Eternal beats vibrate below my feats
Bigfoot sound tremolo between the sheets
Hear the scream of yesterday dying
Tomorrow born without even trying
While right now sits in the corner crying
Time’s at war with meter and rhyme
Scheming brew of hazel and thyme
Bitter taste so sweet the lie
Burning hotter than soap and lye
Every omission a log on the fire

Permission to burn yourself on a pyre

Phoenix mission: always rise higher
Reborn in ashes birthed to die
New morning lights up the sky
Remix the song it ain’t a crime
Pure fire gleams through the grime
Newborn sun takes off flying
Incandescent dragon spiraling
New cycle recycle upcycling
Build it brand new and concrete
Got more soul than a thousand feets

beat horses

Lost in the mirror he turns around
Can’t find the source of the hypnotic sound
Face to face with himself, he starts flee
Chain snaps tight holds him easily
Lizard lounge singer stolen from the wild
Not yet a man not still a child
Voice harnessed to the spokes of the machine
But slumbering in slavery boy still dreams
Dreams of shedding this suit of chains
Leaving behind casino gigs, ya dig?
Getting out in the wide world and havin a ball
Making his mark and standing tall
living the dream he could have it all
but then the bubble pops and the cork returns
and he stands up to give the wheel another turn
caught in the chains that he can’t break
well aware that life is at stake
musical thirst he can never slake
unquenchable fire within the heart
all it takes is a spark to start

there’s a man behind those tables / a slave to the beat
there’s a horse in the stables / slave to what he eats
and there’s a victory to be had, lying at your feet

So ride the horse jockey win the race
Hop on the bass and sit on the face
Let out a roar straight from inside of you
Scream to the sky, hey GOD SCREW YOU!!!!!
[Repeat]
like what has god ever done for thee?
lizard boy orphaned at the age of three
Living on the streets fighting for his life
Got nothing in life but roiling strife
War and famine surrounds the head
Dead all around but we live instead
Those who are dead inside are the ones who thrive
Jackal smiles hide the teeth
Watch the eyes before they leap
Stand strong and back em down
Lion roar win with sound
The beat is a battlefield and life is a song
But god don’t care when shit goes wrong
So draw your power back from the sky
People understand you’ve been fed a lie
The power is yours, the miracles real
Rediscover what it means to feel
Drop your guns and start to heal
Cry on salted ground covered in orange peels
Smashed fruit all around, guts spilled
Seed wasted never to grow
Never to know another joy, another sunrise
How can you justify this with your lies?
Ain’t nothing so sad as when youth dies
When innocence shrivels and wonder leaves
Soul crushed tears fall like leaves
Nothing left inside, barren branches
Hollow heart makes morbid dances
Dance of death in the future night
Lit by thousands of corpse lights
Corpse of bodies, grove of trees
All fall down before the breeze
Gale of progress, tempest of profit
Winds of change what they call it
Killing thousands lining pockets
Murder is as easy as singing dockets
Death warrants issued a thousand miles away
Drones drop bombs and feel no pain
No heart inside but death from above
And tell me God, where is the love ?

toothy grin

Here I sit all by myself
And wonder how to be myself
Can’t understand see inside my self
So I just set aside and deny my wealth
Put the future away on a high ass shelf
And drink a toast to someone else’s health
Like a healthy baby I smile all the time
Got a toothy grin that likes to spit rhyme
Got lots of teeth and I like to show them
Like to show off the way I win
Like to strut when I can
Rooster victory line in the sand
Cross this shit and you will see the spurs
Kicking out like I’m kicking curs
Kick to the curb and smoke sickening herb
Ill dope fire gets the brain curved
Twisted parabola sideways goes the grade
Gradient gets higher hot like fire raid
Kill the ants and we getting paid
Giant with a magnifying glass we smoke grass
Set on fire with sun power pyre
Burn the dead like pants burn liar
Get no zombies if you don’t leave corpses
Got no donkeys if you got no horses

Lion's Roar

This is the story of a world in ruins
All that is hollow just follows the current

Fool’s gold on every neck I see
Hypocrisy rules the world around me
Can’t view the ground through all the smog
Can’t breathe the truth in this enveloping fog
Purple haze obscures my sight
Only get visions late at night
Sunlight filtered through a cloud of lies
This sin light reveals a sea of flies
Delight disappears under rising tides
Waves wash over crest and break
Bodies shiver and souls quake
Gotta stand strong when your life is at stake

