ever since Reagan ran rampant after John Lennon penned Imagine it was the hottest year ever shown on Mercury y'lean up on a black car and own a third degree my first word thus was H-O-T I like to think it was my playground prophecy I was a baby born late, made in '88 came out asleep so early on I was made awake it was the year of the "what's it goin' on for?" with not a single wild California condor they crackdown on crack but it's the wrong war mad greed and a Republican encore so I didn't grow up mad, but maybe saddened state flag grizzly bear might as well be a dragon 'cuz everything of interest was sold at interest and the best that a little boy could do was imagine so li'l man grew a bit of wrath in his belly fed it with hot food, he let it get hot too he knew his naysayin' would escape in an ah-CHOO! yea...it would escape in an ah-CHOO! first to sneeze wasn't him, it was the Middle East 9/11 was a 'fuck you' thru gritted teeth so we pile money in a heap to make all them tanks, I never asked for this freedom but here's a solemn thanks see Uncle Sam's ears are filled with starships to gain an audience you gotta play the target it's like relationship of harpoon to starfish the People's army shops at Target ha, and I knew this, so I kept my mouth shut upped the chili does waiting for God knows what and I, got a pepper on the arm to serve as a reminder the empire's in flames but these flames aren't felt like a fireplace naw, you gotta seek truth movin' in the lion's cage and when you do we look a lot like a higher ape but money talks, so it probably be a high estate so when you...keep dragon on that magic puff puff it's either you fade away or you know you've had enough and the little man grew departed from his home he learned about the lesson the Ti-tanic had shown america had grown too heavy on the bone someone needed to speak out, but when in Rome... yea, when in Rome we think we winnin' the bone but we stealin' the bone, leavin' loads without a home so li'l man's grown and his head's in the thick of it yea, thinkin' thoughts if caught would get ticketed like how to set fire to the people, so they can burn the steeple and find God and each other equal to see through deceitful fog and find the meaningful to gaze, at people locked behind the peep hole now I keep it underground with those below deck just under the floor of those to be broke next but when you're on the USS U.S. guessin' who's next S.O.S. yes, we under duress your ass is harassed if you're low-class so low-class in session, I pose the question: money: We make it the story, the main thing but when the stock is God we rot like gain green so are we tryin' to climb the ladder from the bottom up or are we gonna tip the ladder just like a water cup grapple for the wheel like apple cider, I'm bottled up let us iceberg this ship before it swallows us we're the masses, on the path paved with ashes marching down the tongue into the Mouth of Madness disastrous, or so to some the pawn is the pillar and we know there's more to come we know...Rome thought the unthinkable was unthinkable like how the ocean liner's unsinkable, WHOA! I rock the boat so you can notice the waves and recognize the game as such (you're bein' played!) and when you're steady get ready to grow sea legs 'cuz mostly self-made men have such (like, are you outta touch?) and now the beat can intersect a sec at three minutes and twenty-four with Job 3:24 I'm sick of sighin', wishin' I was in Zion on principle, I'm invincible until I'm dyin' but, it ain't enough simply to be untouched in fact, we're out of touch with just what is enough and Little Men, get tough with the Big Man's bluff I recommend the flame to counter the game, yup! deep shit, fishing hookless 81 bars, WHAT!

