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They say please keep it real, be who you really are But it's hard to imagine that when reality's a farce I feel apart from all the standards that society would bring Bring a mental diet plan to try and enlighten me At lightning speed, I'm like a bee with fire wings,cut through the wind With a gentle E-Y-E, I feel the judgment pierce the skin Don't know where the fear begins and ends It just appears with friends and trends And we struggle, stay subtle, screams are silent above the fringe Love the pen, hate the terms maybe I'll just stay obscure Bathe in all the sunlight and let god take what nature cures Don't need to say the words but it's a gift and blatant curse To wrap around my finger, kill the nerves and make it hurt Make it hurt, make it work stay alert (x3) So What you done in 30 years? not a lot I see Still looking for a place to park and build my own monopoly Head across the boardwalk and visit the pacific The money and the mansion man idea is so addictive But how do I get it? more than that, how do I find it continuance of blindness and constant realignment To live a dream or be a dream, I must exist somewhere in between Snapping off the top like my own skin is pinching me But what would sicken me is course throughout history The slavery of every race, I hope that white guilt gets erased But still it stays and I know the future verdict Like Louis C.K. said, we're fucked and we deserve it So what's purpose, morality is lurking I'm banking on some inspiration that is yet determined And maybe chasing ways for me to be a better person Redefine, realize, and reset to better versions Learning is a burden and I'm burgeoned with a sermon That is spread throughout the internet, with no hope of it curing The bed we made is stirring with a self-defeated purring That curls up, beside us and let's us know we're hurting make it hurt, make it work stay alert(x2) Down, down, down that road where it stops nobody knows Use what I loathe to help me grow but no time for whining,on with the show.

been 5 years since I sold a show out obstacles and me go toe-to-toe now and you really wanna ask me what's the lowdown better move out they way like I made a snow plough, now if I'm allowed, to lift this crowd, or lift this crown it gets denounced, I'm here to pounce or trounce or give enough energy to make you bounce effort by the ounce, finding pleasure in amounts seeking cheddar like a mouse, resurrect this house no testing the waters, I'm stepping out perplex the style when I set the dial doctor shoulda told me don't ingest the vial but I swallowed it all and then broke the wall new mutation I'm so evolved, but it won't resolve all the hope's dissolved wash clean off me, I'm here to cut off the knotted strings and not a thing is set in stone but I pull out the sword like I'm ready for war and if you got negativity I deaden the source and relatively I am ahead of the source and gotta guarantee that I am ready for more redirecting the board like when a veteran scores and you think the spot's safe, but I'm headed for yours and I need not aim when I bee-bop bang key to the game,sling hot slang y'all know the protocol or don't at all we're taught to show our scrotum and balls so that the respect quota can fall Chorus: It's not time for me to behave Cuz it's the A-N-A way, these days so I make plans, shake hands, take chance, elevate stance they can't hate fam, cuz I am one hell of a man It's not time for me to behave God knows my punchlines are juicy He also knows my ego's unruly He also knows I have a design with him in mind, to ultimately have him speak through me Life in a scope and It's wrote like a movie Use my quotes to keep the soul moving Views I hold with a truth so bold That what unfolds is clutched from scrolls butter on a roll when I'm rushed in a mode justice is told cuz I trust in the flow underground speakerboxxx put it in the earth watch it transmit all the love below do for yourself cuz it's what we know any unloyal is another cheat code we always cry wolf and I seen this show and always think wolves are the CEO's we think we're owed, a bunch of dough whoa is me promise is uncomfortable any limit that you see is a bump in the road and immediately gets punched in the throat Know, that I know what you know and you gotta keep it cool like space to pluto gotta stay hungry, crazed cujo and classy in the zone like we sipping Ouzo Ohhhhh I guess the scene is blurry like a cataract Hopping on the saddleback and jumping past the cattle crap Battle rap is dead to me unless it's Vesh or Knalo G I make no apology, this movement needs to follow me Chorus

