, opinions are a dime a dozen
Whether you’re a priest, politician, teacher, wife, or husband
Transgendered, homophobic, know-it-all, liar, puppet
Preheat to 500 degrees and climb inside an oven
In other words, your opinion’s worth about as much
. . . as your opinions when your mouth is shut
Life is beautiful; it’s still filled with downs and ups
No wonder beliefs are shouting “can’t believe you doubted us”
Now isn’t this ironic, a rapper with opinions
Saying that your views will never really make a difference
They’re independently depending on your sick existence
Which means, the wrong ones have you assuming the position
I’m older, angrier, guess I have a gift
And you could disagree, I’m pretty sure that I would insist
This is a very lovely world to keep your mind when it’s sick
What a great day to take a selfie while you drive off a cliff
Which should be the only time you do that, make sure you update your status
and your kids are on their iPads while you weave in heavy traffic
Make sure your snap shat is
Functional so when you crash and decapitate your family the last thing you can do is Instagram it
This is what happens, I can’t explain it I’m forever persistent
To everyone texting right now this letter is written
Or staring off in your phone, and would never listen
In 100 years it will be like you never existed
I want to go somewhere I can be mad all the time
Where nobody has to wonder what’s on my mind
Floating on this Heroine Cloud of mine
I can’t stand it or understand it why you would listen
To the frantic rantings of a manic romantic’s monologue
I’m just looking for a fire starter; every song’s my final offer
Until forever’s the duration that I am signing off for
I don’t feel right when I am not writing
What is the relationship between our choices and God’s timing
I’ll show you what happens when push comes to shove
Backed up in a corner, sort of, when you got put in the trunk
Cause you’re an internet bully and I wouldn’t allow
Happy Chanukah here’s a hacksaw; put your foot in your mouth
Don’t make put a lifeless body on a see saw
And play in broad day, I’ll be caught, I know you’ve seen Saw
What, you want a hatchet, so you can hack it clean off?
How’s it feel, faggot, kill yourself, fucking retard
You sit behind a screen daily masked in anonymity
Critiquing everything with a century of indemnity
Pull you through the screen, eventually
Said it wasn’t meant to be sent to me, what’s the penalty of your sentencing?
I just told you through a fantasy I was imagining
This is what happens when my insecurities make a pass at me
If you can’t relate you laugh at what somebody is battling
But to me it’s like balancing on a beam covered in Vaseline
I like the life I have and feel it’s highly sought after
And I mean that humbly, with gratitude, I am not a rapper
Just a person who writes an awful lot in his personal time
Likes a couple rappers and tries to bring his journal to life
I want to go somewhere I can be mad all the time
Where nobody has to wonder what’s on my mind
Floating on this Heroine Cloud of mine
I can’t stand it or understand it why you would listen
To the frantic rantings of a manic romantic’s monologue
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10. |
Auto2ne
01:20
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11. |
Don't Put Me on a Leash
03:23
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I battle feelings you would not believe
I’ll never tell you cause I don’t want to feel like I owe you an apology
I see how you spend your day and time
I guess I just wish you spent more of it finding a way to die
No, no, I’m sorry, I don’t mean that
I’m a firm believer guns and killing are weak raps
It’s just; I’d really like what irritates me to be minimal
And when you start talking I get tempted to be getting rid of you
I delve deep inside of the unseen realm
And wash up on familiar shores of sand and seashells
It’s just the same story I retell
Brought to you by some daddy issues and a young female
Started back before I got my diploma
It all began at 13, felt like I was a no one
Still think I was in love, I’m what she disposed of
And intimidated by dormant feelings that I know are in a coma
I never felt good being me
But I could hide it, so I was even deceiving me
The first three months would happen so peacefully
And then, nothing but pleading on my knees that she would leave
Don’t put me on a leash; Don’t put me on a leash