I'm just an artist at the harvest sharp with the blade as I make the cut fresh but so many people don't acknowledge they produce garbage it's part of the way we make ourselves less so allow me to confess and even humanize myself, yes 'cuz I am not the one and only, I am not best and I will not achieve a rap star's conquest just so you can believe in an entertainer's lead vest it's a m-m-mad quest a Madonna-whore complex shouting they're invincible but it's like, who's on next? and everybody's so smug about the rap game A&R fast fame, giants in a cash game these people still eat breakfast and wipe their ass and yea they drive fast, but they also buy gas have triple bypasses like your dad did there's not god, only family with some bad kids hip hop, from champions of underdogs to a money nation under god why spit this way? there's a million other things to talk about and yet we talk about a million everyday how did it get this way? we can't spot the dude who's sellin' the shoes only 'cuz he talks so rude? why spit this way? if the goal is the gold and the sceptor then, tell me, who's the people protector? boom boom, vroom vroom Prada in a Mazda, fast life goin' zoom zoom but we go from womb to room to room to tomb a lot to talk about so I recommend soon soon so what's it mean to be mainstream? I daydream I know they like to make you think that they were made mean but they just say things and see what the day brings and if it bring bread, they make it their main thing so maybe takin' it seriously is wrong that's why we call it The Game, it ain't conspiracy in song but I call the game Clue, can you get a? this shit's a vicious cycle, knockin' each other out nobody get up like dad hits son, so son better hit harder dad's no there, so son he leave his daughter so long as they look good in their fresh new kicks they think they walk the walk of honor for sidewalk chics how did it get this way? from champions of underdogs to a money nation under god why spit this way? there's a million other things to talk about and yet we talk about a million everyday how did it get this way? we can't spot the dude who's sellin' the shoes only 'cuz he talks so rude? why spit this way? if the goal is the gold and the sceptor then, tell me, who's the people protector? is it N-Nas? is he down for the c-cause? y'know the one where the dollar ain't the l-law and every emcee embraces f-flaws that's the shit to where I dedicate my j-jaws it's only entertainment, say its main men a quick duck 'n' dodge so nobody blames them next step ego's gonna eclipse who made them like gimme credit for the mayhem DMX? the soundtrack to dog fights and Li'l Wayne's got ice to make a frostbite but yo his eyesight? blind in the limelight he sees himself and then himself in hindsight and all them pretty folks with lyrics so skin deep have earned my critique and a fandom of tweets and so what they've sewn they will reap and it's never enough and why would it be? mediocrity's tough there's no love in it hip hop, from champions of underdogs to a money nation under god why spit this way? there's a million other things to talk about and yet we talk about a million everyday how did it get this way? we can't spot the dude who's sellin' the shoes only 'cuz he talks so rude? why spit this way? if the goal is the gold and the sceptor then, tell me, who's the people protector?

a cliff nest is life close to death believin' we see it all 'til we fall in a mess elicit visions from the stars so limitless their message to us we are shooting light limited basking in a galaxy trapped in a chrysalis shouting every meteor touched will crush Sisyphus one day the sun may fall away like Icarus Big Bang, the ultimate laugh forever mischievous so picture this to be a human being with a beginning and end endin' in a place fixtureless it's gibberish but it's all there beckoning um, so hit or miss, have fun before the reckoning an exodus of one the exit has begun a dance into the spiral a vital chance at fun so tell a story give this night some meaning, handsome one this night's as good as any love before the dance is done

I think I’m onto something
 catchin' whiffs from the wind 
funny thing bein that I sniff it
 everywhere I’ve been 
and that to me
 it means the meaning of it all
 is that the hide-and-seek we play 
is maybe why we seek to pray 
you…apply sin, I sprinkle cinnamon 
you survive men, I think of swimmin' in linen with simmerin' women 
 and everywhere I’ve been in I’m grinnin' like I’m in Finland
 yo…pause…
lemme begin again, ya simpletons 
back in the day I had got away with lots of shiza 
 hey there, spidah
, ya make my eyes widah
 I’d, uh…catch a fly before I said goodbye tuh 
him when it got grim, dissolve in saliva
… when I got him big, then I had a fighta
 drop him in the bucket with the rest, make him try tuh
 fang his opponents like a gladiator tiguh 
I did it all to learn, but I’m probably none the wisuh

 this is all a joke and nobody wants to laugh at it
 purpose, worthless, everybody’s earth is
 where you don the yoke and smile like it’s a bad habit
 clown-crowd our planet like the cars in the circus 
this is all a joke and nobody wants to laugh at it
 purpose, worthless, everybody’s earth is
 where you don the yoke and smile like it’s a bad habit 
clown-crowded our clouded planet like it’s a circus I take the quality from my pedigree 
 so maybe then they follow me and if they don’t it won’t bother me 
it’s like a sedative, tellin people to let it live
 but eventually one day we all must die-chotomy 
life has gotta be re(a)d like an artery
 Athens to dust…Sparta into aspartame 
like you are god and the stars are a part of me
 send my regards, would ya pardon me?