Supposed to be a clear one van gogh, gas up van go, seeing the future, land ho Carry the ant load, bury the rants whole when the stars turn right yeah they all burn bright chew through loose screws all termite waving off the pilots, don't drop the thermite who knows if the words might ignite the type of fight that make us reassess our rights All opinions are right,but they veer to the left system up and down leave it tiered to the death man I been underground but I'm here to connect yeah I been spun around but I'm here in the flesh and I will run around til the fear isn't fresh find my afraid put a spear through its chest we all want the best, don't we, don't we sometimes that quest can leave ya so lonely Bridge: Im praying for a dark night stars the only sign of light that might just find a life And maybe when the sun comes we can fix the undone But for now pick a point, then run, run I don't know what it means , I don't know what it is Something's telling me to live, I need to exist I need to be here..... until my fate appears Chorus(x2): Pray for me, Pray for me, The name's A-N-A came to tell a few stories Pray for you, Pray for you We all need a lift when the times turn blue When I look through it all and I get a clear view The struggle and the hustle ain't nothing new It's up to you, it's tough to prove, adjust and move but in the end, we all got nothing to lose Imagine a painting with every single brushtroke up close, personal, every turn versatile Horizontal, vertical and make it reach your vertigo and maybe teach a little bit of hope for a fertile growth Seeds get layed, then we get played and each day seems like a dream away stopped in the tracks like a brief delay that keeps us from trusting what we need to say lips get sealed like a bag of leftovers things stay real, still dirt on those shoulders live for the fame and want the exposure everything we claim, erased as we get older I don't know about you, but I know about us anything good, we must consider a plus shake off the rust success is hard to sight but anything's possible on a starry night Bridge Chorus (x2)

I seen the sunrise for more than a couple days Sunrays in different colors combine to one shade One day, One hour, sunflowers bloom Window streaks fill the sheets buggin out in my room Consume with a tune that sounds like beauty from a loon Moody itching for the moon but it's too bright now the opposite of night now, but right now, I'm quite down to teeter on the cliff, jump out,see if I can fly around wired with the sound, so inspired, hit the town Grabbing flyers from the boards, Rapping cyphers outside stores, and pushing past those doors and looking for allure that remotely seems pure even if it isn't sure Keep digging towards the core we always itching for more Get yours I know we'll find a way To a much brighter day I know we'll find a way Today is our day No different races, but many different faces from many different places, Today is our day Our way, our stage our moment for a reality check, equal out, balance the deck bounce of cassettes to the skipping in a discman To download of an mp3, music still makes an imprint Persistent, never beg to be indifferent I used to selfish, aim for the selfless, that's the mission A former shell of self, the new one prays for you to listen I'm starting up the pistons, in the seat getting lifted Ejecting me to infinity, ready for this expedition Ready to vex the pessimisim, stretch the sketch until the hidden text has risen, We don't need a net to live in We gonna reach for nexus, living Everyone next to us is living giving everything they have please Free all our insecurities, lift off what burden thee Fix all what's hurting deep Thick scars need surgery but the discharge the nerves you see we are the birth of trees ground, dirt and worms that feed Life begins and ends, energy spreads for eternity What's concerning you is also concerning me Life is emotion connected like circuitry I know we'll find a way To a much brighter day We all fall asleep but I am wide awake There's no time to waste (x2) Holding on to everything, but letting go is petro Fuel is a tool, that motivates more than a few uplift over the cruel, substance holed in the truth but the truth can appear in so many changing forms angles worn, delay the norm, race with what came ashore Days turn to hazy storms Remember what you're playing for In the end, this game is yours I know we'll find a way To a much brighter day We all fall asleep but I am wide awake There's no time to waste

