1. |
Breaking Point
05:32
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I know I tend to mess things up
And sometimes life with me gets tough
But you stay holding on
I don’t know why you stay
It seems my actions do repeat
My heart is strong, but my flesh is weak
And your pain seems to outweigh happy days
But I am ready to put it all on the table
You just don’t seem willing or able
To understand if this something that we should change
I cant keep asking questions or second guessing
I’ve learned the lesson that love is life
And life is not a game
Life is not a game
So
Here is the start
Of a long tomorrow
If it’s destined that we part
I pray
That the world won’t
The world won’t
I pray it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall apart
I hope the world don’t fall apart
I hope it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall apart
Promises were made
Emotions led to words exchanged
And your name was etched, lightly just, slightly on the edge of my heart
And there are others resting there
Potential loves that went nowhere
And they stare back at me
When the black dog’s on my back
What are building on but dreams
What does I love you really mean
If we knew this thing was destined to be dead right from the start
I cant keep asking questions or second guessing
I’ve learned the lesson that love is life
And life is not a game
Life is not a game
So
Here is the start
Of a long tomorrow, a long tomorrow
If it’s destined that we part
I pray
The world won’t fall
I pray it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall apart
I hope it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall apart
I pray it won’t fall
I hope it don’t fall
I know it won’t fall
I know it won’t
I know it won’t fall apart
I awaken to the placement of an angel on my pillowcase whose glow embraces the lashes of my eyes
Reflect the tears that hide as I realize the sunset begins
Repeat the cycle, friend, lover, lost friend and when I reached out to touch the halo is when she pulled me in
Lost in divinity it rendered me useless and then took my pen and formed stanzas in the image of him as all poured through me the anointing of my muse within her purpose served a break deserved we parted ways I’d send smoke signals just to remember how I breathed her in
It felt as good as sin to virgin flesh but even with her parting I am still not less
I am that much more cause I had her pour through me, I am that much more just because I knew her beauty
I was a part of her duty to awake the world and dawn a change change change change
Listen
I’m just tryna change the world
And she just trying to break my heart
repeat to end
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2. |
Soul Searching
03:40
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Trying to be divine in a world designed for blind thinkers
Where the believers and dreamers sometimes forget that they can fly
Until they stretch their wings and soar high just at right time
Still they don’t know why
They wonder why
They’re still searching, searching for their souls
Trying to make peace with all the pieces that make them whole
They’ve been looking high and low
But they’re still searching for their souls, searching for their souls
Same womb, different spirits, one mind
Gemini defined by space, place, and rhyme
Could make a dollar grow about a million times
Or grow without a dollar in her pocket
The shine was magnetic
Whoever didn’t have it had to get it
Energy was kinetic
Existence was prophetic
Living in every moment
Just like it was a blessing
Never listening to the doubt the darkness suggested
She flourished
Soul was well nourished
Walking in her purpose and the sacrifice was worth it
She was a daydreamer
Strove for perfection
Lived it like she felt it, so rejection was a lesson
It seemed to lessen the likelihood she would repeat it
Fertile ground seeded made her transition seamless
Walks amidst the monsters unscathed
Seemed they had her tamed cause they never knew her name
Only knew her by the mask that she chose to claim
So she wears the mask
Why shes still searching for her soul
Trying to make the peace with all the pieces that make her whole
Shes been looking high and low
But shes still searching for her soul
Searching for her soul
Same womb, different spirits, one mind
Gemini defined by space, place, and rhyme
Could make a dollar grow about a million times
Or grow without a dollar in her pocket
The shine was magnetic
Whoever didn’t have it had to get it
Energy was kinetic
Existence was prophetic
Living in every moment
Just like it was a blessing
Never listening to the doubt the darkness suggested
She flourished
Soul was well nourished
Walking in her purpose and the sacrifice was worth it
She was a daydreamer
Strove for perfection
Lived it like she felt it, so rejection was a lesson
It seemed to lessen the likelihood she would repeat it
Fertile ground seeded made her transition seamless
Walks amidst the monsters unscathed (to end)
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3. |
Stranger Things
04:35
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Stranger things have happened
Than falling in love at hello or losing a bit of control at
The mention of your name
I know stranger things have happened
But not to me
Virgin to the darkside
Her eyes invite me leisurely
We rise and fall no stress enjoying the scenery
Suddenly she squeezing me
Stressing my intentions
Yo she took me how I came at first
Forgot to mention love was a possibility
ignoring the fragility of hearts
And now we are back to the start
where love was lost cause love is birthed without thought