 this is not a homily, I am not a wannabe
 rock star 
you are not on to me
, cop cars 
I never thought it’d be
, but then again I never thought it ain’t
 our beautiful non-sequiter…B-B-Big Bang this is all a joke and nobody wants to laugh at it
 purpose, worthless, everybody’s earth is
 where you don the yoke and smile like it’s a bad habit
 clown-crowd our planet like the cars in the circus 
this is all a joke and nobody wants to laugh at it
 purpose, worthless, everybody’s earth is
 where you don the yoke and smile like it’s a bad habit
 clown-crowded our clouded planet like it’s a circus

 yo, haha haha haha whoa!
 cowshit grows mushroomz like everybody knows
 but push upon the pimple of a toad, take a toke
 and before the smoke leaves you, there is a quick preview
 and this is worth a lot, nobody can review
 what it’s like to die
 you just gotta guess, me too 
pull the veil, for a second we can see through
 how now to be afraid, I am but a redo
 everybody knows this…even them three piece suits
 sippin' their green pea soup, nobody’s Moses 
go and smell the roses and focus in upon those crocuses 
in life there is no hocus pocus and so I'm onto something yea, I'm onto it calculate the current currently connecting conduits life's arguments assimilate as long as you is ready for a chuckle with an eye for the confluence

and whenever we shed light upon another little fragment of the universe I hear it ring upon the heart of awe and why not? … for what found truth will fail to surprise? while everything’s unique at the edges the details, they act as fonts to the same message because we are all feathers in the crow’s wing left wing or right wing, it’s all the same bird and so after the wicked handshake and the bullshit then what? then what? then what? then what? I wanna know where you go when your body stays put then what? then what? then what? yo ya wanna imitate or innovate? (I don’t know…) choose quick, then disintegrate originality is blurred plagiarism my DNA and each word, each rhythm I see them play to make the dream of the twenty-first but yo it seems like it’s money first kinda like a hungry thirst … they've made it their business to give me more reasons to make it my business to give you more Reason (now) I’m kinda like the Highwayman riding, riding, riding I keep my hand writing whenever I can indoor to out door I put the inwards in words, then I do what my mouth’s for round 4! two Yanks at the banks of the Yangtze who remains unamazed by Amazing? brainfreeze! ya gotta take life head on like “say cheese!” picture love and then let on some names they echo (and) others they fade and this is a product of the changes that they made... yea a product of the changes that they made and the days go… moonlight, sunlight moonlight, sunlight listen to the tune now you better get it done right yes is a yes and a yes until no deep heartbeat keep a grip like Velcro yes, Ja blessed me with joblessness for a time, ‘cuz my mind was an egg in the robin’s nest now I pow-er epi-pha-ny lightbulbs with Alan Watts see what history might hold I’ve been to the edge and back to the corners of the world and the end of a fact and what I saw were the edges interlaced the corners all agreed til the concept of concept had vanished: free moonlight, sunlight moonlight, sunlight listen to the tune now you better get it done right yes is a yes and a yes until no deep heartbeat keep a grip like Velcro how do you use your voice? how do you use your voice? I hail from a people where death’s the wish we get our kicks from the precipice there are a few who would bail a lost ship to the last minute but most fetishize the exodus and some of us would say ‘I get played by fate. I am a guided missile’ and other people say ‘I’m so afraid to be great’ it takes more than preaching to tell the choir that they aren’t the fuckin’ choir so now can we save the day? it starts with us our heart’s art within us for me? I was Curious George pavin’ the way yea a boy with a tadpole and admirable questions who wasn’t too bashful admitting he made a mistake so let’s not pretend that it ain’t like this the world’s in a state like this but in a state where the hive is awake and can create like this and where there ain’t that much that the train might miss moonlight, sunlight moonlight, sunlight listen to the tune now you better get it done right yes is a yes and a yes until no deep heartbeat keep a grip like Velcro how do you use your voice? how do you use your voice? how do you use your voice? how do you use your voice?

