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Dish Flow
04:36
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I'm gettin' back into my dish flow
The running water helps my thoughts grow
My hands move automatic and my head goes
wherever it wants watch out for average Joe
I never knew I had it in me to get down and scrub
all the messy aftermath of your daily grub
but when I tried it out, found that in the kitchen there's a lotta love
They knew I was broke, so they gave me free subs.
I worked outta gratitude. That was the right attitude.
Pretty soon, in the dish pit, I was the baddest dude.
Set the mood in the back without bein' rude
to the customers out there enjoying their food.
Never wooed any servers but I made 'em smile
made the dish pit relaxing so they could chat awhile.
Didn't spit bile about managers or fuckin' Kyle.
Just scrubbed on the tiles with the mind of a child.
I whiled away the hours in thought without pot.
Though I'm not opposed to the herb, still think I ought
to have periods where instead of smoke I scrub a pot.
I know I repeated a rhyme, but fuck you that was hot.
I'm gettin' back into my dish flow
The running water helps my thoughts grow
My hands move automatic and my head goes
wherever it wants watch out for average Joe
I throw a rack on the sink and it's off we go.
Grab a hose and initiate the neuro-flow.
All I know becomes an entertainment show.
Seeds I sow get watered and I begin to row
down the thought streams, drain 'em if they're not clean.
Tear out the rotten beams on all my forgotten dreams.
Clean up my mental kitchen. Scrub away the stale bitchin'.
Troubleshoot whatever's glitchin' with my spooky midnight witchin'
I'ma sitcha down later when the kitchen is closed,
tell you all about the stories that I just composed
In my dome before I get home and pen it in my tome
When I am all alone and nobody can
tell me to tone it down or bitch about loud sounds
or ground me downtown, only place I'm allowed to clown
Dammit, I said clown, the Juggalos found me.
Peek-a-boo, Faygo fam, now gather all around me.
I'm gettin' back into my dish flow
The running water helps my thoughts grow
My hands move automatic and my head goes
wherever it wants watch out for average Joe
(Guitar solo)
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2. |
Concentrate
04:01
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Five is the new time to wrack and attack all the
readily made rhymes that sit in the back of your
chemically glazed minds. You huff and you puff but you
cannot attack mine. Like Illuminati you
Look at my weak spots, hoping I'll crack like
gullible tiny tots who buy all your records I've
seen your kind a lot. You boast and you brag of
Almost getting shot, well here *gunshot*
Firin' blanks, psych! But now you can see what
flirtin' with death is like. It's not what it seems.
It keeps you up at night, gets into your dreams.
Is all that worth the mic? You see what I mean?
Fuck the dudes that tell you better get strapped.
Your life's in danger? Well, you fell in the trap,
cuz every line you sell, the trigger is tapped
And now you live in hell because of your rap.
Next time around, maybe you'll think about
All the hateful sounds that came from your tinkerin'
Drivin' kids down the road to the clinker
Your souls are hellbound (He said with a wink)
Nope! Get outta my head, your lies are past!
cuz Lucifer is dead, I battled his ass and
every word I read and heard in class is
all he ever said, so I told the masses
Make your own words! I just started
Writing in Purple and I just farted.
Go be absurd, go to wal mart and
drop a fake turd in a shopping cart.
Do something new to make a splash
before your date is due and you turn to ash
It don't gotta be a coup, it could be a bash,
but work's important too, so get off your ass!
Life is a game, but the rules are never the same
Twice and it can sometimes be lame, but we all get
beat don't be ashamed. Never let no
one call you dumb, doom you to a
bottle of rum, you can be much
more than a bum, if you concentrate...
Back in my school yard, all of the kids were
Out playing cards, not looking up vids where
bums on xanny bars get curb kicked
The internet's gone too far, where's the off switch?
I'm growing terrified of all the rage
the internet barely hides on every page
It eats me up inside that I live in an age
where either you pick a side or get minimum wage.
So I made my own, the side of the man
Who's tired of bein' alone, without a plan.
Because the seeds I sown produced a plant
Of species unknown, that got banned.
Never again, y'all, if you got something
relevant to us all or a beat that's bumpin'
Come give me a call, I'm a thought dump
I'll look in my crystal ball like Poke Runyon.
Tell you whether or not you got a hit
And show you the rough spots to fuck with it.
I'll teach you to take your thoughts and bit by bit
Go fight the battle I fought with bullshit.
Sixty four lines is not enough space to
tackle all the binds that shackle our race.
We can't stay blind to the lies in our face
that everything is fine or this song is a waste.
