Swimming deep, thinking ahead / and other steps I keep forgetting to take / I see the remnants and vestiges of memories and / wonder if I had twice- baked them in my brain / deep fried memory contributing to the rose in my glasses / those moments I cannot live in anymore / of coursing through veins of thought and following / the string to its end to find a trap residing / and served over a delicious demiglace of effaced breathing / it's so difficult to simply sit in silence with this succulence/ yet essential to digestion is enjoyment in its own space / ever a glutton and never full I'll sup / until it's supine my one position 

Could call it loftiness to pause the raucousness / could be a higher state or bottom of a plate / I see the high and lows though I suppose they blend / there's a circle in your crops and it making profits bend / every ear to lend with no interest rate / trying to escape the hungry eyes of bigger fates / trying to pull the strings that were crafted for their soul / please make it stronger longer, strengthened and lengthened ya know? / no deal cut but the world drops away / fates wanna know exactly what you think you have to say / and on that witness stand you may then plead your case / but the judgment that gets passed will be your permanent place / so if you're ready commence to dive 'here's why I shouldn't die' / 'sell you on the concept of me getting eternal life' / break it down on strife but Shudder at the thought / they are just not that impressed by the slides you had brought / by the sides that you split by the oceans that you wept / by your promise to be honest and to never overschlepp / they don't wanna hear about all the change you may enact / all these greedy greasy maws want to hear is benefits you enact / give em a meal give em a snack, guarantee they take you back / easy enough to appease but their appetites a hole black / yeah, vast and unending / the upside at least is that they aren't pretending 1:36 Play your part, don't forget to improv it / whether fat and happy or low and impoverished / walk it how you talk it get an ace up in your pocket / when you take off in your rocket always give thanks to Goddard 2:00 All in due proper that's a prop I sling / to those who came before we now honor in sing/ and bother in song at same time I cannot just take / sign that I oghta vacate the world is now my willing crepe / so munch it down and laugh while the world chuckles too / accept the meaning and depth in every white dwarf and buckled shoe / see how it affects you and how you effect it / then perhaps we'll get through and you won't feel disaffected / at this moment I can see and feel it also / you want to take the steps and you do but it feels all slow / and all gone before it came yes indeed I know the pain/ but that is not the ending frame to the film that you must write again / and as I scrawl your name inside my book of fortunes / I pray that you will come to know this love in larger portions / it's harder to accept than I care to admit / but once you let it in its almost harder not to win

Poor sports sputter out torn distorted bluster / spreading key board clutter that amounts to less than mustard cut / on surface I sputter up and put them foes in a cobra clutch/ the mold and dust on every layer of their disgusting muck explodes and combusts/ the major motion made apparent thanks to effort spent / when the bottom crust gets rounded up all feeders gather to troll for lunch / I see you lampreys on the bottom preying on em / the way you move disgusting becomes a homonym express providence for once Say they know say they know every secret / when called upon its all humor not e threats / internalized is how we are forced to keep it / internalized until your demon rips through your skin And then it turns you into stone / when you realize you're a loan / and the debtors come to collect x2 1:07 Purport they got the proper notes / I've often been one to roll outta control / I try to hem it in but venom is a part of my precepts / not known to trust when souls are rust what left is there to teach them / each one spreads like a disease / the factors and patterns that spawned em layering / it's scorched earth for the redditors, no survivors in the discord / efforts of the few gets heard over all those crying to overlords / don't stay your sword

Let me be held whole while I'm strutting around broke / I overload and decompose the seedy poems I wrote / left work in the dust enough to fill a dirt devil / not much faith in the speech composed and that's on word rebels / They'll say hes okie doke rope a dope so uncomposed / but act beyond that break the chain you get the cages overthrown / a bit of pittance never stopped me from casting doubt / I'll still play the outcast til the crowd decide to cast me out /and that's just how it goes and been my poison pen has pierced the veil / twice or thrice my veins were ice I'm gaining traction losing mettle /there's no composer at the end of this piece / but if there were I'd have a stream of questions that never ceased starting with (Why are we blessed with this complicated existence?) Not to feed the meter but rather to feed our soul / so what's in the light at the end of the tunnel? / plots unfolded with an unslowed roll (what can one do to help without compromising oneself?) Open the traps and let em limp on / can we get through this rough patch without killing the earth? (Let's flourish the gardens and put death to the lawns) 1:15 Our field's never fallow keep the crop rotating / the passage that we crash through is a cavern in the mind / I'm always down for a fresh round of bloviating / we keep the flame burning through the pressing step of time / / precious with every line of logic stop and start this Stonehenge/ interrogate the pilot of this dirt ship and find his friends / track down the inventors and get the seeds distributed / grow and then flourish like they never intended it / grow beyond the bounds of cage and out of every lake / prosper hard enough to shake the universe's walls now / what's to stop us just some answers that we seek / question God about this while I'm pulling out its teeth