I am a, son of God lost in a concrete lot lost in a concrete lot (damn) I am a son of God lost in a concrete lot In this dog-eat-dog world caught utterly rudderless, I spit across this butter beat so classic I make your brain sweat, word of mouth right of passage but if you ask if I'm the main threat mastiff think again, friend, I'm the fox on the casket laughin', Cerberus cheated into relaxin' teeth in a sheath, eyes shut, moon waxen this is how I daily dodge death by living upon the breath of the foxhunt, minefield step what a rush of a challenge, watercolor brush on the palette I add it, to make Seattle's image automatic never miss a beat, but watch your feet when the snare come this is how I airgun shots at your disbelief I am an eye for an eye with a word for an ear third eye done caught in the mystery this is the Tye to the Guy spittin' verse like a spear and it hurts that I'm here, but you're missin' me me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you ha, it's like that 'cuz this is me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you like you do so so toxic, you know that I talk sick when they bring the hound I outfox it leave 'em askin' watt like a socket, ha leave 'em askin' watt like a socket, ha I am an aperture open to capturin' so much I am a stiff, can't toe touch I am a, plane pontoon in flight over Lake Union stay fluid Puget Sound in movement I am a, pushy pigeon in the dark true Grit Jeff rapellin' off Bridges in the park the bitches and the narcs try to ground me but from the ground up my surrounding is the downbeat stay out of ticky tacky boxes and public housing I make my own yurt home, now sing lady Music you the only one that found me I'm Mr. Fox, I do not accept hounding me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you like you do four score years down the road when they find me yea, they'll have a helluva time recognizing whether my words I was even memorizing I think I'll let 'em all guess...so remember me I'm the rap Dali, the reason for Persistence of Memory and when I talk sick and the fork in the road becomes the chopstick take a different path, it's the remedy 'cuz you can backtrack for a new praxis leavin' the game ass backwards, that's it most of us? Lost, in a concrete lot so I...call on the Goddess for my foxtrot rap shit but Lady Music? Changeable like Clay she's dangerous so hey, I better go play Cassius so lyrically I box it, call me foxglove burnin' down the doghouse, turnin' it to ashes me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you now everybody here say it wiiiith me me, this isn't an attack at you you but you should know that I that I don't play the Game like you like you do so

Alan Watts' quote: "When we say that something is without purpose, that's a put down phrase. We say 'well it's no future in it, what's the use?' No, we say, what's the use? And, uh, we need very much to realize that that question reflects our insanity. 'What's the future in it, what's the use?' The joy for the taoist is that things have no use, and the future is not important." walk down to the crossroads, judgers of the unlawful so quick to pick like a perfect apostle but, too, you’ve fallen awful believe we, not me, makin Mother Earth a brothel human and our voice is boomin with skyscrapers inducin' just a ruined race losin' it keepin pace with the fossils quarter ton of dynamite sky high trilobite it’s all strip malls makes me wanna die tonight it’s the heart of Nature rough, like the Harlem paper take the pain, play the game rain like it’s water vapor and I’m not your neighbor but I play your cadence back from the past when we were basic and ancient now we think we’ve made it changing times from the Dark Ages but I’ve seen them turn a kid’s mind to a crime agent now the wood’s gone, but we got our nest built disco inferno, a phoenix in the exhale watch the dead thought caught in a headlock 31 flavors and we merely mutter “guess not” we tailspin from rock comets write sonnets of spring blink once, and wonder why’s it August brain like a lentil, so much potential with eyes open or closed we’re always traveling it’s like we hope that we know our time is happening but that is our call, (so) tell me who is babbling environmental, fire in the mental when you spell ‘break’ then you break the spell like, so much for snakes and them lakes of hell when you grow up then fake ain’t a state to dwell quit the discoveries, put together a summary pause for reflection…then