Don’t care if your name is Caroline or Annalise
Or whether your car is paid for or on a lease
Soon as you put a collar on me, I’m a beast
And I promise you won’t like it, so don’t put me on a leash
We all know how it feels
When you begin to sense it all go downhill
I didn’t have enough game to make it a competition
It’s like I only could get with women living with something missing
And I couldn’t provide the replacement
I didn’t know my limitations
Trying to offer something that I didn’t have
And somehow convincing myself that it would last (Uh huh)
I guess I’m a sucker for love (Nuh uh)
But only for a couple of months (Uh huh)
I’ve only succumbed to suffering once
So far from reality I forgot what recovering was
I only get the urge to push females
When they get bright-eyed and bushy tailed
I get to wondering if you all could see everything
That I’ve ever done in your opinion would you think I should see jail
You should have learned not to make your view of someone elevated
Or soon the faith you have in mankind will be desecrated
I just know someday you’ll be looking down on my name
Cause the world doesn’t see your imperfections and the faults that you’ve made
A lesson you may never learn, but it serves you right
The purchase price didn’t include my personal life
Expectations, you’ll experience regrets somehow
I’d be doing you harm if I never let you down
Don’t put me on a leash; Don’t put me on a leash
Don’t care if your name is Caroline or Annalise
Or whether your car is paid for or on a lease
Soon as you put a collar on me, I’m a beast
And I promise you won’t like it, so don’t put me on a leash
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12. |
DTMR (Interlude)
03:08
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Cheating – don’t do me like that
Stealing – don’t do me like that
Lying – don’t you do me like that
Wanting – please don’t do me like that
Lusting – I said don’t do me like that
Judging – no don’t you do me like that
Complaining – why would you do me like that?
Lusting – why would you do me like that?
How is it you could be in need of a confession?
I don’t want my image spreading the infection
It would be different if you knew my intentions
I need some direction, death to my reflection
I trust God but I blame myself
I don’t know how the two coexist, I love my creator but I’m ashamed of myself
I feel like a Calvinist alone with his fate in question
Faith and redemption, why must you stand so close to the face of deception
I don’t know where it went, it’s like it disappeared
Right and wrong are confused and how difficult it is to care
My moral fiber went from missing a stitch
To me questioning if it even exists
It isn’t like I’m struggling to find a reason to live
But if I die it’s like they’d suddenly understand me and forgive
Look in the mirror and jump
Yes I’m a lonely person, but I don’t want to be appearing as one
Cheating – don’t do me like that
Stealing – don’t do me like that
Lying – don’t you do me like that
Wanting – please don’t do me like that
Lusting – I said don’t do me like that
Judging – no don’t you do me like that
Complaining – why would you do me like that?
Lusting – why would you do me like that?
How is it you could be in need of a confession?
I don’t want my image spreading the infection
It would be different if you knew my intentions
I need some direction, death to my reflection
I trust God but I blame myself
I don’t know how the two coexist, I love my creator but I’m ashamed of myself
I feel like a Calvinist alone with his fate in question
Faith and redemption, why must you stand so close to the face of deception
So take that and some depression you can stir in the mix
Plus I’m trying to meet you in the middle while I’m burning a bridge
This isn’t a fabrication; it’s a cry for help
It’s feeling you’re trying to beat impossible by yourself
It’s going from thinking suicide is stupid to “might as well”
Cause no one will care or try to understand why you failed
This is the everyday life of millions of people
How could this God-given brain of mine be so deceitful?
Cheating – don’t do me like that
Stealing – don’t do me like that
Lying – don’t you do me like that
Wanting – please don’t do me like that
Lusting – I said don’t do me like that
Judging – no don’t you do me like that
Complaining – why would you do me like that?
Lusting – why would you do me like that?
How is it you could be in need of a confession?