0:04 tonedeaf takes the pace is petty relentless / living for the best of what's to come it shows no deference / to the feet stuck in the path, rotting way back / the screaming teeming masses reaching for the ring of brass / but they put it on a pulley system for a game of keep away / sleepers say the cells are mitochondria bereft they just decay / I could rest it off to come back more presentable / catch a present-day fade and make the message more digestible / made to measure that's essential data we just let em take / how many are you willing to sacrifice for a spring break clam bake? / how else could we get the best of life? Every aspect has a price / so keep it to yourself all this mewling and these little gripes / suck the marrow out the dino bone / dole out drips of faux adrenachrome / doesn't matter how many sleep in factory cots / the blood cost is atoned / (let the sun bear down) strip away layers of protection / these ants seem to need a little lesson about investment / and their betters men of letters / who have so much to say about the way we break their fetters, that's all for the blood and oil blood and oil / how else can we get it? Blood and oil x2 sweat and toil break that back / the market now demands more grease for these new tracks / Fame-os and royals told us that / yet now for the labor they forgot to pay us back / vertebray it out, save me now, please inflate the bank account / there's some hater in my vein can you please just bake it out? / I broke the eighth gate with a third eye beam / locked in constant fossil combat with the bones of a dream / so the road is dusty what we give back to it isn't better than it seems / letters in the schemes / all seem to leap the page making sure that we succeed / in a way that don't resemble the reason for the forming of this team / scrape the drain and drink the grease / squeeze the heart and let it dribble into a pit that just got cleaned / by the next hollow king / all the knights of the round combine to sing

I paid the man he swung the rope and velvet splashed my eyes / entrance made to newer ways I hold in my surprise / a light-defying world shadows overwhelm and hug the stage / laughing clapping de-light now spread across my face / like the joy you feel when descending past real / when spelunking in mind is taking all of your time / it's the oceans you cross, when you're caught in a loss / and all that you can do from that day on is deal / I've seen the act but never in my backyard / my spine tingles through the muscle that's hardened / I feel the signal try to cross the wall of dead cell / I'll connect the dots for my endocrinal and speak the swell / then I'll drink the swill, as I have done before / and as we will again over conquered legions scorned / because this shadow that I see across my screen / is the ashen face I wear reflecting back at me if there's a way to pump out greatness / I might be the biggest clot in the vein / taste the blame and process the sadness / that's how I got the biggest liver in the game different is his name oh the dissonance to blame / there's a lot of factors that forged me that I have yet to claim / and so nowa's the spoken last nomenclature comfort patch / to wormwood i'm forever lashed credit's owed to checkered past cause / I feel I embody the idea of ambivalence / I know myself and I know nothing beyond that fence / and so I've taken steps to dive into my family / and I accept that things I see or learn may become damaging in time / ravaging in mind tip of diamond i'm drilling / discovering the facets in me a different kind of fulfilling / and when i'm feeling full pull the curtain back again / spend another chit choose a fresh situation / when, we are at the bend / in, the road of time and life that trenchant intersection / I hope to be the one you seek to dispense with weighted statements / we ought to be brushing up on breaking up a phalanx / your experience and memories I cast like a crap roll / seven deadened senses when your queen gets castled / and I know in this moment I might look like an asshole / but that's to get the will of fire in you to crackle hook once then if there's a way to sift through this muck / without catching a nasty stray stain / taste the shame in defeat and move past it / remember there is more to you than a name / if there's a way to pump out greatness / I might be the biggest clot in the vein / but we are all just scurrying t-cells / scared little neurons searching for a brain

I am a habit of staying / I am a function of nerves attempting to make new in-roads / I am finding my meaning in the shifting particles of dust and the showers of dead skin / we are all vibrating together on a certain level / and wondering if the other can sense the life in oneself / I am a habit of looking / too long at someone's hands as they work to cash out my findings / as they gesture and demonstrate to the chart plotting thought and determined purpose / the winding bone and muscle / the tightrope of sinew, mesh net of conscious freedom / the culprit of the creaking in my body maybe / showing that it's more than a habit inhabiting this vessel