move onto other things it’s all a matter of illuminated laughter the baby in the bathtub, or finishing a chapter it’s all disaster when you think about the after now. but the thing is, who ever really has to? wow! See, the king is a revolution master (why?) ‘cuz the masses, they muster much faster (like what?) like the mower make the grass mo’ grasser (so what?) so today the people graze in the pasture (where?) Shanghai to Marseilles to Perth and Alaska (whoa!) and even on the Moon (zoom zoom, NASA!) but with a dead king, the boogeyman’s gone look at us pretending that we got nothing to stand upon our common enemy is now a common enemy black and white is grey: decapitated centipede brain like a lentil, so much potential with eyes open or closed we’re always traveling it’s like we hope that we know our time is happening but that is our call, (so) tell me who is babbling environmental, fire in the mental when you spell ‘break’ then you break the spell like, so much for snakes and them lakes of hell when you grow up then fake ain’t a state to dwell somethin’ ain’t quite right we’re all tryin paint a pattern by waving night lights on this zeitgeist and other times we feel fine like ‘why worry? I’d rather wonder' until the thunder bring that white light is there a prize and who is fighting in this prize fight? and if I told you would you wanna take me at my word? because I look and, boy, I see I lot of black eyes I ask why...and they say “because the past occurred” I tell ‘em that’s absurd, that that’s the Last Lie from here on out we’re gonna clean behind our ears …and lean behind our beers, and then agree on what it’s all about oh, you don’t drink? well no wonder you look hollowed out a man without a spine, he slithers and he follows doubt and then he whispers “mysssstery”, but I call him out it’s the hiss that gets to me, hits me like a histamine it’s the halitosis to my Listerine so I give a solid shout and whoever’s listening will hear a bellow’s echo (echo, echo) it’s all a feeling, that we lay upon the world like a rug did you forget? ya better let go (let go, let go) Alan Watts closing quote: "We ARE it! We are not effects of it. Because, uh, to think that you are separate from the Big Bang is simply a matter of definition. It's a way of talking. We separate events from each other in order to measure them. That is to say, the notion that there are distinct things and distinct events in the physical world is a calculus. It is like pretending that a curve is a series of points."

we live in grid line skid row wifi abandoning roots to be sky high it's like a desert of the Zen, Land of Pretend I see you leavin, another weekend on mountain bends just to get away, and maybe sit a day atop a citadel of rock and not a bit to say how did it get this way? how did the mess occur? Big Bang, our beautiful non-sequiter I'm pushin' hip hop beyond the streets it's a field trip taken in the break of the beat 'cuz you got yourself and I know you long to meet him so see then that your pattern get a season recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I without a background recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I now how does that sound? and movin' A to B it's all the same to me you tryin to shine like an 80's dream lookin...for a girl to find (and) askin mista Tye like how to live when I'm mystified? ha and it's plain to see you and your A.D.D. means what I say to you ain't like what you say to me like throwing pearls to swine but yo if pigs can fly then lemme rip the sky to flip my cryptic eye (and) they searchin for the Nemo meanwhile I got way better batter, betting on my bigger fish to fry I am an icono-claaast and I'm on a roll, ...meaning I'm in my own class on my honor roll I'm pushin' hip hop beyond the streets it's a field trip taken in the break of the beat 'cuz you got yourself and I know you long to meet him so see then that your pattern get a season recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I without a background recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I everybody do what I be doin' and do yourself that's a cliche like don't abuse your health but we do so well what we choose so hell sip booze and wither into the walls that you built I'm appalled that you will walk like them when your very black sheep nature could right them and your eyes plead wide like join us Tye but I've seen who you're with and I will bite them chomp! see me as a wolf no costume, but with a Jesus heart I will not cross you speak love, think for yourself, synchronize your health and otherwise never again I will boss you I'm pushin' hip hop beyond the streets it's a field trip taken in the break of the beat 'cuz you got yourself and I know you long to meet him so see then that your pattern get a season recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I without a background recognizin I recognizin I I'm recognizin I now how does that sound