I don’t want my image spreading the infection
It would be different if you knew my intentions
I need some direction, death to my reflection
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13. |
It's Personal
05:03
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You keep saying the same thing, never changing
When I’m dying, my mind’s eye and what my brain sees
Has nothing in common with anything I imagined
Entering afterlife and witnessing my mind’s eye collapsing
I’m constantly stalked by the shadow of death
So I don’t have to be walking through a valley to battle my stress
These anti-depressants had no effect
Until I took the whole bottle and while dying, I say so depressed
When the grip on the bottle is irreversible
You will hear voices and this here is personal
Every single one of those fans must’ve misheard you
The devil writes, wish I’d have never looked in his journal
It’s just a bunch of plagiarism; they say that it’s different
But it’s the exact same recycled behavior mimic
You can’t just burn hell to the ground and run away
Misery will invite company and everyone will stay
Stalked by the shadow of death
Battle my stress, had no effect
Sat so depressed, it’s irreversible
My personal hell
Not trying to get off Scott-free
Can’t even make the claim that my behavior is not me
Don’t know how hard I must beg and plead for them to leave
These feelings are overwhelming and I cannot breathe
It seems like the only way that I could even possibly
End this would be for God to come down himself and stop me
In my heart I don’t want this burden and so it haunts me
When you’re not on the same page and your actions do all the talking
At this point, while I’m writing I don’t know what the penalty is
When your heart’s in a different place and your morals have been deleted
Something you would never do happens once and is then repeated
I don’t know how much of this humanly body you leave with
I guarantee you disagree with me as a Christian
I’m just begging almighty God for my consciousness to kick in
It’s like he wants me to hate him purposely give no assistance
We never measure our worth by what it is, just what it isn’t
God, just either bring me to you or send me to hell
Why the hell does this situation keep presenting itself?
You’re omnipresent; I don’t understand how you can’t be nearest
Why would I battle rappers when I have to battle lyrics?
It seems to me this issue keeps getting uglier
My problem says, “I’m not leaving unless you fuck me first
I know I’m your energy as soon as you are low
I’ll return, so in other words, I’ll see you tomorrow”
Stalked by the shadow of death
Battle my stress, had no effect
Sat so depressed, it’s irreversible
This here is personal
So what am I supposed to do, don’t you tell me to grow up
Cause that tells me, what I’m going through is not something you know of
I’m hanging around people, strength I am trying to soak up
Paranoia from there being no understanding and no love
I really hope those close to me can love me through this
If not, I don’t feel it necessary to be included
That could modify into a shortened life
If all is passing away, can any words truly be immortalized?
You won’t provide me with an opinion that isn’t bias
No one has a concept of privacy, you should try it
Asking personal questions, you must have been excited
Promise you I will either stay quiet, lie, or deny it
I don’t know what your level of treatment is
But if you get offended, give a fuck if you agree with it
Not searching for a feminist, I’m looking for a stick to beat her with
Feminism can eat a dick
Have sensitivity? Then you should be deleting it
Before you put in my cd, thinking that it would be legit
I didn’t call you a faggot cause you’re gay, it isn’t a secret
You can be who you are, you don’t have to be discreet with it
I assume at my funeral, or with my will, reading it
They won’t be surprised to find I have nothing to leave em with
My death day is coming, when it is time to sign off
If I spent time accumulating possessions, then I lost
Stalked by the shadow of death
Battle my stress, had no effect
Sat so depressed, it’s irreversible
This here is personal
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14. |
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And all I have to say is that I’m already here
Whispering spirit’s words in the pallbearer’s ear
And when you see the stairs you should all be aware
You’ll fall when you’re pushed and fame is drowning in a sea of stares
An ocean of eyes