Don't believe the teachers tellin' you how
The good life's out of reach, so grab a towel.
It's only meant to leech your personal power, so
go and find your niche, and call her a cow.
Make your own school, and make the teachers
people you think are cool, not fuckin' preachers.
Open up the pool beneath the bleachers.
Just don't act a fool. You're a knowledge seeker.
Life is a game, but the rules are never the same
Twice and it can sometimes be lame, but we all get
beat don't be ashamed. Never let no
one call you dumb, doom you to a
bottle of rum, you can be much
more than a bum, if you concentrate...
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3. |
Chemistry Sets
02:10
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I like to play with my brain a lot, and
I don't care if it's a toy or not.
Neurochemicals have always fought for
Control of my thoughts, but I knew I ought to
take command, stick to the plan
Takin' my chemistry back from the man.
Crew that I ran with dug on insanity
If we saw vanity, you would get banned.
Courage unshakable, no drug untakable,
We would get down to the Deep Mind.
When we got off of it, words of the prophets
Always just seemed to repeat mine.
Center of everything, right there in front of me
When you have seen it, you'll know what it done to me.
You can make fun of me all that you want, homie.
When you go crazy, you're gonna run to me!
I don't know what sober means.
Didn't I just eat some beans?
What's a food and what's a drug?
Ask my teachers, they just shrug.
WIll this acid boil my brain, or will it help me be sane?
No one knows cuz they won't let
us play with our chemistry sets.
Pressure is building everywhere.
Makin' it harder to live as a square.
Burdens they bear, with nobody there
cuz nobody cares about their tupperware.
They got me scared for the future of people.
They swallow each lie that leaks under the steeple.
Just because somebody looks solemn and regal
don't mean what they do off the pulpit is
Legally speaking, I don't wanna get in hot water.
I ain't tryin' to put tabs on your tongue, or dose your daughter,
but you oughta check your brain for neuroses, once you've caught 'em,
your whole outlook can start to change, like leaves in autumn, like
BAM! I'm in triplet time again.
Found a new pattern of rhyme again.
Damn, it's that played out line again.
Running it through the rewinder again!
I don't know what sober means.
Didn't I just eat some beans?
What's a food and what's a drug?
Ask my teachers, they just shrug.
WIll this acid boil my brain, or will it help me be sane?
No one knows cuz they won't let
us play with our chemistry sets.
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4. |
I Am I, But Why?
02:56
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First look at your body, how's it make you feel?
Then ask yourself are those feelings really real?
Who's asking all these questions? That reveals
the plane of thought, then I ask myself what turns those wheels?
On the heels of a life changing discovery
Looking up at the strings got a hold of me.
I believe that belief makes the man and I see
How I work, won't shirk just cuz I'm free.
I'm a self-employed servant of the world!
Swine or beauty, y'all are welcome to my pearls.
Don't move a lot, but I been doing thought curls!
You don't believe me, just give this a whirl.
So far we've found, something's lookin' at your thoughts.
You don't know what it is, but you know what it's not.
It couldn't be another thought cuz then again we're caught
In the observation loop that you just fought
Well I don't know about you, but I know I Am I.
I know it's not a lie, because I'm askin' why.
And only I can guide the fire in my mind.
Don't have to sign a line, for what is really mine!
I'm a self-employed servant of the world!
Swine or beauty, y'all are welcome to my pearls.
Don't move a lot, but I been doing thought curls!
You don't believe me, just give this a whirl.
Everybody in the world is named I,
But nobody wants to question why.
Everybody in the world is named I!
But nobody wants to question why!
I Am I, but why?
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5. |
Call Me Crazy
04:38
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I'm declaring a mind war against all the lie stores
Who create the iWhores who soon become eyesores
Who laugh because I'm poor. While they eat their five courses
I gather my forces building a mind vortex,
And of course sex, is on my mind sometimes but rhyme is fine
till I find the kinda blind passion I possess
Power to manifest, embark upon great quests
and tackle emotional tests, till you rise above the rest.
I tend to assess people on a different scale
than most males rather than seduction or impale,
mine goes in between to listen or regale,
I don't succeed or fail, I'm only here to tell the tale.
I haven't been nailed in four years (Poor dear!)
Yeah, yeah I know the drill. Thanks for all the fake tears.
My only fear is I won't find a girl here
to help me make a child so that I can help the future steer.
My head's clear, and I know what I'm here for.
I clear stored up energy and free it from its fear source.