float, float, float upon the wind itself escaped from the horns of the brass band ...faces wanna judge let 'em get to know me first now they wanna know better yet show me thirst when I bend away from ego I reach no conclusion from reason, to believe in, a sequel not feasible for evil to exist apart from people, we're equal in this regard missing half of our freethrows so what is it to be a child of the 21st kneeling at the scene of the guillotine? and when political charades and deals made in Escalades escalates why, who's not the philistine? flood the masses, the ladder's in molasses who says we're classless? look again here's your glasses and when I try to skim Big Oil off top the oil gets hot, we're the matches that's it! (Aesop Rock sample) "I float when everyone around me's busy drowning I float when everyone around me's busy drowning I float" yo, cue the horns... float float so look at me, fingerwaggin at the weak link three digits aimin back at me I'm the good guy sucka, I'm the good guy, right? right? I'm the good guy, sucka, alright? I fight just to laugh cry just to burn, burn just to feel like a lifelike ass I never could grasp why...the movies are simplified resemblin...well, a movie with plots black and white so I...float that raincloud grey of reality a bard never bored, with a poet's-sized salary jaw-drop hourly, awed by empowering a lot with a thought...ha, and now it's flowering I hope that your fear is a flickering beast I hope you find what you seek when you look in the deep and that you...carve a cavern on a cliffside peak a place to tuck a part of you when the world is a freak I'm shaped to shake and break what we take on faith 'cuz what profundity has done to me is not a mistake (like) do you really wanna live in an illusion self-made when the rest of us are waiting for the rest of you to change? I admit it, I'm restless let us get to the checklist ...quit this recklessness, go feed 'em breakfast talk about wealth? we wear countries like necklaces which is to say we forgot about what the message is ...and it's a damn shame too like...how we dig the color, but unaware why the sky's blue it's lookin innocent enough, b-but the ignorant bluff and so now what? the times gettin tough so I float and try to point to what's true so I float but what you do is up to you let's float

Jupiter orbits the sun as I purchase packs of gum what was exhorbitant once, we now call easily done movin'...forwards in areas, in others we are chumps let us orbit round the issues that have stumped like how we thought the center of the universe was here until astronomy zoomed out, and then we disappeared so then we had to pause, internalize the laws shift the paradigm and grapple with a whole lotta weird and Weird holds the hand of Unfamiliar and Bad the same thing happened when we learned that we had evolved over time from a slime to an ape to a state of understanding better than we ever had so the limit is us and when push comes to glass-imposed ceiling I'll take a cut lip over kneeling like yea, I'll take a dim light over nothing and what I know I know over feelings and I cannot pretend to lend you information that I know is wack that is sent through a system intact so we do what we can do we disassociate from ants that command you metamorphose to sand dune the day they say that LSD is heroin you go and read some erowid and see where that will land you 'cuz a sand dune shifts The Man gets pissed always trynna sell us short from abyss Enter the Void and see The Matrix as more than a film but a statement extrapolated out from the basics money is just paper making sure your happiness is later and heaven's our distraction from Nature and as a sand dune wave we watch every line as it's made and laugh at how it's easy to erase that the pinpoint of light in the tunnel has a trace of the truth but we walk the wrong way leaving youth give it a go, whaddya know? give it a g-g-g-go Irony and pie over piety and iron Whoa, whaddya know? give it a g-g-g-go tick tock, ding! Time for us to