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Intro
01:12
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Artificial Life
03:49
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Please excuse me if I sound perturbed/As I wrap nouns and predicates around these verbs/As I murder the redundant first that you're worth a couple bars in this verse/Personally I claim an emergency/A true champion/On top of the world but I'm gambling evangelists/I'm handling the same damn fans that you're abandoning/I'm rambling but this was always more than just a hobby/On top of the steps I raise my hands like Rocky/Cocky arrogant a little bit of both/A little frozen in time/But a little bit warmer than most/And I would been a completely different person if punk rock didn't raise me/But hip hop is the one that finally saved me/But now I'm just a man without a country/A van without a front seat/Hard to understand then just confront me/This music was a sacred place for all of us to live/But now its just a gimmick filled with a bunch of lifeless kids
So now they tell me it's a long way home/And now they tell me it's a one way road/Stop and listen everybody's bitching/There's nothing we can do we're only on a mission/Real recognize real, what's the deal/Everybody wanna step up take mine and steal it/So now they tell me it's a long way home/And now they tell me it's a one way road
And as this fire burns/My wings expand/So now I'm taking off/But I'll be back again
As the fires burning/I know that my desires worth it/Working harder/Farther than the longest reach/Could I acquire power that I could tower the biggest man/Be the advantage/Adapt survival of the fittest man/Be the fantastic past present and backwards/Rap better and blast em/Smash crafts and black letter mask them/Fast detonator literal animator I'm on it/Grab a pen and paper kill a robot and I flaunt it/Pawn the schematics and I'll add the cash/Passionately mix and match/Missing the axis/As the android relapses/Thats it read it and weep/As your freedom and your innocence immediately leave/And I'll be what the situation calls for/All for one but never one for all/Remember excess couldn't be the reason that we're over saturated/Patch the remaining holes to smash your fucking radios easy
So now you draw the line between yourselves and artificial life/What is reality?
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Lost Touch
03:55
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I just recently lost touch with the man I thought I was/Mechanical Anakin anarchist just missing love/Huffing the fumes of unity/Ruin the new impunity/Rude as these fucking nerds/I suffer cause its new to me/Now who want a nightmare/Right when I fight another demon I was dreaming even I wasn't right there/Yeah I come in colors so vivid even my summer was tinted 50% mother fucker repent/On any given weekday/Making the weak pay/They let me speak cause even the meek pray/Deep between the lines/They don't need to be defined/Decency is even leaving I don't need to make it mine/And I don't believe in blurring em/Alcohol slurring em/And I recall the current state of real is preferring em/It's permanent pain in the late cretaceous/It's the terms you make when you fake creations
Now why would I wanna decide/Between my life and my rhymes/I find it difficult cause this is all of mine/Climb every single ladder stabbing swagger in the back/Maniac without a weapon and I'm never saving rap/So relax if it's a passion/Ash in the past like a cigarette/Better yet find something else to sweat/Rest assured that this music is yours/And you can use it moving forward while your crumbling doors/And while you're mumbling something about the revolution coming/Just for the hell of it I'll relish embellishment/But the fellowship lies while your fellows spit lies/Kiss the skies with your devilish eyes/Now what do you think that you need this for/Give it back to the basic carnivores/Cause everything you fake is everything I can't afford/Cause I'm more than a man/More than an animal/More than an immortal formidable human I'm incompatible/With the world I walk in/A portable coffin/Caught in the middle of affordable lock in/Stacked up in the riddles of the kill that I'm stalking/No reality I shouldn't be talking/But always I'll be walking the provocative thin line/Evocative biography I'll pirate the design/And I'll try and unwind in a faster way/Found nothing but answers I cast away
Nobody ever knows that the pain I'm feeling isn't real/It's made from the message left in cow shit/Now how should I pronounce it/Didn't mean synonym was my name/But my shame is etched in four letters/Better off I'll soar better/is it Aayu/Double A-Y-U/Another apathetic youth unit choosing to try you/Didn't see the entropy/It should have been gone with the needle out my heart/I feed a little feeling peeling off my arm/It's caustic and calloused/But i've lost the balance/It's only a cost so i'm coughing up a challenge/Man I'm on a mission/Wishing I'm reconditioned reprogrammed reactivated/It's how the facts are stated/Maybe I'm a little too old/A little too brittle to just let it unfold/For an empathetic man I'm more cynical than most/Or maybe I cant stand what I hold so close
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Safe and Sound
04:48
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I've been free since twenty four/The reason that I do this for/Alive with instrumentals/Accidentally experimental/Monumentally display the fundamental knowledge that the glory never offers/We're the story and the authors/But don't forget to move units/Ruins reek of positivity/Leaving nothing/Believing that the keys were being tossed to me/I'm lost at sea conceiving every beast and every burden/Hurting the beating hearts of every piece and every verdict/They got no soul but there ain't no telling them/They bottle up they product and we'll sell em better medicine/They dropping once we cut em/Run amuck/Confront the son of of gun/The son of a man/Rampant with the thought of em/I bought a bought million records/I reckoned they'd be better/I systematically inspected every single letter/But never would I find a valid source for me to set it down/I got it now/the same sound I never found
I live in a lie/But the futures in my hands/Am I gonna be safe/From everything everywhere/I believe I will/Don't you have the mind state that someday you're gonna be safe?