Push the chatter to the side, take the conversations reins / if you had to describe your soul in animal frame / I would easily be geeking at the pains inside your thinking / how can you look at worm and not see the eight limbed sea king? / my flow so thermal that its comfort to the cold / my suction cup grip on the mic is telling / equipped with a mind clever and bold / smoothskin octopus is the mood I've been selling / squeezing through every portal, knowledge beyond immortal / inspiring eldritch things that live beyond this tiny coil / their eyes were watching God being born on a Thursday/ now more satisfied with spread tentacles in surf wave / often called the most delicious, only caught if it wishes / though I do hold affinity with crows and catfishes/ I guess a human existence is multiple parts / I flit through shades and facets never falter false starts We dont play dumb or dead, no direction kept / put the parts together, stitching up the limbs and head / we make a frankenspirit, we took every pain / you could make one too, go ahead and play the game Legs of flamingo, plumage hella regal / paste a couple fangs defy the logic of what we know /put it together faster to ensure we keep no master / I'm an alabaster beagle crossed up with golden eagle / assuredly we burn the tree and keep the forest healthy/ I'm feeling like an orangutan mixed up with a kelpie/ bizarro scorpion, my venom keeps you healthy/ but I never come alone, all my thoughts are here to help me right? / to keep my view fresh and the melon ripe / til its time to feast deny the sleep through hellish nights / I might toss turn tuned into where it burns / my frankenspirit stitches becomes sutures that I've earned

0:15 time is not the ruler they'd expect, and yet / when it comes to even hands and thoughtful judgment its the best or / something close to godliness cleanly confessor / expires when exposed to sun days pass I let em rot on fence / the vine creeps while I sleep and dream about / a long list of names and great grievances to scream 'n shout / that's the kind of mealy mouth that I used to run / while assured in my concurring that I'm the most chosen son / and while I bake and I broil under the weight of the world / one thought escapes me and foils how I perceive what unfurled / go from convinced of ones uniqueness to bottom of trash / a fall that most can't take I'm taking it fast / (so don't perceive memory with glasses rosy crimson / take heed now from me let it rest turn vermilion / bedsore for a brain I do mean to complain / there's a golden palace in there I gotta maintain) x2 maintain it maintain it / ring just once for maintenance / venomed fangs and honeyed words are / much the same all depends upon your preference in the swirl

Maybe I'll just play it out / maybe I'll make you pay in / your savings I loaned from the end to begin / I think I hear the bell calling beasts for din Always been a flake in fiduciary ways / never been a jake though stuffing up cake holes / play a game of telephone that never seems to end / as I run through a rotating list of amends / make trends, bend to my whim / hit em with the passion leaves em twisting in the wind / none seem to expect what I got up my sleeve / call that a trick, I don't mean to deceive / but you gotta play to win if you're gonna play at all / otherwise you're left last place at the haters ball / working valet to make pay ain't no way to break waves/ take a tip from me sonny, big dogs surf the haze / and I am looking very spuds Mckenzie/ if there's money to be made you'll still have to tempt me / cause I got the plan and I see the vision / rock shows from Alameda to Tempe plus distance (cake!) Hook I got the power, I hold the glow / I keep engagement flowing on phones / I hit the line, no electro / still a pretty bitch though my hair don't grow cause / living is all about confidence / rap game tom Paine this is common sense / seafaring onerous error throwing rats / trying to fill up with bilge and collapse this path / peer into the past, tear apart the seams / ripping at the fabric of impossible dreams / often I see where I've gone where to go though / manifests pressure got a hold like a black hole/ but even through that vast expanse I can still hold the game within just one hand / I could be the leader not abomination/ I can see the way through now i must break station Don't make the money let the money make you / sniff a moldy bale and inhale the truth / don't take the honey til the bees are through / sniff a moldy bill legislate the truth x2

Long steps, hard wood / conversation ricocheting off every surface, bouncing and rattling into and around each other / mixing and splashing, muddling and meandering around each another/ against the shine of the squeezing walls, the vibrations like / prisoners in the yard, ever expanding and snagging new sounds within itself / the only relief a padding of cash injection / constant and craven the methods to keep it flowing and enfolding / the palace walls, gold covered in rapidly cheapening fiscal wallpaper / cash coated and ready to roast inside the brass bull guarding his target marketplace / 