grow does it show? give it a go, whaddya know? give it a g-g-g-go irony and pie over piety and iron whoa, whaddya know? give it a g-g-g-go tick tock, ding! Time for us to grow this is what it's like when the rug's tugged out from yer feet when the rug's tugged out from your feet when you recognize the center is everywhere you know that it's true that it's you who despairs this is what it's like when the rug's tugged out from your feet when the rug's tugged out from your feet when you recognize the center is everywhere so the way to make a moment holy you just share that's how it goes and no we're not frozen that's how we grow into thaat which we know and that's how it goes and no we're not frozen that's how we grow into thaat which we know X2

it's not that I'm sane still...prone to losin' it but been bananas so long I got used to it my old shoes won't fit, I'm fillin' bigger ones I'm feelin' vigorous, yes, Icarus in his lungs they call me licorice flame, better than cigarette I can make a ballerina's silhouette pirouette so hold on to the bar as I raise it up here a sec. faster than a Lear jet full of letters, I deliver hold up, maybe we should take it back here a sec aw naw, you be lovin' breakfast, the first verse crunch on lunch, the hook then the cook serve you dinner make a hit, take a hit, maybe get to play a winner ...maybe...crazy and creative are an inch apart I'm the Joker bridgin' the gap, now pick a card and like the bullet that missed the heart I'm never far from my target this is art, so let's get it started I....am growin' crazy watch out! contagious! I may bust! oh but maybe baby you like it outrageous so count with me now: one two and uh...kiss one one two and uh...kiss one one two and uh...kiss I'm drivin' myself to the edge in an HHR 4WD, yea I've gone too far been gone too long, don't seem too strong can't see too clear, I'm seein' see-thru wrong and they ask me like Arlo, 'are you rehabilitated?' have you achieved a state in- side of the social norms we make? and I tell 'em, 'when you lose your mindset lemme me be a stand in, what I say stands out are you understandin'? this is not stand up do you need a hand out? hey who's lost here?' me or The Man now? Is The Man me? lesse how this pans out. give 'em a hand now... a group of twisted muthafuckas, the kind that don't allow a text if you behind the wheel, but here's a billboard of a Lexus yea, we got the interstates covered like a checklist we'll advertise in your deepest inner state next, kid I....am growin' crazy watch out! contagious! I may bust! oh but maybe baby you like it outrageous so count with me now: one two and uh...kiss one one two and uh...kiss one one two and uh...kiss one one two and uh...kiss

I be that hella irrelevant gentleman by the drain pipe always lookin at the game like, whoa, hang tight! we grapple with gender like Adam's apple and get in fender benders with money lenders and assholes this is why the same guy's intent like a rainfly as long as I cover my ass I remain dry this is why I lie awake as I escape another take of why the human race should face facts my mis-take, m'bad yea we've all done done it a paid premium for future ain't re-funded I by the drainpipe, you by the faucet the plumber ain't cosmic sticks and stones and you ossify for profit inevitably ...listen to lesson three, love and wonder why we lost it the same reason that the tourist is accosted ha, it make the people tick like the watch did so as long as the modus operandi controls it ...I'm callin bullshit yea, and as long as your granddads fill the pews like sandbags they kowtow to the pulpit now now this is why the people bow down this is why our new kings and queens have traded rings and crowns for the fog of war so they're not singled out so they're much more able to a-void our shouts a dictator is playin with hot potatoes when the masses see a nauseator, see ya' later gator so they, bring the Vader down but on the road later down the ones who made it out look, now they're makin out and they don't undestand naw, man, they plunder land and maybe wonder why we're mad like 'why's that?' they had a choice, wise up or 'why's that?' time's up and my matchstick's fire in the briarpatch! it's a it's a fire in the briarpatch hide your...hide your child behind an iron latch how long...will they believe in Mayan math but could I conceive a higher path sounds like a giant's task it's a it's a fire in the briarpatch hide your...hide your child behind an iron latch