Roughing the rest of my vision isn't religion is it/Minute by minute I begin to live within it/Maybe i was setting limits on myself/But it might help if I was learning how/Because it hurts burning out/I heard it before/Give up move out move it its gone/The only difference is I'm bringing it around me/It's honesty/It's all we ever needed if we wanna be safe/So basically Laissez Faire that we make/But it radiates like chemo/We don't need another c-note/Let the mother fucker bankrupt/We hang from the ranks of the majesty/Glad to be independent ran/My family surrounding everything that made the insanity much easier to bear/They see me I don't care/What would Hemingway accomplish if beliefs weren't there/Everywhere we turn we murder personal affairs/It's terminal and permanent/Confirm that you are scared of it… (I'm not in the business, I am the business)
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Don't Panic
02:57
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How am I supposed to breathe/With you standing over/Getting older is the hardest part I see/And I wont take for granted/If what I wrote was manic/I won't panic/I'm dramatically unseen
Woke up this morning with a deadline/Aches and pains/How am I gonna be fed right/Knives are creeping in and keeping all the windows dim/To see the scenery would only make me dread life/But I'm the type to write until damn hands bleed/Ask me/I don't give a fuck what life hands me/Nasty/Should have could have would have taken a different path/Shouldn't rap no more/Well y'all can kiss my ass/I'll sample the universe and give it away for free/I'll trample these nerds cause they cant see me/Cause I'm a phantom/They love what I hand em/Handsome as shit with a hand like a cannon/Man i'll split like an atom and i'll blow up/Spit like animal cause I don't wanna grow up/All I really wanna do is maybe get some dough up/Sho'nuff/Dispose of this fold up phone baby show love
Grew up in the underground/Born and raised/And at the playground is where I seen most of the hate take place/Ain't nothing better than a button up sweater to cover my scars/Regardless of the weather/Ever think back/To where you been at/Or maybe blink too fast you didn't get to see that/Cause life keeps moving even when our feet stand still/Land of the lost dreams/Plans that we had killed/Lately I've been a little too hoarse/Maybe i smoke too many Newports/Baby I've just seen the outside and it's warmer than you'd think/I won't embrace the end/I'll face my family and friends/And tell them thank you for the lessons/I wont stress it all again
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Phantom
03:55
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So you think you're pretty/But like it or not you're the same as you ever were/And so you think you're ready/But like it or not you're the same as you ever were/It's so hard to understand/it's everything everywhere/I know you can't stand/For everything everywhere/But it's the same thing at the same time/Remind me/I was alone once too
You ain't never been a part of nothing/Running outdoors just to show you something/Front to the back to the side view window/Sinned and again with the Benzo/Let's go get another father/When I find another mother fucker following them bamboo fools/And the rules don't apply when you're choosing to fly/But who can I be when I lose lullabies/But I'm not fooling anybody/I'm just a phantom buddy/Manning the cannons/My fantasies when I handled money/And if I wanted it running in and I cut em with it/Shut up/Rep for the gutter/Right for the butter/Motherfucker what
I will never stop showing that I am so sick/And I will never stop showing the world to you
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Nine to five I'm looking for drive/I've been murked so many times but I'm feeling alive/I've arrived/Man with a mystery mind/Finished with the gritty vision so I'm stitching you blind/Who come when the battles done/Stand back from the paddle son/Rattle infatuation/Smack you with my tongue/Aayu's a monster/Punking all impostors/Making silly music cause all the dark shits been conquered/I'm one in a million/Some say i'm brilliant/Building something from nothing/i'm inspiring civilians/So move to the beat with the DIY/Never be me so why you try/You preach to me but each and every one of you can freaking die/I'm that mother fucker/Cracking on you suckers/Smacking blunts out your mouth cause I run the gutter/Some cut a rug and other run and get a hug/From a thug like me/So shoot a drug like me/Yeah I'm sick of it/But I can dumb it down like you/And I can act like a gangster ass clown like you/But I'm better than that/Where's the Excedrin at/I'm a veteran and only getting fresher at rap
I don't have to save the world/But I'm a veteran/Some say I'm better than most I know
Let me tell tell you bout my struggle/I had no girl to snuggle/I had no money and was always looking out for trouble/But then my bubble burst right into this rap game/Back stage smoking crack with promoters was that lame/That same minute I was living the dream/But I was given a decision I was sinning it seemed/Don't let the crowd know your a bitch/Don't let em on take em off the list/You're a fucking thug and your fear don't exist/I look in the mirror and I see a big boy/And enjoy every single moment that I had to destroy/Rejoice in the glory of rap songs/And if it gets boring then you ain't been up in the trap long/That song that makes you get loud/Listen to it while you're sticking a gun in your mouth/But don't pull the trigger because the world needs rappers/And if you're hustling drugs then deals ain't a factor
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