Increased risky indiscretions where common sense ain’t a blessing
and ignorance be caressing your spirit
you can’t feel it
why not lie if your consciousness is not tied to truth
whos checking for you
Stranger things have happened
Than falling in love at hello or losing a bit of control at
The mention of your name
I know stranger things have happened
But not to me
Deep sighs and red eyes
The guilt keeps me running
Praying for redemption
From a past that is hung in remembrance of me
Sometimes she burns an effigy
Daily manipulation
Constantly berating conversations
Breaking my spirit
And I can’t even hear when
God is calling my name
Cause she stay demanding my praise
And somehow I lose myself
And it’s the strangest thing
To go from grounded to floundering
Blindly in doubt
With no way out
I’m finding she’s my only way out
When escaping was suggested
Her love became a lesson
To remember the blessings of these strange and beautiful things
THese strange and beautiful things
But sometimes I wonder if
Stranger things have happened
Than falling in love at hello or losing a bit of control at
The mention of your name
I know stranger things have happened
But not to me
(2x)
(Ad-lib to end)
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4. |
Confusion
05:32
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Beats, life, Son’s light, I strike the iron while the fire is hot
Get caught in the middle of this riddle called life
With my back to the edge of a knife
That's right when I understand the reflection of the man whose hand is reaching in my pot
But all the understanding under God’s blue sky wont make me give an inch that I got
Cause I bled for it
Jumped in and I fought currents
That were pushing me back to the start
Every inch is a stitch in the heart
And you just trying to make the end of the race
You just trying to keep pace
We are living in the world of uncertainty
But it’s alright
You just gotta find your solid ground
We’re living in a world of uncertainty
But it’s alright
*Guitar Solo*
Beats, life, Son’s light, I strike the iron while the fire is hot
Get caught in the middle of this riddle called life
With my back to the edge of a knife
That’s right when I understand the reflection of the man whose hand is reaching in my pot
But all the understanding under God’s blue sky won’t make me give an inch that I got
Cause I bled for it
Jumped in and I fought currents
That were pushing me back to the start
Every inch is a stitch in the heart
And you just trying to make the end of the race
You just trying to keep pace
We are living in the world of uncertainty
But it’s alright
You just gotta find your solid ground
We’re living in a world of uncertainty
But it’s alright
Trigger finger itch the barrel smokes I choke
And feel the pressure of the world at the back of my throat
I spit a whisper with the wattage of a million hopes
It burned fast and fell slow
Like the life of a dope fiend
Fade and lean with a cardboard grin
Eyes cloudy from distractions of what’s happening
They got armed dollar signs stacking bodies to the sky
And everybody is in line for a piece of the pie
They all say they hate it but few fight to change it
They walk around naked like the garment is degrading
Never understanding the Image that we were made in
We are Kings, Queens, Kings, Queens, Gods
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5. |
Let Them Come
04:22
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Posturing and threatening they questioning my right to be
Man, well let them come
For me or my people
And watch the upheaval rain down
Just let them come
Can’t stand in the shadows much longer
The battle is getting warmer
Let them come, let them come
Just let them come
For me
What Ima stand here waiting on a war cry
While the choppers circle round in my red sky
Fly ashes swear, dashes
The discourse is no more we passing on to another dawn similar to past lives
IF you knew your history then you could probably transcribe what’s happening down to the millisecond
The Revolution’s a revolution its ever present and steady on a constant stream the only thing that ever changes are the hues on screen
The same scenes come through on the local news it ain’t the German Shepherds now, it’s the principals, and the pastors too and the local crew
And the mother, cousin, grandmother, closest to you
They got a whole generation of some new strange fruit thinking they martyrs for a birthright Dying while their lights bright
Well let them come
Let them come (4x)
Just let them come
Just let them come for me
We looking at our leaders like who the fuck elected you
Acting like he aint a man
Man that’s just what the power do
And all the checks and balances haven’t been adding up
Considering the factors these actors are runners up
For the longest running show in the history of the time
We class climbing to the bottom while they keeping us blind
My only focus in this world is trying to go for mine
But I hope you get yours
Good luck I need more and more and more and more and more and more
Of all the shit that don’t matter fill me up son
I had to get my glass house shattered to realize the magic trick
Rights scattered the fight’s on we bout to get down
We bout to get down (repeat to chorus)
Posturing and threatening they questioning my right to be
Man, well let them come
For me or my people
And watch the upheaval rain down
Just let them come
Can’t stand in the shadows much longer
The battle is getting warmer
Let them come, let them come
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6. |
Spaz Out
05:11