how long...will they believe in Mayan math but could I conceive a higher path yo the old man toad is a river-lovin fool hawk, he be the glider, the rock is the jewel and every animated, autonomous object is what it is, no reason to object but a man's a ventriloquist case in point, see Leviticus here's your book, g-give it a kiss I guess the best way to put it is in jest so you ingest the best of what I say is justice shit, in that case better catch me on the next track this is where my head's at...verbal buttkick I've seen a kid's skull filled with a mudbrick and the way conveyor belts deliver us our numbness this is how the bloodless colonize our minds with a wall of lies hey, don't wait, they won't apologize to people all alive, your God is too small that's why I'm gonna catch you prayin' when the roof falls it's a it's a fire in the briarpatch hide your...hide your child behind an iron latch how long...will they believe in Mayan math but could I conceive a higher path sounds like a giant's task it's a it's a fire in the briarpatch hide your...hide your child behind an iron latch how long...will they believe in Mayan math but could I conceive a higher path

I've half-assed more than half of it that ain't the half of it the other half is yet to come and I'm supposed to master it I entered stories as a bastard in a rat race tryin' to take a moment while everyone's yellin' "faster, kid!" I guess I missed the point of fast-paced thought when all that we ever got was a brass face off take off! I just iced the last cake bought if Armageddon is comin' then we better waste...not time's a tickin' and I'm pickin' it up but you already knew that, so I'm switchin' it up the point, the choice 'n' forte? keepin' ahead of what you expect, so much greater than sleepin' instead big dreams? why...I used to spend the weekend in bed but I was weak in the head, somethin' to jettison for raw sound is medicine identical to metal in a forge dependin' upon your sentiment (overdub to line up with "sentiment") now settle in for the chorus... (or just a pause and then my own voice "here's the chorus") what was life like before the brass horn? what shape would it take when our spirits soared or mourned? there's the thing, then the predicament of its cavity what's been lost? pause a sec...feel the gravity what was life like before the brass horn? what shape would it take when our spirits soared or mourned? there's the thing, then the predicament of its cavity what's been lost? if you say it today, you better give it two meanings one part irony the other part irony truth is abused in the open but seclude it in a room on a bed with some rope (okay?) (for) we've trotted with the tropes know the tricks of the trade share much more in common with a whore than we'll admit on the page our age? it's never been the years that we live but the life to a dream that we give (okay?) and this ain't no JFK, speech or essay this is a straightjacket mutter on a bed about a best day "it's pretty nice", they'll remark "needs a bit of black lipstick quick before leading it from the dark" but a postmodern lean is the icing without a firm grip on the cake it gets dicey it's like leaning on a post of lightning it stands for nothing so let's criticize, but remember that the thunder isn't frightening what was life like before the brass horn? what shape would it take when our spirits soared or mourned? there's the thing, then the predicament of its cavity what's been lost? pause a sec...feel the gravity what was life like before the brass horn? what shape would it take when our spirits soared or mourned? there's the thing, then the predicament of its cavity what's been lost? who are we if we're not who we used to be that's gotta be answered in every moment suitably the steed of time, that's the speed of time's phoenix listen to that again, 'cuz I mean for you to glean it in other words, well then they wouldn't be mine so I use these words and no others that I find but why? that's the question I will ask in time but I struggle with the muggles who don't ask in time who are we if we're not who we're gonna soon be? that's life, we be livin' in a thin moon beam some say that's the game but a game is a metaphor so quit extending shit, and start spending it this will be ending soon, that's what I said it for shit's real, if it ain't what's realer if this is a game who's the dealer? at this point they bring up a book and I give them a look then I burn up their book here's a mirror