Listen to rap, ironically where poetry goes to die
Teary retinas, a watery grave for better resting
A flooded cemetery; well this is the resurrection
I need to keep myself occupied, that’s why there’s a lot to write
So many looking for faults in the stars written across the sky
Make sure you play those cards just right
Last thing anyone would want would be to get to heaven, be turned away and not know why
Something about all the pain I have felt
Not an excuse, it’s just why I’ve been explaining myself
Everybody I have wronged, each person that currently hates me
Hope they see they’re better without me; it was surgery in the making
I’d rather just die now if I don’t inspire
Watching ideas go into your daughter’s body and grow inside her
Cause for rap right now, I have no desires
Except to set a ghost on fire
The emergency call came a second too late
Broke in your mind, went through that hole in your head to escape
Complete switched up the right and left side of your brain
As you blackout I will tell you while I’m paralyzing your frame
I’ma terrorize your fame, until the world barely recognizes your name
I’m a fame terrorist, a fame terrorist
This whole rap thing feels like an out of body experience
And I don’t mean like a concert with illuminati and pyramids
But I get done with a page, look back and can’t believe I wrote it
I don’t remember writing what I read in my notebook
And I can’t put a clear thought together
Every verse is a combination of everything in my head mixed altogether
I complain but I like where I am at, I don’t want all the pressure
You thought I had a good head on my shoulders, but you were wrong, it’s severed
Completely disconnected, you will need detectives
When I step in your church and question your methods when you least expect it
I can’t wait until all of you speak
As to why you come to church and do nothing about it til the following week
“You’re dismissed” doesn’t mean shut down until you return to church
It means go out and help the world instead of being best friends with the furniture
I know I’m rapping to myself
But I reflect on 2004 when I made a promise to myself
I’ma terrorize your fame, until the world barely recognizes your name
I’m a fame terrorist, a fame terrorist
A sea of nothingness, an ocean of eyes
Won’t listen to rap because it’s ironically where poetry goes to die
A flooded cemetery for better resting
Teary retinas, fame terrorist, this is the resurrection
Mikey and I mean business and as soon as we emerge
Lyrics are alive and hopefully you will be reassured
easy is evil, your laziness is deceitful
look in the mirror john, don’t let that motherfucker beat you
You’re going to want to quit, stop writing and cease studying
War with your self has the tendency to be bloodiest
I refuse to look back on my life and see nothingness
Your lazy side is watching you give up and he is loving it
It’s all been happening since the beginning of time
Acting like everything is some 21st century crime
All of us are fuck ups who will eventually die
So who’s better than who? Nobody – man, that’s been my reply, so
I’ma terrorize your fame, until the world barely recognizes your name
I’m a fame terrorist, a fame terrorist
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15. |
Heroin Cloud
06:24
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I’ve been losing my temper a lot
You could try to stop my pen from talking but you’d have a better shot at dismembering God
Second thought it wouldn’t be that hard
All the parts are already separated and not working together at all
Most of you should have stayed away from rap or passed it by
You shouldn’t have a mic, if anything maybe practice writing
You’re gay and fake like a plastic dike
Sucking on a passafire every night fall asleep watching magic mike
Hiding what you did is like throwing gas on fire
Swallowed up the rest of my guilt and consumed the last of pride
Making the most of your life just to pass the time
Until you hear (doorbell) and your past arrives
I’ve a reoccurring fantasy with Westboro Baptist
A bubble bath, faggots, a happy family, a mattress
Let me explain so you can see
Shirley Phelps being charitable and giving out beds to the gay, homeless community
Oh! You’re so patient
I don’t know if Macklemore is shaking his head or giving a standing ovation
Hopefully both at the same time
Conflict of interest can be the reason you stay high
Figuratively not litterararely
How can we recycle lines that we’ve already written so carelessly?
I am a heretic – heresy!