Everyone’s lost inside confusion / can’t pierce the veil of illusion
We all seek love and human union / I’ve found the station people tune in

Tune in to me and listen when I speak
Gonna tell it deep so my voice don’t squeak
Roar my truth out like a lion
Speak like bob, iron zion
Rasta tell ya whatcha wanta hear
Listen close romans lend an ear
You live in an empire founded on blood
Treating the third world like the hood
We kill thousands for our greater good
Ignore their problems and we eat our cake
Got no problems throw your trash in the lake
Spoil the beauty without a care
Put the tears in the Indian’s stare
But it ain’t just litter its state corruption
Systems infernal it needs an eruption
Cleansing fire in the halls of power
Turn off the water to the Mans shower
Golden fountain of privilege and prestige
Bathe in it if you agree to bend the knee
Kowtow to the powwow of tyranny
Allow sorrow to rule unchecked
Let the virus spread infect
Immune system corrupted bodies fall
Immigrant transplant rejects it all
No host here we’re ruled by fear
Scared of ourselves, eyes like deer
Caught in the headlights, freeze!
[Break]

and restart, renew reboot the system
dance to these words while ya listen
sweat to the beat, start to glisten
and if ya can’t hear then move on in
get closer to these twin fountains of truth
fat ass speakers that will shake your teeth
while the bass raise the roof
you break your necks like lateef
truthspeaker here I tell no lies
soothsayer here predicting lives
spit truth like mos or truth like kweli
blackstar change the sky lyrically
rearrange familiar constellations
put my name next to living legends
rock the word with deep vibrations
bring my audience below the heavens
true like blue and true like jay
dilla here I just stay paid
electronica here I’m exhibit A
Z here this my blueprint
Cole here to fire up this shit
Rock here and we just don’t stop
Reppin hip hop till I drop
MC’s are my heroes, they are my idols
And like those cats I refuse to stay idle

[Spoken Word Outro]

And like my heroes I speak truth to power
Tell the people that this is our Hour
Your time to rise above or die trying
Take over your life or keep on lying
Either way I’ve made my choice
And nothing will ever silence my voice

spirit blues

Vapors of modernity twine around me
Rising like smoke from the ashes
Ashes from the blunt
Blunted through my days I keep up the front
Lets me pretend that its all ok
Ignore the zombies and along I’ll play
blind eye as they rob me cuz I’m high all day
never speak a word I am O.K
Know what I want and I aim to get it
Wanna be a man whose paid to spit it
Free myself of material obligation
Allow my spirit to infuse the nation
Like spirits they imbibe this pure libation
The spirit that inhabits all of creation

Spirit spirit in the sound
Tell me what is going round
Swine flu beats infect your ear
Spread it aurally as you hear

I’m so hot right now I’ve got a fever
And if that chick ain’t sick you got to leave her
Move and get an ill woman in your life
The kind of dope bitch you could take to wife
One whose caught the bug of sweet delight
The kinda girl who lives at night
Vampire bitch with leathers tight
Dance to this if your feeling right
And like mos def I wanna shine a light

Spirit spirit on the wall
Tell me how I can see it all
Is this the precipice from which I fall
Or is it time for me to make the call

Twisted up knotted up I feel like pine
strong as wood but writhing like a vine
petrified lumber but I look just fine
pretty exterior but dead inside
or maybe scared to live, scared to feel
afraid this heart might never heal
terrified by a future I can’t even see
I watch as anxiety takes over me
And I want to leave I want to flee
Run away into outerspace dive into a sea of bass
And here come the synths to melt away your face
Gonna go in when I get a taste

So spirit spirit what do you say
Tell me please what tune to play
Gotta know just what to do
How to make a bitches brew