Two arms and two feet Two legs and two hands What you do with it, is the journey of a true man Socket wrench, pliers and a little bit of grease Fixing up the tires, 4 plug to slip off the piece drift off to peace and come back to hard work and sweat and if you learn something then you know it's a debt We settle for the less, and hoping we can live off it But a lesson that I take is that you can build off it Chorus: I'm trying to build something, something you can feel rushing Something you can see, when you breathe leave you still buzzing Don't tell me it's real cousin, cuz real is still bluffing And we are stuck in motion, hoping for the chill coming I'm trying to build something, mountains, hills upping To a different peak that we seek and we still lunging No longer can I take being sealed in the dungeon It's time to levitate to a place, let me build something They say to make a garden grow you gotta know the basics Seeds instead of weeds and a fertile location And in this occasion I'm using those paces To glorify the time to fly and playing no favorites Tell me how the scene is, embellishing a cheap trick They say they wanna help you but they don't really mean it Acting like a scenester, but everything I seen stirs Conjured images that could turn up into mean words But that ain't me sir I'm not here to complain just wanna challenge and put some air in the veins If you wanna struggle then I dare you to change But silence is the muffle for all affairs that we claim Paint me as a villain, but I need to tell the children That you can be the cure to all the hell in the village And if you call it underground then we can call it anything Have to go defend the king always time to pass the ring Don't need the raps to sting, just to need to be conflictive Call it how you see it and there's no time for restriction No way you catch me slippin when I'm fitted in the rhythm In the end we can transcend all effects of our decisions Chorus Humans need to procreate, just a fact of nature proper ways to motivate, and open up the golden gate And just in case you're curious I represent the sota state The place with such a cold case we laugh at all the snowflakes Building up the igloos with a lake full of issues what you build's a legacy, you can't take it with you until the bite hits you, a starry night gets you a frozen hip, broken lips, a tin full of fish food Ginsu, chop it up, calling what sent you for all of us rent's due The toll bell played Now we motel 8, but I won't sell face Cuz what's on the horizon is a soul-dwell phase Being so well trained is a zone self-saved Working at the lumberyard, never more the undercard Heading for the fucking stars, it's such a cliche But let me show you what I can build Today Chorus

Beady Eyes, soft coat, fidget tail On a new journey, set sail Let me watch ya, wander up and over snow mountains, no doubting delicate feet never leave ya so grounded whoa balance, keep in tact pile high gourmet, keep in stacks no lean-to, but the tree's your shack did we know that? I mean while we sleep, you go pack Same routine as far as you go back But life expectancy not quite protecting thee Spreading seeds past the front lawn seam While you gnaw off weeds But can't get caught on that street it's a flatline Flattened by the rubber 'til the skin gets smothered No wonder, you're finnicky, everything's so big Your entire existence seen through the lens of a kid Racing thru a plant forest with rocks and twigs Hopping on the branches with that zipnut jig Never heard you make a noise Never seen you fight a fly But I seen ya get nuts, like baby ride or die! My o My, how the tiny could rise Keebler Elfs gonna get bit in their sides Twitch, Twitch, Twitch, or maybe Itch, Itch, Itch and the golfers really hate you on the pitch, pitch, pitch So switch it up, you move way too fast You're the Usain Bolt through them blades of grass Scurry to the bushes, that's your favorite dash Quick plate of pistache, running wires with a playful panache That's the M.O. kiddo Watch you eat your stash like an entree of skittles Even though you're little I know your pride's stone chiseled Survival of the fickle when the grindstone trickles Don't blame you for avoiding those icicles With soft furry claws that might be quite brittle Ditto, I know you're hungry as a hippo But do your dance with every grand weeping willow I look at you and think the fur's fluffy like a pillow Wanna wave to you but you never say hello You live in our yard, home is stuck like velcro I'm reaching out with no tweet or cellphone I guess you're thinking, "Colin stop tripping" But what would I do if I was in your position? It's Like, what would I do if I was in your position?

Jim was a grandpa, settled in the northwoods Numb to pain,none to gain,ever since he lost his foot But he called the country roots cuz his life was the soil Lived a bland day, but the brain's in turmoil Kept the words loyal had a daughter so sweet That she would stop by and hug him, love him every week She had a hubby and a little one, Jim's grandson Not more than six, so adored in every pic and Jim loved the little guy, but gave him the hardest time I guess Jim thought that good men are hard to find Training up the toddler with respect and some posture And if he got sick, Jim would take him to the doctor He felt the need to do it, cuz emotions get bothered And truth be told, jim didn't like the kids father He hated him, anxiety was razor thin Such a cold heart, that he could never really take him in He kept the mouth closed, knowing it was not his place But waited for the day when he could punch him in the face Jim kept a jar in the garage, with formaldehyde His severed foot is what could be found inside A token to the past of wartime and bombs blast and he watched so many die, life took a long crash and he just woke up with a breath the throat clutched Mad at anything cuz he had to be so tough Chorus: They say life can change in an instant But that's the result of the way we make decisions We are who we are, many shades, so different Actions speak loudest and make the biggest imprint We know life can change in an instant And that's what we learn from experience and wisdom We are who we are, despite our intentions but actions speak loudest and make the biggest imprint So much time alone, the trees became his best friends along with whiskey and gin, spilling out the tin Feeling real about to binge, instead he peeling out to end and every sky he sees is bent with a neverending twinge It's a hell on earth, where he fell off first and the stump of his leg could always swell on burst And it hurts, but he still takes the day to work wields the blades with curves and makes creative furs But one night his daughter came back from the shack All bruised and black, clear victim of attack Jim didn't say a word cuz the kid was asleep In fact, he didn't even murmur for a week Took a ride to hubby's house said he went hunting And there's no doubt he was about to kill something Opened up the door with the hubby in recliner One shot, hubby's sitting in the downstairs diner Chorus