I hide behind a veil of transparency
Haha, yeah, I’m on my heroine cloud
All your little gods, where are they now
I’m sitting on the throne, and I’m tearing it down
Go to hell, that’s what I said to the devil
Whispered into his ear so I can tell that he’s unsettled
What percentage is mental
When he starts talking music with me, he gets tied to a rock and some heavy metal
(Till he sinks) to the bottom of the ocean to cool off
You believe life started without God, and I do not
Sometimes I view circumstances from birth like it ain’t fair
So he can sit at the bottom of a lake and stay there, in a restraint chair
Walk up to his door, knock on it
I don’t want to be somebody that God damns, doggonit
So I wait until he answers – “step into my office”
I sit “Satan, what problems do you have with my sonnets?”
He says “first of all, you do my work quite well
So consider yourself warned that I’ve already braced myself
God has / already written my tale
You’ll be watching your boat float to the top, while I’m watching mine sail
But in the meantime, I want you to live a serene life
Where you know of a suffering world, but you still sleep at night
A spark you had, you have no intention to re-ignite
And somehow deny not only God, but that he provides
Jesus Christ; I’m really good at my job
But don’t you see? With you it’s like I don’t even have to try hard
I mean my God, how much denial are you living in?
Can’t you see how fucked up your idea of what a Christian is?
Haha, yeah, I’m on my heroine cloud
All your little gods, where are they now
I’m sitting on the throne, and I’m tearing it down
Why do you keep trying John Wesley, you’re never gonna make it
This is between me and you and I didn’t want to have to be the one to say it
Wrong, it’s between me and God, so all of you I wish peace be upon
But you might as well assume you’re playing God if you feel your creator just strings you along
Then again I don’t know, I’ve never been a part of your life so no
And I for sure, am never going to get an opportunity to understand, I suppose
So at my show if you’re back five rows, yelling out loud this rap I wrote
If we don’t change lives, we’re no longer a threat and this track that you’re hearing could be the last I pose
For a cover of a publication, have so much to say but my lungs are aching
Change 16’s to 100’s, now you’re talking my language and
You can go to a booth and profess a love from Satan
I profess love for the one responsible for constructing creation
So let’s put our hands together, those closest to death dance forever
A girl, confused by a glance that the pastor sent her, wants to go to heaven and be the last to enter
Whatchu gonna do when it gets real, finally running out of prescrips to fill
Out of pot out of money, out of time, the ability to be living in denial is a vicious skill
Been there, done that, hear this, I ask
Wear this, my mask – parents – why laugh
Awkwardly, when I’m getting wordy, such a hypocrite, oh it just occurred to me
I’m a parent, will I be racing to be erasing every album and lyric urgently
If you rewind, every line how many times do you count that I lose my mind
Just a single verse, started there, got here; don’t know exactly what I accrue inside
I’d rather not be able to find a plane in my imagination than to lose a train of thought
You are out of your mind if you think I am going to pray anything other than “Thank you God”
Haha, yeah, I’m on my heroine cloud
All your little gods, where are they now
I’m sitting on the throne, and I’m tearing it down
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16. |
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I just want to talk to God, I don’t want to talk to you
I don’t want to talk to you
I want to talk to god, get it straight from him
Never leave his side, never led astray again
Stay a human while / I erase questions
Does selfishness differentiate from sin?
How balanced are choices and predestination
Am I right in saying mega churches should be desecrated?
/ am I lying to myself through poetry
How could I ever think I’m giving enough to those in need?
/ / it’s like I’m wired to self-maintain
Am I tempted to sell mainstream?
I’d get rid of all of me that’s physical
If it wasn’t so unoriginal
So typical, I’m so typical
Take a look around and believe that I’m miserable
Just want to talk to the creator and be with God
So my self-awareness can quit and my speech can stop
Time stands still, I can’t reach the clock
I can’t kill myself, but I’ll agree to watch
What am I doing, am I supposed to know?
I can’t buy a “yes” or get close to a “no”
Do I just chill and keep waiting
Or do immediate bold measures need to be taken?
If life is predestined, God doesn’t need me praying
And mass suicide is the destiny that he gave us
Taking our lives in the middle of this charade
Hear the sermon, and all we hear is “hooray’
I want to talk to God, tell me how messed up we are
cause I feel so far from understanding and afraid
God, how can I best serve you?