I hear forces in the air spreading ear torture
boring into my friends as their creativity ends
My mental lens is distorted at a lucky angle
Evolution solved a tangle, now let's make a hit single.
I had to wrangle lotsa chemicals but once I learned to angle
for the good thoughts, I saw just why the carrot dangles.
The new fangled approach is just the old ways
takin' on a new face because the world's a new place.
We're in a race with our reverse transcriptase.
That's a molecule that ties your DNA's shoelaces.
Medical mazes aside, we're on the social plane.
Our decisions only reside in what our little brain
perceives and reacts to in order to appear sane.
It fears the flame of knowledge cuz it's not built to handle the strain.
Cuz I don't need you to stay sane
I've found another way
Brains are toys with which I play
Mainly cuz they called me crazy
(Crazy, CRAZY!!!)
There's no dread in my mind of bein' lonely.
It's only illusory you're always in your own dream.
Your lone means of escape is to remotely
Observe the shape of your mind, but better keep it low key.
The soul tree has got some vines in its outer foliage
I got me some hedge clippers, can I just get paid in knowledge?
I don't need sex or money, just pay for my college.
Because apparently I need it just to be acknowledged.
Give me a cottage in deep woods, that's all I need.
Let me go outside and grow myself some dank weed
And some other seeds to feed myself and silently lead
the masses to the future from the book of nature I read.
Don't believe my lies, I'm just a regular guy
I'm blind, I just watch the thoughts go by.
I'm high! I could be a spy to guide you into shady ties
With the kinda risin' threats that buy you prison time!
My thoughts are lined with programs like toejam.
They look and smell nasty when you gotta go at 'em with
both hands and grope rancid memories. Hope can't
Save you from the dope dance involved in psychocancer.
You gotta lance it. Believe me it hurts,
but at least when it's done, you'll feel better, not worse
and when the hearse comes for you, you'll be better attuned
to the room you enter once you're done observing the nurse.
Cuz I don't need you to stay sane
I've found another way
Brains are toys with which I play
Mainly cuz they called me crazy
(Crazy, CRAZY!!!)
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6. |
You Own The Night
05:00
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You own the night, you own the day,
so go and live 'em up your own way
Cuz you're the only one who can press pause on this play,
so just do what your soul say.
Lookin' out my window, I see darkness and despair,
but when I open it up, I get a breath of mountain air.
I suck it in, like the nectar of the gods in the sky!
I know they're nothing without us, and our power to decide.
We do our own thang, just like Funkadelic sang
If everybody's goin' for yin, I'll spit a little bit of yang.
Make a bang not a buck, it'll balance your karma.
Then your lack of distraction'll build a natural dharma.
If all this buddha talk is hurtin' your ears, then it's clear
Your worldview is operatin' on foundations of fear.
I shed tears for my peers who build their cages and walls
around their minds instead of heedin' mother nature's call.
It's always possible to take a sledge hammer to your brain.
That's what meth does, kids, but it can drive you insane.
Myself, I recommend just opening a door to your dreams.
Your wakin' soul may be controlled, but sleep is more than it seems.
You own the night, you own the day,
so go and live 'em up your own way
Cuz you're the only one who can press pause on this play,
so just do what your soul say.
A cold day, no help from the sun's rays.
Warehouse empty, and my dreams boilin' over on the stage.
I feel rage, when somebody gonna open my cage?
I pray to Mars and shake the bars, but I get minimum wage!
Sociophage, an assassin to the Mores of the age.
I blow a dart into the heart of your facebook pages.
The sages fortold that we were gonna start bein' bold
when our identity was threatened by the vice of the old.
The ice it was cold, that froze our hearts and painted 'em gold.
And boxed 'em up with a bow and down the river were sold.
Art degenerates from commentary down to a babble
and so I dabble in the forces that give shape to the rabble
and break the shackles so their minds can be enabled to travel
between the thought structures with the lost language of Babel.
We got the tools to create a new reality grid.
Let's see what happens when the two polarities have a kid.
You own the night, you own the day,
so go and live 'em up your own way
Cuz you're the only one who can press pause on this play,
so just do what your soul say.
Mystical musings aside, it's a brand new day.
Don't let my ramblin' confuse you or lead you astray.
I'm just lettin' words flow through.
That doesn't mean that they're true.
I just won't let them corrode in my brain.
This pen don't listen to me.
I'm just lettin' it be free.
It takes its orders from the source of my pain!
You own the night, you own the day,
so go and live 'em up your own way
Cuz you're the only one who can press pause on this play,
so just do what your soul say.
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