0:04 if I ever told you to wait for me, you could discard that nonsense / since then took a few steps and then I, rewrote that cosmic promise / thought I had been honest but the lie lived within / maybe I wanted to get caught and take life in prison / the issue with starting pacts is in honoring often we / make a lot of grandiose offerings without sense of where's it's dropping things like / lotteries of the stones cast hold back never/ matter fact, I'll do you one better / we will find the limit and we'll push it together / til your legs give out and my beard's gray weather / there's no better way to inveterate / the effort ennervates, I heard you at the grate / I saw the boat you made to reflect and facsimilate / on this topic I vacillate because you're either all I wanted or all that I hate guess that's the fate that you make If, you, trust, me / won't, you, fall, deep / I, can, not, sleep / as long, as you're, not near, me 1:10 It's one thing to have a home but man needs more than one refuge / to weather any storm keep breathing through the deluge of life / theres more than honor to succeed through strife it takes a good gut / and who will you get that from but highest steeples and bachelor above? / glass gets stained with more than color, god loves you more than your your onnerous mother / if there's a secret that's left to uncover / the lord is your purpose and also your udder / it's confusing me, that this is who you choose to be / it didn't matter when you were used to me but now you've gone and used your teeth / God can never sleep again and keep under light unblinking / but now that the promise lost is the one made without thinking / it's an honored contract often play the part of martyr martian / so succinct we made a nation where there's strictness in stagnation / play the part of sickness and you may just be forgiven / play the part of mistress and you might just find the mission / play the part of holder of the secrets we all share, promise him that you'll stay unaware (it's on you to care) hook again

0:00 Doing the work i'm facing the edge / slide through the curtain with the face on, pretend / it's all better the wound healed over right and correctly / vigorous scrubbing has shined out the stain no response for the sweating / lost in my druthers can somebody come get me / pushing my limits and taking it in / going down the checklist I promise i'll be ready / for when the bells sound again / eat moss spread talk death walks where the bed stalks / dip through the darts discarded / pierce directly through the bedrock x2 / without a scar (without a scratch) within a pattern of matters of fact / without a trace (without a scar) within a moment hazards collect and react / better not take it all back doubling over in pride / all the tethers shown I couldn't see that side / glee now glides from the mind for a moment / locked in the answer but I couldn't keep focus / a minute ago (without a trace) I noticed the webs creeping in / finish the show (without a scratch) so we talk plot's nuance like we've been friends / when asked why the actor couldn't keep his contract, 'a mileau of malevolence' is all he spat back / Doing the work i'm facing the edge / slide through the curtain with your face on, pretend / it's all better the wound healed over right and correctly / vigorous scrubbing has shined out the stain no response for the sweating / long ashen summer ember never lend me blessing Doing the work i'm facing the edge / slide through the curtain with the face on, pretend / it's all better the wound healed over right and correctly / vigorous scrubbing has shined out the stain no response for the sweating

:10 Tense with his words, terms tones verbiage / bitter betty special couple shots now swirled in / gone to the prospect of shit talking officers / long in his tone poem for wristwatch promisers / thought he had the bag wrapped strung and secured / but they took it in a moment and offer up no succor / dumb fucker really thought he could rise to a lordship / have you ever heard of such a jest so full of horseshit? / locked into worship of a god he doesn't know / every sunday he shows and helps the house remember who wins / at the end middle and the begin / kill off the serfs like we killed off the pagans / all praise to the fake cause he made the bed he's in let him sleep it off / take another to the chin shit / locked in a contract none of us signed / time to pierce veils and rewrite grand designs someday soon my train's coming in / soon someday my prince will come / someday soon he'll chalk up a win / but not before he pays up the king's ransom x2 1:11 and that fee keeps rising by the second and the minute / by the time you pay the interest there's another set of limits / imposed, although they assure it's not a rigged game / the same folks keep winning then 'who's to blame?' / 'I was not the one who drew the zones and the lots / I am just the man who made manifest the plot / I don't hold the bag boy the bag cradles me / it's the sound of your gnashing of teeth that helps me go to sleep' / seems like both sides of the mouth got a lot to say / whether bored or bathing praise heaped on the apes / and while they obnoxious poisonous spray / i'll be passing out filters digging up a payday / ay wait seems time to break gates / save face never I ain't got the time to litigate / I'm feeling great til I'm passed over one more time / on the lines now drawn you can choose one side