I need more than interpretations of you and a list of virtues
Does everybody get an equal opportunity?
To live eternally or is judgement dealt brutally
I just want to talk to God, I don’t want to talk to you
In that aspect, I ponder unity
If I talk low of myself, does that dishonor you or me?
How off am I, from how I imagine you
Why doesn’t Satan leave forever when you ask him to?
I don’t know if I make you happy or disgust you
But I know these are questions I am asking because I love you
Life for me has gone nowhere, nothing satisfies me
Mistakes cost me life, the past can be pricey
I don’t know if they’re always around or if you send angels
I’m waiting to be lowered into my rectangle
So regardless of anything else I am thankful
I refuse to view life as the “same old, same old”
I don’t want to act the way you do just cause you told me to
My conversation with God is long awaited and overdue
Don’t want to be swayed in beliefs because you do or don’t approve
How could you be the reason I’m in the afterlife with no excuse
God, my whole life was a struggle for you
Every notebook I ever filled was full of genuine crisis that I wrote to you
And all of these feelings come from everyone telling me not to
Lean on my own understanding, teaching me their own understanding
How could you have anything but your own understanding?
My head in entertained by the ghosts of my family
I don’t believe in unanswered prayers
Just a huge box of expectations, there’s a good chance it’s there
The problem isn’t that you / have an imagination
It’s that you lack creativity and can’t sustain it
I don’t know if God created the world with a plan to save it
What to think of the Old Testament or I’m glad he waited
I want to be eternally where my creator is
Fix my head, “will someone tell me where a piece of paper is?”
I won’t be stopped from writing a chapter
Sometimes my eyes are the only way I can discern between crying and laughter
I just want to talk to God, I don’t want to talk to you
I see people and I get mad
I want God all to myself with a pen and pad
Leave me alone in a darkened room
With a bit a light, a little life, and apart from you
How is it my mind tells me that I’m supposed to love
But my heart says these are people that I want to be disposing of
One drop of hell on the tip of my tongue
And the hatred that drips from my lips has begun
I’ll show you weeping and gnashing of teeth
Jesus’ mom and the devil smashing his dreams
God is building the door and he’s casting the key
To tell you a secret Satan wouldn’t be the last to believe
God’s abilities aren’t what is rationed to me
Every single second, 12 million chances to breathe
John Wesley isn’t going to go through life wasting it
My attic isn’t as haunted as my basement is
The past is the past unless you thrust me back into it
My future is God’s, plus it’s that genuine
I believe in a higher being, I know I’ve been writing mean
But I know it was needed and I stand behind it finally
I’m ready for God, I just want to talk
And I don’t mean from a book or by myself in the dark
I mean face to face, for a while, exchanging our minds
from the source, straight from his mouth, what he’s saying is right
what to do, how to live, where to be, who to give to
to know if the chaos in the world really is you
or is it your absence, does everybody get a chance
I can’t help, but cry out at the mercy of my thoughts on circumstance
God, you are God, and not man
God is never “if God can” it’s “God can”
I don’t want you to act how I do
I want you to do all the good you can, seek God’s purpose and put the past behind you
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17. |
Coming for You
04:01
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Stay away from cliché I may want to explore other options
If I pop lock and drop it will huey probly come back from dead in a coffin
Once upon a time I was in high school, rap was my dream, writing was my idle
Now I pilot every thought I put into a rhythm and I whisper in your ear and I bite you
That’s what you said to me “bite me” you’ll never be with anybody who is just like me
You didn’t mention religious indifferences would distance the dim dimensions of my lighting
You differentiate destiny, you can’t take death from me, especially if it was meant for me
I met a little intelligent form of me and sent him back to the fabricated section of my memory
If I said that I meant it I probly didn’t I likely just never wanted to talk about it again
I can’t just get over it, what would I write about without emotion dictating a mouth and a pen
To get sick of these syllables is more than a little improbable and honestly never going to be happening
No matter how close I get to unraveling rattling off or babbling invalid analogies
Battling personal issues that I’ve created only makes it a more versatile weapon I’m detonating
You think I’d realize something ironic maybe, like reread what I just wrote down and the sentence hates me
Not in all actuality but whatever I’m saying is completely pertaining to a point that I’m making
Mad at inaccurate bigots not understanding verses, versus those interpreting the noise as a persuasion
Heroine cloud, fourth album, and it’s ridiculous; I can’t believe it got to this
When I talk to God, how am I going to explain how impoverished money was pocketed?