Analyrical: Grab the snorkel just to feel immortal reach the portal Heart can spar with mind, until divide, no time to peace the quarrel Beefin with no reason but the balance isn't even leaving talent in the region it's a calculated grievance But we sink into the meaning, feeding curious to cynical Until you reach the summit, there's no way to know the pinnacle cylindrical in interval but when it spins in full Stuck in empty mixed with dull, receptors just pinch the skull I'm a writer to the core, but killing cyphers with a score When I'm spitting in the booth, feels like lightning hit the boards I'm a figher lifting swords Heavy titan fit with horns Steady striking leave ya bore like shoplifting in a store War, that's what it means to be a vet A spider making webs, you know I weave a silhouette Leave 'em wet, so depressed, hold a sesh, know you vexed This fresh midwest vibe We call it Minnesota Bedstuy! Chorus: I try to keep it literal But mind's too deep keep sifting through the mineral Hard to define or design in general But we hear the truth in every line, every syllable We take it to the space age, everything is digital Fresh in the approach and all quotes are seminal Stealing music is the norm, nothing really criminal I just hope what I wrote never turns INVISIBLE NL: You've installed the latest update, a play list upgrade, the dessert to your lunch tray/ While some say, they live their life on a runway and let their gun spray/ it's all a waste/ they aint haulin weight or whippin raw for cake/ It's an invisible fantasy. I'll paint a literal canopy of my minimalist anarchy/ Every syllable on this tapestry combines to fill in my mastery, making em say "uhhh" like master p/ Watch as I disassemble what you fabricate, I'm no less than nimble at a frantic pace/ You claim to go lynch mode for the fans you fake/ It's simple you can't escape, like you in Gitmo turning pantywaste when a panic breaks Chorus NL: this isn't to riddle you/ we should get rid of who, isn't true/ No interview/ You unaware what you living through/ the mising clue, if you compare the given two it's like setting off flares in your living room/ ME: You can see me in your in sights I'm not one to cheat the plight I just wonder if we right, delaying a massive strike use an acid test to see the words upon the page we never turn invisible like ninjas on a raid Chorus

They on that tricky tip That ish is icky ick I train your brain and do the math baby arithmetic You wanna flame then flick a bic or spliff a whick Bathe in oil catch a wicked drip before I come extinguish it Searching for a motif Never keep it lowkey Feeling god just like loki, holy Moly, sota's only doting homie so I can tame these phonies Get a fresh drink, just like sobe Well trained I am kenobi I slice 'em up shinobi I'm gearing up a roadie backseat writing, weaving, driving we be gliding, seeking, finding each enlivened with a peak insid 'em stuck with the dreams beside 'em Control the sea, poseidon me and my soul be reunited Why would I think to fight it I am the best, you can't deny it Chorus: Starting from a single stream Yes I form my own regime I don't know about you But i am destined to be a king Flowing from a single stream Holding on to golden dreams I be rolling, showing The scene what being dopest means Finding angles, protractor So many goals to go after I've grown to be a dope rapper So fear for me must be no factor Sitting on top of a prizm depicting the vision I'm given and sending in sentence The pennace is hinting the enemy's tipping So frantically spinning I damage and hit 'em Leave bandages splitting the man on a mission Keep cramming precision with vanity missing A spanning description of sanity's image So just understand I'm eventually winning Alright y'all silly sally's No need to dilly dally I'm sipping mexicali feeling extra rowdy Shots of patron Off of the dome You already know, I got the cajones Competing is not even even I'm leading the race by several lengths I look inside your eyes to see that you are not the rivalry Too hot for y'all to try and breathe, I tear it open, find the seam Look me up, book it up How long y'all think I cooked this stuff? ain't giving out no hooks or roughs Just Masters from a master, so calm down you bastards You can't chop my stature, I'm heading for the rafters I'll speak with y'all after Chorus