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Artificial Life

from The Blacklister EP by Aayu

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Frustration. I tend to take things personally, especially music. Which isn't always a good thing. Sometimes bands and artists abandon their people. The people that were with them from the beginning. And sometimes the same people abandon their music. It happens. I was raised with punk rock. If you don't do it yourself then it doesn't get done kind of attitude. But hip hop sincerely saved my life. Music was always a place for me to run to when I needed to be comforted, but sometimes I feel like it is taken for granted. Real artists recognize real artists. So many artists are robots. Replicants. And once in a while I feel like I could retire them all, one by one. I have more confidence now than I have ever had before.

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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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from The Blacklister EP, released October 30, 2012

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