The world is starving horribly, dying, forever targeted
And those of us who are called more fortunate all account for a lot if
The bank accounts are all robberies, dead presidents are the hostages
We’d probly pop a couple shots in the directions of hip hop shops or the colleges
If it meant we’d pocket a number, a product of our popular environment
Reveal it for the facade that it is the righteous can be riotous
A ritual is what we are living for, giving life away for a residual
Told yourself you deserve what you earn, so full of yourself, what did you pull
What bullshit did you buy today, what expenses have you close to death?
Caring a/bout your/ issues/ would cause /stress, and/ I haven’t/ broke a /sweat
Likely, reality will break your legs or take your oxygen away with a razor blade
If the only way that you behave is to march through life full of pride like a gay parade
Ha, I’ve got to do more with rap than I ever thought I would ever get the chance to do
I can’t tell anything but a lie and irony is that that’s the truth
This is the way I am, this is the way I’ve been,
And I refuse to change for bad or ever fabricate to fans,
from this day on, things won’t be the same,
I aim to please and I’m pleased to aim, bang
Don’t be alarmed, we are coming for you
We’ve returned, we’re coming to get you
You can say you don’t want it but we know every one of you do
The others are dead and we are coming for you
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The longer I’m not signed, verses keep building
Stockpiling words till they burst out the ceiling
Dreams and thoughts of labels signing me overload
It’s been several years I feel I can finally hold my own
My mind tells me the emotion I’m supposed to show
My heart will disagree; it’s fighting to control me – NO
STOP! GIVE ME BACK TO MY self . . . I think
I must have been rapping and fell asleep . . .
Is this the life – cartons of cigarettes?
Vodka shots to crash and martyr the spiritless?
When I’m asleep – I only appear to rest
My cousin from Missouri says - "that boy is queer as heck"
That isn’t all; I promise there is more coming
My imagination – sure to have you sick to your stomach
I know it’s currently a sore subject –
So put me in the booth, hold your breath, and press the record button
As I sign my name on the top right corner
I kill the page at night and then every morning I mourn her
I torture lines, record them, and write more of them
I pour my life into igniting ideas your mind aborted
You can’t quit; the flow has got you hooked
The knife is on your neck and by your throat and needs a push
We both know you should stop; I just don’t believe you could
If you’re a kid and stealing glances you will grow to be a crook
You couldn’t smother me if you took all the love from me
Sucked it in your lungs and pulled the rug up out from under me
I love thinking of suffering
I’m buried and bloody and waiting for somebody to come uncover me
Yeah, life is terrible – it won’t get better
We’re all walking around wearing a red letter
Selfishness will give your view of life a stress fracture
And is more common than a self proclaimed “best rapper”
Try going to sleep after taking two hits
Of this music, instrumental or acoustic
Love is an ideal bullet; it wants a piece of you
Put it to the brain of everyone you love and see it through
you think you're so dope and everyone else is weak
but all you're really doing is proving that you asleep
you say you're hot and they banging this in the streets
but all you're really doing is proving that you asleep
you say you're cold and constantly bang the heat
but all you're really doing is proving that you asleep
you say you deserve a spot in the industry
but all you're ever really doing is proving that you asleep
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