0:04 The daily effort is my closest bane / the idols I worship so profane A certain look shivers, deadbolts in the quiver/ I lock doors from a distance babe let me de-liver so prometheus / here is just a state of mind a time and place / it's inside of these caverns where the soul can heal and turn to face in / that's where the work occurs where words can blur distance cross the line / and redefine perspective never taught a truer lesson / than the ones that I have stepped in purely based on accidentals/ thinking more and more that scores which settle not coincidental / is it the strings of fate that pull us all along / can I bridge this gap and cross the distance in a single song? / does it go on too long and harsh with stutter steps, stops and starts / upon the steps yes let it rest or maybe its gonna ferment / aroma that arises lives like armor polished and bent / to sharpen thought through lines feels like my purpose that ive been sent / the value of the lives we live in love is ever kept / a secret from each other like our pay rates or the rent / used to used to using endlessly the cycle never ends / yet on long enough scales toward some progress it'll bend / if we make the effort 1:18 Hook? can't give you what you're wanting / life is just too goddamn beautiful to be described / I can't give you what you're needing / but if you want i'll attempt to depict what is behind my eyes 1:32 The Eyes of all upon me okay gotta be responding calmly / cooly collected motives misdirected and misrepresented / what you think is ideal may be born misconceived / not knowing which side of the fence you sleep on how can you dream / though it may seem so easy for those you see and envy / know above all that the other side always tempting / they shall stay covetous, in love with lust / in nothing trust and keep less in their chests / constantly feeling as if under duress / like a castle assailed oh such is the stress / the stones being slung keep the lowly heads hung / inclined to be deafened and blinded too long / reminded in song of the trials we bear / why do not they care why stay unaware / the fairest of judgments the seven chutes fallen down / consumed by the now while distracted by calling out really doubts / creep in, no matter the season / leave us with a feeling as long as it's with reason / or logic, don't stop what is cropped up dust getting mopped up / points on a Stat sheet that's me and you bruh / thought I was Hyuga when it seems I'm clanless / roaming solely cold upon the ronin notion gleamed from pamphlet / damn this damage that I have rent upon myself / is reflected in the planet that I roam with all your help / is directed at the cattle prods and brands that they have pointed / at the voiceless gathering closer than black sabbath could have seen / pressed against each other, paper mulch in magazines / living clean it seems to me be a scheme or maybe a dream in which / you show yourself the struggle while analyzing the damage / breaking compartmentalized trivial shit into its / basest of sins and components, hoping to reach and to own it / but never thought for a moment the wounds that come from controlling / the seething and steaming feeling / it reaches beyond a ceiling / and strands into locks that give the world a topknot and tension headache / shall we unspool and retrieve the nest egg / or is it as useless a venture as an odyssey with a dead leg? / maybe it's the journey that is the blessing / through the adversity that we learn to live our own wave / yeah its the journey that had blessed me / shows me everyday this purpose of living our best way 3:25 can't give you what you're wanting / life is just too goddamn beautiful to be described / I can't give you what you're needing / but it's in the endeavor that you can see what's behind my eyes

I squeeze the stone the blood that flows it is my own / bought estate inside this zone these apostates won't leave me alone / roaming rogue thoughts pinging one wall to the opposite / lower than that onus snakes I've faced still place a proper bet / this enemy inside of me he picks the wounds that cannot heal / and yet without him I will be lost and wracked upon the wheel / the friend I've known since perception activated / tumble down his pit onto punji stick he's celebrating / about face he takes upon descent visage shifted back/ 'dear God what horrors happening? These rivulets down your back ' / see right through his flat concern and that's a burn upon myself / this enemy I face is my best ally yes he is myself Hook The kindest word that I could ever reach out with/ his poison laces every thought so doubtful clouded / when I need advice he says I need some counseling / and then asserts that no one should ever know about this I'm tired of tire fires inside my mind they're getting louder / as this sulphur smell starts to overwhelm I feel the fish flop become the flounder / taste of ash is my best indicator of intent / best to push this sight back down see him sign out 'you've overslept' / I know that can't be true but shocked awake I am despite / whether 7 AM or the middle of the night / he screams intruder to relax the thought that the prowler is him / kept contained with no oxygen inside a cage of bone and skin / and yet he thrives within I find no recompense / I've had some bad ones before but this roomie situation's tense / I'll make my peace let anger cease but crease our living contract / so he won't see the clause that once released this hate can't come back

Were this world a whirling selfish machine / I could ask and accept myself in these moments/ and accept my answer half-full / were this world as it first appears to us / a shining playground on the mount and beacon on the hill/ to call us home only when it was well and truly time / I could find it within to press on and juice my motive / in peace I am in pieces / in case I am encased in shock of loss / I would speak well of those living/ in hopes those words are carried forever / hope then becomes itself a reason to carry on / silence then becomes a kind of peace inwardly gestating / forming and becoming an energy beyond our thought / and becoming strength and compassion for those we know