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Verse 1
See the grimace
Label me a menace to society
And every step I take big brother has his eye in me
That's why I walk quietly and keep to self
Stay just under the radar they call me stealth
Control is hard to keep when you see what I live
I push an 80 hour shift
With no bucks to give
And that's just enough to touch the bottom of the bucket of a 100 foot well that
I say fuck it just
Take what you need for you seed to succeed
Break ground find sun and fresh air to breathe
To meet your basic need is God given right
That's why bees get stingers and birds get flight
We fight to oppose our foes and to protect our food we know that anything goes
Forget what you were told about maintaining civility
If violence was so wrong why were we given the ability
So I'm volunteering we to stabilize humanity and spaz out, spaz out, spaz out
Hook
Get free, get free get free
Spaz out, spaz out, spaz out
Get free x5
Verse 2
We been partying too long
In the basement with the res lights and slow songs
So long that we ain't saying nothing different
Finally got the world to listen and this is what we give them
Yeah we 'living' not to worry everything's ok
We're all in love
Oversexed
Buying platinum chains
Putting rims on the range
Poverty it ain't a thing
Yo don't worry everything's ok
While we stuck in the basement our communities decay
The same ones buying your albums don't everyday
Music ain't for play
Verses are for change
And taking when you can't negotiate a way
We stay making money being corporate slaves
Instead of being the voice of what the people want to say
What they pray when they kneel at the end of the day
So the conditions stay the same
Here's your chain
Never change
Elevated think thinking ain't a weakness
It's the strength that stays
Honor the ways,
Push against the cage and spaz out
Hook
Get free, get free get free
Spaz out, spaz out, spaz out
Get free x5
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7. |
Land of the Lost
04:04
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Verse 1
Small signs of life
Slowly climbing out this hole I’m in
And my sight
Narrow-Focused
The smoke clears and I peer
Straight in the Son
Lost in this fight
I’m holding onto all I know
But my grip is slipping
And I’m giving into what I fought against
I’m falling right into the mold
Chorus
When we we get tired
Of living in this lie
Of living in the land of the lost
When will we get tired
Of living in this lie
Living in the land of the lost
Bridge
Living in the land of the lost
Prehistoric origins
Foraging for familiar faces
In a sea of strangers
Looking for danger trying to get a high
Fist pounding cages trying to get by
Instead of trying to get free
Inverted intelect, perverted priorities
And everybody’s trying to live amongst the stars now
When each of is is a universe
Curse whatever don’t reflect your divinity
Goddess - too blessed to recognize the enemy
Even when some times
In the end
It’s really me
Verse 2
They always try
To keep you grounded so you never realize you can fly
Stuck circling your purpose
Always focused on the talons trying to pierce your light
But baby you were born for this fight
Blessed Archetype
Is it a wonder that they fear you ways
You awakening to who you truly are you are you are you are’
Chorus
When we we get tired
Of living in this lie
Of living in the land of the lost
When will we get tired
Of living in this lie
Living in the land of the lost
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8. |
Still Here
03:46
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Verse
Don’t you let them forget I was here
I was more than a name and the sum of all my fears and faults
I was love, I was light, I was wrong, I was right
When you look at my life I hope you see the fight
And remember - that I was here
Chorus
Because after the darkest of nights
The sweetest of mornings comes
And I am never can it was a transition
Know I was here
I was here
Verse Repeats
Chorus Repeats
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9. |
How Long?
05:24
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Verse
Natural like the moon pulls the sea
Just like the breeze blowing through the trees
You are my final destiny
Breath of fresh air when you're with me
From the black in your skin
To the brown in your eyes
To the curve in your step
Has my soul hypnotized
I will never let go
I will never let go
Chorus
Not one minute no
Not one second no
Not one minute no
Verse
Gravity shifts and she doesn't see the how why
There is no point in explanations
The distance has grown to wide
We only orbit each other's existence
Misplaced interests leaves us strained
So we float like dandelions in the wind
What remains is the pain
And they got the audacity to ask me how long
I’m gon’ stay once the love is gone
I tell the not one
Not one minute not one
Chorus
Not one minute no
Not one second no
Not one minute no
Verse
And it don't take whiskey to remember how quickly we passed the flags
Burning red
Focused on love instead
Pillows beneath heads eyes buried in the sand
Redefining forever
Disproving that it could last past now
Love stories with familiar ends
Repeated cycles
Friend, lover, lost friend
We bend time backwards in our minds
Reaching for the lines we crossed when we were blind
Questioning the things we would have changed
What would we keep the same
My vote would be to leave before our hearts got stained
And things got strained
They asking me How long I’ll stick around once the love is gone
I tell them baby I'm gone
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