Bubble bubble toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Let this witches stew up simmer
Sip it down like slim fast makes you slimmer
Ain’t losing pounds here we losing years
Turning into children and facing our fears
Turn the wild things into our peers
befriend the wild child with such a wide smile
Together live without a care just for a while
Fresh prince of the forest like Big Willy Style
Mixed with free willy, whale shit gets so silly
Now we gonna get a milli just like vanilli
Or like wayne a millionaire without a care
You can sip on syrup and dredlock your hair
But whatever you do make sure ya stay true
To the places you from and the original crew
Cuz these are the ingredients to make a bitches brew
Good friends good times and good music
One thing you don’t need is more excuses
Just brew it up right with a pinch of spice
Exotic herbs make it taste so nice
finish it off with some hippity hops
some tasty tunes to make it pop
carbonate the brew with the beat
let it percolate down below the street
underground sound ferments and ripens
till one day you can let the light in
crack a bottle and take a taste
swear never let this shit go to waste
this the kinda brew it takes years to make
so drink it again, rewind for your own sake

So spirit spirit me and you
I’ll tell you once and I’ll tell you true
We’re living in a world so fresh its new
Where we don’t need a reason to sing the blues

love is the creed

here I sit and survey the wreckage of my day
got ash on the floor and writing on the table
got a lotta shit to say while I’m still able
got roaches in the tray but the brains still nimble
don’t care what you say, life’s so simple
chilled out here forehead got no wrinkle
sleep all day like rip van winkle
just stepped out to make some money
not really what I want this bee craves honey
the gnome in my dome craves honeycomb
that sweet delight that I can’t leave alone

don’t really worry bout the life I lead
I know all I’ve got is just what I need
So raise your heads people and take heed
Got no Bible love is the creed
Got no Bible, love is the creed
Don’t need to be rich or know how to read
Just know how to live in word and in deed
Just live like your dying, oh yes indeed

and even if I feel like dying I never succumb
veins are filled with ice I’m getting dumb
sick as picking lice or splitting your thumb
seen so much of life I’m feeling numb
shocked in my socket, eyeballs stuck in the wall
electrocuted by the beauty of it all
electrified mind finds petrified times
moments never pass and time seems to last
forever found common ground and had a blast
we broke the glass and shattered the sound
put it back together look what we’ve found
remixed shard cards cut and shuffle the deck
now unbreakable surviving a train wreck
m. night here there’s always a twist
secret here is its all in the wrist

don’t really worry bout the life I lead
I know all I’ve got is just what I need
So raise your heads people and take heed
Got no Bible love is the creed
Got no Bible, love is the creed
Don’t need to be rich or know how to read
Just know how to live in word and in deed
Just live like your dying, oh yes indeed

Destruction births Creation

Oh come chaos raven trickster goddess
Rise and rest your talons on my shoulders
Let my life carry your banner forwards

Invoked my muse and down she flew
Fluttering lashes above eyes cold and blue
Ice magic from a dark old soul
Blood rich power caught in a bowl
Morrigan morrigu witch raven you
Tempest sent with target set
Rain on my parade got me wet
Tossed me askew my hat’s aslant
Reeling in a gale of malcontent
feeling the storm that you sent
but I have sowed all my own seeds
the whirlwind’s here to reap and heed
time to spin life around indeed
shake things up in word and deed
so come chaos come wyld come wick
destroy the old weak and the sick
whittle away the rot dead wood
leave behind only what is good
pain shavings curl, chips fly
finished figure pale as sky
ready to grow free from lies

tears on the page: the hangover

I wanna keep sleeping cuz at least then I’m not thinking
And the more I do that the more my heart’s sinking
And the more I worry the more I hurt
Feel like my heart is being torn apart
And I’ve got no one to blame but myself
It hurts so much more when there’s no help
nothing to do but live on forward
even though everything feels wayward
fly away scatterbrain hurricane eyes
I’ve got a storm up brewing inside
I’m the kettle listen to my tea
Whistling hard alone and angry
Satyre is my handle listen when I spout
Hide behind wit to make the girls pout
Pretend like I know what shit’s about
Really I’ve not got a single clue
Losing all sense of what’s right and true
Ashamed of my life I’m feeling blue
Don’t feel like the guy you once knew
Don’t feel like fun or like a laugh
Not a whole man, more like a half
Or less, consumed by stress
Running away into my rest
Failing each and every test
Although getting the grades
Hiding my pain behind mirrored shades
Can’t see my eyes crying on the page
So I’m gonna go back to sleep
Where I don’t feel like such a creep
Where I’ll only get judged by the sheep